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ChrisLambert!:
Any of my TiVo brethren a little annoyed that the classics always seemed to run about 5-15 seconds past the top of the hour, while the shows you didn't really feel like archiving ran perfectly on time?

mctoyboy:
That seems to happen a lot with Classics on GSN. Mine records 30 seconds before and after the episode....and still the beginning get cut at times! =)
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Fedya:
Did anybody else get a chuckle out of Jack Barry's comment at the end of the second TJW that we were going to hear from "two of our fine sponsors"?  Of course with modern time constraints those two sponsors got turned into three ads and two promos.  

As Chuck Woolery would say on the new Lingo, "back in ten and ten".  :-)

uncamark:
[quote name=\'Fedya\' date=\'Nov 28 2003, 01:39 PM\']Did anybody else get a chuckle out of Jack Barry's comment at the end of the second TJW that we were going to hear from "two of our fine sponsors"?  Of course with modern time constraints those two sponsors got turned into three ads and two promos.  [/quote]
Even back then, the 30-second spot had become the standard commercial length, so there were actually four fine sponsors, most likely.  And let's not even talk about those indie stations where the commercial breaks ran longer because they went seamless from show to show instead of having a station break (like WFLD, "TJW"'s Chicago home when the show originally aired).  Or if the station ran a direct-response spot (which in those days was usually two minutes), meaning only one fine sponsor.  Jack should've just said "we'll return in a moment" and let it go at that.

Of course, all Jack really cared about was having everything run on schedule, so he could make it to his LearJet in time to meet his weekly dinner date in Palm Springs.

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