Ben, you make a good point. One time i was in my ABC station's(WLOS) studio, when ABC had a NASCAR event from Atlanta running late,(it had been delayed by rain). The network warned the stations about the fact that if the race ran to 6:20 or later, World News was going to be canceled. Well there was a major accident late in the race, and the Red Flag was brought out. ABC decided not to go to the stations because it was going to take only a few minutes to clean up the wreck, which it did. They got racing again and as soon as the victory lane interview was done, they wrapped up the broadcast pretty quickly to get to whatever was airing at 7:00 that night. Obviously , the local news crew was pretty mad about not doing a show that night, and we went home. It happened with the Indy 500 that year too.
On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 1:32:53 AM UTC-4, Ben Scripps wrote: > > > On Jul 28, 2016, at 11:10 PM, Doug Eastick <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Ben Scripps may have a bit of an answer on this. > > A bit of a myopic answer, as I can only really speak to CBS, and even then > only in the eastern time zone, but the rule of thumb for 11pm shows is that > we get a 35-minute hole to fill between the end of whatever (Thursday > football, political convention, whatever) and the start of Colbert. CBS is > usually generous about rounding up to the next minute--tonight’s convention > coverage ended, IIRC, sixteen seconds past the minute; they rounded up and > stations ended up with a 35:44 hole for local news, much to the joy of > newscast producers east of the Mississippi. But not always; for example, > an overage of under a minute, which we usually only see on awards shows or > “Survivor” reunion shows, sometimes has to be eaten by the station’s > newscast, much to the chagrin of those same producers. > > But on the weekends, if there’s an overrun that ends before 6:30pm, the > network newscast still starts at 6:30; some stations will run an > abbreviated local newscast and go to the network news at 6:30, while others > will preempt and run their full newscast, either joining the network when > the local show is done, or adding material to preempt it entirely. If the > sports runs past 6:30, then network just starts their newscast at the end > of sports, and ends on time. > -- -- 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.
