The NCAA tournament is another one, because it all depends on when the first game ends.
CBS used to be set up with "multiple network capability" where they could(back before they shared rights with Turner) where they could end basketball coverage in most of the country, but keep local markets on a late running game. Happened twice- in 1994 with the Minnesota-Louisville game and in 2006 with the Utah St.-Washington game. They’ve got a lot of hoops to jump through when there’s a live show in prime. In the first case, CBS had to go to 60 Minutes(because it looked like the game wouldn't end till after 7:30, and in the latter case, only the states of Washington and Utah were getting that game, so CBS went to local news early. There was a bomb scare in the Thursday afternoon sessions in San Diego that delayed the games there, so that might have influenced CBS's decision there. I don't remember them ever doing it since. On Thursday, February 14, 2019 at 11:23:20 AM UTC-5, Ben Scripps wrote: > > On Feb 14, 2019, at 10:35 AM, Jim Ellwanger <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > The Trevor Noah clip also aired in place of the cold open in Los > Angeles, so I assume this was a problem with CBS's Pacific time zone feed, > not a local issue. > > ISTR there’s at least one affiliate somewhere out west that airs Colbert > half an hour off the normal schedule. Stations used to “tape and turn” > (that is, start recording the show, then air the front half while the back > half is still recording), but they might have set it up now where there’s a > separate half-hour offset feed on which Colbert starts at :05 past the hour > instead of :35. CBS Satellite Control in NYC controls all of the affiliate > satellite receivers**, and it wouldn’t be the first time they had > affiliates tuned to the wrong feed. My guess is that they had PacNet > stations accidentally set up on this offset feed and happened to switch > everyone back to the “correct” feed just as the show open was starting. > (It’s also very possible that the live “Celebrity Big Bother” had > something to do with it; they’ve got a lot of hoops to jump through when > there’s a live show in prime.) > > **Based on my phone calls to them over the years, I believe they may also > control a couple of the thickest New York accents in the world. -- 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.
