On Feb 21, 2014, at 12:03 AM, stannc <[email protected]> wrote: > I've never seen this before. College basketball here in the south caused a > delay in late local news. After the news, Late Show was joined 20 minutes in, > as he introduced his first guests. > > Since when do they join in progress rather than pushing it back? The > 8:30-11:00 part of CBS primetime is in the DVR overnight zone here. > > Wait, as I was typing this at 12:00 the cut back to the monologue. > > Is someone at WBTV letting the interns run the equipment again? > Edumacated speculation here, but since whatever college basketball wasn't national, WBTV probably rolled tape* on Dave at 11:35; at the end of the show, master control switched back to the live net feed instead of the tape playback. Given the amount of automation present in master control rooms these days, it was probably just a default "switch to Net" line in the playlist that didn't get taken out with the late start, and the sort of easy little thing to overlook that just didn't get caught.
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