# Fucking TV Station **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 27, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031 "2010-11-27T00:48:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/1 "2010-11-27T00:48:01Z")
Morons let some damned football game run on forever, shoving everything else on teh channel off. My mom has alzheimers, and is going nuts because the show that she always watches right now is not on. She is seriously upset because the program on the TV is not matching up with her printed TV guide… Every time she gets upset I have to remind her gently that the football game pre-empted programming so the stuff she is expecting to be on TV because it is printed so isn’t there. Fucking jackasses. Just so they can repeat things in slow motion, show nubile tits and ass jiggling, and stretching the game out so they can sell more expensive advertising. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/2 "2010-11-27T00:54:53Z")
Is she waiting for [Heidi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game) to come on? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/3 "2010-11-27T01:10:30Z")
I loathe football, but I wouldn’t mind it so much if they could actually play an entire 60-minute game in, say, I dunno, _two_ hours? _Maybe_ two and a half if there’s overtime? But it seems that the average football game has to waste no less than four hours, and they never seem to actually schedule enough time. It’s one thing if running over schedule is a rare occurrence, but you’d think some genius over at the network would realize that they ought not to schedule new programming for that timeslot if it’s going to be preempted _EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME_. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/4 "2010-11-27T01:26:10Z")
A couple of things- there was a time when you could set your watch by a broadcast NFL game. 3 hours and the game was over and there was usually enough time for some post game chatter. Also, the original run of Futurama was killed by being preempted by NFL games. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/5 "2010-11-27T01:27:21Z")
Preach it. This is why I’ve hated football as long as I can remember. All football means to me is delayed, if not outright cancelled, programming, usually in the early evening and prime time. This is a big deal when you’re a little kid and you’re not allowed to stay up past 9pm or so. It’s also a big deal when you’re a bigger kid who needs a lot of sleep and doesn’t want to stay up past 9pm or so. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/6 "2010-11-27T01:31:17Z")
It’s not really the TV station’s fault. If the game runs long, what can they do? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/7 "2010-11-27T01:39:17Z")
Some get angry when football preempts regular programming, and some when football is interrupted by regular programming. The only equitable solution, it seems, is to ban football altogether. Cool with everybody? Cool. Next problem! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/8 "2010-11-27T01:55:54Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > It’s not really the TV station’s fault. If the game runs long, what can they do? That’s already been mentioned–just assume the game will run long, and don’t have any programming scheduled for right after the game. Stick the game before the newscast or something–there’s usually already been one, and stuff doesn’t change that quickly. If you must have the nitty gritty details, you can always watch a news channel. Heck, there’s another way to handle it. With digital TV, you have multiple channels per station. Put all your sports on one channel, or, at least, have a channel that runs your regularly scheduled programming on schedule, and refer people to it if the game goes long. Honestly, TV execs ought to be smarter than country doctors who are always running late because they don’t schedule enough time for their appointments. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/9 "2010-11-27T01:58:29Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Honestly, TV execs ought to be smarter than country doctors who are always running late because they don’t schedule enough time for their appointments. You see the shit that makes it to TV and think the execs should be smarter? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/10 "2010-11-27T02:31:01Z")
Change yer mommas clock back an hour. Tell her the games not over. An hour later change it back and tell momma she already watched the show. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/11 "2010-11-27T03:58:46Z")
Get momma a DVR. Set up season passes for her favorite shows. If they follow football games, add an extra hour. Problem solved. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/12 "2010-11-27T03:59:50Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > Change yer mommas clock back an hour. Tell her the games not over. You know, this might just save your sanity and stop her stressing out, too. Assuming they don’t completely drop her program, of course. You don’t have a copy recorded somewhere do you? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/13 "2010-11-27T04:42:06Z")
You know this thread is why they do that. If they game runs over they end up with the game watchers and the people just waiting for their effing show to start. If the game ended on time they’d just have the show waiters. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/14 "2010-11-27T09:45:59Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > It’s not really the TV station’s fault. If the game runs long, what can they do? It isn’t the games running long, it is all the bullshit replays, added commentary, added bullshit [how frequently do we need to see the play replayed from 3 different cameras, with circles and arrows and idiotic babble?] Hell, most of the time the games are taped and then broadcast. Do we need to see them freaking huddling during time outs? As far as I am concerned they could play just what happens while the clock is ticking and fuck adding any ‘color’ announcing and discussion over the strategy being practiced by 22 guys trying to stomp the shit out of each other running around with a stupid oval ball. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/15 "2010-11-27T09:49:03Z")
> [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](#): > > You know, this might just save your sanity and stop her stressing out, too. > > Assuming they don’t completely drop her program, of course. You don’t have a copy recorded somewhere do you? Wouldn’t really work, she is running on about a 15 minute cycle. Besides, the damned house is full of clocks, she collects the damned things [[ormolou clocks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormolu). And they all seem to chime :smack: Sort of makes taking an afternoon nap on the couch hell.] ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/16 "2010-11-27T11:01:39Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > It isn’t the games running long, it is all the bullshit replays, added commentary, added bullshit [how frequently do we need to see the play replayed from 3 different cameras, with circles and arrows and idiotic babble?] They show those replays during the time the team on the field is setting up the next play. > [@](#): > > Hell, most of the time the games are taped and then broadcast. No. > [@](#): > > Do we need to see them freaking huddling during time outs? They don’t huddle during time outs. > [@](#): > > As far as I am concerned they could play just what happens while the clock is ticking You have made it abundantly clear that you don’t watch football, or know the first thing about it, so your opinion isn’t going to carry much weight with the powers that be. Those games are broadcast for people who enjoy and watch them, not for the people who don’t. > [@](#): > > and fuck adding any ‘color’ announcing and discussion over the strategy being practiced by 22 guys trying to stomp the shit out of each other running around with a stupid oval ball. Spoken like a true fan! Look, you may not like Football, but plenty of people do, and the networks make a shit ton of money broadcasting the games. This is not going to change in your lifetime. Learn to use your DVR, or move to the west coast where the game is over long before prime time starts, or realize that just maybe your scripted television program isn’t that important, pick up a book or go outside and take a walk. They will be showing a rerun of whatever hokey drama or pinheaded sitcom you like after football season is over anyway, so you aren’t even going to miss anything. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/17 "2010-11-27T11:24:24Z")
Look at all the terrible people in here who hate football. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/18 "2010-11-27T11:36:58Z")
> [@Michael\_Ellis](#): > > Look at all the terrible people in here who hate football. :rolleyes: Hating football doesn’t make you terrible, but complaining about something that isn’t going to change makes you a person with a poor chance of having a satisfying life. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/19 "2010-11-27T13:19:31Z")
> [@Stan\_Shmenge](#): > > They show those replays during the time the team on the field is setting up the next play. > > No. > > They don’t huddle during time outs. > > You have made it abundantly clear that you don’t watch football, or know the first thing about it, so your opinion isn’t going to carry much weight with the powers that be. Those games are broadcast for people who enjoy and watch them, not for the people who don’t. > > Spoken like a true fan! > > Look, you may not like Football, but plenty of people do, and the networks make a shit ton of money broadcasting the games. This is not going to change in your lifetime. Learn to use your DVR, or move to the west coast where the game is over long before prime time starts, or realize that just maybe your scripted television program isn’t that important, pick up a book or go outside and take a walk. They will be showing a rerun of whatever hokey drama or pinheaded sitcom you like after football season is over anyway, so you aren’t even going to miss anything. Personally I dont give a shit, but it is very distressing to see my mother upset, and having to spend time every 15 minutes as her alzheimers cycles trying to explain to her why shows that she watches every other \ are not on. You wait until you have to go through something like that with someone you love very much, and until then, screw you sideways. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031/20 "2010-11-27T13:20:57Z")
Well, it might annoy the rest of us, but it might help out people like **aruvqan mama** if the announcers would repeat more often that “Heidi will be coming up real soon, right after this game is over.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031.md?page=2)