NBC Affiliates Stiff Olbermann-It doesn't pay to cover the Iraq war honestly. Just ask Keith.

[kpete]

Taylor Marsh| BIO | I'M A FAN OF THIS BLOGGER
NBC Affiliates Stiff Keith Olbermann
Posted August 26, 2007 | 08:12 PM (EST)

It doesn't pay to cover the Iraq war honestly. Just ask Keith.

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"Countdown" was pre-empted for local TV drivel, "The Ed Bernstein Show" and (**cough**) "The Chris Matthews Show." By the way, Bernstein runs attorney ads on TV. Get it? Nothing like buy-time.

I guess being against the war is just too much for the affiliates to take. You know, since "Countdown" was to air before a football game. Like the majority of the American people can't handle the truth and true journalism. Like they aren't against the Iraq war and want our troops to come home. Could this be any more obvious? Olbermann delivers honest news. He goes after Republicans, but if Democrats serve up crap he takes after them, too. He's honest.

Oh, and by the way, there are plenty of other stations stiffing Keith Olbermann and "Countdown" and I've outlined some in updates (Updates On Other Stations NOT airing Countdown here:
http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=26123)to this post. I'm hearing it from readers and many others. It sucks.

Anything to keep we the people from hearing honest news. No wonder the big three networks are failing. You can't trust them anymore.

This is how we got into Iraq, with a lot of help from the corporate hack pack. I guess this is how Big Media will keep us in the war, too.

more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-marsh/nbc-affiliates-stiff-keit_b_61874.html

[Junkdrawer]

1. Also Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, & Baltimore. n/t

[RamboLiberal]

32. Pittsburgh & Philadelphia because they can use

a Steelers - Eagles game to run an hour of their own sports/entertainment programming. I was expecting that to happen being the norm when a hometown station has the game in prime time.

[gratuitous]

2. Ignore 70% of your viewership

Sure ticket to profitability! Remind me again why knee-jerk Republican "businessmen" are so much better at running governments?

[Elwood P Dowd]

3. They played it here in Alabama.

At least the Montgomery and Mobile NBC stations carried Keith. Don't know about some of the others.

[spanone]

14. played it here in tennessee

[Mojorabbit]

15. Played it here in Orlando

Fl. I missed the first part and after sitting thru a lot of celebrity gossip was despairing till worst persons in the world. then I felt a bit better...

[itsrobert]

4. It's pretty common in the Pacific Time Zone during prime sporting event to air the shows after the

sporting event. Prime time is not 4 PM on Sunday. It's 7pm to 11pm on Sundays. Most West Coast NBC affiliates are airing it in Prime Time after the Football game. In LA it's at 10 pm. Prime Time is exactly that, when most viewers are usually tuned in to Network Television.

[Neshanic]

31. That is true. In Phx the game is first, we are on Pacific time, so 9 is perfect, and the affliate

here is the most popular news. So I think they got more people seeing this before than after.

[Selatius]

5. I believe ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX should be broken apart with anti-trust lawsuits.

We need another "Square Deal" president and another "New Deal" president.

[TahitiNut]

13. That'd be just a small part of what should be done.

Ideally, I'd not permit any corporation to own a corporation ... no more than a dog should own a house. Property should not own property - and property with LIMITED LIABILITY for the harms committed against living human beings is a particularly onerous kind of 'property.' The obscenities of 'ownership' entitlements - including the ownership of human beings! - has been a cancer on the human race for millennia, imho. I'm not talking about personal possessions ... I'm talking about the kind of government-established and enforced entitlements that make the people involuntary servants to wealth, including such conglomerations as Enron (a hornet's nest of over 500 'corporations' in a variety of jurisdictions) and a protected 'market' for the sale and exchange of massive amounts (TRILLIONS) of 'property' without even generating the sales tax revenues of a local mini-mart.

At a minimum, I'd like prohibitions on corporate ownership of media corporations - if only to prohibit "hybrid" conglomeration - a pharmaceutical company owning a newspaper, for example, or just a "media empire." Indeed, that very nomination should be enough of a clue. Empire. Funny how conservatives can call liberals "unAmerican" and kneel at the altar of corporate EMPIRES.

[Ilsa]

6. Wow. Has my little burg gone Blue? We got KO/CD tonight. Deep

in the heart of texas, rednecks and red voters. Still too many bush* stickers left on cars here, but we had KO tonight!

[karlrschneider]

7. Same thing here in NE Oklahoma. Watched it no problem.

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(Tulsa Market)

[Horse with no Name]

It made it to East Texas

I watched it--but, I believe we are a hybrid of the NW Louisiana/DFW market.

[itsrobert]

8. Taylor Marsh needs to do better research

before he/she goes out on a tangent. KO is on the Las Vegas affiliate tonight at 10pm. Source is the KVBC web page where there is a link to TitanTV KVBC's schedule. As I said, this is typical programming for Western states. No conspiracy at the local level.

http://www.kvbc.com/Global/link.asp?L=35796

[tyedyeto]

9. Here in the Tucson area, it will be on at 9:00

Apparently there are areas where the time is different, especially in the west.

[bermudat]

10. Saw it here in Wake Forest, NC,

where every other SUV proudly bears a Bush/Cheney sticker.

[Pirate Smile]

11. We got it in Cedar Rapids and they got it in Kansas City too.

[Imalittleteapot]

12. Well, if it played in Texas

it could have played anywhere. I really expected it to be pre-empted in DFW. ?????????

[OregonBlue]

16. Portland, Oregon it's on at 10p.m. after Dateline. Sheesh. Like I'd watch Dateline. Just another

bunch salacious entertainment masquerading as pseudo-journalism.

[krispos42]

17. Twin Cities got it

I had to make a jury-rigged antenna to get it, but got in on just in time!!!

[Garbo 2004]

18. NBC network has Countdown scheduled for after the game in the West.

Check local NBC affiliate programming schedule.

[Horse with no Name]

19. There was no way in HELL they were going to allow Keith

a full unbiased rating of his talent on network TV. No way they were going to let him EVER have a larger audience than Billo.
No way in Hell.
No way in Hell they were going to let Fixed Noise/Rush dittoheads hear the truth. It might wake some of them up.

[Elwood P Dowd]

21. You must not have read the other posts.

He has been on almost everywhere in the east, south, and midwest. The far west has a different schedule, and he will be on after the NFL game. He was also on during the halftime break.

[Garbo 2004]

25. Actually, yes they did and are. Tape delayed for Western timezones.

As noted on the Countdown blog. Taylor Marsh should have checked her local listings for after the game.

[MonkeyFunk]

27. No way?

He's on everywhere in the country - in the west, after the game.

The constant drumbeat about some powerful media cabal controlling everything is getting tiresome.

[Oceansaway]

20. iowa/illinois (quad-cities) saw it tonight...n/t

[monmouth]

22. He was on also in the Miami and Palm Beach County area. He was great!!

Rush Limbaugh "Worst Person" on national tv....

[partylessinOhio]

23. It played in Cleveland. My guess is it won't be seen again.

[MasonJar]

24. He was on front and center in Louisville!!!!!!!!Same great job as usual.

[Garbo 2004]

26. Note: Taylor's Marsh's local NBC station showing Countdown at 10 pm.

As itsrobert noted above, it is on their program schedule. Also Countdown's blog noted that the program would be shown tape delayed in the West.

[mmonk]

28. Played here in Raleigh.

[biscotti]

29. Keith was on

In Kansas!

[Greybnk48]

30. It played in NE Wisconsin

and I loved every minute of it!! Dana Milbank didn't even piss me off tonight!!

[REP]

33. Watching it now in Silicon Valley