Heidi II: Miami station cuts from Michigan/Mich St OT for Stolen Honor

[Awsi Dooger]

I found this summary at the bottom of a story in the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel:

"And as the campaign draws to a close, callers flooded the customer service phone lines at WPLG-Ch. 10 Saturday night after the station aired a half-hour block of Stolen Honor, a documentary attacking Kerry's service in Vietnam and his conduct after he returned from that war. Station Vice President and General Manager Dave Boylan said Newton Media, a Virginia-based company, bought three half-hour blocks to air portions of the documentary before the election.

"We sell time to people looking to get their message to the public," said Boylan.

The documentary interrupted a Michigan vs. Michigan State college football game that was tied, 37-37, and about to go into overtime."

Here is WPLG's main website. It is an ABC affiliate. I couldn't find a contact link at first glance. Maybe some one can take a closer look: http://www.local10.com/index.html

On edit: here is the contact link. It includes phone numbers, address and email: http://www.local10.com/contact/index.html

BTW, at 37-37 that game was headed into the THIRD overtime, which really must have pissed off viewers who had watched throughout.

[Roland99]

1. Way to piss off viewers and make them vote for Kerry in protest!

heh heh

[MirrorAshes]

4. lets hope...they might just see the name John Kerry...

and associate it with missing their game =\

not that it'll make any difference.

[Walt Starr]

2. I'd say Bush just lost some points in Michigan!

The numnuts

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. Where it hurts is Florida

I'll bet more than a few Michigan fans retired there.

[ThoughtCriminal]

3. Smooth move

Idiots.

[novadem]

5. Damn, that means they hooked a lot

of viewers who were staring at the TV waiting for the next Touch Down. I'm sure they stared at the TV for a while in denial that thier game had been preempted.

Dirty pool

[aquart]

6. LOL!

With their usual sensitivity, the Republicans have alienated their last friends.

[harpo]

8. Football RULES in Michigan...they are pissed!!!

[high density]

9. OK, it's one thing to sell infomercial space to these idiots...

It's another thing to preempt regular programming for them! God these stations are so stupid, they just don't know what they're unleashing.

[meganmonkey]

10. Michigan Won -and their slogan is M GO BLUE!!!

And Michigan will go BLUE on TUESDAY!!!!

[Awsi Dooger]

11. I should have mentioned that; Michigan won 45-37

In the 3rd overtime. WPLG could have spared the grief by delaying the propoganda crap 10 minutes.