Hear, hear! 5:00 a.m. race starts (for the European races) are a bit painful. Up at 4:20 or so to catch the pre-race blather, and the broadcast ends at around 7:00. I usually go back to sleep for a couple of hours.
Monday Night Football games are over at a very nice hour, but the 6:00 p.m. start makes it very difficult to be home in time to see kickoff.
Presidential addresses and stuff like that are tough to catch on TV, too, as they’re usually during the evening commute.
Finally, a post I can relate to! Of course, I tape them so I can fast forward thru the commercials. And watch slo-mo replays of the umbrella girls…
My favorites are Suzuka and Malasia. Get to watch them Saturday night.
And honestly, what kind of fool does stay up till midnight to watch football?
Never kiss an animal that can lick its own butt.
Watching weekday East coast baseball and hockey games, and Monday Night Football are all a hassle…because I’m still at work! Weekend playoff hockey is another matter - I’m going to watch the Devils Sens game tomorrow at Noon, then still have time to get in 9 holes afterwards.
But nothing beats waking up, rolling over and turning on the remote to watch a 10am football game…in bed. A thing of beauty.
Plus, I grew up in St, Louis, where the paper would simply…not print the West coast scores - just the team names, with “late game” or some other newpaper code word for “too lazy to hold up the presses for your game.” Now I don’t miss a single score in the paper.
ESPN just did a west-coast vs east-coast comparison for sports watchers on their web site. Let’s see…
West Coast.
East Coast.
Personally I love the West Coast. As far as I’m concerned I get the best of all worlds. I don’t mind at all getting up for 10am kickoffs, and I get to watch SNF and MNF without No-Doz.
I feel a little left out. When I used to watch Saturday Night Live, back when it was worth watching, it always bothered me a little that it’s supposed to be live television, but we had to watch it “recorded from an earlier broadcast” for our time zone. That was understandable, since it emanated from New York, but when the similar improv show Fridays emanated from Los Angeles, they still broadcast it live to the East Coast, and we watched it in pre-recorded format.
Same with the last Oscar show. We were all set to watch it, but tuned in late when we realized it had started at 8PM EST and not 8PM PST. Even for something so connected with Southern California, and broadcast from Hollywood itself, we have to adjust so that the East Coast can watch live in primetime.
In another sphere, not yet mentioned, Southern California is left out in its complete lack of iconic monuments of national significance–but that’s just the fault of the way the cities here developed, and the era in which they did.
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The “Hollywood” sign. That’s about all I can do for you - I think San Francisco has all the other iconic monuments.
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I suppose you could say that of the Hollywood sign, but it seems a bit tacky next to the Golden Gate Bridge or the Statue of Liberty.
I think our lack of real monuments makes us relatively safer from terrorist attack, but it’s sad that the reason for that safety is, in my mind, a negative one.
Perhaps we don’t have any real iconic monuments here in the Los Angeles area, but there are plenty of military bases, financial centers, museums full of precious artwork, and the federal building on Wilshire Boulevard that can be targets, too.
But, in regards to the OP: No, I’ve never quite felt left out. I’m not a big sports fan, and hey–the Oscars start at 6 PM for me. That means I’ll get to bed at a decent hour when they’re finished!
Early to bed, early to rise works for me.
I’m not a huge sports fan, but I do love to watch the PGA, and I like having coverage start at noon and finish by 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon. I was on the East Coast for the Masters, and it was very frustrating to have to wait around all day for it to start, and then go to playoff holes when we had to leave at 7:00 for dinner.
Since I’ve lived in California my entire life, anything else just seems weird. I particularly like getting the Oscars at a decent hour – probably the reason why I never find it as boring as most viewers – it’s a lot easier to stay awake when even a 4 hour show ends at 9:30.
But the best thing is being able to find out in advance what happens on T.V. shows so that you can make more informed viewing decisions. No American Idol filler for me! I can check the results on the net before I go home from work and I don’t even need to watch the show if it doesn’t sound interesting.
[sup]And I’m guessing no one else in this thread cares about this, but I love being able to see the midnight home shopping special values at 9:00.[/sup]
The 3-hour difference and tape delay stops me from constantly calling in to talk shows to complain about how everything’s gone to hell.
In Hawaii, when I watched Braves games on TBS, they were either at 1pm, 4pm, or, on Sunday mornings, 7am. Because of my sleeping and school schedules, I’d miss half to two thirds of the games. Now that I’m in Washington state, they’re on three hours later than I’m used to. Because of this, I don’t think I’ve managed to see more than a half dozen games so far.
You kinda get used to the East Coast doing things six hours before you do. For New Year’s, for example, they’ll show the ball drop in Times Square and meanwhile, you’re still firing up the barbeque. The local newscasters will say things along the lines of, “It turned 2003 along the East Coast of the US today… still a few more hours to go here in Hawaii…” You’re left thinking that either Hawaii’s been left behind, or the rest of the country time travels.
When it’s a nationwide election, though, it plain ol’ sucks. My parents would vote late in the day, since they would go after work. And by then, they were already tallying up the votes from the rest of the country. You can turn on the radio and hear about who’s going to win as you pull up to the polling place. It then makes it feel a little silly to vote for Candidate X when you already know without a doubt that he doesn’t have a prayer. But what are you going to do-- change your vote to be on the “winning” side? Makes you wonder how much the time difference is responsible for low voter turnout.
If you’re Internet savvy, you can forget about caring about awards ceremonies. Unless you’re careful, you’ll learn who won Grammys or Oscars hours before the ceremonies are televised.
It’s kind of odd, but the one thing that really made me feel left out was watching CNN’s weather forecast segments. Hawaii and Alaska may as well be territories of China. The accuracy (and therefore usefulness) of weather forecasting aside, the fact that you’re not included in an image of the country is going to make you feel a tad neglected. (Add that to the higher costs of shipping stuff to Hawaii and Alaska, and it’s enough to make you wonder if there’s a conspiracy against them or something. ;))
I don’t feel left out at all.
I work graveyard shift. I like catching the first baseball game from ESPN at 10 AM.
Sigh. Poor us. The Freak states have even gotten left out of the OP. I would actually say the feeling of being left out runs throughout this state up to and including the Governor.
The absolute worst for Hawaii was the Sydney Olympics. We’re 4 hours later in the day then Sydney which means the entire Olympics was ready to play out perfectly for us all day long. Only they couldn’t do that so instead we had something like a 20 hour delay between the event and when we got to watch it. Made the live coverage so rediculous that I watched the entire thing on the web. Didn’t watch a single event on my TV.
Actually all weekday sporting events are tape delayed so we have “Cover your eyes” time on the early local news.
This and all the stuff Audrey said are the reasons I’m still all for jumping the date line even though no one ever seriously considered it. Just the thought of the joy I’d get of being able to vote before I was told who the president was going to be did it.
[Hijack] Just ftr, I consider “do you feel left out” as a pretty arrogant and insulting statement.[/Hijack]
Now, I don’t feel “left out” in the slightest, just the reverse of the OP, it’s a little irritating when I visit the East Coast and football games don’t start until the afternoon and don’t end until late at night. Rolling out of bed on Sunday and reading the newspapers and watching football first thing in the morning has been my Sunday routine for years now.
Do I feel left out over TV shows, knowing the air first on the East Coast? Nah, those shows have been recorded weeks ahead of time, a perusal of the SDMB will usually give away any plot points at least a day ahead of time, with the exception of reality shows, which I don’t happen to watch.
The major advantages of living here on West Coast, besides sports starting at a reasonable hour, is that through the magic of satellite TV I can watch David Letterman starting at 8:30 and still go to sleep early or do something afterwards. Not to mention actually being able to watch Oscars and Grammys without having to stay up to midnight.
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I moved from Ohio (Eastern time) to Arizona several years ago. Half the year AZ shares californica time, the other half we’re an hour behind.
Yeah, the time delay thing can be a little weird, but you get used to it quickly.
The one thing I have not figured out any kind of reason for is the prime time and late news starting schedule. Back east, prime time started at 8 p.m. ran till 11 and then we had the late news. Here it starts at 7 and run until 10. That’s never made any sense to me. 7 can be a little too early for the start of prime time if you have to work late, run errands after work or whatever. 8 seemed, and still does, to make much more sense. C’mon, we’re off ANYWAY, why not keep the starting hour consistent?
When I was in Seattle (now this is maybe 20 years ago), I distinctly recall watching Dan Rather on the “CBS Evening News, West Coast Edition.” I’m headed to
Sacramento next month (whee…!) so I’ll have to see…