OK, so in the grand scheme of things I suppose announcing the winners of the Tony Awards early is hardly going to be earth shattering - still - I intend tape it later tonight to watch tomorrow, but as I logged into my computer, there were the early winners posted in big letters from ABC news on my Google page.
Mind you, the show doesn’t even start here for another hour. Talk about spoilers - and in the headlines of the story no less!
It is one thing to title a news story, “Tony Awards Winners!” which I therefore wouldn’t read, but to have the names of the winners blasted in the title is just not particularly fair to those of us on the West Coast waiting for the show to begin.
I feel your pain. I often check my RoadRunner email from remote locations. The log-on screen shows current, uncustomizable news stories. For the past several years, they’ve decided to post the Grand Slam tennis scores in real time there, even though 3 out of 4 of them take place in the wee hours of the morning here in the U.S.
Yahoo learned to delay results on their home page for several hours and/or make users click to see them. You’d think the company SELLING DVRs would show the same courtesy.
But I can DREAM about it. My life could be so much more efficient. Why can’t they just show the events while they’re happening? If it’s important enough to watch after dinner, it’s important enough to watch at three in the afternoon.
On edit, I realize that I was answering the question I thought I read, rather than the one that was posted.
I think I dealt with my disdain for tape-delay, though.
