[mythtv-users] CBS will warn 'Mentalist' and 'Good Wife' fans about football overruns in the fall

[Tom Dexter]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> On 12-07-30 03:41 PM, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if we could use the SMS to automate adjusting the Sunday
>> schedule in real time.
>
> SMS?  How about plain old e-mail?  Why do I have to have a mobile phone
> to get such a notification?
>
> Or CBS could stop wanting their cake and eating it too and just use a
> throw-away program like everyone else does.
>
> When will all of this relentless greed stop?
>
> b.

+100000 to that...EVERY other station schedules a throw away after the
game to prevent this.  For whatever reason, CBS refuses to take 60
minutes out of that 7:00 spot.  That's the only real fix for
this...the old "stop being a bunch of assholes" approach...

Tom