This is an old Bugaboo but I hate it when football or golf pushes back regularly scheduled programming.This forces me to extend my DVR time schedule up to 30 minutes back.This is an old argument based on the fact that the three major commercial networks still want to profit from sports despite the availablilty of special sports networks.IMO it stinks.
Growing up, my most hated phrase in the entire English language was "Time approximated after ____ball." I used to see it all the time in TV Guide for half the stuff airing on the weekends. Not just the primetime shows, but also most of the programming during the day as well. It was code for "If you're lucky, you
MIGHT get to see the last 20 minutes of this show."
I'd look in the guide, see a listing for a show I like, like UFO (1970) or Space 1999 (1975) and then see that horrible phrase written under the description. I knew that I was going to be spending, at an absolutely minimum, the next 20 minutes screaming "OH COME ON! JUST END THE %$#@*&!!! GAME ALREADY!!!" at the TV. When it was
FINALLY over and they finished talking about it and telling you what you just saw, the remainder of the show would come on, starting with my second most hated phrase in the English language, "We now join our regularly scheduled program, already in progress."
That's if the game didn't run overtime by 40-45 minutes and the station just decided to air a sitcom rerun instead!
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fictionalman
8 years ago
That brings back memories. Cable companies should allow customers to choose their own stations not locked into cable bundles.
That's just my two cents.
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ydobon-1
8 years ago
That brings back memories. Cable companies should allow customers to choose their own stations not locked into cable bundles.
Unfortunately, now most all channels are network affiliates and when one network channel carries a game, most all the affiliates also carry that game.
We used to have at least two channels for every network, the "big" channel out of New York and a smaller, local station. They almost always used to carry the same prime time programming, including games.
I miss the days when local channels were independent and would air their own selection of programming. You could find all sorts of interesting stuff, and even see old shows played late at night.
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