Lost on KATV - Little Rock

For those of you watching "Lost" on KATV (local ABC affiliate) in Little Rock, Arkansas, please check to make sure "Lost" will record correctly for you. It appears KATV, once again, has SEC basketball taking priority over "Lost". The first episode of "Lost" this week isn't scheduled to air until 12:35 a.m. on Thursday, 1/12. This is supposed to be the "Revelations" episode which sounds like some kind of clip show.

The new episode, "The 23rd Psalm", isn't scheduled until Friday, 1/13, at 12:35 a.m.

Please be sure to pad both episodes quite a bit as programming at that time is off schedule much of the time.

The schedule is also messed up for the following week, too, although I'm not sure of the exact times.

Also, if you don't like KATV messing with "Lost" like this, please send a message to them using the contact from on their web site. http://www.katv.com

 

KATV has posted a schedule of affected Lost episodes:
http://www.katv.com/external.hrb?p=lost

 

Here's another reminder about Lost being delayed in on KATV in Little Rock.

Here's the link to the station's site again: http://www.katv.com/external.hrb?p=lost

 

There's a decent FAQ page in the link I included above that includes somewhat of an explanation. Apparently the advertisers like it.... something along those lines. It may have something to do with a contract they have with Jefferson Pilot sports, but I don't buy that as an excuse, since one would think they are the ones that agreed to the contract (unless it's a long-term contract they agreed to before Lost was a hit).

Here's a link directly to this question on KATV's site:
http://www.katv.com/external.hrb?p=lostfaq#why

By the way, if I had HD, I'd be really annoyed, because they're not able to rebroadcast Lost in HD.
http://www.katv.com/external.hrb?p=lostfaq#hd

 

Here's another reminder since there's a new episode tonight...

 

Here's another reminder. Tonight's is the last Lost episode the KATV web site currently lists with a conflict.

 

Three years later, and KATV is still doing this. Now that I have HD, though, I'm even more annoyed, as when they are actually airing Lost early in the morning, they are NOT showing it in HD!

Plus this week, they had their guide data wrong and aired the pop-up video format of last week's episode when the guide data indicated the new episode would air.

Uggghhhh!

 

I do watch "Life on Mars". It was on at the normal time Wednesday night.

Do you ever get any response from KATV on your complaint?

I found an article from 2005 where it mentioned they actually delayed an Arkansas basketball game 1 hour to air Lost and got complaints. You'll notice this thread started in 2006.

The least they could do is actually re-air in HD and then actually air it when they say they'll air it.

I'll probably stream it from ABC.com directly to my TV since they offer HD streaming.

 

Yeah, they just don't have that capability to delay HD. However, I don't count that as a valid excuse. If I can time-shift HD for under a few hundred bucks, so can they. Sure - it might be a more crude, manual system, but for the couple hours a week they do this, it seems well worth the cost/effort - especially for Lost.

I'm not sure they're making more money from non-Arkansas SEC games. It's possible, but I think it has something to do with whatever bonehead contract they've had with Raycom Sports (was Jefferson Pilot, then some other name) since 2006.

 

Odd. My cable company has had KATV HD for as long as I've had HD (just since August).

 

Yeah, I think that was an ABC thing, so it didn't involve KATV doing anything but passing on the live HD content.

 

Since the guide data didn't mention what KATV actually aired last week (resulting in DVRs recording the replay of the previous episode), you might want to double-check your To Do list and pad or setup a manual recording as necessary.