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Scott in AZ wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 09:46:59 GMT, "SoCalMike" <mikein562athotmail@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >> I just wondered if they showed Dan Rather here and rewound the
> >> tape and played it three hours later?
> 
> Precisely. The west coast gets almost every thing on "tape delay."
> 
> If you get satellite TV, you may have noticed that there is an east coast feed and a west coast feed for many of the chanels.
> 
> >FWIW, our news (LA) is on at 11 also.
> 
> Although increased competition is munging that all up, with some newscasts starting ay 9:00, others are on at 10:00, and others at
> 11:00.
> 
> >in chicago, its on at 10
> 
> Chicago's Very Own Channel 9  has the WGN News at 9:00, but all the network newscasts are on at 10:00. I guess that's because
> everything on TV is "tonight at 8 - 7 central time" - the daily rhythm of life begins and ends an hour earlier in the midwest than
> in the rest of the country.
> 
> But Arizona is REALLY screwed up. Not only are we nominally in the Mountain time zone, but we do not observe dailight savings time.
> I've lived here a year now and still haven't gotten the knack for calculating what time a show that begins at "8 eastern and
> pacific" is going to start. Case in point: I missed the season premiere of Enterprise because I thought it was on at 8:00 but it
> really started at 7:00 (don't worry, I caught the Sunday re-run :).

Use the time given for Central. However, a newspaper or
television guide will help somewhat if it matters.