Does Mountain Zone have its own Satellite feed?

East/Central share the same feed right? 8 eastern / 7 central

Do Mountain & Pacific share the same feed? 8 mountain / 7 pacific
primetime starts? Or does Mountain have its own separate feed?

When does primetime start in California?

Hoofum...

Mountain needs it's own seperate feed. Or they just tape the
east/central. Primetime does start at 8pm pacific. That would be 9pm
mountain. Too late. Broadcast network prime starts the same time as
central's, 7pm. They're alone with the rest of the nation and share
no other time zones. Cable channels, however, usually only have two

fred_h_haddad...

That seems inefficient - three separate feeds. Seems a better choice is
8 p.m. mountain/ 7 pacific sharing the same feed?

Patty Winter (patty1...

But that would require there to be a 7:00 p.m. Pacific feed, which
doesn't exist.

fred_h_haddad...

No they'd shift the current 8pm feed to 7pm pacific.

BTW, as Rob noted, some of the San Francisco stations experimented
with early prime some years ago, but they later abandoned it. (They
must have recorded the Eastern feed and then replayed it an hour
before the actual Pacific feed.)

However, I discovered a couple of months ago that one of the stations
in Sacramento (the CBS affiliate?) is running early prime. I was
visiting friends in the Gold Country who get the Sacto/Stockton
channels on DirecTV, and when we sat down to check the onscreen
guide for the night's listings, I noticed that one station's shows
were an hour earlier than I expected. In our case, it helped us
avoid programming conflicts, but I'm sure it creates conflicts for
other viewers! Anyway, it was pretty weird to see a single network
affiliate running a different schedule from the others.

Rob Jensen...

It's not so much three separate feeds as two feeds, one for east,
which both Central (airing it live) and MT (tape delaying by one hour)
share and another for west. It's been this way literally for decades
because the Central and Mountain time zones are both where much of the
farm country is and those time zones have *traditionally* gotten up in
the morning much earlier in order to start farming chores at the
buttcrack of dawn and as a result gone to bed earlier in order to get
up earlier the next morning.

About a decade ago, San Francisco's CBS affiliate KPIX Channel 5 and a
few other Pacific Time Zone channels in various places experimented
with starting prime time at 7pm rather than 8pm on the novel
assumption that their new-parent yuppie audiences would be getting
tired earlier in the night after chasing their kids around. The
experiment lasted for about 2-3 years before the networks told them to
knock it off because it wasn't working -- the networks weren't
thrilled with the idea in the first place as the coasts have
historically had a *lot* more night owls than the flyover states.

THANKS for nswering the question! :)

Rob Jensen...

YW.

-- Rob

feeds, east and west. Cable companies in the mountian time zone use
the west feeds, so you have to shift all the show's starting times 1
hour ahead of when it says it'll start in commercals. If a show
starts at 8pm eastern/pacific, it'd be 9pm mountain.