[clarissa] Clarissa Digest, Vol 7, Issue 2

[boogaloo]

Actual network airtime for a sitcom is 22:30; when it goes into 
syndication it  is either run through a process that speeds up the 
playback and then equalizes the audio so that another minute is 
harvested or they actually cut down the show by a minute. The 
commercials don't become part of the  aired program until a few hours 
before it goes to air when the tape goes through "commercial 
integration" which integrates all the commercials aired by the network 
into previously 2:00 black slugs between the program segments. That 
might include network promotional material and public service 
announcements rideing under the positions given to the local station to 
cover that position if that station doesn't breakaway from the satellite 
feed. The local station then has the last 2:10 after the credits and a 
network promotional piece that follows the credits. Usually, when 
programs go to video and DVD they are in the original form as they aired 
on network and not the modified syndication/cable version. I haven't 
seen these packages, but my guess is with all the menuing googah and 
other added stuff this is going to be more like 580 minutes or so. Check 
a reliable source like the distrbutors website!

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>   1. 2nd season STTW (Husky)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:52:52 -0400
>From: Husky <cbminfo at bellsouth.net>
>Subject: [clarissa] 2nd season STTW
>To: clarissa at melissa-joan-hart.net
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>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=29364
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>quoted directly from the article
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>>sttw : Unfortunately, CBS Paramount has delivered up another season of edited shows, some severely so. 
>>sttw : If the total running time listed is correct (the DVD case states six hours, 15 minutes), and there are 26 
>>sttw : episodes, do the math for an average episode running time
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>I've known for awhile that the average 30 minute sitcom averages airing between 12 and 20 minutes of actual sitcom. The rest being commercials and station breaks.
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>My math says 6 hours 15 minutes = 375 minutes
>26 episodes * 12 minutes               = 312 minutes or no editing at all
>26 episodes * 15 minutes               = 390 or possibly a grand total of 15 minutes edited out of 26 episodes.
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>I tend to believe the only editing that took place was the removal of the commercials.
>Maybe before making such statements, our critic should do some homework on just exactly how much of a sitcom is actually aired in a 30 minute time slot.
>He says 'If the total running time listed is correct'. Sounds like he made his review based on what he could remember from the actual show.
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