On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Adam Bowie <adam.bo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm still getting over the fact that CBS abandoned coverage of the > Men's Final of the US Open in place of its all-rerun schedule on > Monday evening leaving coverage to ESPN2. > FWIW...Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Wisconsin are all holding primary elections today. Which means Monday was the last big election advertising day for local affiliates in those states. (Wiki lists 17 affiliates licensed to those states; that doesn't count Delaware and New Hampshire, which have no CBS affiliates, but are surely served by someone running spots.) I'm sure stations were screaming bloody murder at their affiliate reps all day long; taking away two and a half hours of local programming (and, more to the point, very lucrative local advertising) for a sporting event which, in all honesty, is not enormously popular in the U.S. is a pretty big deal, at least from an affiliate standpoint. -- -- Ben Scripps benscri...@gmail.com -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
