One of the likely reasons that NBC would pre-feed their soaps was just in case a special report came up.
On Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at 2:27:10 PM UTC-5, Jim Ellwanger wrote: > > > > > On Feb 13, 2018, at 5:30 AM, daniel anderson <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > Besides regional football, the morning news shows, which are taped > outside of the eastern time zone, but what if there is a special report? Do > they interrupted all feeds at once? > > From my days working in live closed-captioning 20 years ago: the > broadcast networks basically have three feeds for on-air programming > (Eastern/Central, Mountain, and Pacific), and special reports would run on > all feeds. When affiliates are not taking network programming, they're > supposed to always be monitoring the appropriate network feed for their > time zone, although much of the time, the network is able to give them a > heads-up for a special report a few minutes in advance. (NBC paid the > company I worked for to have a live closed-captioner on standby, monitoring > the Eastern feed, from 6 A.M. to midnight daily.) > > Sometimes when a special report interrupts a show, the networks will > re-feed it later, for the benefit of affiliates who might have been > recording it to broadcast later. (Such as Alaska, Hawaii, and Arizona for > much of the year.) > > -- 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.
