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Enraged Billy Joel fans put network big shots on blast Sunday night, after a televised concert was cut off in the middle of his best-known song. Viewers who had been waiting for the longest time for the CBS broadcast of the 100th concert of Joels residency at New Yorks Madison Square Garden had to wait just a little longer when it was delayed by the networks extended coverage of golfs Masters Tournament.
Then, toward the end of the show, as Joel performed a rousing version of Piano Man with the MSG audience and fans at home singing along, viewers in many cities saw their screens cut to black, followed by local news:
At least one station offered both an apology and an explanation.
As a man who grew up right next to Billy Joels hometown, who went to The Last Play at Shea, it was my duty to apologize to everyone about cutting off our telecast of Billy Joel tonight, Evan Closky, sports director of 10 Tampa Bay, said on X, the former Twitter. Not to get into the weeds, but there was a special report after the Masters and it wasnt accounted for by the powers that be beyond this building. Closky wrote that tons of stations in the Eastern and Central time zones cut to local news, and that the problem wasnt at those local stations but was a mistake by people higher than the local affiliates, sadly.
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Some compare it to the Heidi Game. There is a post explaining it but I cannot copy and paste. From 1968 when NBC cut the last crucial moment of an NFL game to start the movie about Heidi.
bcool
(219 posts)Our station in St.Louis, KMOV, showed the entire concert.
Archae
(46,337 posts)And they are getting some major league flak as a result.
Dulcinea
(6,651 posts)And not on some streaming service I don't have.
Xavier Breath
(3,645 posts)I had it scheduled to record but my DVR decided otherwise for some reason. I'm sure it'll be available on Paramount+ like all of their Star Trek shows I'll never get to see. Gene Roddenberry must be spinning in his grave.
Srkdqltr
(6,299 posts)11 o'clock news on CBS in Detroit is lame on its best day and last night was no exception.
oasis
(49,393 posts)maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)Looks like they cut a few commercials so it would fit.
Johonny
(20,856 posts)Dulcinea
(6,651 posts)Xavier Breath
(3,645 posts)Setting the DVR yet again.
Prairie Gates
(1,021 posts)If you wanna have a hit ya gotta make it quick, so they cut it down to 2:05.
(Amazing that this otherwise clever writer ignored possibly the most relevant Billy Joel lyric after including so many others...)