Which time zone is kindest to BB fans?
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Bastable

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 04:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Houseguests are nocturnal. Every time a big blowout, cat fight, or love fest happens on the Live Feeds, most of us on the East Coast are asleep.

Yet East Coasters get to watch the live shows first and be the first to know the biggest developments.

So...who gets it the best? East Coasters or West Coasters? And are people from Denver REALLY the ones getting the shaft?

Personally, I'd forgo the 'live' live show if it meant I could watch more of the goodies on the LFs.

Bmh

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 04:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hmm tough call..being from the east coast..I would need to test both worlds and then see which I liked better..but I am pretty content getting to see everything before the westcoasters

Keiffer

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 04:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
West coast without question. The TV show is three hours a week, while live feeds are on every day for almost 12 hours.... (jj).

But seriously on date night just to make it to the hammock portion I had to stay up until 3AM east coast time.... gotta tell you work was not fun the next day.

Goddessatlaw

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 04:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
No, the people from Indiana get rolled from behind, no reach around ('scuse me for the graphics). The entire Eastern half of the U.S. sees the live shows at the same time - except we Hoosiers, who get a falsified rendition of the same one hour behind the posse. Because our legislature and the networks hate us. Tell 'em Ryn, or do you have a satellite in which case you and I need to talk.

Shadowkat

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 04:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think there are some people in this thread that forgot about us non-coasters!! lol I actually thing Central time is best (I live in Chicago area) because we see it at the same time as the east coasters, but for us, it's an hour ahead of time. So we get to stay up an hour later and watch the hampsters, but we get to see the show an hour earlier... and they said there was no benefits to having flatlands!! :)

Abby7

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 04:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Goddessatlaw: huh? "...who get a falsified rendition of the same one hour behind the posse."

Goddessatlaw

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 04:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Shadowkat: I was raised in Illinois, where primetime viewing is CIVILIZED and VIEWER FRIENDLY. I've never gotten used to 11:00 news.

Goddessatlaw

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 04:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Abby7 - Indiana is on Central Standard time 1/2 of the year (now) and Eastern Standard time 1/2 of the year. We never change our clocks, even though the rest of the country pretty much does. However, our primetime here begins at 8:00 pm year 'round. Primetime in Central Standard Time begins at 7:00 p.m. So the LIVE show which airs to all Eastern and Central Standard Time viewers at the same time, gets to us one hour later and is no longer "live." So we get bootied like the California viewer, except we get no ocean view and no year-round summer climate. It ain't fair, it ain't fair. It ain't fair.

Toolhound

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 04:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am on the East Coast and get up about 4am so I get the best of both worlds. Yes I like getting up early.

Halleb529

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 04:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree Goddess. I am also in Indiana. It is going to be the hardest thing for me tonight, to not peek at these boards to find out what the twist is, before the show airs here an hour later!

If I was on the West Coast, I could not wait that long and I would HAVE to peek :)


Halle

Shadowkat

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 04:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Goddesslaw...I just don't get it. What the heck are people on the east coast doing up at 11:00 watching the news?? Doesn't anybody work over there!!??? We have clients on the east coast and they still can't explain to me how they do it... cuz I definately need my beauty sleep!! :)

Bastable

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 04:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How about Hawaiians? They have to watch the live shows six hours behind the East Coast, but they can get to the hammock goodies at midnight! Any Hawaiians here?

Goddessatlaw

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 04:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That's all I'm saying, Shadowkat - we're supposed to be farmer friendly here. And how does our Eastcoast viewing schedule work around that, I'm asking? PS Halle - glad to meet another Hoosier (I'm naturalized, donchaknow) - we have quite a few on the boards. I'm watching the whole thread play out tonight I'm not a delayed gratification girl - you must have been raised here and gotten used to blacking out the 500 by picnicking, then watching it 6 hours later and still being surprised at the ending. Patience is a virtue I don't have.

Curlyq

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 04:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wait a minute. Do you mean the other time zones don't get 11 o'clock news? Of course where I live it doesn't matter because we also get the noon, 5, 5:30, 6, and 6:30 news (not to mention the morning news). I just assumed everyone got 11 o'clock news.

Bastable

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 04:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
No, they get 10 o'clock news in Central. It's cool. Like, SNL is over at midnight so you can still go out after it and have a life. Letterman's over at 11:35, etc. Trick is, it's tougher to get home for prime time at 7 p.m. (All this remembered from my days at college.)

Car54

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 04:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Goddess, you cracked me up! I lived all my life in Central time, and now I am in Boston, and I never fail to think that people here are just living in WRONG time. I will never adjust!

Wilsonatmd

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 05:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
well it depends....for the live show, east coast, since we see it live.....for the feeds, west coast, because the house is in that zone...because we east coasters have to stay up late at night to see the early evening stuff.....

Calgaryperson

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 06:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I live in Calgary(obviosly), and I have digital cable. My cable company added 4 stations from the Eastern time zone. So I can watch catfights, and BB3 first at the same time. BB is much kinder to people living in Alberta, with digital cable or satelite.