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meegbear

(25,438 posts) Tue May 6, 2014, 03:52 PM May 2014

New Orleans Fox affiliate sorry technical glitch interrupted ‘Cosmos’ evolution segment

A New Orleans Fox affiliate blames a technical glitch that interrupted Sunday’s episode of "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey."

WVUE-TV abruptly cut to a news promo, seat belt public service announcement, and commercials just as host Neil deGrasse Tyson was discussing how climate change millions of years ago influenced the primate-to-human evolutionary process.

Commercials filled more than 5 minutes of airtime, interrupting 1 minute, 24 seconds of the program’s airtime, before "Cosmos" returned to a discussion on how the gravitational pull of other planets shaped Earth’s weather during the same period.

WVUE’s vice president and general manager, Sandy Breland, described the glitch as "an automation error."

"It was a mistake," Breland said. "We certainly regret the error."

The station will re-air the episode in its entirety at 10:35 p.m. Thursday. The episode will pre-empt regularly scheduled syndicated reruns of “Seinfeld” and “Rules of Engagement.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/06/new-orleans-fox-affiliate-sorry-technical-glitch-interrupted-cosmos-evolution-segment/

Huh ... what are the odds?

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New Orleans Fox affiliate sorry technical glitch interrupted ‘Cosmos’ evolution segment (Original Post) meegbear May 2014 OP

Zero lostincalifornia May 2014 #1

So they'll run it after kiddie bedtime. Jackpine Radical May 2014 #2

It was likely a glitch. Behind the Aegis May 2014 #3

Did you experience this with the local Fox affiliate or TexasProgresive May 2014 #5

The local affiliate, and their newscast. Behind the Aegis May 2014 #6

And the SCOTUS just gave the jesus freaks a reach around on the first amendment Submariner May 2014 #4

lostincalifornia

(3,639 posts)

1. Zero

Reply to meegbear (Original post)

Tue May 6, 2014, 03:53 PM

May 2014

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

2. So they'll run it after kiddie bedtime.

Reply to meegbear (Original post)

Tue May 6, 2014, 03:55 PM

May 2014

Don't want to contaminate those young minds with information, afte all.

Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)

3. It was likely a glitch.

Reply to meegbear (Original post)

Tue May 6, 2014, 03:56 PM

May 2014

I lived in New Orleans for five years, and the FOX Station there is not like any I have seen in any other part of the country. I don't know how they get away with what they do on the local level, but you would not think you were watching FOX News!

TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)

5. Did you experience this with the local Fox affiliate or

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Reply #3)

Tue May 6, 2014, 04:32 PM

May 2014

just Faux Snooze? They are not the same. The local FOX affiliate is broadcast over the air as well as cable, whereas Faux Snooze is cable only.

Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)

6. The local affiliate, and their newscast.

Reply to TexasProgresive (Reply #5)

Tue May 6, 2014, 04:36 PM

May 2014

They seem to be out of step with the overall brand of FOX. Then again, New Orleans is out of step with LA.

Submariner

(12,504 posts)

4. And the SCOTUS just gave the jesus freaks a reach around on the first amendment

Reply to meegbear (Original post)

Tue May 6, 2014, 03:59 PM

May 2014

This anti-science attitude with all this phony god shit going on has got to stop.

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