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From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: update, was: no, "MeTV", we do NOT want "Meet the Press". Bring back the Flintstones
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 01:46:47 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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[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)

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