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LEX 18 officials shocked by Emmy Awards’ plane-crash spoof intro
Hearld Leader ^ | 27 Aug 06 | Jamie Gumbrecht

Posted on 08/27/2006 6:23:17 PM PDT by SLB

LEX 18 News ended an evening recap of yesterday’s coverage of the Comair Flight 5191 crash for the live broadcast of the prime-time Emmy Awards. The annual TV awards show opened with shots of host Conan O’Brien bouncing inside a plane before it crashed on an island in a spoof of ABC’s hit show Lost.

WLEX’s president and general manager, Tim Gilbert, who was home watching the telecast with his family, was “stunned” by the intro; if station managers had known about the intro before the broadcast, Lexington viewers wouldn’t have seen it, he said.

“It was a live telecast — we were completely helpless,” Gilbert said of the Emmys. “By the time we began to react, it was over. At the station, we were as horrified as they were at home.”

Gilbert said he’ll complain to NBC, but he said an apology won’t make up for insensitivity.

“They could have killed the opening and it wouldn't have hurt the show at all,” Gilbert said. “We wish somebody had thought this through. It’s somewhere between ignorance and incompetence.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: hollyweird; idiots; mediots
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To: AmericanInTokyo
What's "the Emmys"?

You know...like when you get food poisoning...not puking but the other thing...the Emmys...nasty stuff...

21 posted on 08/27/2006 6:50:01 PM PDT by LikeLight (The photo looks like it has been REUTERED)
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To: skinkinthegrass

I haven't watched network teevee,or even much cable beyond Turner Classic Movies and History International,for years,and I don't feel I've missed a thing. I feel free from the peer pressure to be aware of the vapidity of pop culture,actually. I have much more time to devote to things that actually interest me.


22 posted on 08/27/2006 6:50:33 PM PDT by mrsmel (Men possess talent. Genius possesses men. Chocolate cravings possess women.)
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To: SamAdams76
What's "the Emmys"?.....I think it's some kind of new sitcom about two lesbians that live together.....

hehehe. Its' about, what I expected from the MSM

23 posted on 08/27/2006 6:50:44 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just b/c your paranoid; Doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you. :^)
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To: SLB
"They could have killed the opening..."

Unfortunate wording.

24 posted on 08/27/2006 6:51:36 PM PDT by jigsaw (Islam Electric: "We Take Good Things From Life.")
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To: SLB

What's even worse is that there was one survivor in this crash, and he's currently in critical condition.


25 posted on 08/27/2006 6:52:17 PM PDT by jdm (I gotta give the Helen Thomas obsession a rest.)
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To: SLB
Sorry I missed it but the Broncos are on.
26 posted on 08/27/2006 6:52:55 PM PDT by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: WV Mountain Mama

It was not an accident ;~)


27 posted on 08/27/2006 6:54:05 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Head On. Apply directly to the forehead!)
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To: SLB

What's an emmy?


28 posted on 08/27/2006 6:55:02 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (How do I change my screen name after Harper's election?)
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To: HairOfTheDog

I figured! I read that it is going to be a really good season this year. The Others really make me uneasy, for sure.


29 posted on 08/27/2006 6:56:10 PM PDT by WV Mountain Mama (Good luck Andre! I hope you go out with a win, you're a great tennis player & even greater man.)
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To: WV Mountain Mama

"Other" than that, I look forward to 24 :~)


30 posted on 08/27/2006 6:57:00 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Head On. Apply directly to the forehead!)
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To: BallyBill
It's 24 hours of John Wayne on TCM. Emmies? I think not.

...and (the very Beatiful) Hedy (not Heady) Lamarr, early on Monday morning (6:00-11:15) :D

31 posted on 08/27/2006 6:57:34 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just b/c your paranoid; Doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you. :^)
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To: SLB

I want to thank you for the head's up that the Emmys were on tonight, I didn't know and would have missed this otherwise :~D


32 posted on 08/27/2006 6:57:44 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Head On. Apply directly to the forehead!)
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To: WV Mountain Mama

Don't give me any spoilers, the Emmy Red Carpet stuff is just starting here on the West coast. :~)


33 posted on 08/27/2006 6:58:56 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Head On. Apply directly to the forehead!)
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To: SLB

Oh for goodness sake. Lexington doesn't exist! It is problematic but possible; since Bob Fosse and Kander and Ebb said so, and Catherine Zita Jones, who is Micheal Douglas wife was in it and it made money; that Chicago once existed; in that great void between the Tony awards, and the Emmy and Academy awards.


34 posted on 08/27/2006 7:00:10 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: HairOfTheDog

I couldn't if I wanted too. My hubby is watching something on Jon Benet and the nutter who confessed to killing her.


35 posted on 08/27/2006 7:00:41 PM PDT by WV Mountain Mama (Good luck Andre! I hope you go out with a win, you're a great tennis player & even greater man.)
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To: skinkinthegrass

I'll be burning DVDs fast and furious Monday, I love Hedy Lamarr :) I'm watching the John Wayne day now,with breaks for the Weather Channel(gotta keep an eye on Ernesto). "The Longest Day" was great.


36 posted on 08/27/2006 7:11:17 PM PDT by mrsmel (Men possess talent. Genius possesses men. Chocolate cravings possess women.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
What's "the Emmys"?

It's a ceremony where the useful idiots congratulate each other on their superiority.

37 posted on 08/27/2006 7:11:43 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (John Bolton for Secretary of State)
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To: SLB
“They could have killed the opening and it wouldn't have hurt the show at all,” Gilbert said.

They could have killed the entire show and it wouldn't have hurt me at all.

I haven't watch the Emmys since, oh, about 1979.

And the only reason I watched it then was because we only had 3 channels and no remote.

38 posted on 08/27/2006 7:15:59 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: mrsmel
I love Hedy Lamarr :)

...great inventor (a signal hopping technique, now used for cell phones :), too. :D

39 posted on 08/27/2006 7:22:29 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just b/c your paranoid; Doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you. :^)
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To: mollynme

What Channel? Damn stupid satellite TV.


40 posted on 08/27/2006 7:22:58 PM PDT by Wycowboy
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