Our station showed an Hour of Friends followed by She Spies and Unexplained Mysteries and then another Friends.

An episode of Oprah and some movie with Gene Hackman I think.

Here in Houston, they went ahead and decided to show Saving Private Ryan.

They showed Saving Private Ryan here, too, in San Diego.

Here in New York City, where the four letter word was invented, they showed Saving Private Ryan, just as they should have.

Father of the Bride with Steve Martin :grr:

Saving Private Ryan, uncut.

Our ABC affiliate here in L.A. played it.

Originally posted by The Modfather
Saving Private Ryan, uncut.

If it was truly uncut, it would've been in the widescreen format. ;)

It's a good start, but 99% of the time, most movies on American broadcast TV are not uncut. And that's just plain out-right dumb. :(

Both of my ABC Affiliates ( one in Washington DC and one in Harrisburg PA) showed it.

Originally posted by Angela Micelli
Father of the Bride with Steve Martin :grr: I LOVE THAT MOVIE!!!!!!! One of my faves ever!!!!:D

They showed it here.

can someone please explain to me why ABC wouldn't show it this year, but had no problems airing SPR in 2001? Hell, HBO showed the movie without commercial interruptions many times around 1999-2000.

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
can someone please explain to me why ABC wouldn't show it this year, but had no problems airing SPR in 2001? Hell, HBO showed the movie without commercial interruptions many times around 1999-2000.
You can't compare HBO with ABC since people pay for HBO and anything goes. From articles that I've read -- since the Janet Jackson fiasco, networks are running scared to the point of being overly cautious.

Originally posted by Janice
You can't compare HBO with ABC since people pay for HBO and anything goes. From articles that I've read -- since the Janet Jackson fiasco, networks are running scared to the point of being overly cautious.

well, I know HBO is a different ballpark. But it's insane that ABC aired the movie in November 2001 (maybe in 2002 also) and it was A-OK, but then they aired it now and people run scared. I wasn't sure if it was due to politics over being wartime or something. But if anything (no politics), SPR is a movie people should see because it is a very realistic film about war.

the FCC is trigger happy, a bunch of fox stations got fined over some reality show, and the individual stations get in trouble, not the central network.

WSB-TV Atlanta aired a show hosted by one of the anchors looking at a celebrity and then they aired some stupid infomerical.

KXLY in Spokane aired... Saving Private Ryan. :)

Whimpy WSB TV here in Atlanta aired some stupid special about cotton or Bell South....I had no idea what it was but annoyed to find out that Saving Private Ryan UNCUT wasn't being shown.