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Jay Temple

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« on: January 01, 2013, 10:42:01 AM »
Lately, I've seen a lot of shows where there's about one second of a different commercial right before they come back to a segment. Is everyone seeing this, or is it my provider (DirecTV)?
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« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2013, 01:14:03 PM »
It must be DirecTV.  Same thing happens when cable providers are just as sloppy at the same thing:  covering up a commercial with their own commercial.   Happens on other channels too I would bet.
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« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2013, 04:43:50 PM »
Makes sense...I see it on Cox Cable all the time. You literally get a split-second of some medical or lawyer commercial, and I never really realized what was going on until I read this thread.
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« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2013, 05:41:22 PM »
Time Warner does the same as well. They even go a second or two over when the GSN commercials end.
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« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2013, 07:28:47 PM »
Ditto Comcast.
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« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2013, 07:29:38 PM »
And Verizon.
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« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2013, 08:23:25 PM »
I've also had this happen when I was watching TNT, USA, Cartoon Network, and probably countless others I can't recall on Comcast.

Semi-Related: Back when GSN ran What's My Line? and I've Got A Secret (or a random G-T show) daily at 3AM, Comcast would cut off the end of I've Got A Secret/Other Show, usually only the goodnight and not a lot of time (so no big deal), to go to their own Paid Programming. All was well and good until DST hit. Someone at the office forgot to turn back the clocks on their machine, so instead of switching to their Paid Programming at 4AM at the end of the block, it would switch at 3AM as the block would start. I was quite disappointed at the time. I think it took them a couple of months to get their acts together.
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« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2013, 07:45:25 AM »
I've seen this happen with Public Service Announcements also... I'm thinking that the network would run a PSA over which the local station would insert a local ad.  If there was no local ad sold then the viewer would see the PSA instead.

If the timing wasn't quite right the last second or two of the PSA would be seen.
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« Reply #8 on: January 02, 2013, 08:14:19 AM »
Quote from: irwinsjournal.com on January 02, 2013, 07:45:25 AM
I've seen this happen with Public Service Announcements also... I'm thinking that the network would run a PSA over which the local station would insert a local ad.  If there was no local ad sold then the viewer would see the PSA instead.

If the timing wasn't quite right the last second or two of the PSA would be seen.

This was standard procedure with the first break of the 10a-11a CBS shows of the 70's.  Local stations could break for a local avail or stay with the network as they played a PSA.  Since our local CBS affil at the time didn't have local colorcasting abilities it was quite noticeable.
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Jay Temple

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« Reply #9 on: January 02, 2013, 09:44:57 AM »
Quote from: JerrysFeudinAgain on January 01, 2013, 05:41:22 PM
Time Warner does the same as well. They even go a second or two over when the GSN commercials end.
Quote from: LetsGoYankees on January 01, 2013, 07:40:45 PM
Quote from: PYLdude on January 01, 2013, 07:29:38 PM
And Verizon.

Me too. Happens on many networks
I'd seen it happen, too, I guess. I just never saw it happen so consistently on a single program (and it may even be at the same point in the program).
 
Quote from: JerrysFeudinAgain on January 01, 2013, 05:41:22 PM
Time Warner does the same as well. They even go a second or two over when the GSN commercials end.
(emphasis mine) Wow, that would drive me nuts on a show I'm keeping. What happens with the shows I keep is that I see the end of DirecTV's ad, hit "pause" because I think the break is over, and then get that split-second.
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« Reply #10 on: January 02, 2013, 12:15:55 PM »
Quote from: Jimmy Owen on January 02, 2013, 08:14:19 AM
Since our local CBS affil at the time didn't have local colorcasting abilities it was quite noticeable.
Wait, so they would go from color CBS programming to a black-and-white local ad block? Crazy.
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« Reply #11 on: January 02, 2013, 10:59:46 PM »
Quote from: clemon79 on January 02, 2013, 12:15:55 PM
Wait, so they would go from color CBS programming to a black-and-white local ad block? Crazy.

In 2012 A.D., I watched the last game of the Stanley Cup finals on the NBC affiliate in Binghamton, New York, a station that could pass HD along from the network, but obviously didn't have the ability to originate it. The local ad breaks were very noticeable.
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« Reply #12 on: January 03, 2013, 06:29:24 AM »
Quote from: clemon79 on January 02, 2013, 12:15:55 PM
Quote from: Jimmy Owen on January 02, 2013, 08:14:19 AM
Since our local CBS affil at the time didn't have local colorcasting abilities it was quite noticeable.
Wait, so they would go from color CBS programming to a black-and-white local ad block? Crazy.
Yeah, and most of the the time, local spots consisted of voice over and a slide of the exterior of the business.
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« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2013, 03:56:41 AM »
I've seen it happen for years. Especially on Nick at Nite and GSN
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