[quote name=\'PsychoJason\' date=\'Apr 22 2005, 04:25 PM\']I was wondering if the FCC or unions have rules stating that broadcasters must air the credits of television show? It seems that GSN has cut them short, and I was wondering if that is actually illegal?
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In my opinion, I believe that it was more an act of politeness to let the credits roll untouched (and a lack of technology). But in order to squeeze in more air time and more $$, networks will do almost anything in order to make that happen.
I believe that any show should have credits rolled in full in order to give everyone their proper due. Does everyone watch the credits... no! But here's the issue.
I would be pissed if I worked on something and no credit was mentionned for whatever reason and it would not matter why and what it would be. It could be game shows, tv shows, novels, newspaper columns, video games, etc.
Here's a history lesson on what happened on the video game front. Atari told their programmers that the programmers were not important enough to be mentionned in a game that they worked on. They were not more important as the person who was programming the game, boxing up the game, or even the employee who swept the floor. They all worked for ATARI and Atari was the only important thing to mention on any game produced. The programmers were upset and defected out of Atari to form a new company called Activision and the key thing Activision did and still does today is to mention everyone involved in the making of a game.
Would shows, even old game shows have any recourse? Problably not. Like I said, it's not against the law but rather an act of politeness. GSN didn't make "To Tell the Truth", "Blockbusters", or "Love Connection". Then if you didn't help create this show (Insert credit-crunching network here), show us the many people who did. A 12 year old kid may not care who did what in a certain game show, but would it be nice to be able to at least know if someone wanted to know? I'm sure people from this forum wouldn't hesitatate to disagree that "the people and companies shown on credit rolls are not important".
Believe me, if the issue about credit-crunching is just so that someone can get a clean unaltered copy of a game show on tape, then unfortunatly, I just wasted about 2000 characters
I was a bit emotional on this post as I am a computer programmer and I wouldn't care at times if people were making copies of my software, but at least they would know where it came from and who helped to make it. Sorry to bore the heck out of everyone for my bloated post.
Saussage
Weeping while watching an unaltered Blockbusters '87's end credits while eating a hotdog with Mustard, Onions and relish