Than again there is never anything on those channels anyway so I see your point. I just came over to my brothers house for the free beer not the game.

Duer 157099

(17,742 posts)

3. That is actually the point. OTHER channels.

Reply to hrmjustin (Reply #2)

Sun Feb 3, 2013, 07:45 PM

Feb 2013

Where is tonight's episode of, for example, Shameless????

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

4. They won't get the ratings so they won't put it on.

Reply to Duer 157099 (Reply #3)

Sun Feb 3, 2013, 07:46 PM

Feb 2013

mythology

(9,527 posts)

8. This

Reply to hrmjustin (Reply #4)

Sun Feb 3, 2013, 11:33 PM

Feb 2013

Why would you run a new episode of something when the Super Bowl is going to get around a 60 percent share of the tv sets that are on?

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

5. Bread and circuses. Bread and circuses.

Reply to Duer 157099 (Original post)

Sun Feb 3, 2013, 07:47 PM

Feb 2013

There shall be no news, there shall be no news, and you will play along or be ridiculed.

Get with the program.

GoCubsGo

(32,116 posts)

6. Ratings.

Reply to Duer 157099 (Original post)

Sun Feb 3, 2013, 07:51 PM

Feb 2013

Lots and lots of people like football, and the network that carries the game will make a shitpile of money from it. There is plenty of other stuff on for those of us who don't like it. For instance, at 9 Eastern, there will be a retrospective of the first five years of Saturday Night Live on NBC. I am way more annoyed when they show the same political debate on every friggin' channel. At least the football game is only on one channel.

whistler162

(11,155 posts)

7. Because of the rioting after the Heidi

Reply to Duer 157099 (Original post)

Sun Feb 3, 2013, 09:41 PM

Feb 2013

debacle it will never happen again!

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