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On Sun, 12 May 2024 21:51:48 -0700, super70s wrote:

> On 2024-05-13 02:36:20 +0000, danny burstein said:
>
> > So I'm checking next Sunday morning's schedule (and the one after it)
> > looking to see which Flintstone's episodes they're broadcasting
> >
> > And shudder... instead of three back-to-back showings,
> > they've dropped the first two in favour of "Meet the Press".
> >
> > Why, oh why?
> >
> > If any of the Wiegels are reading this, slap the programming
> > wiz who decided this, real hard like.
>
> Your MeTV station must be one of those that pre-empts certain
> programming for other stuff sometimes.
>
> They get into the weeds in all of this at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeTV
>
> Anyway here's what you missed this morning:
>
> "Fred mistakenly thinks Wilma is going to have a baby."
>
> "Fred's rich uncle mistakenly visits Bedrock, expecting to find his namesake."

"MeTV also began to carry remastered widescreen prints of some
programs (such as Leave It to Beaver, I Love Lucy, The
Honeymooners, and The Monkees) and present its program
promotions in the 16:9 format; most other programming to which
Me-TV has only obtained 4:3 prints are presented in an
anamorphic 14:9 format."

Lousy. If you value your time and your TV it would
suit to get the DVDs of what you like, rather than
just see only 70% of the screen with The Monkees and
only 80% of the screen of The Flintstones.

Don't you mind having the top and bottom of the program
being cut off by MeTV?