On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 4:00 PM, David Lynch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Officially they were, but I don't remember a single day with a late game > in my market last season where prime time actually ran on time (i.e., at > :30 past). > There were one or two, I think. But I'm always vigilant on double-header days. > > At some point, I think CBS is going to have to fall in line with Fox and > admit that there isn't room for four hours of first-run prime time > programming on days with a 4:25 PM football game. Then, the question > becomes whether they do a post-game show in order to give 60 Minutes a > uniform start time of 8:00 during the football season or put filler on in > the 10:00 hour and keep "60" at 7:00 or immediately after football, > whichever comes second. > Wasn't there a Sunday last season that "The Mentalist" got dropped because the football overrun was so enormous? No matter. CBS clearly doesn't have a problem with the status quo, regardless of how it screws up start times, affects ratings, and annoys viewers. I'd like you to be right, but I don't think you are. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
