President Obama plans to address the nation Tuesday, December 1 at 8pm eastern about his plans with Afghanistan and all four major broadcast networks plan to air the address.
The address is only scheduled for 30 minutes, though some networks (ABC & NBC) look to give it one hour of coverage. Overall with the exception of ABC, which pushed its Disney Prep & Landing special to the following Tuesday, the impacts were fairly minimal:
ABC: moves 30 minute version of A Charlie Brown Christmas and Disney Prep & Landing to December 8, replacing a one hour version of A Charlie Brown Christmas previously scheduled. The 9pm-11pm portion of the schedule is unchanged.
FOX: will air the address and then the regular 2 hour So You Think You Can Dance
CBS: will air a repeat of NCIS at 8:30pm, followed by a repeat of Two & A Half Men at 9:30 and the Victoria Secret Fashion Show at 10pm (a repeat of NCIS: LA gets bumped).
NBC: Will air the regular 2 hour version of The Biggest Loser from 9pm-11pm bumping The Jay Leno Show off the schedule.
Poor NBC — the only day its 10pm ratings will be above 5mil
Last night NBC had 5.04 million viewers.
^at 10pm^
Oh, now what’s Obama gonna say against Fox?
looks like dvd night
this is bad for Obama so of course FOX will show this address
highest 90210 ratings ever
Why do these networks do this? We don’t need the big 3 airing the same thing. Why can’t they just air their progamming, especially if it’s new? Are they afraid no one will watch because Obama is speaking? Pshhh, i’ll watch anything other than the speech. haha.
Man…. Two And A Half Men Is Airing At 9:30… That Means I Have To Miss It because Of The Premire Of Scrubs…. Damn!!!
NBC is bumping Jay off the schedule that night? What a surprise…
I’m just thrilled that Jay’s being bumped. Think Obama will attract more than 4 million viewers?
o yeah 90210 i forgot it was new
Glad to see the premiere of Scubs isn’t gonna be affected.
^”Scrubs”^
I won’t be watching Obama. Sounds like a cable night.
Just saw the promo for Prep & Landing and realized ABC changed the date to December 8. Maybe 90210 can benefit from this.
49 – 44 Approval Rating: Needs to hit a homerun or his agenda and congress will turn next year
Josh -
There aren’t enough seats up in the midterms for that to really happen.
The GOP will most likely gain seats, but when one party controls both the White House and Congress, that usually happens anyways the next election.
Just like the backup quarterback is often the most popular player on a pro football team when things aren’t going particularly well (even if he’s the failed starter), the party not-in-power usually becomes the most popular with American voters (since to continue the tortured football analogies, most Americans consider the two parties the equivalents of, say, Alex Smith and Jake Delhomme [or insert other crappy QBs here])
DVDs for me as usual. as for Obama and Congress, by this time next year we will be referring to the Elections held the previous month as “The Second American Revolution”!
I usually save political comments for a more appropriate venue, but the Democrats have as much chance of losing seats in 2010 as Flash
In The PanForward has of getting another season. They are already attacking some of their most Conservative members (Inglis, Graham, even McCain, for not being crazy enough, and the few people they have that could bring them back to sanity, like Mike Castle in Delaware, are being sabotaged. (Others who had previously being moderate are running for the asylum so fast they are leaving vapor trails, like Boehner, Cantor, and Pawlenty.) In recent days O’Reilly and Coulter have been representing ‘moderate’ Republicans.So, until they abandon the Becks and Her Excellency the Baroness Munchhausen, ex-Governor of Alaska, and stop taking marcing orders from the WorldNutDaily, we Democrats don’t have a thing to worry about.