Wheel of Fortune - 8/4/08

Local CW affiliate made a similiar if not more major goof a couple months ago.

I might have the shows swapped, but it happened something like this:

Smallville starts airing, after a local break about 20 minutes in Supernatural picks up and starts airing from the 20 minute mark.
Another 20-30 minutes elapse, local break, then Smallville picks up and ends relatively on time.

This happened on the SD channel, the only one they can air off server like that.

I watch the HD channel which had the proper programs in their entirety at the proper time,
however,
they strip the closed captions from the SD program chain and insert into the HD program chain, so about 20 minutes into Smallville, I start seeing CC's for Supernatural.
(I watch very late at night, volume down to not wake the rest of the house, CC's on for dialogue confirmation)

Digital age, file names/numbers very close to each other, fat fingered Master Control Operators.

I think someone at my station aired the last half hour of a soap opera first, first half hour second.
Hard to tell you made a mistake till you see credits start rolling in the middle of the hour.


phox