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• How does CBS manage to change the date of the Emmy’s and not know that the VMA’s are scheduled for that day?

  I submit that if more than one person was involved in this decision, then they would have to be considered among the most incompetent people to walk the earth.

  of the 365 days in a year, MTV has 2 noteworthy events/shows. one of them is the VMA’s. they managed to check TV Guide and see that football was on, but nobody knew that VMA’s were on? I understand that the average age of a CBS viewer is 84 years old, but they should have someone on staff under 50 for situations like this.

  if you were involved in this decsion, you are an idiot. not a bad person, just comicly awful at your job.

  Comment by Randall Ricker — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 3:56pm PST  Reply to this post

• Fuck the VMA’s (not frak). CBS should’ve told MTV, move your awards, since you pretty much have abandoned broadcasting music videos of any kind anymore. Emmys = minor, bush league. And that’s even before they nominate the SOSO’s (Same Old Same Olds) on July 16, the usual suspects, instead of abandoning their hard-on for HBO.

  Embarrassing, ATAS.

  Comment by Paul — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 4:11pm PST  Reply to this post

• As long as they have Neil Patrick Harris as a host, the Emmy ratings should be great.

  Comment by M — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 4:14pm PST  Reply to this post

• I know I’ll be watching the Dallas-Giants game and looking at this blog for the Emmy winners.

  Comment by F. — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 4:15pm PST  Reply to this post

• Wow, The emmys are going to get killed, Giants vs Cowboys??!! Good Luck! I’ll be at the game

  Comment by trey — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 5:25pm PST  Reply to this post

• Good call moving the Emmys. Lord knows I’d rather watch the Giants play Dallas and I think there’s a decent chance my boss’ show will be nominated.

  Comment by thebig28 — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 5:43pm PST  Reply to this post

• They should have moved the Emmys to Sunday, August 30. That way there would have been no clash with the Labor Day weekend or any of the Sunday Night Football games on NBC.
  As it stands now, the Emmys are going to be buried by the Giants-Cowboys game, just as last year’s Emmys show on ABC was destroyed by the Cowboys-Packers contest.

  Comment by Jakeem — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 9:57pm PST  Reply to this post

• Randall -

  The best part is they are both owned by the same entity!

  Comment by SMK — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 10:38pm PST  Reply to this post

• Jakeem,

  Why should CBS have given in here? Why not MTVINO (MTV In Name Only)? Move your awards to 9/27 or later and yield the 9/13 spot to an awards that have been around for 35 more years than yours?

  Comment by Paul — Thursday June 18, 2009 @ 6:20am PST  Reply to this post

• The 20th is also Rosh Hashanah

  Comment by Anonymous — Thursday June 18, 2009 @ 11:34am PST  Reply to this post

• Paul:
  Forget MTV. The problem for CBS is either going against NBC’s Bears-Packers game on Sept. 13th, or the Giants-Cowboys game on Sept. 20th. On either date, the Emmys show likely would be clobbered in the ratings.
  As I suggested previously, the wise decision would have been to move up the Emmys to Aug. 30, the weekend before Labor Day. It’s been done before, as recently as 2006.

  Comment by Jakeem — Thursday June 18, 2009 @ 4:11pm PST  Reply to this post