The Hazards of Automated TV: #25,165
This morning FNC gave itself a big black eye. At 10 am it runs the Saturday business block with Bulls and Bears at 10, Cavuto on Business at 10:30, Forbes on Fox at 11, and Cashin’ In at 11:30. This schedule has been like this for over a decade now. Set in stone. Unchangeable. Predictable.
Riiiiiiiiiiight.
This morning at 10, up popped Neil Cavuto. At first I thought it was another 2 hour live special that FNC occasionally does from time to time. Except there was no live bug. I checked my DVR’s program guide. It said Bulls and Bears. FNC’s website was no help because it lumps all four shows on the schedule into one two hour block called the “Cost of Freedom”, which is a very old umbrella brand term that dates back to 9/11. Was this a new scheduling lineup? Was Bulls and Bears cancelled? No idea.
It all came into place at 10:30 when Cavuto did his exit from his taped show by introducing Forbes on Fox and up came Bulls and Bears. FNC’s control room had racked the wrong tape at 10 am. This of course means that at the end of Bulls and Bears Brenda Buttner is going to “toss” to Cavuto and instead David Asman will show up.
June 9, 2012 at 7:47 am
Take a deep breath, exhale slowly. Think… it must be noon somewhere. Have a drink and relax. Everything will be ok!
June 9, 2012 at 7:59 am
I don’t think they “rack tapes” anymore. More mis-programmed a computer.
June 9, 2012 at 9:44 am
True…but I prefer to use the term racked as it sounds cooler…
June 9, 2012 at 11:38 am
Agreed. It’s hard to replace some of those great old terms…
“Roll the Tape” “Film at Eleven” “Chyron”
June 9, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Hot off the wire!
June 9, 2012 at 2:45 pm
“Stop the presses!”
June 9, 2012 at 5:48 pm
I’ve been that guy!
Encoded a show under the wrong ID number (house number), and when it went to air… whoops! Got two shows reversed.
Yeah, that was a fun “meeting” the next morning. A permanent frowny-face on my record.
June 9, 2012 at 7:36 pm
I can never get enough of Cavuto. They should have let his shown run, then run it again.
June 10, 2012 at 1:37 am
Sounds like your qualified to work at FNC Blue! (ducking)
June 10, 2012 at 5:33 am
That’s what I keep telling them!