http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3504301.html Set your DVR Local CBS station to air Victoria's Secret fashion show in the wee hours By MIKE McDANIEL Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle You've seen the promos for tonight's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. But if you go booty hunting at the advertised time — 9 p.m. on CBS — you may be in for disappointment. Channel 11 is pre-empting girls in their nighties for a home-grown special of its own. KHOU morning anchor Debra Duncan is hosting In the Spotlight, which includes interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Ricardo Chavira (Carlos on Desperate Housewives) and model/actress Brooke Burns (Baywatch). "We wanted to put on a show of our own," said Channel 11 chief Peter Diaz. It also saves him tons of e-mails from people who object to girls in underwear in prime time. Fans of fashions (and the women who wear them) can still catch Victoria's secrets — at 1:07 a.m.
SÃ. Estoy de acuerdo. At first, this thread made me believe it would have been some SECONDS in delay, but what's with this A.M. crap? If I don't see Debra Duncan on a runway modeling a lingerie ensemble, I am sending HATE MAIL to KHOU executive dudes. "We want n_k_d pictures of BEA ARTHUR."
God forbid we see fake boobs and thongs on television. Don't they show this already on lots of TV shows? Oh, that's right, they do. I've never watched the panty parade, but delaying it until 1:07am to save themselves from complaints...stupid.
Jeff, I will disagree about the fake thing. Have you seen the latest Victoria's Secret commercial?? They slow the motion in their ocean just so we can see "reals". "I love America!" - Yakov
Surprising they have the time to show it at anytime at all with all of the death and violence they show on TV. Thank God that we have CBS 'chiefs' like this one watching out for our best interests.
Why do they need to air softporn wannabe Victoria Secret Show? If viewers want to get horny, they can always watch real p*rn.
As the father of a 5-year-old child I must say... ... it's stupid to pre-empt it. If we don't like it, we can change the channel, watch a video or (God forbid) turn off the television. It's not as if we have no control over this.
If they really wanted to circumvent the complaint issue, call the show CSI:VSFS, add a couple of cops, and have a Baywatch-like plotline. There, problem solved.
This is the main reason KHOU has decided to tape delay this show. It's not stupid, it's safe. I'm a former staffer there...I can't tell you just how many complaint calls & e-mails a show like this would send in to the station. The phone would, literally, not stop ringing on the aproximately 10 lines that go into the newsroom. That's right, the newsroom. If you talk to a live person at night, that's who you get. People who a) don't know anything about programming issues b) don't really care that you're missing your show because they're not getting any sort of pseudo dinner break (they're lucky to get 30 seconds to heat up a microwave burrito) because you're calling and c) have actual work to do. KHOU's audience is, for the most part, extremely conservative. Those are just the kind of people, for the most part, who will take the time to send in a complaint to the FCC. It's happened before and it will happen again (don't get me started on the whole Super Bowl issue). By putting this show on late at night, KHOU avoids getting those letters sent in and protects their license. That's the deal. It's not like they're keeping it away from you completely. It will air. Set your TiVo and VCR's for 1:07am.
Boo hoo, its their job. That would be like our IT staff saying, hey, we arent deploying this new version of Microsoft Office because some people may call the help desk because they dont know how to use it.
I have never watched it and didn't intend to this year at 9pm or 1:07am. I could care less that it even airs. But, getting phone calls, IMO, is a weak excuse not to air it. After all, televisions have remote controls that control things like channel choices and whether the tv is on or off. No one is forcing anyone to watch a show.
