[Magdalen] For those interested / affected: SNL truly live tonight.

[Scott Knitter]

Such experiments and innovations (football coverage with no
play-by-play talk; live musicals; live episodes of normally recorded
programs like 30 Rock) are why NBC is my favorite of the big networks.
They're the ones who tried an all-news radio network, too (NIS, in the
70s). They've always seemed most willing to give a new idea a try and
just do it. The Today Show was a pioneer as well...live morning show
connected to correspondents and news sources all over the world and
presented from a hectic nerve-center type studio.

Not that coast-to-coast live is an earth-shaking innovation, but it is
odd in that it's so early for West Coast viewers. But I would bet most
SNL viewers have always assumed they're watching as it
happens...usually it's live only in Eastern and Central time zones.
Tonight it's live for everyone.

On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 6:24 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Tonight and three more nights before the end of May, SNL is broadcasting live across the time zones.  Eastern and Central won't notice a difference, but Mountain and Pacific sure will, at 9:30 and 8:30 respectively.
>
> If those two timezones are comfortable with the standard 11:30 tape delay, NBC's still doing the usual at 11:30 as repeat.  Some / all affiliates will take said advantage.



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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA