How the NFL/CBS affected Wheel/Jeopardy (not for the better)
Dec 12, 2014 16:31:30 GMT -5
Prizes and mechamind like this
Post by ten96lt on Dec 12, 2014 16:31:30 GMT -5
Courtesy of Chad Mosher:
An article from Deadspin revealing some leaked emails as part of the SPE hacking reveal how the NFL/CBS Thursday Night Football programming left Wheel and J! in a bind with preempting their shows. Included are some emails between Harry Friedman and an exec with Sony and some at CBS. (I'm just hoping the contestant databases (former and in the pool) were not part of the hack).
One of the interesting tidbits is one of the emails from Friedman shows that they had to move the latest million dollar win episode to Wednesday instead of Thursday because a lot of the affiliates were going to have it preempted (you can tell he is understandably not happy about having to move it).
deadspin.com/how-cbs-and-the-nfl-teamed-up-to-screw-wheel-of-fortune-1670315974?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
Also talks about how Jeopardy was under a crunch regarding putting in an NFL category to "advertise" the lead in and the work they had to go through to make it happen, but the NFL still didn't like it.
At the end of the article, Friedman proposes a technology idea where basically a person can choose whether to watch the pre-game show and record the pre-empted show or vice versa. The article praises the idea (and an idea I personally like).
Thoughts on the article?
An article from Deadspin revealing some leaked emails as part of the SPE hacking reveal how the NFL/CBS Thursday Night Football programming left Wheel and J! in a bind with preempting their shows. Included are some emails between Harry Friedman and an exec with Sony and some at CBS. (I'm just hoping the contestant databases (former and in the pool) were not part of the hack).
One of the interesting tidbits is one of the emails from Friedman shows that they had to move the latest million dollar win episode to Wednesday instead of Thursday because a lot of the affiliates were going to have it preempted (you can tell he is understandably not happy about having to move it).
deadspin.com/how-cbs-and-the-nfl-teamed-up-to-screw-wheel-of-fortune-1670315974?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
Also talks about how Jeopardy was under a crunch regarding putting in an NFL category to "advertise" the lead in and the work they had to go through to make it happen, but the NFL still didn't like it.
At the end of the article, Friedman proposes a technology idea where basically a person can choose whether to watch the pre-game show and record the pre-empted show or vice versa. The article praises the idea (and an idea I personally like).
Thoughts on the article?
