# No Meet The Press, Tennis. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 11, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687 "2017-06-11T14:08:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/1 "2017-06-11T14:08:32Z")
The longest running show in television history has been preemted again. What’s more important than Meet The Press this week? Fucking tennis. Fuck you, tennis. And fuck you to the television people that decided to put tennis on instead. I would think this show would get more respect, but it seems to be preempted quite a bit. Sometimes it’s golf. Fuck you too, golf. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/2 "2017-06-11T14:16:40Z")
Yeah, it it was Curling, then they would be important, not tennis. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/3 "2017-06-11T14:21:06Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > The longest running show in television history has been preemted again. What’s more important than Meet The Press this week? Fucking tennis. Fuck you, tennis. And fuck you to the television people that decided to put tennis on instead. I would think this show would get more respect, but it seems to be preempted quite a bit. Sometimes it’s golf. Fuck you too, golf. What is Meet The Press? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/4 "2017-06-11T14:25:12Z")
That’s the political show that’s on Sunday morning while you’re doing kitchen crap. It’s on in the next room, so you don’t have to watch, but listen as you, for example, unload the dishwasher. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/5 "2017-06-11T16:23:52Z")
A lot of times it will be shown later on CNBC. Did you check listings on that channel? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/6 "2017-06-11T16:41:02Z")
Ah yes, nowadays it is more like Meet Depressed … ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/7 "2017-06-11T16:57:50Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > A lot of times it will be shown later on CNBC. Did you check listings on that channel? I get my tv through the air. I could probably watch the episode online, but I’ve already got the dishes put away. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/8 "2017-06-11T17:06:26Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > The longest running show in television history has been preemted again. What’s more important than Meet The Press this week? Fucking tennis. Fuck you, tennis. And fuck you to the television people that decided to put tennis on instead. I would think this show would get more respect, but it seems to be preempted quite a bit. Sometimes it’s golf. Fuck you too, golf. “Meet the press has been preempted” sounds like the broad state of the union right now. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/9 "2017-06-11T17:17:08Z")
The tennis was awesome. Viva Nadal!! ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/10 "2017-06-11T17:19:08Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I get my tv through the air. I could probably watch the episode online, but I’ve already got the dishes put away. Btw..since you are pts Chevy channel 4.2…in LA its replayed at 5. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/11 "2017-06-11T17:20:11Z")
Spell check…over the air check channel 4.2 ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/12 "2017-06-11T17:31:45Z")
Networks will always go for sports over anything else. The [Heidi game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game) showed that. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/13 "2017-06-11T17:58:45Z")
No soap, radio. Am I the only one who thought of that upon seeing the thread title? Yes? Okay, I’ll see myself out. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/14 "2017-06-11T18:02:54Z")
Is Meet The Press on the radio? That would suit me just fine! I never tought about that. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/15 "2017-06-11T18:54:28Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > That’s the political show that’s on Sunday morning while you’re doing kitchen crap. It’s on in the next room, so you don’t have to watch, but listen as you, for example, unload the dishwasher. This is so eerily spot-on. :eek: I’d swear you have been peeking through my window! Except at my house, it’s Fareed Zakaria. Yeah, fuck tennis and golf. Only thing worse on TV is poker. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/16 "2017-06-11T18:57:51Z")
Was that a Steal Your Face sticker I saw on your fridge? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/17 "2017-06-11T19:18:33Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > No soap, radio. > > Am I the only one who thought of that upon seeing the thread title? Yes? Okay, I’ll see myself out. No, you’re not the only one, but you beat me to it by an hour and a half. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/18 "2017-06-11T19:27:29Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Btw…since you are pts Chevy channel 4.2…in LA its replayed at 5. > [@madsircool](#): > > Spell check…over the air check channel 4.2 Yeah, but he’s not in L.A., and Chicago doesn’t have a channel 4. WMAQ 5 is the NBC station and has COZI TV on 5.2, so there’s no replay of _Meet the Press_ there. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/19 "2017-06-11T19:45:11Z")
Sunday morning has long been my time to go through the mail, pay the bills, file new documents and toss outdated ones, and sometimes do laundry. Always done with every TV in the house tuned (I don’t have cable) to the Sunday morning news shows. ABC disrupted my whole routine when they moved Stephanopolis to the same time as Meet The Press. I always watched one, then the other. The upside is that when MTP is pre-empted for Sports, I can watch ABC instead. It is kind of funny that the sports pre-emptions always seem to happen after a week of big political happenings. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687/20 "2017-06-11T20:40:20Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Networks will always go for sports over anything else. In the case of the '60s Vietnam hearings in the Senate, an _I Love Lucy_ rerun was deemed more important by CBS. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-meet-the-press-tennis/788687.md?page=2)