Why Must I Wait For The Daily Show You’ve Seen?

Out here on the west coast we get mostly leftovers. If there’s voting in a show, usually we can’t. If the font screams LIVE, probably not for us.

Stewart Mocks Obama  Can’t He Condemn Russia Just a Little Faster    Mediaite

Like clockwork, every night asap Mediaite.com posts most/all of Jon Stewart’s first block. It’s 8:53 PM PDT as I type and what you see above is now online.

The Daily Show doesn’t air here for another two hours!

I’ll admit it, this is a first world, 21st Century problem. But it gnaws at me.

Out here on the west coast we get mostly leftovers. If there’s voting in a show, we can’t. If the font screams LIVE, probably not for us. Facebook and Twitter conspire nightly to spoil all the tube’s surprises.

This kind of TV worked 20 or 30 years ago. There’s no good reason to hold back now, except to protect someone’s outdated business model.

I’m waiting for the show. Stewart is best watched in context. He’d better be funny.

One thought on “Why Must I Wait For The Daily Show You’ve Seen?”

  1. Canadian cable carries both east and west coast feeds and I ‘believe’ DirecTV gives the same option. Cable will not because of bandwidth.

    Think back 30+ years ago. Living in LA, unless you had a friend call from the east coast, you were oblivious to “Who Shot Jr” when it aired in the west.

    I must concede that today that except for sports and local news, what I watch on TV is all DVR. time shifted for my schedule. And pf course I skip through the commercials.

    Now here is what I don’t understand about broadcast TV today. WCVB-TV like many stations streams their live local newscasts. When I was working for NBC in Sochi I really enjoyed being in touch. BUT the commercials are blacked out on the internet, so how can WCVB justify that stream as there is no revenue coming in.

    I don’t get it.

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