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« on: February 13, 2009, 04:06:32 PM »
Another of the KLS "doozies" is the notion that DS was "filmed on kinescope". I'm sure most of you know that it was recorded onto video tape. Kinescope backups were made to distribute to stations that chose to run the show at another time. I've heard stories, that I've not been able to confirm, that in some areas the last ep of DS aired on April 9. That station was a week behind the network. He claimed that he saw show 1245 twice on two different stations. I have no reason to doubt this person's honesty, but I've not heard about cases like this before. It seems plausible that it might have taken up to a week to get a kinescope to a station. The problem is that kinescopes don't exist for the last year, hence the reason #1219 is missing. I think it's possible that the station might have time shifted the show to another slot. While the network was providing kinescopes, they may have been getting them that way. At some point, the station might have recorded the episodes themselves and shown them a week later, maintaining their schedule and pace. Have any of you heard of anything like this? I remember, when Ryan's Hope was bumped to a later slot in Providence, we were a day behind, not a week. By then, the local would have had taping capability and would not need to wait for film to arrive in the mail.