New time for pre-empted ABC soaps in D.C.

[Scotty]

For you Oprah and ABC soap fans in the D.C. area affected by the snow storm:

From: http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0210/704872.html

[dragonflies]

When we're pre-empted in my area, my ABC channel NEVER shows the soaps at another time. Basically if I didn't have SOAPnet I'd miss the show's that day.

[Scotty]

Either that or watch them over night/next morning when they are uploaded to abc.com. Also, I know with OLTL, someone usually always uploads the episodes to Youtube several hours after they air.

[EricMontreal22]

AMC has a good youtube uploader too--I've depended on it and OLTL's a couple of times since abc.com's videos dont' work outside the country.

[Scotty]

Same here....I don't have SOAPnet (well I could, but I am not about to shell out a lot more money for dozens of channels I don't want just to get it), and have watched many an episode of OLTL on Youtube when I would miss them on ABC (before they started uploading them on their website).

OLTL has a couple of good posters who are pretty faithful about uploading eppys. to Youtube too.

[SFK]

Here in the New York tri-state area, GH will air at 2am (WABC-TV).

[EricMontreal22]

The last few months of The City's run the local ABC (Seattle's) decided to air it at 11:30 or 12 or whenever some affiliates were airing it. I admit--I liked watching it as a late night soap.

[SFK]

You know, I would have enjoyed that too (although that's when I was still in high school and had to be up quarter to six). I'm such a night owl now it's funny to look back and remember that it wasn't until my junior or senior year when I'd still be up for Letterman. I don't remember if it was O.J. or 9/11, but I recall a few surreal moments waking up in the middle of the night and seeing Victor and Nikki on my screen, but I would have napped and woken back up for The City if they'd aired it late nights in my area. Aargh, wouldn't 13 Bourbon St. have been so much fun??

[Toups]

Pre-emptions for a snow storm. HA!

Weather person: It is snowing outside!!!!!

Oh you Americans!

[EricMontreal22]

I was in grades 10-11 when City aired, but I guess I was staying up till 1am or so then (I usually managed to not have a class first thing in the morning...)

And yes, this is yet another reason I think the idea of 13 Bourbon would be great. There's that article in the City thread about how many stations reported a spike in ratings when they showed it at midnight as opposed to 11:30 or 12:30--and that makes sense to me--it was a largely youth oriented soap--that's hwen the audience would check it out. (when NBC put Sunset Beach for a year or so at the end of their latenight schedule--at 1:30 or whatever, I wonder how it did)

[Scotty]

Just wait until summer and they break in to tell everyone how hot it is outside.

[dragonflies]

LOL yeah they think we're too stupid to look out the window to see that it's snowing

I swear they interrupt for every little thing

[Adam]

Its sometimes no better here, Toups. Remember Toronto calling in the ARMY to deal with a snowstorm?.... which I recall not even being THAT bad. LOL.

[SFK]

Aww, snow, Toronto, you guys are making me think of The Kids of Degrassi Street.

[dragonflies]

It's also annoying when they interrupt for a news conference or something, then have to proceed to summarize what was just said, like we're morons or something