Re: TV commercial timing?

In article <67bnkhF2ng2uvU3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Greg Goss  <gossg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Bob Ward <bobward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:09:35 -0700, Jim Ellwanger
> ><usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >>In article <67a6ukF2nob0vU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >> Greg Goss <gossg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Jim Ellwanger <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> >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.
> >>>
> >>> Is there a chance you might have been captioning the longer Canadian
> >>> version of the show at 51 minutes?
> >>
> >>That may be possible -- I didn't realize they had done a less-edited 
> >>version of "Hill Street Blues" (or any other show initially intended
for 
> >>U.S. network TV) for the benefit of Canada.
> >
> >Apparently they were buying expanded television programming with their
> >deflated dollars.
> 
> I was in the studio audience for the filming of a game show once.
> They wanted us to keep applauding while they ran the credits twice
> while the host chatted with the contestants.  The US credits ran at
> triple the speed of the Canuck credits.  I'm not sure what other
> editing they would do besides the hyperspeed credits to make up for
> the extra commercials on the US version.

I've seen things in dramas (L&O and its ilk) that suggest speeding up
the show without raising everything's pitch.  People walk and talk and
music plays faster than normal, that sort of thing.

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