CBS, this is about your programming practices.  There are two aspects of your programming that grind my gizzard.  First, the fact that you allow sporting events to overrun regular programming. I know when my favorite shows come on, like 60 Minutes and Cold Case, but they seldom actually DO come on when you say they will. 

Last night I settled down to watch 60 Minutes.  Sure enough, per usual, I was stuck watching the absolute most boring sport in the history of televised sports….Golf.  I don’t care about Golf.  The very most I would ever want to see pertaining to a golf match might be 5 minutes of highlights.  The rest of it is….boring.

But the same thing happens with all televised sports on CBS…if it runs long, nobody at CBS cares.  Nobody at CBS gives a Carp about the audience and our lives and our schedules.

If I was running the network, that would stop.  Sports can be stuck in the same schedule block as any other program. There should be no preference of sports fans over normal people (you read that right).  If the sport runs long, tough!  Read about it in the paper.  Or purchase ESPN or the 143 other cable/satellite sport channels.  I have every right to watch 60 Minutes at the scheduled time, and certainly my rights are no less important than those of any sweaty, overweight couch potato.  

When it comes to programming, a television program should come on when you say it will, CBS.  I bet the advertisers who spend big bucks on prime time advertising are peeved when their ads get shoved out to late-night.  CBS doesn’t care.  I am certainly peeved that I can’t expect CBS to stick to their own program schedule.  Again, CBS doesn’t care.

I am the voice of the aging Baby Boomer, CBS.  We carry a big $$$tick.  Get a clue.