From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Jim Ellwanger  writes:   
      
   >In article ,   
   > nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
      
   >> 	Last Call gets preempted on Friday for Olympics coverage.  I'm   
   >> curious whether Late Night is going to be bumped into the wee small   
   >> hours to reflect that in Beijing it'll be Saturday afternoon by the   
   >> time Late Night normally starts.   
      
   >It's scheduled to air at precisely 1:39 A.M. Eastern/Pacific.  The TV   
   >listings I'm looking at show that "The Tonight Show" is scheduled to   
   >start at 12:35 A.M., so I don't know why it's supposed to be 2 minutes   
   >longer than normal.   
      
   	Hm.  I don't know whether Beijing is starting the ceremony in   
   the morning or the evening local time.  If it's starting in the morning   
   China time, that means programming would actually start Thursday night,   
   probably bumping The Tonight Show and Late Night into who knows when.   
      
   	If it's in the evening local time, then the ceremonies start in   
   the morning, US time, and the only things bumping Late Night even deeper   
   into Saturday would be individual events running long.  I presume there   
   is some way of looking up television schedules online, but I haven't   
   been able to do that since about 1998.   
      
   	I don't know an obvious reason The Tonight Show would run two   
   minutes long for Friday night.  I'd *think* that being so far outside   
   the normal time slot would mean it'd be lodged into the world of Special   
   Events for Neilsen ratings purposes, and fiddling with the time wouldn't   
   be necessary.  Maybe if the starting time was actually 12:37 then the   
   Tonight Show time would be about normal ... but then why would there be   
   the incorrect time.   
      
   	Ah well; probably it doesn't matter.  I'd be switching over   
   from the end of Letterman anyway, finding that we're still hip-deep in   
   the 250 meter Synchronized Javelin Catching or the like, and discover   
   Late Night actually started at 3:14 am, as the SAP/Descriptive Dialogue   
   selection for Channel 37 digital subfeed two.  On Tuesday.   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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