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ludicrous!
D.
I
signed up on The Learning Channel's site to receive reminders of TV shows I
want to see but might forget about. On the sign-up page I noted a
couple of things and sent in these comments:
>1. When I signed up, I entered my zip code:
20877-3501, but this was
noted as invalid. It only accepted
20877.
>2. I looked up the schedule for the World Trade Center
special. It
>indicated:
>Wednesday, February 6, 10:00
pm
>Wednesday, February 6, 1:00 am
>Sunday, February 10, 6:00
pm
>It seems that the first two are out of order.
And quickly came a cheerful
and rather interesting response:
Thanks for your note and feedback! At the present
time, our registration
process is only set up to take a 5-digit zip, not
the full 5-plus-4. That
may change soon, however.
Regarding
the program broadcast times -- Sometime back in the early days of
television, the standard broadcast day was set at 6am to 6am, instead of
12midnight to 12midnight. This standard has been used by
television
networks ever since, even though we now have 24-hour
programming. I'm not
sure why the industry doesn't change the
system, but I guess some
traditions are harder to break than
others. If you check other networks,
like History Channel,
A&E, HGTV, etc., they all use the 6am to 6am grid
since the online
folks get their programming information directly from the
TV scheduling
departments. It's confusing, I know, and I hope that one day
soon
everyone will switch over. At any rate, when you look at one of our
daily TV program grids, just know that it *is* chronological, so
anything
at the bottom of the grid after midnight is actually the next
calendar day.
Fighting tradition is a never-ending battle
on many fronts.
Carleton
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