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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI hope the Dorner situation is over before the SOTU coverage starts. Wasn't it the OJ chase...
Last edited Tue Feb 12, 2013, 08:10 PM - Edit history (3)
... that was covered in split-screen during a former president's SOTU speech in the past?
I think I heard something about that on the TV yesterday but I was only half listening at the time.
I do NOT want to see a split screen tonight during President Obama's speech!
Edited to update/add...
It was the OJ 'verdict' not the chase.
Bill Clinton and O.J. Simpson
It isn't often that the President has to compete for the nation's attention. But in 1997, as President Bill Clinton was set to give the State of the Union address, a California jury was also preparing to deliver the verdict in O.J. Simpson's civil trial. The simultaneous events put television networks in a tough spot: air the President's most important address of the year or air the decision, which was sure to be a ratings hit? Luckily for the networks, the verdict arrived just as Clinton was concluding his speech. CBS, ABC and CNN chose to stay on the President's address, as did NBC, though it switched cable channel MSNBC to coverage of the verdict. Some local affiliates, however, chose to divvy up the airtime. KPIX, a CBS affiliate in San Francisco, chose to cover both events by split-screening part of its coverage.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2044176_2044193_2044180,00.html
It isn't often that the President has to compete for the nation's attention. But in 1997, as President Bill Clinton was set to give the State of the Union address, a California jury was also preparing to deliver the verdict in O.J. Simpson's civil trial. The simultaneous events put television networks in a tough spot: air the President's most important address of the year or air the decision, which was sure to be a ratings hit? Luckily for the networks, the verdict arrived just as Clinton was concluding his speech. CBS, ABC and CNN chose to stay on the President's address, as did NBC, though it switched cable channel MSNBC to coverage of the verdict. Some local affiliates, however, chose to divvy up the airtime. KPIX, a CBS affiliate in San Francisco, chose to cover both events by split-screening part of its coverage.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2044176_2044193_2044180,00.html
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I hope the Dorner situation is over before the SOTU coverage starts. Wasn't it the OJ chase... (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Feb 2013
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Freddie
(9,275 posts)1. Don't think so (?)
It was a Friday evening and my kids, then 8 and 4, had settled down to watch the TGIF family comedies ("Family Matters" etc.) and they kept asking why their shows weren't on but we had to keep watching that white car with a lot of police cars following it.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)6. It wasn't the chase it was the OJ 'verdict'. I've updated the OP.
louis-t
(23,297 posts)8. The verdict was read a mid-day, as I recall.
We've had this discussion here before.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)2. I'm pretty sure C-SPAN coverage will be split-screen free
I usually watch these things on C-SPAN anyway, so I don't have to listen to all the yakety-yak. Tonight might provide another reason.
randome
(34,845 posts)3. That won't matter. Anonymous is blocking the address.
LOL!!! Sometimes I crack myself up!
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)4. FOX (Gross right...)
Is already running SOTU prep and Dorner side-by-side
Moses2SandyKoufax
(1,290 posts)5. Not a SOTU speech, June 17, 1994
Game 5 of the 1994 NBA Finals.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)7. I've updated the OP. It wasn't the chase it was the OJ 'verdict'. n/t