On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Mark J. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mar 30, 9:44 am, Joe Coughlin <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't get the whole cutting of two minutes thing. Does AMC pay by the > > minute of show? If the shows run over, they run over. They're not on a > > broadcast network that needs to be rigidly timed. They should run more > like > > HBO where the show runs as long as it needs to run. You could probably > put > > in more ads that way anyway. > > It seems that on Sunday nights, they're already running over the hour, > although not by outrageous margins (it's within the one or two minutes > over the hour the broadcast nets engage in). Even though the rest of > their schedule has odd start times regularly, perhaps the fact that > the movie packages they're getting from the studios have already been > "edited to fit in this time slot" (i.e. 2 hours) by the studio (along > with the ever-popular "reformatted to fit your [SD] screen"), they're > more concerned about starting on the hour than they used to. > I believe they already lengthened the run time of the show after the last contract battle with Wiener, when they also demanded an additional (1, I think) minute of ad space. They think the show is already too long and don't want to make it longer. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
