Television WTF?!

[bjarvis]

For two consecutive nights, we've been watching a movie on TNT when suddenly, without warning, the station says they're pre-empting the remaining hour of the movie so that they can show the opening of a baseball game.

WTF?!

Seriously, if you were engrossed in the movie, do you really want it to be jettisoned for a professional sports game? And since the game wasn't in the broadcast schedule, if you were actively seeking the game, how would you know it was on this particular channel in the timeslot originally allocated to the conclusion of something else?

What were they thinking?

Comments

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

OMG...I would be SO pissed!

And Randy wonders why I hate watching broadcast stations.

[allanh.livejournal.com]

Hel-LO, Netflix!

[weekilter.livejournal.com]

They did it for Joe Sixpack!

[manley1.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised they even showed the movie. It's not like there are a huge number of impromptu sporting events.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Yes, but what's going on here is that all the current playoff games are being broadcast on TBS; in this case, the late-afternoon Rays-White Sox game (whose start was delayed by rain) wasn't over when the night game between the Angels and Red Sox started, so they shifted the start of the night game to their sister station (TNT). Presumably once the Rays-WS game was over they moved the Angels-RS game to TBS.

If you're not a baseball fan, of course, this is annoying. And they should have warned viewers that this might happen.

TNT

[euchreman.livejournal.com]

I was wondering about that myself. We made it home early and decided to turn on Poisendon. We thought when we tuned to TNT we would see the last 20 minutes of Titanic, and instead it was the baseball game. I was just glad it ended before our movie of choice came on.

Sorry you didn't have the same luck.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

if you were actively seeking the game, how would you know it was on this particular channel

See my response to manley1. If you were looking for that game, you would have looked on TBS, where you would likely have seen a crawl telling you it was on TNT. And there's a good chance you would have been watching the TBS game anyway.

(As we ourselves probably would have been doing, except that we were at the later game.)