The Maven and his lovely dinning companion were nestled
comfortably in a cozy booth at a favorite restaurant/bar eagerly anticipating
the Saints/Packers game Sunday afternoon.
All was going swimmingly until the barmaid had difficulty
finding the game on TV. A quick scan of MyFox Fort Wayne's usual hiding places
on Comcast cable revealed a Bare Minerals infomercial on both Comcast 18 and 252.
But the screen guide indicated the Saints/Packers game on the Fox network. Hmm.
As time passed, the audio from the infomercial went up, then
down, then away, then back to full volume. The video remained on the
infomercial.
Then, with a minute or two left in the first quarter, and
the game tied at 7, viola! The NFL on Fox appeared and the disgusting Bare
Minerals infomercial was vanquished to annoy us on another day!
One has to wonder if the error would have been corrected
earlier if the station personnel (probably just the one person in the building
at the time) had not taken time to Tweet about the screw up, rather than fix it
immediately. Hey, at least they acknowledged the error (whether it was, in deed
technical, or just someone busy doing something else and neglecting something
as unimportant as a measly football game, we will never know). A screen crawl might have been a nice touch....but it that might have been asking too much of the poor flunky running multiple TV stations in multiple cities from the Butler Road bunker.
It's clear that INC, the current Fox affiliate, does not take
their affiliation seriously and only holds the affiliation so that another Fort
Wayne station can not get their grubby little hands on it. And brickbats also
to Comcast for moving MyFox Fort Wayne around on their line up. With MyFox Fort
Wayne on Comcast 18, where the hell did the put the Weather Channel? Well, that's a search
for another day.....
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