I love "24". It's a great show although it does go a little overboard sometimes. If you notice from this story, this is what I've been beefing about for years. The government can invade our privacy, violate our birthrights, cause all kinds of grief and people will just sit on their asses. BUT if you fuck with their tv show programming they will go fucking ballistic.
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Posted on Mon, Jan. 16, 2006
?24? gets cut off in last 10 minutesTV fans hit the roof when local newscast begins before show endsBy ADAM BEAMStaff WriterMidlands fans of the FOX show ?24? are used to cliffhangers ? but nothing like what happened during the fifth-season premiere Sunday night.
WACH-TV, Columbia?s FOX affiliate, cut away from the last 10 minutes of the blockbuster show to start its 10 p.m. newscast ? leaving fans in the Midlands hanging.
?Somebody has lost their mind,? said Steve Arnold, a fan who was watching the show at his Irmo home.
FOX has been promoting the show?s two-part, two-hour season premiere for weeks. It was scheduled to start at 8 p.m., after the conclusion of the NFL playoff game between the Carolina Panthers and the Chicago Bears.
The game went long, pushing the start of ?24? back about 10 minutes ? and ideally pushing back the start of the newscast.
WACH has a contract with WIS-TV, which produces WACH news programs, to broadcast its news at 10 p.m. If, for some reason, WACH has to delay broadcast, the station can record the newscast and air it later.
Sunday night, that didn?t happen.
?They should have realized that it was running over,? WACH station manager Scott McBride said from his home Sunday night. ?They just opted to take the news live, and that was a mistake.
?WIS or WACH-TV did not communicate to each other that the game was running long and that it was going to be a problem.?
Barry Ahrendts, WIS? director of marketing and programming, confirmed the two stations? contractual obligations.
?As to what exactly happened tonight,? he said, ?I don?t know; I wasn?t there.?
Paul Teeple, 43, of Columbia, hadn?t missed a second of ?24? from the start ? even from 2001 to 2003, while working in Nicaragua for his employer, an international development nonprofit organization. He had friends record it for him.
?I?m mad, I?m upset, and I?m having a hard time rationalizing this,? he said. ?This is the one TV show you wait for and wait for, and there?s always a cliffhanger ? but this is too much.
?It was irresponsible; I found it disrespectful of WACH to its viewers.?
McBride said the station will re-air the entire show ? but not before Part 2 of the season premiere, which airs at 8 tonight.
That doesn?t work well with the unique format of ?24.? Each hourlong episode chronicles a ?real-time? hour in the life of federal agent Jack Bauer, played by Kiefer Sutherland.
While most shows start in the fall and continue throughout the season with occasional reruns, ?24? starts in January and runs straight through to May with no reruns.
?If you miss an episode, you?re out of the loop,? said 41-year-old Barry Ammons of Columbia. ?That?s just a big screw-up.?
The ?24? mishap might remind another generation of viewers of a national TV goof on Sept. 17, 1968, when NBC cut off the last hour of a pro football game to show the made-for-TV movie ?Heidi.?
As a result, football fans missed it when the Oakland Raiders scored two touchdowns in nine seconds to beat the New York Jets.
After WACH?s 35-minute newscast ? which did not acknowledge the loss of the last 10 minutes of ?24? ? the station aired a 30-minute infomercial for a diet book, ?The Omega 3 Miracle.?
But the coup de grace for ?24? fans came next, when WACH broadcast a rerun of a Season 1 episode of ? you guessed it ? ?24.?
Reach Beam at (803) 771-8405 or [email protected].
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http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/13635789.htm
Posted on Mon, Jan. 16, 2006
?24? gets cut off in last 10 minutesTV fans hit the roof when local newscast begins before show endsBy ADAM BEAMStaff WriterMidlands fans of the FOX show ?24? are used to cliffhangers ? but nothing like what happened during the fifth-season premiere Sunday night.
WACH-TV, Columbia?s FOX affiliate, cut away from the last 10 minutes of the blockbuster show to start its 10 p.m. newscast ? leaving fans in the Midlands hanging.
?Somebody has lost their mind,? said Steve Arnold, a fan who was watching the show at his Irmo home.
FOX has been promoting the show?s two-part, two-hour season premiere for weeks. It was scheduled to start at 8 p.m., after the conclusion of the NFL playoff game between the Carolina Panthers and the Chicago Bears.
The game went long, pushing the start of ?24? back about 10 minutes ? and ideally pushing back the start of the newscast.
WACH has a contract with WIS-TV, which produces WACH news programs, to broadcast its news at 10 p.m. If, for some reason, WACH has to delay broadcast, the station can record the newscast and air it later.
Sunday night, that didn?t happen.
?They should have realized that it was running over,? WACH station manager Scott McBride said from his home Sunday night. ?They just opted to take the news live, and that was a mistake.
?WIS or WACH-TV did not communicate to each other that the game was running long and that it was going to be a problem.?
Barry Ahrendts, WIS? director of marketing and programming, confirmed the two stations? contractual obligations.
?As to what exactly happened tonight,? he said, ?I don?t know; I wasn?t there.?
Paul Teeple, 43, of Columbia, hadn?t missed a second of ?24? from the start ? even from 2001 to 2003, while working in Nicaragua for his employer, an international development nonprofit organization. He had friends record it for him.
?I?m mad, I?m upset, and I?m having a hard time rationalizing this,? he said. ?This is the one TV show you wait for and wait for, and there?s always a cliffhanger ? but this is too much.
?It was irresponsible; I found it disrespectful of WACH to its viewers.?
McBride said the station will re-air the entire show ? but not before Part 2 of the season premiere, which airs at 8 tonight.
That doesn?t work well with the unique format of ?24.? Each hourlong episode chronicles a ?real-time? hour in the life of federal agent Jack Bauer, played by Kiefer Sutherland.
While most shows start in the fall and continue throughout the season with occasional reruns, ?24? starts in January and runs straight through to May with no reruns.
?If you miss an episode, you?re out of the loop,? said 41-year-old Barry Ammons of Columbia. ?That?s just a big screw-up.?
The ?24? mishap might remind another generation of viewers of a national TV goof on Sept. 17, 1968, when NBC cut off the last hour of a pro football game to show the made-for-TV movie ?Heidi.?
As a result, football fans missed it when the Oakland Raiders scored two touchdowns in nine seconds to beat the New York Jets.
After WACH?s 35-minute newscast ? which did not acknowledge the loss of the last 10 minutes of ?24? ? the station aired a 30-minute infomercial for a diet book, ?The Omega 3 Miracle.?
But the coup de grace for ?24? fans came next, when WACH broadcast a rerun of a Season 1 episode of ? you guessed it ? ?24.?
Reach Beam at (803) 771-8405 or [email protected].
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