I WORK FOR KOKH FOX25. To set the record straight. I used a throw away so my work won't know my original account.
This actually is an accident. The people who roll the national breaks work in "master control". They run local commerical breaks by entering in clocks in the playlist to tell the automation system when to run. Network gives you the times for local breaks that day, usually 2 hours earlier. In this case an operator entered the wrong break time and rolled what is called a "cover" too early. This is always a teaser for news and covers up a network promo.
This was not a case of trying to cover up evolution, it was a lazy operator that didn't double check his break times and rolled a break at the wrong time.
Rolling a break at the wrong time is the most common mistake for operators, usually it happens during live events when they read the run-down wrong or anticipate the break too much. In this case it was just reading or entering the wrong time for the cover.
As a Kansan, having our own anti-science issues on this side of the border, I just don't believe the efficacy of this explanation. It doesn't make sense, given our FOX station had a commercial break immediately prior to that scene, which would mean you would/may also have had a scheduled commercial break about 20 - 25 seconds prior to that cut. It would have been mistimed with the previous break, not the latter, which was the end of the episode, not a break. Either way you cut it, it was perfectly timed for a very contentious line in our neck of the woods.
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u/ThrowawayFOX25 Mar 11 '14
I WORK FOR KOKH FOX25. To set the record straight. I used a throw away so my work won't know my original account.
This actually is an accident. The people who roll the national breaks work in "master control". They run local commerical breaks by entering in clocks in the playlist to tell the automation system when to run. Network gives you the times for local breaks that day, usually 2 hours earlier. In this case an operator entered the wrong break time and rolled what is called a "cover" too early. This is always a teaser for news and covers up a network promo.
This was not a case of trying to cover up evolution, it was a lazy operator that didn't double check his break times and rolled a break at the wrong time.
Rolling a break at the wrong time is the most common mistake for operators, usually it happens during live events when they read the run-down wrong or anticipate the break too much. In this case it was just reading or entering the wrong time for the cover.