As for our time zone, it's our way of inconveniencing all those East-Coast-based MSM people by keeping them up till late at night.
I've always been curious about life in the Pacific time zone, although not curious enough to check it out; while I've been thousands of miles eastward, the furthest west I've ever been was Anaconda, Montana, which was about as close to California and Judy grasswire that I ever cared to get.
Television never dominated this life as it dominated others' lives, but anyway:
The
CBS Nightly News with the liars Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather was broadcast in the eastern time zone at 6:30 p.m., and carried live in the central time zone at 5:30 p.m.
<<<always thought 5:30 was the most excellent time for the world news, just before supper, as many are still eating supper at 6:30 p.m.
And then the suppertime regional news was always at 6:00 p.m., immediately following the world news; again, excellent timing.
"Prime time" started at 7:00 p.m. central time, and was over at 10:00 p.m.
The final evening regional news was always at 10:00 p.m., sending everyone to bed by the reasonable hour of 10:30.
It always seemed to me that despite the effeteness and arrogance and elitism and dominance of the eastern time zone, the central time zone got things at the best hours.
I guess however those in the Pacific time zone had to see television on a delayed, not live, basis.
But that was okay, because no one was being
forced to live in the Pacific time zone, and if one chose to live there, well, one had to accept the disadvantages of it.