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Thursday, March 15, 2007

Secret to winning TV ratings?

This always seems to happen a couple of times a year somewhere:
A cable news program was temporarily replaced with hard-core pornography, shocking viewers who had been watching a health show featuring former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw.
Pretty much anyone you talk to who has been in TV for a while has a story about an incident like this. Somehow a master control operator is watching satellite porn on a preview channel and accidentally punches it up on air. The next sentence usually follows the word termination in it. Most of the time this only happens in small markets.

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