Al Sharpton on SNL??? Not on my TV........... Rerun.

[spanone]

WTF? I'm wondering why our local NBC affiliate chose not to show Saturday Night Live with Al Sharpton hosting? Is this a local "political" choice?

[Ilsa]

1. Ask them what happened.

Maybe they had a technical problem receiving the program. Then ask them when they are going to air the AS SNL show. If they don't, report them to the affiliate. I bet there is some place you can file a complaint.

Where are you (roughly)?

[spanone]

Nashville TN.

[AWD]

6. They made fun of you on the air.....

Some affiliates chose not to run it for equal-time laws might apply.

On Weekend Update, they ripped on the 8 cities who opted out....they said of Nasville "Ya'll come back now, queers" (it sounds funnier when you actually hear it)

[seventhson]

2. You didn't miss much

Bad skits, almost no politics (altho there was a kinda funny skit with the candidates hanging out at a pretty gay edwards house (joke: if he kissed ass any harder he'd be sucking blood.

[Forkboy]

3. It would trigger equal time laws

many states didn't show it.

[WillyT]

10. Yeah Fork, You Are Correct !!!

My local NBC affiliate, KCRA Sacramento, ran a crawler saying that because Sharpton had been certfied for the election by the Secretary of State, they would not be able to show it. Equal time laws apparently. Good call.

:hi:

[BrotherBuzz]

11. So, why did other California NBC affiliates...

show the program? KCRA (Sacramento) is my closest NBC station but I was able to pick SNL up from San Jose. Individual affiliates made the choice, and I have to wonder what KCRA's motives really are. Something stinks in Sacramento, besides Arnie.

[Kremer]

4. You didn't miss much.

Al was pretty good but god it was sooooooooo unfunny. It got to the point for me were it became painful. Their writers suck.

[Bronco69]

5. I read last year that Tina Fey was signed

for a 4 year contract as head writer for SNL. I guess we can look forward to 3 more years of unfunny skits.

[elfin]

7. It was pretty lame - I switched to MadTV

like I usually do. Always better, tho not "live."

[mikehiggins]

8. I watched four minutes, then cut to infomercials

Maybe I'm trying to hard to respect Sharpton after the Brawley thing and his connections (now severed) with D'Amato but I couldn't sit through more than two minutes of his James Brown act.

Had to turn it off.

[sistersofmercy]

9. It wasn't on here in St Louis and I'm irked about it.

[Wonk]

12. Clips are online here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=109&topic_id=3381