CBS has been promoting the Billy Joel concert special every two minutes for WEEKS. So what better way to air it than to preempt it for a half hour and the cut him off MID-PIANO MAN? C'mon guys.
Disclaimer here that I spent three wonderful years with CBS and I love the network dearly... but as a media professional, I am straight up confounded by this decision.
@emilyrgandolfo The Masters ran half an hour late. What was CBS supposed to do? Chop the hour-long show before the concert in half or push everything back? A no-brainer. I’d set my recording to go an hour long because of that predictable possibility. On the East Coast, Piano Man was fine
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@emilyrgandolfo It was absolutely infuriating. Such a damn shame because it was a really good concert and so nice to watch. You rarely see that kind of programming anymore.
@emilyrgandolfo I'd been looking forward to this Billy Joel concert for almost a month, and CBS butchers it. I might not have been so upset about the hatchet job if CBS if all the mistakes made were minor. However, cutting off "Piano Man?" That was sacrilege!!
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