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Originally Posted by TigerLily24
It took me the longest time to get used to football starting at 11:00. Growing up in NYC, it was always 1:00 and 4:00.
Everything else, even doing the math for the cable shows was easy, but football...
Here in AZ, for the first half of the Broncos Season (I'm a transplanted lifelong Coloradoan), games are at 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. as we're on LA time (AZ has no DST), and the second half of the season in November, after the country "falls back", we're on Denver time and the games are 11:00 and 2:00.
Same thing with cable shows. They are on at whatever time in summer, but when the nation falls back, they air an hour earlier. Really throws me off.
I think this link has a good explanation of the OP's question. It focuses on America's forgotten time zone (Mountain), but does explain some of the differences between times on network TV and cable TV.
Best thing to remember, most events that are live across the time zones are usually advertised as 8pm ET/5pm PT or something similar. Otherwise it would just say 8pm/7pm CT.
I wouldn't be able to get used to prime time starting at 7pm. I live on the East coast so it starts at 8 and goes through to 11pm.
I'm now located in the zone that tv forgot- AKA Mountain. Getting used to prime time at 7pm was one thing, but getting used to the workday starting at 8AM was far worse (and not 8-4; 8-5). At least that is what it is here. Never got it, don't get it, and never will. Maybe PT starts at 7 and local news ends at 10:30 because so many have to be out the door to be present at work at 8:00?
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Originally Posted by swbrotha100
I think this link has a good explanation of the OP's question. It focuses on America's forgotten time zone (Mountain), but does explain some of the differences between times on network TV and cable TV.
Best thing to remember, most events that are live across the time zones are usually advertised as 8pm ET/5pm PT or something similar. Otherwise it would just say 8pm/7pm CT.
Thank you. Looking forward to reading that. Maybe it will help me understand what Comcast and Bravo do, undo, and redo.
For network TV (ABC, CBS, CW, FOX, NBC) it's pretty simple most of the time. There are three national feeds. One for Eastern Time (covers Eastern and Central Time Zones). One for Mountain Time. One for Pacific Time. So if one of those networks has a prime time show advertise 8/7c, it will be on either at 8pm (Eastern and Pacific) or 7pm (Central and Mountain). The networks actually used to say "8/7 Central and Mountain" in their advertising until the late 1980s or early 1990s.
For cable TV, some channels have only one national feed (examples are CNN, ESPN, FS1). The default is to advertise all times as Eastern. Usually they will advertise their programming as 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. The sports channels usually do a better job of this. Some news channels such as Fox News Channel or CNBC may repeat their prime time block (8pm to 11pm Eastern) so it's shown at those times on the West Coast. But if you know the channel has only one feed, the schedule is the same across the country, adjusting for your local time zone.
Many cable channels have two national feeds (examples are TNT, TBS, USA, MTV). There's an East Coast feed (Eastern and Central) and a West Coast feed (Pacific). A program live across the country would be advertised as 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. Otherwise it's seen as 8/7c. If you're in the Mountain Time Zone, a show could air two hours earlier or an hour later than what is shown in advertising. This usually depends on your cable or satellite provider, and whether they use an East Coast feed or a West Coast feed.
If you live near the Central/Mountain Time Zone boundary, or the Mountain/Pacific Time Zone boundary, this may affect the times shows on TV are shown. If you live in Arizona, most of what you watch on cable may come on at different times during the year, due to not observing Daylight Saving Time.
Last edited by swbrotha100; 10-08-2015 at 11:47 AM..
CST is the best. Prime time goes from 7-10. Football starts at 12:00 noon on Sunday.
West is the worst, it goes from 8-11, so local news basically ends at midnight.
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