# No 60 Minutes? College ball game instead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-60-minutes-college-ball-game-instead/811177 "2018-03-25T23:06:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-60-minutes-college-ball-game-instead/811177/21 "2018-03-26T14:30:19Z")
Hopefully the previous comment didn’t come off as too snarky. I live near Duke and was tickled to see Duke’s coach Kryzewski referred to as a gym teacher 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-60-minutes-college-ball-game-instead/811177/22 "2018-03-26T22:19:03Z")
> [@awldune](#): > > I enjoyed this. The two “gym teachers” involved earned $14M last year. Oh, is that all? They must not be for very well-liked teams. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-60-minutes-college-ball-game-instead/811177/23 "2018-03-26T22:22:39Z")
[Best ratings for 60 minutes since their Obama interview in 2008](http://deadline.com/2018/03/stormy-daniels-biggest-60-minutes-ratings-since-barack-obama-michelle-post-election-20008-1202353291/) ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-60-minutes-college-ball-game-instead/811177/24 "2018-03-28T03:05:47Z")
I believe 60 Minutes is (or at least, was) scheduled to start at 8 instead of 7 when there’s an afternoon NFL game on CBS, giving them plenty of time for the game to finish and do a post-game show even. That’s less likely for more one-off events though. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2018, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-60-minutes-college-ball-game-instead/811177/25 "2018-03-30T15:56:35Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > I’m surprised no one realizes this is regular practice in the Eastern/Central time zones; sports events on Sunday that run late almost always delay “60 Minutes” and that’s why Sunday sports events on CBS usually say “60 Minutes” will start “after the game” instead of mentioning a specific time. Of course the Mountain and Pacific zones will see this on time. It was a big problem with Sunday night shows like Futurama. It was supposed to be on at 7PM but often wasn’t shown at all because of sports running late. And then they wondered why it got low ratings. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-60-minutes-college-ball-game-instead/811177/26 "2018-03-30T16:10:41Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > It was a big problem with Sunday night shows like Futurama. It was supposed to be on at 7PM but often wasn’t shown at all because of sports running late. And then they wondered why it got low ratings. I’m pretty sure Fox has a show called something like ‘OT’ scheduled for 30 minutes after the scheduled end time of the late Sunday game, which they use to buffer late/OT games. CBS should try that. ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-60-minutes-college-ball-game-instead/811177/27 "2018-03-30T22:16:55Z")
The only way to watch CBS on Sunday nights (at least in the Eastern and Central timezones) is to tell your DVR to pad the show you want by an extra hour. Or, if your DVR doesn’t have that option, to also record the next show after the one you want to watch. This has always been a problem with CBS. They just won’t schedule their Sundays accurately. They probably enjoy a bump in the ratings from people who tune in and watch an extra hour waiting for the show they want to come on. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-60-minutes-college-ball-game-instead/811177/28 "2018-03-30T23:31:20Z")
Is the game still on? ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2018, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-60-minutes-college-ball-game-instead/811177/29 "2018-03-31T02:22:19Z")
> [@UCBearcats](#): > > CBS needs to do a better job of scheduling and start events 30 minutes earlier. This happens weekly during the NFL season and frequently for other sporting events. They can do additional recaps and highlights for the few minutes remaining before 60 minutes starts. They’re not going to start NFL games 30 minutes earlier because the only time it is a national problem is when it is a CBS doubleheader day, and CBS (and Fox) asked the NFL to delay the start of the “late” games until 4:25 so there would be very little overlap with the ends of the games that started at 1:00. Having the league move games back to 3:30 means west coast games start at 12:30 Pacific, which is pushing things with familes going to church and then the game. > [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > [Best ratings for 60 minutes since their Obama interview in 2008](http://deadline.com/2018/03/stormy-daniels-biggest-60-minutes-ratings-since-barack-obama-michelle-post-election-20008-1202353291/) How much of that is overlap from the basketball? _The Simpsons_, for example, always gets much better ratings when it immediately follows NFL coverage. > [@control-z](#): > > It was a big problem with Sunday night shows like Futurama. It was supposed to be on at 7PM but often wasn’t shown at all because of sports running late. And then they wondered why it got low ratings. At first, when the second games of doubleheaders started at 4:00, they tended to end around 7:15, so people out east would get only the second half of an episode. Fox asked that late games be moved to a 4:15 start, and stopped airing new Futurama episodes on its doubleheader days (the west coast got repeats from early seasons). After one of too many episodes of _King of the Hill_, scheduled for 7:30, were joined in progress or even pre-empted because of long-running NFL coverage (ever hear the story of the Thanksgiving episode that got shelved for an entire year because of this?), Fox threw in the towel and padded its postgame show until 8:00 on its doubleheader days. > [@Folacin](#): > > I’m pretty sure Fox has a show called something like ‘OT’ scheduled for 30 minutes after the scheduled end time of the late Sunday game, which they use to buffer late/OT games. > > CBS should try that. I think it doesn’t because (a) it doesn’t want 60 Minutes to start at 7:00 on some weeks and 8:00 on others, and (b) it would mean one of its other Sunday shows wouldn’t air nine times during the fall. Fox can get away with it with _Bob’s Burgers_, but it causes problems with a “serialized” show like _Madame Secretary_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-60-minutes-college-ball-game-instead/811177.md?page=1)