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Path: local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 03:10:01 +0000 From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: update, was: no, "MeTV", we do NOT want "Meet the Press". Bring back the Flintstones References: <Pine.NEB.4.64.2405130233080.7135@panix3.panix.com> <v1s694$399i0$1@dont-email.me> <v1sc25$15j$1@reader1.panix.com> <v2gue7$46s$1@reader1.panix.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 20:19:36 -0700 Message-ID: <atropos-A9CF06.20193620052024@news.giganews.com> Lines: 49 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-BXPjyTv3/PiZ61/xUGgn18kjKUL5t4PCww0WIfWA0Ba/pfwg5I1OBt0Ycx27M3TZjp+1N2BROi0uJmF!t/LwjMwXA27rX+ii/2EbJFXPhMbhStdZje2rAIMEPi0oYK+9jdbjNMIuGLncaE28zK1wXeTLQFc8!hjk= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2806 In article <v2gue7$46s$1@reader1.panix.com>, danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote: > [update at end: Summary: The Flintstones are back] > > >[snip] > > >>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 > > >fortunately, unlike our EVIL NBC BLUE NETWORK affiliate here which > >only shows a half hour of World News Now, the MeTV carrier > >broadcasts the full line without fail (modulo special stuff > >like tornado warnings, etc.). > > >So this, starting next week, is brand new. > > >I'll be sending letters in the morning... > > >thaNKS again > > Well, I had Tweeted at them, and wrote a letter. > > Don't know if it was me (although I'll take credit!) > but I just looked at next Sunday's - 26-May-2024, and > it still has the interloper instead of Fred and Barney, > > HOWEVER... > > The schedule (on the xFinity page) for two weeks forward > (Sunday, 02-June-2024) is back to three episodes of > The Flintstones. > > *whew* > > Now if we could only get them to restore the proper > intro/outro for season one, as opposed to using the > clips from the later seasons. That's right, they're > showing Bam Bam and Pebbles in Season One... > > (Getting them to restore the five minutes they've > clipped to shovel in more commercials is, of course, > a near hopeless cause. As is gettin them to air > the episodes they've cancelled out 'cuz PC) I wish I could find the original sheet music for THE FLINTSTONES, particularly the closing credit score. That's some good stuff.