Posted on 01/16/2006 4:44:56 AM PST by advance_copy
TV fans hit the roof when local newscast begins before show ends
Midlands fans of the FOX show “24” are used to cliffhangers — but nothing like what happened during the fifth-season premiere Sunday night.
WACH-TV, Columbia’s FOX affiliate, cut away from the last 10 minutes of the blockbuster show to start its 10 p.m. newscast — leaving fans in the Midlands hanging.
“Somebody has lost their mind,” said Steve Arnold, a fan who was watching the show at his Irmo home.
FOX has been promoting the show’s two-part, two-hour season premiere for weeks. It was scheduled to start at 8 p.m., after the conclusion of the NFL playoff game between the Carolina Panthers and the Chicago Bears.
The game went long, pushing the start of “24” back about 10 minutes — and ideally pushing back the start of the newscast.
WACH has a contract with WIS-TV, which produces WACH news programs, to broadcast its news at 10 p.m. If, for some reason, WACH has to delay broadcast, the station can record the newscast and air it later.
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The scarey thing was his commercial showed right after he had just died on the show!
susie
I'm not a football fan, so maybe I just don't understand, but what on earth was the point of those guys talking AFTER the game? Do people really care what they have to say? I also don't understand why networks haven't figured out how long a football game goes and schedule accordingly. They could have that stupid after game show thing if they had extra time, otherwise, who would miss it?
susie
As the game was ending, since I now live in the Central Time Zone, I saw potential disaster if in some markets, they decided to cut off the final 10 minutes and go their oh-so-important (NOT!!!) newscasts.
Everybody knows after NASA, that you don't cut the end of ANY show off, for Pete's sake. Have they learned nothing?
OH that would have me pretty PO'd!! That's why we like satellite.
be glad you weren't living in S.C. last night . . .
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