WBAL-DT NBC Baltimroe with extra Leno

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While watching Jay Leno last night on WBAL-DT I noticed the title card
(where it says "Tonight Show" in front of a background pic) was there
awhile. They were playing the audience music and I thought "I haven't seen
this since Canada". During the next commercial break I switched from 11-1
to 11-2 and found the following

11-1 Tonight Show card & background music
11-2 Local Baltimore commercials

I hope they decide to stay with this. Not just because of the extra TS
material but because the local spots on HD are stretched totally to 16:9
while 11-1 usually stretches 4:3 SD to 14:9.

Just wondered if anyone caught it or will tonight. :-)

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In news:ns0Dd.70019$uM5.33156@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net,
Norm <rodeofan1@worldnet.att.net> typed:
> I worked at an NBC affiliate. What you are watching is the NBC
> network feed that your local station recieves. If the NBC net is
> always on that channel there could be lots of interesting feeds to
> watch.
> Norm

Yea, pity they went back to local commercials on Wednesday night. They also
glitched out and had dead air till someone noticed and switched back to
programming. The local spots during Leno (and HD programming) are stretched
from 4:3 to 16:9 unlike the normal 4:3 to 14:9 stretch during SD.