Damn your programming ambition C-SPAN!
Thomas Barnett
Dateline: Portsmouth RI, 8 December 2004
Curse that Brian Lamb! His desire to make the upcoming broadcast of the brief (along with the follow-on call-in effort) as special as possible means it won't occur tomorrow night as recently planned.
So no broadcast of the brief on Thursday, 9 December at 8pm EST (with repeat at 11pm EST). C-SPAN's top management (Lamb) figures that if they went to all the unprecedented effort to retape a presentation they've already broadcast (specifically for this call-in show), that--damn it!--they might as well promote it some on TV and in print.
So the broadcast slips to next week. I've offered Thursday night, the 16th, as my preferred night. I await to hear from C-SPAN either late today or early tomorrow (hopefully) on the decision.
Again, hard to complain to C-SPAN about wanting to promote the show, so I'm not disappointed. Plus, I just spent three days on the road, so good to sit for the rest of the week.
As soon as I get a confirmed date, I will post. Sorry for any disappointment.
Good word from producer is, the capture was really great and the new tech of being able to project slides directly on the TV screen worked like a charm, so this will be a great show when it does happen. Good to have everyone excited on their end, but the desire to promote it now more fully is the price that we pay for that success in taping.
As my buddy Art Cebrowski always says, there is a typical trade-off between richness and reach. In this decision, we seem to be getting both: good program, good promotion.
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