Commercial free?
How about an actual television post, for old times' sakes?
KOAA is touting that they'll do their 10 p.m. commercial-free tonight to stay on top of the election results. I think that's perfectly reasonable, although I'd imagine most of the races will be decided well before then - certainly the presidential race and probably most of the statewide races. They'll look smart if decisive results for something big come in right at 10 p.m.
Personally, I don't have a problem with stations running commercials while they continue to scroll results across the bottom. Then again, I've got a pretty big TV, so that may be part of it.
Where are the rest of you turning for your election TV? I'm working tonight, so I'll be lucky to catch a few minutes of "The Daily Show's" "live" coverage while I flip between the locals and the cable nets.
UPDATE: KKTV is going commercial-free, too. On further reflection, I think this is less of a stunt than I was thinking before - I mean, not everyone is as big a politics geek as me. Probably plenty of people are putting their kids to bed and watching the news at 10 like they do every other day.
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hey Andy...having lived in a top 5 TV market..i find the transitions that KOAA makes between the network HD and their own SD programs very jarring and small market...this is a technical question i guess, apparently you cannot scroll things on an HD screen when your own broadcast is still SD..but isn't there a way to do it smoothly?? I mean the whole picture seems to jerk around on screen and the audio sometimes is out of synch..it just looks very unprofessional
welcome to Colorado Springs. err, Pueblo if you're watching 5/30.
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