Culture

Friday's CBS Specials Are Not a New Airing

TL;DR

CBS filed We Remember on Friday's 25th anniversary; Monday has no second airing.

MSM Perspective

CBS filed Friday. Monday does not re-air it as news.

X Perspective

Feeds treat a recap as a new primetime hour.

CBS aired We Remember at 8 p.m. Friday for the 25th anniversary. [1] This paper printed the special beside the CIA dump. Monday has no second airing. A Friday special is not Monday news.

Print Friday. Do not print a new primetime hour.

No second We Remember hour is in Monday's network copy, so Friday remains the airing and not a new special.
A Friday memorial special is still Friday. Monday recap that treats We Remember as new primetime is a rerun, not news.
No second memorial hour is in Monday's network copy.
Monday is not a new We Remember.
Print Friday's special. Do not print a new hour.
No Monday memorial telecast is in the stack.
A Friday anniversary hour remains Friday. Monday bought no new special.
Network anniversary programming is planned months ahead and repeats on every milestone; a 25th-year special airing once is the format working as designed. Monday's schedule holds no encore, which is how these hours retain their weight.

Weighted hours keep their weight by not repeating; Monday bought no encore. Friday's 25th-year special remains Friday. Planned months ahead.

Monday bought no encore. Friday's 25th-year special remains Friday. These hours keep weight by not repeating.

Anniversary hours do not encore on Mondays. Friday's 25th-year special stays Friday. The dump already has its lead.

A 25th-year hour keeps weight by not repeating. Monday bought no encore. Friday already performed the ritual.

Friday already performed the hour. Monday bought no encore. Friday's 25th-year special stays Friday.

Friday already performed the hour. Monday bought no encore. Friday's 25th-year special stays Friday.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington

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