Irony

[yendi]

So, I'd have loved to watch my Tivod copy of yesterday's Jeopardy, but ten minutes in, our NBC affiliate ("WXIA: Now staffed entirely by inbred baboons") decided to pre-empt it with coverage of the Jackson trial. So, in lieu of one of the few things on broadcast TV that actually stimulates the brain, they attempted to pawn off on me something aimed squarely at the lowest common denominator. Pigfuckers.

Fortunately, http://boards.sonypictures.com/boards/showthread.php?s=ec9aec1c0a129278e10fbadd22a8bffa&threadid=86778 will have the summary of the show (it already spoils who won, but I'd like more info).

But our NBC affiliate, like most of them, it seems, is still staffed by bottom-feeding pigfuckers.

Comments

[alladinsane.livejournal.com]

All the affiliates are at fault...all the networks cut in with the results...

[yendi]

Well, it was local coverage, so I have to hold the local bastards responsible. I don't doubt that the other channels screwed people over, too, but cutting into, say, Judge Judy, doesn't switch into a different intellectual demographic.

[gmslegion.livejournal.com]

I'd take your point on practically any other example, but I can't imagine any affilliate in the country that didn't preempt programming for the network feed in this case.

I cannot stand affiliates; I loathe the idea. They made sense in the early 1950s, when live television broadcasts to the nation were in their infancy. WXIA's stupidity in the field is legendary. There was one Friday in 1998, I think, where the rest of the nation got to see a heavily-promoted Homicide guest-starring Alfre Woodard. WXIA pre-empted it for coverage of a tornado which had touched down north of Gainesville at seven o'clock that morning. WXIA ran the network 8 pm show, they ran Dateline NBC, and then they pre-empted the network to talk about a tornado that came down fifteen hours previously.

And they weren't the worst, locally. Were you living here when WAGA was the CBS affiliate? Good luck watching anything that came on Friday nights at 10. Bodies of Evidence, Johnny Bago, even Picket Fences were routinely axed in favor of repeats of In the Heat of the Night.

[tsal.livejournal.com]

N ational
B roadcasting
C ompany

Who do you think "National" is?

OF COURSE it's run by pigfuckers.

[crystalsage.livejournal.com]

And people tell me cable tv is a luxury that I don' t need. Its so I can watch HBO and not be burdened by this crapola.