# Interesting programming choices **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2015, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-programming-choices/739688 "2015-12-07T08:00:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-programming-choices/739688/1 "2015-12-07T08:00:51Z")
I’m still a bit bemused by one the Weather Channel did recently. On the weekend of US Thanksgiving, which is quite food-oriented, they saw fit to run (several times, and promoting it fairly heavily) a documentary on [the Donner Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party). I find myself wondering what they’ll come up with for Christmas. Anyone else have a story of a programming choice that seemed oddly or amusingly timed? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-programming-choices/739688/2 "2015-12-07T09:58:07Z")
The radio station that played at work in late 2001 led into a 9/11 tribute block with… Great Balls of Fire.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-programming-choices/739688/3 "2015-12-07T17:55:23Z")
When I was in college the Orson Welles Theater in Cambridge had a program of two WC Fields movies and then - Night of the Living Dead. That sure changed the mood!