My TiVo schedule has been updated to reflect the odd running times of Deal or No Deal tomorrow night. Thanks to my satellite, I get both the East Coast and West Coast feeds. The East Coast feed of the show starts at 5:25 PM (Pacific Time) and runs one hour and 35 minutes. The West Coast feed starts at 8:00 PM and runs for two hours. Just to compare, I've set up to record both.
This may seem like a trivial matter to some of you but I really think the future of television will have a lot to do with the accurate delivery of programming to our video recorders or home media centers, including the ability to adjust for breaking news, live shows that run long, etc. With Internet connectivity, this should be quite possible and the folks who deliver our shows to us are going to have to have a quick response time to changes. Nice to see us moving in that direction.