Hope For Haiti Program – Did it really need to be on 26 TV channels at the same time?
January 23rd, 2010. Published under Fraud. No Comments.
Last night the wife and I settled into our normal Friday evening routine of watching television. Unfortunately Hope for Haiti was on 26 channels and the same time. While I do admire the fact that the television networks were trying to reach out to viewers in an effort to help with the Haiti disaster, I can’t help but think that there was some sort of monetary gain for the networks as the show ran on (at last count) 26 different channels at the same time. Why else would so many networks run the same exact show? It makes me wonder now much of a “cut” each TV network got from the donations. The show was even on Comedy Central which almost never runs anything of that nature. I am afraid that in running the same program on many channels had more of a backlash effect than a positive effect for the Hope for Haiti. My wife and I after watching the same thing on