This was most likely your cable system filling an unsold local break. Happens
all the time on systems that sell local avails. I've even noticed it
occasionally on
DirecTV. The cues for local insertion come down and they've got to run something
there. And if there's nothing sold, a random cable fills the slot just as well.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Delfin" <jondel...@gmail.com>
To: <tvornottv@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Is this on purpose or just plain stupid?
> How about this one: Monday night, during "The Closer" on TNT (9 ET),
> an ad ran for "Hoarders" on A&E (9 ET). Did they think we'd bail on
> Brenda Leigh and switch over?
>
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Kevin M. <drunkbastar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:53 PM, stan <sta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> During a commercial break on my local CW station, I saw a commercial
>>> for an upcoming TV show ("Hellcats") and a movie ("Easy A") that both
>>> used the same clip of the same song ("My First Kiss" by 3OH!3) and
>>> different clips of the same actress (Alyson Michalka).
>>>
>>> Am I paying way too much attention? I know that these things are
>>> edited way in advance, but why not at least dub in a different song
>>> for the commercials? They almost cancel each other out.
>>
>> I think the problem here might just be that you are watching your
>> local CW station
>>
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