Author Topic: Chicago Late-Night Program Note (Read 4510 times)

uncamark · « **on:** December 30, 2008, 04:53:14 PM »

WMAQ has decided that "New Year's Eve with The Tool" should hit midnight in the Central time zone instead of the Eastern time zone (as in the Times Square festivities--keep Clark, Seacrest and Cat Deeley out of the shots!) and is delaying it an hour Wednesday night. Since the NHL Winter Classic live from Wrigley Field is airing on the network Thursday midday and pre-empting "DOND" in Chicago, the Thursday "DOND" eps will air Wednesday night at 10:30 p.m. and 11 p.m., respectively.

Since I haven't checked, is Fox doing a New Year's Eve show again and is Cat Deeley hosting it again?

rugrats1 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 30, 2008, 06:42:33 PM »

Of course, it is commonplace for non-Eastern stations to tape-delay New Year's Eve celebration shows to 11:30PM local time, so the ball at Times Square would drop at Midnight local time, instead of 11PM Central, 9PM Pacific, 7PM Hawaii. In Central and Mountain, where prime-time generally ends at 10PM, stations would have to find some filler programming to show between the 10PM news and the 11:30 celebration.

As for the NHL game at Wrigley Field, if Harry Caray was still alive, I wonder if he would be tempted to sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" after the 2nd period?

clemon79 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 30, 2008, 07:04:48 PM »

[quote name=\'rugrats1\' post=\'205085\' date=\'Dec 30 2008, 03:42 PM\']
As for the NHL game at Wrigley Field, if Harry Caray was still alive, I wonder if he would be tempted to sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" after the 2nd period?[/quote]
They'd better do it quickly. Beer sales end after the second intermission.

SRIV94 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 30, 2008, 08:11:01 PM »

[quote name=\'rugrats1\' post=\'205085\' date=\'Dec 30 2008, 05:42 PM\']
As for the NHL game at Wrigley Field, if Harry Caray was still alive, I wonder if he would be tempted to sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" after the 2nd period?
[/quote]
A tape of him singing is how NBC has been pimping the game, so I'm reasonably sure that if he were still alive that might have been on the agenda.

/How fitting. My 3600th post, and Addison Street (where Wrigley Field is) is 3600 North in a grid of Chicago.

clemon79 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 30, 2008, 08:46:29 PM »

Then how does it have a street number of 1060?

TheInquisitiveOne · « **Reply #5 on:** December 30, 2008, 08:52:38 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'205101\' date=\'Dec 30 2008, 09:46 PM\']
Then how does it have a street number of 1060?
[/quote]

Warning: roadgeek tendencies.

The address is 1060 Addison Street. The 3600 comes from one of it's perpendicular streets (Sheffield, I believe).

In other words, Wrigley's address is tied to the east-west street, and not the north-south street. I hope this helps to some degree.

The Inquisitive One

/good to see a winter classic in Wrigley Field
//what do I have to give for a World Series?

Don Howard · « **Reply #6 on:** December 30, 2008, 09:01:32 PM »

[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'205071\' date=\'Dec 30 2008, 04:53 PM\']
is Fox doing a New Year's Eve show again and is Cat Deeley hosting it again?
[/quote]
They are and Cat is not. Your hosts will be Spike Feresten and Mark Thompson.
On CNN, the big bash will be helmed by Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin as opposed to when I first gained access to the channel and at midnight Eastern time, the audience would be treated to Newsnight starring Patrick Emory and Beverly Williams.

SRIV94 · « **Reply #7 on:** December 30, 2008, 09:17:35 PM »

[quote name=\'TheInquisitiveOne\' post=\'205103\' date=\'Dec 30 2008, 07:52 PM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'205101\' date=\'Dec 30 2008, 09:46 PM\']
Then how does it have a street number of 1060?
[/quote]

Warning: roadgeek tendencies.

The address is 1060 Addison Street. The 3600 comes from one of it's perpendicular streets (Sheffield, I believe).

In other words, Wrigley's address is tied to the east-west street, and not the north-south street. I hope this helps to some degree.

The Inquisitive One

/good to see a winter classic in Wrigley Field
//what do I have to give for a World Series?
[/quote]
15 other teams choking.

Going further roadgeek than TIO, the "center" of Chicago is the corner of State (0 E/W) and Madison (0 N/S) (even though Lake Michigan obliterates much of the East). If you walk two blocks west on Madison, you end up on Clark Street (which at that point is 100 West). From there, it is 36 blocks (actually a few more because of some intermediate streets that intersect but the address numbers don't shift to the next hundred) north to Addison Street (3600 North). Even though you stay straight on Clark, Clark veers a little diagonally as you head north (so the 100 West eventually becomes 1060 West by the time you arrive at Wrigley).

SRIV94 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 30, 2008, 09:20:33 PM »

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'205106\' date=\'Dec 30 2008, 08:01 PM\']
On CNN, the big bash will be helmed by Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin as opposed to when I first gained access to the channel and at midnight Eastern time, the audience would be treated to Newsnight starring Patrick Emory and Beverly Williams.
[/quote]
I miss those days. That was preceded by Nick and Hick with Sports Tonight.

Although those were the days when SportsCenter was a lot less full of itself and I probably should have been watching that.

Don Howard · « **Reply #9 on:** December 30, 2008, 09:31:56 PM »

[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'205111\' date=\'Dec 30 2008, 09:20 PM\']
[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'205106\' date=\'Dec 30 2008, 08:01 PM\']
On CNN, the big bash will be helmed by Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin as opposed to when I first gained access to the channel and at midnight Eastern time, the audience would be treated to Newsnight starring Patrick Emory and Beverly Williams.
[/quote]
I miss those days. That was preceded by Nick and Hick with Sports Tonight.
[/quote]
Oh, I remember when Jim Huber was co-anchoring with Nick Charles.
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'205111\' date=\'Dec 30 2008, 09:20 PM\']
Although those were the days when SportsCenter was a lot less full of itself and I probably should have been watching that.
[/quote]
With a catchy theme song. When Gayle Gardner or whoever would end the show 40 seconds before the hour and we got that extra blast of The ESPN Sportscenter theme in the clear, it was gasm time.

Strikerz04 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 30, 2008, 11:58:10 PM »

[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'205110\' date=\'Dec 30 2008, 08:17 PM\']
[quote name=\'TheInquisitiveOne\' post=\'205103\' date=\'Dec 30 2008, 07:52 PM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'205101\' date=\'Dec 30 2008, 09:46 PM\']
Then how does it have a street number of 1060?
[/quote]

Warning: roadgeek tendencies.

The address is 1060 Addison Street. The 3600 comes from one of it's perpendicular streets (Sheffield, I believe).

In other words, Wrigley's address is tied to the east-west street, and not the north-south street. I hope this helps to some degree.

The Inquisitive One

/good to see a winter classic in Wrigley Field
//what do I have to give for a World Series?
[/quote]
15 other teams choking.

Going further roadgeek than TIO, the "center" of Chicago is the corner of State (0 E/W) and Madison (0 N/S) (even though Lake Michigan obliterates much of the East). If you walk two blocks west on Madison, you end up on Clark Street (which at that point is 100 West). From there, it is 36 blocks (actually a few more because of some intermediate streets that intersect but the address numbers don't shift to the next hundred) north to Addison Street (3600 North). Even though you stay straight on Clark, Clark veers a little diagonally as you head north (so the 100 West eventually becomes 1060 West by the time you arrive at Wrigley).
[/quote]

Sheffield is 1000 West on its eastern side, parallel to the Red Line. One would then assume the address is between Clark and Sheffield (but we just give it on the Addison/Clark border)

/Those lights have been on for the past few days.
//Traffic around there is a standstill and seems like the cubs are playing a night game
/// Lived in the neighborhood all my life until I graduated from NIU last August. Oh lawd

Sodboy13 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 30, 2008, 11:58:45 PM »

[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'205110\' date=\'Dec 30 2008, 08:17 PM\']

Going further roadgeek than TIO...

[/quote]

God, do I ever love me a well-defined and fairly consistent grid system. Just today, it helped me determine if a cop on the scanner had said a crash was at Larrabee or Laramie.

/neither is to be confused with Wayne Larrivee

BrandonFG · « **Reply #12 on:** December 31, 2008, 12:46:49 AM »

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'205113\' date=\'Dec 30 2008, 09:31 PM\']
[A]nd we got that extra blast of The ESPN Sportscenter theme in the clear, it was gasm time.
[/quote]
I'll file that under "Things I Don't Need to Know About Ever Again"...

/Dah-dah-dah...
//Dah-dah-DAH!

uncamark · « **Reply #13 on:** December 31, 2008, 11:32:09 AM »

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'205138\' date=\'Dec 30 2008, 11:46 PM\']
[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'205113\' date=\'Dec 30 2008, 09:31 PM\']
[A]nd we got that extra blast of The ESPN Sportscenter theme in the clear, it was gasm time.
[/quote]
I'll file that under "Things I Don't Need to Know About Ever Again"...

/Dah-dah-dah...
//Dah-dah-DAH!
[/quote]

I believe Don was referring to the old "SportsCenter" theme...

Da-da-DA-da-da-DAHHHH-DAH-da-DA!

(Which was still heard in the opening animation for some years after those six notes we all know and love took over.)

clemon79 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 31, 2008, 11:34:45 AM »

[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'205172\' date=\'Dec 31 2008, 08:32 AM\']
Da-da-DA-da-da-DAHHHH-DAH-da-DA![/quote]
Can you find a YouTube link? Because I quite honestly don't have the first clue of what you're going for here.