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RUSH: Greg in Chicago, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega Green Bay Packer dittos from the blue state of Illinois, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You mentioned the writers strike earlier, and the only thing that matters in my heart about the writers strike is: Will it affect the next season of \u201924\u2019? In the same vein: What is the status of 1\/2 Hour News Hour? Will it come back?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think the option on the 1\/2 Hour News Hour has expired. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t think it will come back. \u201924\u2019 has been suspended indefinitely. They have eight episodes in the can. They got a late start this year. Normally, by this time they\u2019ve got close to ten episodes, not fully post-produced, but they\u2019ve got them filmed. They haven\u2019t added the music, but now they\u2019re at eight, and \u201924\u2019 is a series that runs consecutive weeks.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There are never any repeats. There are never any dark weeks. So they can\u2019t start on their debut date. I think their date was January 13th this year, their debut date. They can\u2019t start on January 13th because they\u2019re not going to have enough episodes to go. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Normally, they start off with four episodes in two nights. That would eat up half the inventory now. So they\u2019re not going to announce a schedule for \u201924,\u2019 season seven, until the writers strike is over. By the way, Joel Surnow, who is the creator, head honcho of the program, thinks that this strike is going to go on a long, long time. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He says one of the reasons is there\u2019s just not a whole lot of sympathy for the writers, because a lot of them are doing very well. It\u2019s hard to have sympathy for somebody showing up at a picket line driving a Mercedes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He thinks that the producers are going to succeed in breaking the union here, and he\u2019s been saying this publicly. They were distressed that the strike was happening. They\u2019d finally gotten themselves on a roll after having a false couple starts with ideas, and then the strike happens, and so they\u2019re shut down. Every show is shut down. Some shows are going to be able to come back because they\u2019re not serialized. You don\u2019t have to see the previous week to understand the current week or any following weeks. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But until strike\u2019s over and they start production again, nobody knows when the next season of \u201924\u2019 will air.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (big sigh) Oh, well. I\u2019ll just look forward to the season.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, you feel kind of like I feel when football season is over.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, that\u2019s how I feel about it, too, especially my boys are doing great this year. So —<\/p>\n

RUSH: How is it that you\u2019re a Packer fan living in Chicago?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because I desp– Well, I can\u2019t say… I shouldn\u2019t say ‘despise\u2019 Bear fans, but it\u2019s a little long story, Rush, but I get to stick it to Bear fans by being a Packer fan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s wrong with Bear fans? Chicago is a great sports town. The fans show up and support losers all the time.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s why!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look at the Cubs! They\u2019re a great sports town.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s exactly why! They keep supporting losing efforts year after year after year after year, and it\u2019s like, ‘You know what? Don\u2019t you guys understand? As long as you support it, you\u2019ll never have a winner! Supply and demand. Free market. Capitalism. As long as you\u2019re going to fill the seats, who cares what they put out there?\u2019 (exasperated sigh) That\u2019s why I\u2019m a Packer fan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s amazing. You dislike a team because of the fans. The fans don\u2019t play the game.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, well.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Frank Deford of Sports Illustrated — a long, long time ago, back when NBC televised AFC games during the day on Sunday (I\u2019m going back to the eighties, Frank Deford — was a commentator on the Sunday NFL pregame show for NBC. I\u2019ve never forgotten this. He was talking about this concept of ‘good sports town,\u2019 and he said, ‘Let\u2019s look at Chicago.\u2019 He says, ‘It\u2019s a great sports town. What makes it great? The fans go out and they support losers all the time! If your town had a laundry that wrecked your clothes every time you took \u2019em in, and you continue to wear the clothes, would we say, ‘Your town is a great laundry town\u2019?\u2019 (laughing) I just thought that was great analogy. Anyway, I appreciate the call out there, Greg. Packers are surprising a lot of people this year, but I think, Greg — are you still there, by the way, bud?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I am.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think the road to the Super Bowl in the NFC is going to go through Dallas.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. I\u2019m looking forward to November 29th: Green Bay goes to Dallas, and that should be a humdinger — at least I hope it will be.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Speaking of which, I gotta see something real quick. That\u2019s right, Thursday. All right, that game —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm?<\/p>\n

RUSH: — and December the 29th, the Patriots at the New York Giants. Those two games, keep a sharp eye here, folks, because those two games are on the NFL Network. They\u2019re not on Fox, CBS, or NBC. They\u2019re on the NFL Network, and the NFL Network is only in 35 million cable homes because the league is having an argument with cable companies over where to put the NFL Network in the tier. The NFL wants it basic. The cable companies want to charge for it, and there is no movement. In the Era of Limbaugh, there is no movement between the cable companies and the NFL. (We might as well blame me for this.) The NFL and the cable companies cannot come to an agreement on the NFL Network, so if you\u2019ve got satellite, you got it, if you have DirecTV. We\u2019re talking cable companies. Cable is wired, I think, in 125 million homes, and only 35 million of them have the NFL Network. Now, the NFL thought they were pulling a smart move here by taking games away — starting on Thanksgiving night through the end of the season on Thursday and Saturday — from the network partners and putting them on their own network, they thought that would force cable companies to accede to their financial demands and get the network up, but the cable companies say, ‘Look, you guys are nothing but NFL Films reruns except for these football games that you have at the last month of the season, and the draft, and this sort of stuff, and it\u2019s not worth what you want us to charge our subscribers for it,\u2019 and nobody\u2019s budging on this. So you\u2019ve got the Green Bay Packers at the Dallas Cowboys on a Thursday night. Something\u2019s got to give here. That\u2019s a game that every football fan in this country is going to want to see, and then if the Patriots are undefeated going into the Giants for the last game of the season, which is only on the NFL Network… Keep a sharp eye on this, folks. This is going to be fun to watch, to see how this breaks and, if it does, who gives a little bit. Now, the theory is here in the Era of Limbaugh: Nobody will give, and the argument will go on, and on, and on for years, and years, and years unresolved. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen. The NFL thing and the cable networks, it\u2019s Time Warner and Comcast that they\u2019re having the argument — I know Comcast is one of them. I\u2019m not sure of the other. I don\u2019t think those games are even offered on local television in the markets of the two teams playing. Yeah, so people in Green Bay and Dallas, if they don\u2019t have it on cable, if the cable company doesn\u2019t carry it, then they\u2019re SOL, as we say in sports. So I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen. Somebody\u2019s going to have to — it\u2019s too big an opportunity. I would guess, depends on who the fans blame. If the fans are sufficiently informed to know that the NFL is withholding the game, not the cable company, then the NFL\u2019s going to get pressure. If the fans think the cable companies are the villains, then they\u2019ll have to cave. Something will work out, in the Era of Limbaugh, what ultimately is the best thing, genuinely, generally — there are exceptions — happens. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s another factor that\u2019s going on here in the NFL versus the cable companies on the NFL Network, and that\u2019s NFL Sunday Ticket, which is only offered on satellite, and that doesn\u2019t please the cable guides at all. I think people are going to end up blaming cable companies on this more than anybody else, you watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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