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- Aug. 05, 1991: Business Notes:Media
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 05, 1991 Was It Worth It?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 49
- Business Notes
- MEDIA
- Network Savings Time
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- <p> Add an extra month between June and July. Make every Thursday
- 19 hours long. Move television's prime time forward 60 minutes.
- Three equally odd ideas--yet one is about to become reality
- for viewers of KCRA-TV, the Sacramento affiliate of NBC. For
- decades West and East Coast TV outlets have aired network
- prime-time programs from 8 to 11 p.m.--but with the blessing
- of the Great Peacock, KCRA is planning an 8 1/2-month trial
- schedule that would run NBC offerings from 7 to 10, a common
- practice in the Central and Mountain time zones. Should the
- experiment succeed, the entire West Coast may follow.
- </p>
- <p> The network cites viewer surveys asking for show times in
- keeping with earlier-to-bed-earlier-to-rise life-styles. In
- other words, money: affiliates stand to make more if their local
- late-night news programs air at an earlier hour.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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