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« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2012, 08:15:54 AM » |
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Even that would have been better than watching the race crews pouring Tide detergent on the spill (during the race delay) to soak it up! A technical correction - Tide (or any similar detergent) actually breaks up oil in the same way it dissolves hamburger grease from your favorite BBQ apron. Car leaving oil spots on your concrete driveway? Grab some Tide. It will leave your driveway smelling nice too!  To "soak oil up" the track people would have used cat litter or a generic product we used to call "speedy dry" which is made from crushed sea shells (and has several brand names). I think I remember the announcers saying that most of what ran down the track was diesel fuel from the safety truck's ruptured tank and jet fuel (kerosene) from the blow dryer tank. But did you sit there and watch FOX during this two-hour delay? My guess is that you did not. I don't give a rip what they used. I changed channels (hey, I was expecting the 9:00 p.m. local news!), and saw the Tide footage the next day. |
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« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2012, 08:20:05 AM » |
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Apparently, the local FOX affiliates' reporters and anchors got the evening off from reporting the news. I certainly took the evening off from watching them!
WTXF in philly did a newscast after the race, but it was 30 minutes long I think. That was a mistake, during a newscast at a time that no-one was watching. FOX 29 is so screwed up, overall, with the picture formats of its standard definition programming (having four sides of black surrounding the screen) and its lower rated newscasts. I hardly watch the station anymore. I use to for many years. How long is their newscast on a normal night? I'm with you on this one; they should have just thrown in the towel and called it a night. During past World Series (and/or baseball playoffs leading up to them), our FOX affiliate has moved their 9:00 p.m. news over to one of their sister stations. They probably didn't have enough of a "heads up" to do that this time. |
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« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2012, 10:04:53 AM » |
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Even that would have been better than watching the race crews pouring Tide detergent on the spill (during the race delay) to soak it up! A technical correction - Tide (or any similar detergent) actually breaks up oil in the same way it dissolves hamburger grease from your favorite BBQ apron. Car leaving oil spots on your concrete driveway? Grab some Tide. It will leave your driveway smelling nice too! To "soak oil up" the track people would have used cat litter or a generic product we used to call "speedy dry" which is made from crushed sea shells (and has several brand names). I think I remember the announcers saying that most of what ran down the track was diesel fuel from the safety truck's ruptured tank and jet fuel (kerosene) from the blow dryer tank. But did you sit there and watch FOX during this two-hour delay? My guess is that you did not. I don't give a rip what they used. I changed channels (hey, I was expecting the 9:00 p.m. local news!), and saw the Tide footage the next day. Since this forum isn't specific to cars or NASCAR I posted simply to clarify what they were using. FYI, I did watch the entire race, including the safety truck incident but as is my normal process I was doing other things on the computer while the TV played up in the corner. NASCAR isn't, by itself, interesting enough to keep me glued to the screen. |
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« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2012, 05:26:08 AM » |
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I would have liked to see what aired after the race Monday night on WNYW, but I had just about checked out at that point (race ended just after 1 AM local time)... I'm guessing WNYW might have pre-recorded the news that night for airing whenever the race coverage was finished. They once did that the night of a baseball playoff game (from Phoenix, if I recall correctly) that ended at around 2 AM ET.
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« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2012, 08:32:06 AM » |
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If they had done that here in Nashville, they likely would have been competing with our NBC affiliate, who at least used to, re-air their 10:00 p.m. news at about 1:30 or 2:00 in the morning. Maybe with the overnight programming that NBC offers now, they no longer feel a need to do that.
But I'm still thinking that FOX affiliates (particularly in the eastern and central time zones) should have just thrown in the towel on doing a newscast on Monday night (can't say "Monday evening" because it was too late by then!), unless they had a subchannel to which they could have moved it. Long story short, if FOX 17 isn't on with news at 9:00, I'm switching to the rebroadcast of channel 5's 6:00 newscast on their subchannel.
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« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2012, 10:40:32 AM » |
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I know my employer (Houston's Fox O&O) threw in the towel and dumped the newscast altogether. I was somewhat surprised the network didn't allow the stations to air at least a portion of their newscast during the delay, at least 30-mins. I think there would have been plenty of time to alert the stations on either end that the network was going back to the race.
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« Reply #17 on: March 02, 2012, 09:43:44 PM » |
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I know my employer (Houston's Fox O&O) threw in the towel and dumped the newscast altogether. I was somewhat surprised the network didn't allow the stations to air at least a portion of their newscast during the delay, at least 30-mins. I think there would have been plenty of time to alert the stations on either end that the network was going back to the race.
We'll soon see the day when Fox26 begins their morning news at midnight anyway |
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« Reply #18 on: March 03, 2012, 12:05:24 PM » |
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How long is their newscast on a normal night? I'm with you on this one; they should have just thrown in the towel and called it a night.
During past World Series (and/or baseball playoffs leading up to them), our FOX affiliate has moved their 9:00 p.m. news over to one of their sister stations. They probably didn't have enough of a "heads up" to do that this time.
60 minutes for the 10 PM news. Maybe the news director Steve Schwaid was insistent on having news on, following the race. |
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« Reply #19 on: March 03, 2012, 12:25:26 PM » |
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According to a friend of mine here in Hartford FOX 61 aired it's entire 10PM & 11PM News following the race. The 11PM news ended just before 3AM.
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