[mythtv-users] Letterman finale runs long

[Ian Evans]

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>
wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 01:26 -0400, Ian Evans wrote:
> > I'm heartbroken. I never even thought that CBS would let the show run 25
> > minutes or so long, so even with an added five minutes, I don't have the
> > end of the comedy legend's finale.
>
> Why are you surprised?  CBS are the same network that almost every week
> (during sporting event seasons) screws up the Sunday night schedule to
> allow sporting events to run late.  I hate CBS.  They want their cake
> and they want to eat it too.  They refuse to schedule a throw-away
> program after the sporting event to buffer overruns because they want
> their precious 60 minutes to run at 7pm (ET).  Although that never
> happens so I wonder why they care so much.
>
> I avoid watching/recording that channel at all costs.  I have it's score
> in my PVR adjusted to very low so that I can record from any another
> channel if at all possible.
>
> > If you're on the West Coast of North America, adjust your recordings
> > tonight. Heck add an hour.
>
> Or boycott CBS and don't watch/record them.
>
> > Twitter is already filling up with scores of sad/angry/devastated tweets
> > about people's PVRs cutting it short.
>
> I'm sure CBS are dutifully ignoring all of the complaints.  They don't
> care about you, the viewer.  In fact you are what they are selling.  As
> long as they can continue to sell you to their advertisers, what you
> think is of complete irrelevance.
>
> > Not sure if CBS will find a way to make this up.
>
> Lol.  Now you are just being silly.  :-)
>
>
Going out on a limb, but you've been burned by CBS before. :-)

Don't know why I didn't add an hour to the schedule. I guess because other
talk show finales came in on time.

Thankfully I'm an OTA user so I wasn't hit by the double whammy of
simultaneous substitution (for non-Canadian readers, the CRTC allows a
cable operator to replace the American channel with the Canadian one if
they run the show at the same time. So even if you tuned to CBS you got the
Canadian signal.)

As it was, I did record both CBS and the Toronto signal, just in case the
weather in Buffalo was bad.

CFMT in Toronto was late switching to the CBS feed, so they missed the
first two presidents in the opening gag. Then apparently some cable viewers
in Canada missed a bit as the channel switched away from Letterman at 12:35.

Anyhoo...Worldwide Pants has posted all the segments of the show on YouTube.
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