wouldbestar Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 AMC has been running *Gone with the Wind* all day and TCM has it scheduled for tonight as well. Is this the first time that the same movie has aired on both stations at the same time? I doubt I'll be watching as I'm preparing for tomorrow but I can't imagine anybody preferring AMC with all the commercials to us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clore Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 I believe that on Memorial Day, THE GREEN BERETS aired on both TCM and AMC and that there was some overlap. The time slot on AMC was an hour longer though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFaceSmallRazor Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Anybody else remember the days when AMC was just like TCM (playing movies 24/7 without commercials)? Remember their hosts? Bob Dorian (I think that was his name), George Clooney's father, & that really good looking guy that now does commercials . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clore Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 I remember when AMC was only on the air for 12 hours a day. They came on about 3pm and they would show a double-feature, repeat it and then repeat it once more before signing off. That other AMC host was John Burke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFaceSmallRazor Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Really, Clore? They didn't show movies 24/7? What would you get if you turned on AMC while they were off the air? I don't remember that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clore Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 I believe that it was a home shopping channel. Either that or paid religious programming. It may have varied depending on the cable company. It took a few years for them to go 24/7, maybe 1989 or 1990 if I recall correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFaceSmallRazor Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Interesting, Clore. Didn't know that. But they did eventually become a cable channel showing classic movies 24/7, right? That's the AMC I remember. Anybody know whatever happened to Bob Dorian? He was a good host (doing pretty much the same thing RO is doing now). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clore Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 AMC grew fairly quickly, maybe because of deals such as the one that I got. When cable came to NYC in the mid-80s, my area was served by Time Warner and AMC was offered to me free if I signed on for two premium channels. It took a couple of years for AMC to be moved into the basic cable tier, maybe it coincided with their going 24/7 in 1990 (I looked it up). Again, that was the situation in NYC, it will vary depending on the cable system and location. I know people on Long Island with Cablevision who didn't get TCM until 2006. My Time Warner system didn't add TCM until 1999, and that's a sister company. I missed the first five years of TCM and sent quite a few letters and emails to Time Warner begging for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Everyone who watches this film should be reminded that it was made in the days before Cinemascope, yet it contains many wide-screen scenes, with no heads being cut off. Since it is in the universal 4:3 format, it ALSO contains many vertical scenes, and a few diagonal scenes. Watch the ladies when Aunt Pittypat faints. That is a diagonal scene, which can NOT be made with a Cinemascope or Panavision lens or camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMeingast Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 > {quote:title=wouldbestar wrote:}{quote}AMC has been running *Gone with the Wind* all day and TCM has it scheduled for tonight as well. Is this the first time that the same movie has aired on both stations at the same time? I doubt I'll be watching as I'm preparing for tomorrow but I can't imagine anybody preferring AMC with all the commercials to us. Hey, I mentioned all of this in another thread called "Hate to Mention This, But"... What I "hated to mention" was AMC and what they're airing... AMC aired "To Kill a Mockingbird" too... In my other thread I wondered what was up? Wondered if "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "GWTW" were American Thanksgiving movies... AMC having a "Thanksgiving With Your Godfather" festival all day Thursday airing "Godfather," Godfather, Part 2," and then the "Godfather" again... Wondering if AMC thinks people will get confused and view the films on their channel by accident?? Even with commercials (some people like commercials for pee breaks, letting the dog out, chit-chat, grab a pop or snack, etc... Especially if they are low-tech and don't have recording equipment to tape programs or the fancy functions some cable companies have for viewers to use via the remote...)... Who knows??? If you know, let me know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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