Station preempts key Heroes scene
Don Day December 10th, 2007
Have you ever been the one to make the call to interrupt a soap opera - then had to answer all the nasty phone calls? Yeah… me too. Prime time can be just as tricky - you want to get breaking news out - but interrupting programming is always dicey. Little Lost Robot’s JL Watkins notes his station WYFF/Greenville, SC decided to bust into Heroes with a news update. Here, I’ll let him tell it:
My station broke into programming with a breaking news update during the Heroes season finale on Monday. Just before the show went to commercial break, a vial containing a deadly virus was tumbling towards the floor, a mere second from shattering. When we came back to the show (from the breaking news alert) all the heroes were standing around congratulating each other. It sucked to miss part of the show, but hearing about the angry calls and emails from the “Heroes community” the next morning was priceless.
6 Comments Add your own
1. Hussman | December 11th, 2007 at 6:59 am
Somewhere, Oakland Raiders and NY Jets fans are smiling in staisfaction.
2. Alyssa | December 11th, 2007 at 8:14 am
I used to have to answer those phone calls. People got especially angry when we chose to show the pope’s funeral instead of Days of Our Lives.
3. Chris Rooney | December 11th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
I can top ‘em all. My station is notorious for having crawled the day’s winning lottery numbers over “Schindler’s List.” The phones…went…BONKERS!!!
4. News Consumer | December 11th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Is it my imagination or do stations frequently time these breaking news things so they end just as it’s time for a commercial break?
5. Anonymous LR viewser | December 11th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Most stations in my market got sick of taking those calls (apparently) and now blow out the national ads, coming back in time for the locals, leaving the shows intact.
6. curt | December 13th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
What bugs me is when the local news stations bust into a show and give us Breaking Weather Alerts.
ITS IOWA! We’re used to it!! Why in the hell do you think we’re watching TV in December? The weather sucks. We get it.
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