Stupid Programming Tricks

[Dancar]

The company that owns the NBC affiliate in Seattle (KING-5), owns a second station in the same market called KONG-6. The first-run programming is all on KING-5, and while KONG-6 runs repeats of KING-5 newscasts, repeats of Dr. Phil/Oprah in primetime, etc.

My wife is a fan of the Soap Opera "Days of Our Lives," which normally runs on KING-5 at 1 p.m. We have a season pass on it so she can watch it later in the afternoon. At that time, KONG-6 usually runs a repeat of the KING-5 local noon news broadcast.

BUT, when there is local or national breaking news (snow-storms, armed stand-offs or presidential press conferences), the breaking news runs on KING-5 with a banner on the bottom of the screen reading "For Days of Our Lives tune over to KONG-6." While this is great for those watching live who care more about the Jason/Ashley/Brandon love triangle that real current events, those who record their soaps for later viewing stuck with 30 minutes of droning Senators or local reporters standing at a street corner with something intereresting may or may not happen.

So if the company owns TWO stations, WHY NOT leave "Days" on KING-5 and run a banner reading "BREAKING NEWS: Stuff might blow up. Tune to KONG-6 for continious coverage."

That way people watching live can pick what they want to see, and DVR users don't miss their shows.

[tubbo]

Because nobody cares about soap operas, dude. When someone turns on the TV to their local NBC station during a breaking news situation, they want to see **** blowing up. Why do you think breaking news is such a ratings cow?

Not saying they're bad, but soap operas are definitely not on anyones top priority lol

[JohnBrowning]

Set a manual recording on the secondary channel.

[scandia101]

Set a manual recording on the secondary channel.

If it's that important and you have a TiVo with two tuners (or two ST TiVos) set up a repeating manual recording with KAM 1 episode on kong-6.

More options
- settle for the highlights video on nbc.com.
- go to itunes and pay $1.99 for the missed episode.
- bitTorrent

[Dancar]

Because nobody cares about soap operas, dude.

Tell me about it. Those shows aren't even in HD. Even most cable schlock is in HD now.

[Dancar]

Dang! It happened again today with the plane that landed in the Hudson River!

If it's that important and you have a TiVo with two tuners (or two ST TiVos) set up a repeating manual recording with KAM 1 episode on kong-6.

More options
- settle for the highlights video on nbc.com.
- go to itunes and pay $1.99 for the missed episode.
- bitTorrent

She likes watching her soap in her home office, which has the old Series I.

I told her to take the iTunes route.

[ZeoTiVo]

man what a messed up station to break into programming for a minor plane incident clear across the country

[MichaelK]

man what a messed up station to break into programming for a minor plane incident clear across the country

"minor"?

clear accross the country - true.

but the only thing that would have made it minor was that luckily no one died.

had there not been tons of luck there would have been 150+ dead people floating in the river.

I can't recall a full sized commerical jet ever "landing" in the middle of a body of water and everyone getting out safely.