Josh Hill wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:48:22 -0400, "John W. Kennedy"
>  wrote:
> 
>> Josh Hill wrote:
>>> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:29:12 -0400, "Mac Breck"
>>>  wrote:
>>>> "Josh Hill"  wrote in message
>>>> news:kdvhh3d1rj1ktlkth424cl0bkhki368bbu{at}4ax.com...
>>>>> Legend of the Rangers.
>>>> Which they didn't continue partly because Warner Brothers
wouldn't sell
>>>> them a piece of it.
>>> I thought it was because another broadcast, forget what, interfered
>>> with the ratings.
>> A football game, which had been played later than its originally 
>> scheduled date because of 9/11. We /know/ that this was the case, 
>> because on the West Coast, where the game didn't interfere, ratings were 
>> fine.
> 
> You'd think that advertisers or the ratings services would use
> minimally sophisticated analysis techniques to compensate for such
> phenomena.

Lawyers who draw up contracts don't employ "should have beens". It sucks 
in this particular case, but you can see their point. If SFC and WB had 
both been eager for the collaboration to work, they would probably have 
found a way. But in an iffy situation, this was enough to break it.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
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ignorant people is too dangerous to live in."
   -- Garson Kanin. "Born Yesterday"
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