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Re: TV commercial timing?

by Greg Goss <gossg@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apr 23, 2008 at 07:43 PM

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
 




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Andy <q>   2008-04-18 13:47:33 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-18 12:03:25 
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Andy <q>   2008-04-18 14:06:52 
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Neal Eckhardt <neckhar  2008-04-18 16:00:14 
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msb@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (M  2008-04-18 15:09:56 
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Neal Eckhardt <neckhar  2008-04-21 10:16:59 
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ebenZEROONE@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-04-21 18:08:01 
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Neal Eckhardt <neckhar  2008-04-21 15:50:29 
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ebenZEROONE@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-04-21 21:08:02 
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Neal Eckhardt <neckhar  2008-04-24 09:10:16 
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Jim Ellwanger <usenet@  2008-04-21 17:11:14 
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ebenZEROONE@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-04-22 05:08:02 
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Greg Goss <gossg@[EMAI  2008-04-23 19:43:48 
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Jim Ellwanger <usenet@  2008-04-23 21:09:35 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-23 23:16:07 
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Greg Goss <gossg@[EMAI  2008-04-24 09:34:40 
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ebenZEROONE@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-04-24 19:08:02 
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Snidely <Snidely.too@[  2008-04-24 19:24:14 
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Blinky the Shark <no.s  2008-04-18 13:12:38 
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Lee Ayrton <layrton@[E  2008-04-24 17:50:26 
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"Don K" <dk@  2008-04-24 19:29:30 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-24 17:28:55 
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Jim Ellwanger <usenet@  2008-04-24 19:06:50 
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groo <afcagroo@[EMAIL   2008-04-25 02:41:01 
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Jim Ellwanger <usenet@  2008-04-25 19:44:37 

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