Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site trsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!trsvax!uhclem From: uhclem@trsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Does ANYBODY out there know someone Message-ID: <54700012@trsvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 14:38:00 EST Article-I.D.: trsvax.54700012 Posted: Fri Nov 30 14:38:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 04:59:19 EST References: <1907@pegasus.UUCP> Lines: 41 Nf-ID: #R:pegasus:-190700:trsvax:54700012:000:1723 Nf-From: trsvax!uhclem Nov 30 13:38:00 1984Re: Attack of the TV Station Program Hackers We have a similar problem with our Star Treks in the Ft. Worth/Dallas area. TV episodes from the 60s and early 70s are about 50 minutes long, including Star Trek. (Programs for TV today are made 48 minutes long to handle the extra commercials and Newsbreaks they want to put on.) For NBC, that used to be 5 seconds for network id, 10 seconds for local id, 15 seconds at the half hour for local id & sync-up, and 9:30 of commercials in 5 chunks. ([1]After opening titles, [2]after first set of closing titles, [3]after first major crisis is discovered, [4]after major (second) crisis is dicovered, and [5]after Kirk/McCoy/Spock/Enterprise are attacked, killed, toasted, diced, captured again, doomed or whatever disaster can be straightened out in the 8 remaining minutes of the program.) Anyway our local station adds one to two extra commercial breaks, typically interrupting in mid-sentence. The print they are using is good, but its on videotape which has been slightly crinkled. Anyway, I clocked the number of minutes of commercials, newsbreaks, and reminders about what we were watching. (You know the "Star Trek will continue in a moment" for those who have forgotten what they were watching.) For three nights it came to 13.5 minutes. Now 60 - 50 - 13.5 = -3.5 minutes You can just guess where the -3.5 are going to be taken from. "Less Taste! More Filling!..." - Old TV Slogan As to why your local station keeps running the same several shows over and over again, well perhaps the local videotape club didn't have any others that day. "Thank you, Uh Clem." Frank Durda IV @