A Pox on TV Land

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I feel your pain.

I have a TV Land SP for M*A*S*H. At least three times a week my TiVo will record the last 15 minutes of the the show preceding it, and only the first 15 minutes of M*A*S*H.

 

I've noticed the same thing. Apparently, publishing accurate schedules is not high on their priority list.

 

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They publish accurate schedules, they just can't stick to them.

 

I sincerely think the people who schedule at TV Land, or the guys who push the buttons and run ads (as in "more than can fit in a normal timeslot, so the program ends up ending late") are drunk 99% of the time.

I really do.

None of their scheduling problems make ANY sense.

 

For anyone who cares...

 

You don't get Hallmark, the "All M*A*S*H, all the time" channel?

I gave up on TV Land years ago because my signal (Comcast analog) is so crappy. But I feel exactly the same way about Nickelodeon. After not being able to catch any shows because of the same 15 minute offsets, I cancelled all my SPs.

Jan

 

And Little House!

 

I never watched that show, nor The Waltons.

Someone had a good quip about one of those two, not sure which:

Whenever the ratings went down, they'd blind another child.

 

And the original Star Trek...

 

The reason one of the girls on little house was blind was because person she was based on had gone blind.

 

My kids record a bunch of those shows and I cehcked some last night - they all recorded just fine within the guide data times.

maybe this is just related to certain shows and times like overnight

 

How is a schedule accurate if they don't stick to them? That's like saying Amtrak publishes accurate schedules . . . and TVland can't just blame unforseen circumtances.

And I agree--they had a Miami Vice marathon a few months ago and they were supposed to show 4 episodes, but managed to drag it out over 4.5 hours (filling in an extra half hour of ads). Good work.

 

It's like a car reservation. They can make the reservation, but they can't hold the reservation.

Who are these people?

 

They're not always wrong. Then again, neither is a stopped clock.

 

Yeah, I used to have padding, but I recently noticed that the myths & legends show, and at least the first episode of the new David Steinberg talk show (which ended at something like :26..) both fit completely within their allotted time slots.

 

I agree that TV Land doesn't seem to care if their programs start or finish on time, and it creates problems recording.

What I think they've done is that during the Midnight to 6 a.m. run, they stretch 11 programs out over a 6 hour period that normally would hold 12. This allows them to run more commercials, but it puts each successive program further and further behind, until you're recording 1/2 of one program and 1/2 of another.

The simple solution for TV Land, if that's the way they want to program, is to list that their programs will start at 1:05 and finish at 1:40, or whatever it is. That way, they could pour on the commercials and also make their viewers happy who have DVRs.

Why they haven't thought of that, I don't know.

 

It's simple.
They don't want us "time-shifting" their shows.

 

That's my thought, and if you can't properly timeshift you get stuck at least listening to the slew of ads, which are notably louder then the show itself.