In message <Pine.GSO.4.58.0508050711300.28917_at_cass18>, Peter Bunclark writes:
>On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Steve Allen wrote:
>> program start and stop time to within a minute. Thursday night
>> viewers are well aware that CBS always runs CSI right up to, or
>> sometimes past 22:00 while NBC starts ER as much as two minutes before
>> 22:00.
>
>But that's not bad timekeeping, it is an example of a marketing strategy
>which requires both CBS and NBC to have accurate clocks, [...]
TV advertising is some of the most expensive seconds you'll find
around and you can rest assured that there is nothing sloppy about
them or the accounting of them: they are accounted for in subframes.
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Received on Thu Aug 04 2005 - 23:23:32 PDT