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In article <556fe3$a59@Usenet.Logical.NET>, wkyrouz@capital.net says...
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>paulp@mail.capital.net (Paul Protzman) wrote:
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>>WXXA Fox-23 will continue to air Babylon 5 thru the fourth season.
>>This week they have shifted the schedule for the two airings per week.
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>>Babylon 5 will air on thursdays at 1:00 am and saturday mornings at 5:00 am.
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>  They're getting rid of Saturday's at 4 P.M. for THOSE SLOTS?!?!?!
>If they are going to treat the show (and the fans) like that, it's a
>sure sign that they're planning on dropping the series.    
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>        Damn straight.  But what about WSBK-38 (Ch 4. on Albany's cable
>system)?  I stopped watching it there when it appeared that Fox 23 was
>regularly airing B5 on Saturday afternoons (not to mention Ch 38's
>reputation for editing the program).  
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>        *sigh*  The one show worth catching every week, and we're probably
>losing it.
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>Bill

>Stephanie A. McGowan sm9311@cnsibm.albany.edu
>William J. Kyrouz    wkyrouz@nyx.net
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In my conversation in early October with the WXXA program director he indicated 
that he was motivated by: (1) He's a B5 fan. (2) At that time he thought WSBK 
was dropping B5, eliminating coverage for this area via cable. (3) He figures 
most Saturday afternoon shows are VCR material anyways - folks are away from 
home.

WSBK airs the latest B5 at 11:00 PM Sundays and repeats the previous week's 
episode at 2:0 am the following Sunday (except when they show the same episode 
- like I hear they did this week.) On Cablevision WSBK's B5 showings are 
blocked "In accordance with FCC regulations."

Certainly the local ratings won't build with these time slots.
In one of those cruel ironies, I just received a postcard inviting our 
household to be part of the Nielson ratings - forwarded from my old address in 
Reno NV (sigh) - as JMS says "Somedays you just can't win."

Paul Protzman
paulp@capital.net