"War is the H-Word" - in its entirety or not?

S03E02 War Is the H-WordliveNov 25, 2000the day before it aired15 posts by 10 postersalt.tv.futurama
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Owing to the number of complaints recently over stations showing new episodes of "Futurama" "in progress", I thought I'd try to figure out in advance which cities would be showing an early football game on Fox (so Futurama would be on in its entirety) and which would be showing a late game (so it might end up being "joined in progress" depending on how long the game lasts).

Early game: Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia Early game IF the home team is not blacked out, otherwise the station can choose: Jacksonville, New York, St. Louis, Washington Late game: Atlanta Late game IF the home team is not blacked out, otherwise the station can choose (well, technically it's the CBS station's choice): Baltimore, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Tampa

All other cities: the local Fox station can decide whether to show an early game (Chicago - Jets, New Orleans - St. Louis, Philadelphia - Washington) or a late game (Atlanta - Oakland), although if Futurama normally starts after 7:00 Eastern, it's not a problem (unless it starts at 8:00 Eastern and it's a REALLY long game). (Actually, the San Francisco station has to show the Raiders game if it's blacked out, but it won't interfere with Futurama.)

Note that there's only one Fox late game, so they can't switch to another one still in progress after it ends.

(For those of you who care how they decide: 1. Fox has to show a team in its own city playing an away game - in this case, Chicago, New Orleans, St. Louis, and Atlanta. 2. Fox has to show a team in its own city playing a home game if it's not blacked out - in this case, New York, St. Louis, Washington, and Oakland. 3. If CBS is showing a team in its own city playing a home game, Fox cannot show a game at the same time - in this case, Jacksonville (as well as Seattle and San Diego) are playing late CBS games (forcing an early Fox game), and Baltimore, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Tampa are playing early CBS games (forcing a late Fox game). 4. In all other cities, the station decides which game to show.)

Don Del Grande, [email] Has anybody come up with "Fox is the F-word" yet?

Wishkah875 wrote:

Why don't they just show Futurama on another station? Would you waste money on cable just to watch Futurama uninterupted?

Do you feel Football fan's should have to buy cable just to watch the show they like?

Mike Zaite ICQ:25758172 "...Glorious sunset of my heart was fading. Soon the super karate monkey death car would park in my space. But Jimmy has fancy plans... and pants to match. The monkey clown horrible karate round and yummy like cute small baby chick would beat
LarryMichael Zaitealt.tv.futurama

On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 21:54:39 GMT, Mike Zaite wrote:

I would! In fact, I bought my C-Band system (over $2000) a while back because the local cable company didn't have Mystery Science Theater 3000. I had to make payments on it, but it was worth it.

Personally I don't really care about football, but then people called in to TV stations to complain when a boring live moon walk was interrupting an exciting I Love Lucy rerun.

I've seen HiFi VHS decks for $69. I think by now most people have VCRs. Why not repeat preempted shows at say 2:00AM so people can tape them?

</all semblance of sanity>

That's why you should vote for me. See, I'll take the first trillion dollars of the surplus and give everyone in America a 700 channel digital cable hookup. Even homeless people! Then the second trillion will be used for new TVs, VCRs and recliners. For the homeless these will be waterproof. Then I'll use all the money we save not driving around and doing things to pay off the deficit.

But how many votes did I get? NONE! That's how many! Zilch! I was going to offer Ross Perot a cabinet post (of his choice) if he got everyone HBO. But it's too late now.

--Larry

"Larry F" wrote in message news:[email]...

That would be the best answer yes. One quite common in cable circles, the networks really need to start doing that. I wonder how effective a petition to that effect would be.

How do you close a tag when it's never been opened? At least I've never seen any indications of sanity in the past few years.

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LarryLooseChanjalt.tv.futurama

On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 23:51:21 -0500, "LooseChanj" wrote:

"Sanity is a one trick pony, all you get is rational thought. But when you're good and crazy, the sky is the limit" --The Tick (as close as I can remember the quote)

LooseChanj wrote:

Probably pretty ineffective considering that the local affiliates are the ones who decide if they want to re-run shows or play infomercials at 2:00am.

Mike Zaite ICQ:25758172 "...Glorious sunset of my heart was fading. Soon the super karate monkey death car would park in my space. But Jimmy has fancy plans... and pants to match. The monkey clown horrible karate round and yummy like cute small baby chick
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And I can't skip the commercials when I tape it at 7? The reason is they don't care. The people who will tape it at 2am will tune in next week regardless. There's no added benefit in trying to please them (us).

Arnoud *** Well, I'm rich. Goodbye losers, whom I've always hated! (2acv18)

Sure I can - it's just a little harder :).

Really, I think commercial skipping is irrelevant here - if any commercials had been scheduled for a 2am time slot, I doubt the advertisers would complain that Futurama was on.

Arnoud *** Well, I'm rich. Goodbye losers, whom I've always hated! (2acv18)
Haynes LeeWishkah875alt.tv.futurama

On 25 Nov 2000 20:56:21 GMT, [email] (Wishkah875) wrote:

In Canada NHL Hockey nightly pre-empts regular programming for weeks at a time. But nobody cares about missing regular CBC programming so nobody complains. So the solution is to movie NFL football to the CBC.

Well, this doesn't matter anymore, as Fox preempted the end for Election coverage...

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