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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: danderson on July 16, 2016, 11:28:24 AM
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How much of a episode of TPIR or let's say the soaps would have to be preempted for CBS(or NBC back in the day) for them to push the episode back by a day?
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32%.
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I was thinking if the show was preempted for more than 40 minutes(that's a educated guess) then they would push it back. However 32% seems to be on target.
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Vanderbilt University has been taping evening news broadcasts, as well as many special reports, since August 1968, and their database of recordings often gives an idea of what was pre-empted for news coverage on a given day.
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu (http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu)
On the day of the Challenger explosion, for example, it looks like the networks broke in at 11:42 a.m. ET to cover the event.* On the TPIR timeline at golden-road.net, there's no indication that any episodes were rescheduled that week or subsequent weeks. (With TPIR, of course, interrupted episodes can always be rerun in full during the summer.)
In the summer of 1973, the Watergate hearings, on days they were held, usually started at 10 a.m. ET, recessed at noon, then resumed at 2 p.m. In practice, they weren't always recessed exactly at noon and/or the commentary lasted into the noon slot. On July 10, 1973, for example, when it was ABC's turn the carry the hearings, their coverage lasted until 12:12 p.m. ET, meaning "Password" was joined in progress. On shows that have a set airing order (unlike TPIR and LMAD, for instance), I would think it would get chaotic to partially air an episode, then re-air the whole episode the next day and a brand new (hopefully uninterrupted) show the day after that. Letting the episodes stand as partially aired would seem to be less of a headache overall, although I don't know what percentage of the show had to be aired for players to get their winnings.
*N.B.: Vanderbilt is in the Central Time zone, so the start/end times in the database will reflect that.
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while it might not count as far as a interruption, when NBC had NFL telecasts, the same thing would apply. when the last late game telecast was over, they'd join a show in progress, but sometimes go to whoever was in 30 Rock for highlights. The same logic would be used for soaps. If they preempt too much of the show it is pushed to the next day, but how does the news or sports division decide on the threshold for that?
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while it might not count as far as a interruption, when NBC had NFL telecasts, the same thing would apply. when the last late game telecast was over, they'd join a show in progress, but sometimes go to whoever was in 30 Rock for highlights. The same logic would be used for soaps. If they preempt too much of the show it is pushed to the next day, but how does the news or sports division decide on the threshold for that?
Doubtful it's their call.
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but how does the news or sports division decide on the threshold for that?
For the sports division it needs to hit 37%.
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There is a limit of one "Whoosh!" award per day, sir.
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If they preempt too much of the show it is pushed to the next day, but how does the news or sports division decide on the threshold for that?
Dan Rather got in trouble for that once. (http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/13/nyregion/rather-walked-off-set-of-cbs-news.html)
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I can't believe for a second that a anchor would protest the network's decision to air a sporting event instead of the news.
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I can't believe for a second that a anchor would protest the network's decision to air a sporting event instead of the news.
Oh, this should be good. Do tell us why you come to this conclusion.
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I can't believe for a second that a anchor would protest the network's decision to air a sporting event instead of the news.
Don't hang around behind the scenes much, do you?
/Not in the least bit surprised that happened.
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If it's in the NYT it must be a lie
:o
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The Miami station finally broadcast several minutes of a game show to fill the time.
Nobody can satisfy my curiosity as to which game show it was, can they?
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The Miami station finally broadcast several minutes of a game show to fill the time.
Nobody can satisfy my curiosity as to which game show it was, can they?
Glad I'm not the only one who thought about this... :P
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The Miami station finally broadcast several minutes of a game show to fill the time.
Nobody can satisfy my curiosity as to which game show it was, can they?
Glad I'm not the only one who thought about this... :P
Per this article, some stations ran "The Newlywed Game" (http://www.ew.com/article/1996/09/13/dan-rather-left-set-9-years-ago) although I imagine it would have probably been any syndicated show the station was running at the time.