My 10 Most Frustrating Minutes of 2006
Sorry, nothing from me about the Barbara Walters special last night - The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2006. My apologies. Problem was, I couldn’t see it. For those outside of Canada, you may find this story a little bizarre:
Canadian government regulations require cable providers to automatically switch an American station to a Canadian station IF they’re both running the same programming at the same time. So, if Barbara Walters was on a Canadian station and an American station, the cable company’s computer would run the Canadian station in the slot where the American station normally sits… yeah, it’s a money grab by Canadian TV outlets who don’t want you viewing the ads on a US station if you could be seeing the same program with Canadian ads.
Problem was, the cable company didn’t automatically switch the ABC station back in - so the Canadian station which must have been running an ABC show earlier in the evening, was still in that slot come 10 o’clock. AND no Canadian station was airing Barbara… so I had a re-run of Law & Order out of the corner of my eye while I yelled at the cable company on the phone… alright, it was ten minutes into the phone call when the yelling started.
While you didn’t get any comments from me about Barbara’s interviews, you have become slightly more knowledgeable about life in Canada, for what that’s worth.
Posted: December 13th, 2006 under Announcements.