Wanna hear a funny story? Of course that assumes whether your idea of "funny" is made up of other people getting the shaft or not. If so, then this will most definitely qualify.People who had Season Passes their TiVos for the CBS News with Bob Schieffer missed out on Katie Couric's debut in the anchor's chair Tuesday night. That's because the name changed to CBS News with Katie Couric. The change rendered all those subscriptions about as valuable as the 30-second commercials that got skipped through by people who actually managed to record it, meaning not valuable at all. The "Couric & Co." blog has a note on the problem, along with some wonderfully funny advice on how to avoid this problem in the future.
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9-07-2006 @ 4:51PM
wardude said...
The CBS article mentions a "one-year subscription" of course there is no such thng, they mean a "season pass" which any Tivo owner knows that the SP is based on the name of the show.
The info is provided by a 3rd party guide company and they make mistakes also, so people should check their "to do" list and make sure they will get what they expect.
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9-07-2006 @ 5:16PM
David said...
This happens every season of The Amazing Race for me. Thanks for the reminder! :D
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9-08-2006 @ 3:15PM
Alodar said...
The same thing happened this week with the NBC Nightly News. They added "with Brian Williams" to the title, and my season pass was rendered useless.
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