> The immediate thought that came to my mind as I read this: "What would ABC > have done had the Miracle On Ice been a 10-3 Russian blowout (which was the > score of the exhibition game played less than two weeks earlier)?"
Maybe shown a couple of highlights, including goals by the plucky college kids. What they did show was tape-delayed, so it wasn't like ABC was building their night around that game. Of course, they had the advantage of their audience not having easy access to results, so as long as they kept their cool in the studio, most viewers didn't know what had happened. (I remember hearing on the radio that the US had scored to tie the game late in the first period, but having forgotten while watching until I saw the goal later.) Jumping back to today, Lester Holt mentioned that the Women's Gymnastics had taken place without giving the result, while Scott Pelley sort of apologized/spoiler-alerted before saying that the US women had won. And to PGage's overall point, which I agree with, I think NBC found and refined an approach that worked well for them (and that Roone Arledge pioneered at ABC), enabling them to sell time to Proctor and Gamble as well as Anheuser-Busch. Although time and technology are overtaking that approach, NBC is hanging on. -- -- 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.
