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"Scott in AZ" <qinencnyn@lnubb.pbz> wrote in message
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> 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 :).
>


I have friends who live in Phenix City, AL and they have a similar dilemma.
AL is in Central Time - GA is in Eastern time.  They are RIGHT on the
border - all their news stations etc. are from Columbus, GA.  It's really
screwed up.

I live in Eastern time, but grew up in Central time.  Central time, as far
as TV goes , is so so much better.  Primetime is from 7-10, the news comes
on at 10.  Living on the East Coast - I never see the news at night, the end
of Monday night football or much less Letterman.  I have to be at work at
5:45 - staying up much past 11:00 is just not an option.

-e