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Subject: Re: Does ANYBODY out there know someone
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Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 14:38:00 EST
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Re: 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
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