My personal favorite: Election Theater. When a local station figures it can make more running election ads during a movie (or, say, a two-hour Matlock special) where they get all the blocks rather than the regular network schedule where they just get the one local block.
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016, 08:00 Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > No movies anymore, but the CBS station in Philadelphia runs back-to-back > reruns of "Blue Bloods" late night on Saturday and, sometimes I think, > Sunday. In past years I believe they ran "The Good Wife" and "NYPD Blue." > > > On Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 11:29:10 PM UTC-5, daniel anderson > wrote: > > was thinking- I mentioned on the "American Gladiators" thread a while > back- when my ABC station gave up their late night movies for "AG" in 1989- > do stations still fill late night with movies these days? Maybe not on > weeknights, but on weekends- the FOX station does it if they are carrying > a 4:05 NFL game- or when FOX doesn't have any sports period-like when > NASCAR is on FS1 some weeks- TCM has most of the old movies these days. > > -- > -- > 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. > -- -- 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.
