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cheerfullydrab posted:Wasn't there an episode where some people were chained to a wall in the basement and forced to watch the cable tutorial channel? Or was that another MacFarlane show? I sincerely hope not. Well anyway it was a lot like Klaus' story in this episode tonight. It was Family Guy.
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Oh it was, I remember the episode now. I had that suspicion in the back of my mind, but I still feel terrible. I'm very glad I stopped watching Family Guy and just watch AD now.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Wasn't there an episode where some people were chained to a wall in the basement and forced to watch the cable tutorial channel? Or was that another MacFarlane show? I sincerely hope not. Well anyway it was a lot like Klaus' story in this episode tonight.
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Oct 7, 2013 16:19
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I think being stuck in front of the hotel channel is worse. Satellite set-up is just the same "plug in your box, set it to channel 2" stuff over and over that you can tune out. The hotel channel is a sixty-second loop of advertising for local attractions you can't see because you're trapped, punctuated by a bad joke and other people having fun. For two days or more.
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Oct 7, 2013 16:38
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Jonas Albrecht posted:I miss Linda Memari. Also, Buckle is one of the best C-list characters ever. "Most stubborn bris ever!"
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Oct 7, 2013 17:30
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"WHO?! WHO?!" *owl hoots* "YOU STAY OUT OF THIS!"
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Do people go by Buckle?
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cheerfullydrab posted:Wasn't there an episode where some people were chained to a wall in the basement and forced to watch the cable tutorial channel? Or was that another MacFarlane show? I sincerely hope not. Well anyway it was a lot like Klaus' story in this episode tonight. Baby Not on Board. Cleveland and Quagmire get locked in the Griffins' basement and are forced to watch the DirecTV help channel.
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Oct 7, 2013 22:50
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Oh cool there was an ending bumper joke. Thanks, Global, for rolling show promos over the end credits of every show.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Wasn't there an episode where some people were chained to a wall in the basement and forced to watch the cable tutorial channel? Or was that another MacFarlane show? I sincerely hope not. Well anyway it was a lot like Klaus' story in this episode tonight. I want to say there was a manatee gag about that at one point, but my google-fu is weak right now and I can't actually find it. efb
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Chris Knight posted:Oh cool there was an ending bumper joke. Thanks, Global, for rolling show promos over the end credits of every show. There was no joke, it was just Snot crying. God I really shouldn't watch this after Bob's Burgers. Or any more Steve episodes ever again. I'm not sure how much more backward they can bend so that that boy doesn't get laid.
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Repeat of The Missing Kink tonight. "She's right. You are a piece of garbage."
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Chris Knight posted:Oh cool there was an ending bumper joke. Thanks, Global, for rolling show promos over the end credits of every show.
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TheRationalRedditor posted:It was a better time before American HD channels were able to be simulcast hijacked. The weird thing here is that our local Fox affiliate (which is actually across the border) gets their Sunday night lineup from a Global feed, ads and all. EDIT: \/ I'm Canadian. It's a US-based Fox. So I get Sunday shows with Global ads on Global or Sunday shows with mostly Global ads on Fox. This happens for some of the weeknight shows too. Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 10:21 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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Mokinokaro posted:The weird thing here is that our local Fox affiliate (which is actually across the border) gets their Sunday night lineup from a Global feed, ads and all.
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Oct 21, 2013 08:43
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Are the shows coming back next weekend? Two weeks off after just returning for the season is pretty stupid.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Are the shows coming back next weekend? Two weeks off after just returning for the season is pretty stupid. Weekend after I think. First weekend of November
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FlamingLiberal posted:Are the shows coming back next weekend? Two weeks off after just returning for the season is pretty stupid. Eh, pretty typical for baseball playoffs.
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Mokinokaro posted:The weird thing here is that our local Fox affiliate (which is actually across the border) gets their Sunday night lineup from a Global feed, ads and all. Assuming you're on cable or satellite, that's just what happens to all American channels when a Canadian one has the show at the same time. The Canadian provider is blocking the US feed with the Candian one.
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Mokinokaro posted:The weird thing here is that our local Fox affiliate (which is actually across the border) gets their Sunday night lineup from a Global feed, ads and all. telecom employee here, that's known as simulcasting and it's regulated/enforced by our good friends at the CRTC. If a Canadian station is broadcasting the same thing as a US station the Canadian feed is manually substituted by the service provider. It's manually managed as well for when poo poo happens and the US station changes content, the Canadian feed overlay has to be removed. I was spending the day with the team that does this at my company earlier in the year on the day when Christopher Dorner was found and killed; we had to remove the Canadian overlay on a ton of channels as the US stations would interrupt The View or Maury or whatever and switched to news coverage.
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neckbeard posted:telecom employee here, that's known as simulcasting and it's regulated/enforced by our good friends at the CRTC. If a Canadian station is broadcasting the same thing as a US station the Canadian feed is manually substituted by the service provider. It's manually managed as well for when poo poo happens and the US station changes content, the Canadian feed overlay has to be removed. I was spending the day with the team that does this at my company earlier in the year on the day when Christopher Dorner was found and killed; we had to remove the Canadian overlay on a ton of channels as the US stations would interrupt The View or Maury or whatever and switched to news coverage.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Are the shows coming back next weekend? Two weeks off after just returning for the season is pretty stupid. World Series Game 4 is this Sunday. So, gently caress baseball.
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TheRationalRedditor posted:I already mentioned that it's "simulcasting hijacking", but I'd love to know more about why/how from an insider such as yourself. I'm not at all surprised that the CRTC is behind enforcing that it happens and making our viewing experience worse for the sake of Cancon regulations. This poo poo has been driving me nuts forever with awful commercials and beginning shows late/ending them early. I can't really comment too much, I work more on the Internet/hardware side of things, just spent a day with them when I had applied on a job. Big room with a wall of TVs and a bunch of desks with switching equipment, every day the Canadian stations send in the list of substitutions that have to be put in and their respective times/durations http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2000/PB2000-132.htm
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What always surprises me is that growing up in a country with only a few TV channels you would often see in movies and on TV that America has SO SO many TV channels and yet seemingly not enough to have regular sporting events and adult cartoons on at the same time when these seem like very different things and not competing for the same slot on the same channel..
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At least with TBS airing the next season there won't be any baseball related delays.
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Detective No. 27 posted:At least with TBS airing the next season there won't be any baseball related delays. Not sure if this was meant to be a joke or not, but TBS also shows baseball.
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Alpha3KV posted:Not sure if this was meant to be a joke or not, but TBS also shows baseball. I haven't seen TBS in years and don't even know what day they'll air American Dad on, but I vaguely remember they only played it on random weekday afternoons during reruns of Drew Carey Show. It wasn't nearly as obnoxious as FOX pushing aside Sunday animation.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I haven't seen TBS in years and don't even know what day they'll air American Dad on, but I vaguely remember they only played it on random weekday afternoons during reruns of Drew Carey Show. It wasn't nearly as obnoxious as FOX pushing aside Sunday animation. The past few years they have had a LOT of the post-season games. They don't have the World Series, but they have several divisional and Pennant games. And re: why sports can't just be all on their own channels and not preempt other stuff, it's because $$$$ and contracts. Networks still get bigger ratings than cable, and have more money at their disposal because of this (more money from advertisers, and more money from cable/satellite companies to carry their channels.) Cable channels, in general, can't compete with networks when it comes to big sporting events. Minor ones throughout the year can be on random channels (like NESN or YES Network for Red Sox and Yankees, Thursday Night Football on NFL Network, random NBA games on TBS,) but the bigger games are going to be on one of the big 4 (CBS, ABC (maybe? Truth be told I can't remember the last time I saw a big game on ABC,) NBC, and Fox because they can offer a much bigger fistfull of cash to the MLB, NFL, NBA, etc...
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ABC carries the NBA finals. ESPN is the only cable channel that has a prayer had getting the contract for a championship and that's because they charge so much for their station. It will never happen, though, because what sport would want to limit their audience to pay tv?
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DangerKat posted:ABC carries the NBA finals. ESPN is the only cable channel that has a prayer had getting the contract for a championship and that's because they charge so much for their station. It will never happen, though, because what sport would want to limit their audience to pay tv? If it hasn't happened yet with ABC and ESPN being owned by the same company its never going to. I think Monday and Thursday Night Football are pretty much going to be the only two nationally televised broadcasts restricted to pays and even then it's not 100% of the time.
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Buck, Wild Steve decides to prove his manhood by accompanying Stan and his CIA cronies on their annual hunting excursion. Meanwhile, Roger and Klaus undertake a cross-country trek.
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Yess cartoons.
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Nov 3, 2013 23:34
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A Roger and Klaus adventure? Yes please.
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Mister E posted:A Roger and Klaus adventure? Yes please. We're going to Schaffhausen!
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I can't seem to find a Family Guy thread, am I blind?
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The_Doctor posted:I can't seem to find a Family Guy thread, am I blind? Nope, there isn't one.
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YOU ARE WASTING YOUR CHARIZARD!
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Nov 4, 2013 03:31
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You are wasting your Charizard! 
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Two with one shot 
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Smile, you sonuvabitch! 
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