First big stick tap to Tony over at The Confluence for this find:
You’re gonna be out of luck if you were looking forward to watching the Stanley Cup Finals rematch between the Penguins and Red Wings and unlucky enough to live in one of several local television markets. NBC will be pre-empting programming on Sunday afternoon in the following markets in order to broadcast Pat Robertson’s “700 Club Telethon”. The markets are:
WAVY 10 Norfolk – WBRE 28 Scranton – WDTN 2 Dayton – WVVA 6 Beckley-Bluefield – WSMV 4 Nashville – WVTM 13 Birmingham – KKCO 11 Grand Junction
Epic Fail NBC, this guy is a Grade-A douchebag. How much silver in your pockets?
Ok, so let me get this straight. NBC or its affiliates have decided not to show the only rematch game of last year’s Cup finalists this year in order to show Pat Robertson. The same pat Robertson who said this about Haiti:
“Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it… They were under the heel of the French…and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, ‘We will serve you if you’ll get us free from the French.’… True story. And so the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal.’ They kicked the French out. The Haitians revolted and got themselves free. Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other.”
Tribtron, Conan, and now taking hockey off so that guy can speak further idiocy. What else can NBC do to be sure the only thing I ever watch on their network is televised Penguins and Stanley Cup playoff games? Yeah I’m already on a full boycott of the network from last year.
What is even more astonishing is some of the markets that are being pre-empted. WBRE-28 is Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, home of the Penguins minor league affiliate. WSMV-4 is the major NBC affiliate in the Predators market who are a division rival of the Red Wings. It really makes no sense for those two markets to be on the list, at all.
Want to voice your opinion to NBC on this?
NBC: comment line 212-664-2333
NBC: 1-818-840-4444
Jeff Zucker 212-664-4444
jeff.zucker@nbcuni.com
President NBC Entertainment
c/o NBC-TV
3000 West Alameda Ave.
Burbank., CA 91523
Dick Ebersol
212-664-2014
dick.ebersol@nbcuni.com
Ken Schanzer
212-664-2014
ken.schanzer@nbcuni.com
WBRE 28 – Scranton: (570) 961-2222
Station Manager
Gina Schreiber gschreiber@pahomepage.com
Program Director
Sue Kalinowski skalinowski@pahomepage.com
Operations/Production Director
Randy Williams rwilliams@pahomepage.com
WSMV 4 – Nashville: (615) 353-4444 – Online Contact Form
Programming – programming@wsmv.com
WAVY 10 – Norfolk: (757) 393-1010- Online Contact Form
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