[quote name=\'Skynet74\' date=\'Apr 14 2004, 12:11 PM\'] Anyone remember when local Newscasts would show the long credit roll? Usually it was once a week on a Friday. Never see that anymore either. Kind of sucks... especially for those involved.
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Well, where I came from, credits were used to make sure the show ran the right length. We'd simply load 'em up and run as many as we needed to time out the show, and then advance to the copyright screen when time was running out, and go to black on that. So you'd see a full credit scroll if for some reason a show was really light, like a story had to die or weather or sports was shorter than was budgeted or what-not.
I can guess why you might have seen long credits on a Friday as opposed to other nights, though. Betcha it happened on the 11:00P show more often than not, too. Weekend syndrome. It's been a long week, and everyone - including the show producer, who writes the majority of the stories - is ready to go home for the weekend. So he or she is likely to pack the show lighter than they would during the week...one less story to write, that bit closer to the weekend. What the hell. Let the credits roll.
Frankly, it's nice to see your name up there the first few times, but it becomes old hat after a while, especially when you realize nobody cares who the Videotape Operator is anyhow.