Re: TV commercial timing?

Jim Ellwanger <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:


> I was a closed-captioner, 

[...]
>And one more data point:  at one point, we were captioning "Hill Street 
>Blues," which had originally aired in the early to mid-1980s.  Those 
>shows were 51 minutes long.

In the mid-eighties, I used to go over to a friend's place; we'd watch
Hill street, then I'd watch the start of the news while he washed up
for the evening, then we'd head out to the bar.

He watched HSB on the American channel.  When we switched to the
Canadian channel for my news, we'd see the tail end of the Canadian
version of the show.  Since at that time, Canadians got a lot less
commercials than Americans, we'd sometimes see an entire additional
scene that didn't play on the American channel.

I don't know why he didn't just watch it on the Canadian channel with
less commercials.

Is there a chance you might have been captioning the longer Canadian
version of the show at 51 minutes?
-- 
Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27