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.”
You know...like when you get food poisoning...not puking but the other thing...the Emmys...nasty stuff...
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.
hehehe. Its' about, what I expected from the MSM
Unfortunate wording.
What's even worse is that there was one survivor in this crash, and he's currently in critical condition.
It was not an accident ;~)
What's an emmy?
I figured! I read that it is going to be a really good season this year. The Others really make me uneasy, for sure.
"Other" than that, I look forward to 24 :~)
...and (the very Beatiful) Hedy (not Heady) Lamarr, early on Monday morning (6:00-11:15) :D
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
Don't give me any spoilers, the Emmy Red Carpet stuff is just starting here on the West coast. :~)
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.
I couldn't if I wanted too. My hubby is watching something on Jon Benet and the nutter who confessed to killing her.
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.
It's a ceremony where the useful idiots congratulate each other on their superiority.
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.
...great inventor (a signal hopping technique, now used for cell phones :), too. :D
What Channel? Damn stupid satellite TV.
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