"The show caught flak two years ago after producers superimposed images of Boston landmarks in front of the fireworks on the national broadcast."
Related: You Can Not Trust Your TV
Not after all the staged and scripted hoaxes and crisis drills gone live.
Look, if they will lie about the Fourth of July they will lie about anything.
"July 4 fireworks gala loses its national pop; CBS pulls plug, as ratings fade. One local organizer says: Blame New York" by Martine Powers and Eric Moskowitz | Globe Staff, June 16, 2013
For the first time in more than 20 years, the July 4 Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular will not be televised nationally after the CBS Television Network declined to renew a contract with the show’s producers.
Instead, the performance will only appear locally on WBZ-TV, pushed out of the national market, a local organizer says, by a competing fireworks show in New York City. It marks a significant downsizing in the profile of the glitzy event — one that could make it harder to draw top stars as headliners — and comes just two months after the Marathon bombing drew the nation’s eyes to Boston.
“The rest of the country will not be able to see Boston in its finest,” said David Mugar, the show’s executive producer. “And that’s too bad — that’s a loss for the city and for our region.”
Each year, the Boston Pops concert and fireworks show brings more than a half-million people to the Charles River Esplanade, free of charge, and the broadcast was greatly valued as a way to market Boston’s appeal to the nation. Mugar said Saturday that CBS previously had signed two consecutive five-year contracts with the show, but declined to renew the contract for a third time after last year’s performance.
Ratings have flagged in recent years, he said. The broadcast company believes it will make more money showing reruns of its regular programming, he said....
CBS viewers outside the Boston area will see a rerun of the crime drama “Person of Interest.”
Of which I have no interest, although the premise of the show is a total surveillance system that preemptively stops crime.
And you thought it was just a TV show!
WBZ-TV, the local CBS outlet, did not respond to a request for comment....
The show caught flak two years ago after producers superimposed images of Boston landmarks in front of the fireworks on the national broadcast. But the end of the national broadcast may provide some unexpected positive side-effects for the show, Mugar said. Because the show is not beholden to the CBS schedule, he said, it will start an hour earlier, which means that families will not need to stay up so late, and there will be more time for people to get home on the MBTA before it closes....
Yeah, polish up the turd and put some lipstick and perfume on it!
Mugar has his own theory on why the show found itself on CBS Television Network’s chopping block....
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