<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Jim Berwick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@jamesberwick.com">jim@jamesberwick.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">I've almost never seen the allotted time for NHL, NFL, or MLB cover<br></div>
the entire game and a post game wrap up. NFL games usually run long<br>
enough that the last few minutes of the 1PM game is in the 4PM game's<br>
recording. I don't watch a lot of baseball but every night there's a<br>
game on Fox or some other channel I record a lot of I miss an entire<br>
recording or more of the Simpsons or during MLB playoffs Conan on TBS.<br>
NHL games are timed perfectly so that after a 2.5 hour recording you<br>
can miss the last 3-5 minutes of every single game.<br></blockquote></div><br>I am not sure about TSN or RSN but the Hockey Night in Canada on CBC always schedules 3 hours for their NHL games, which is more than enough to cover the game and a regular season overtime/shootout and they then fill the rest of the time with post game coverage. Since there is a 3 hour time difference between Eastern and Pacific timezones, they can (and do) show 2 games back to back. If they show a third (afternoon) game, they tell the NHL to have it start at 3:00pm (Eastern) so they can break for a 30 min news cast at 6:00pm and then have a 30 min pre-game show at 6:30.<br>
<br>Of course come playoff time, if the game goes to overtime, they need to start pre-empting other programs as they keep playing 20 min (game time) periods (with full 15 minute intermissions between them) until someone scores. These periods go a bit faster though as there are no commercial timeouts (only a brief pause about half way through the period to shovel the goal creases).<br>