As stated in my previous post, Australia gets a pretty raw deal in terms of content and technology. Yes, I understand there are higher lifestyle priorities such as food & water (many countries struggle to obtain these bare necessities), but hear me out.

Conan O’Brien’s final episode on The Tonight Show was broadcast less than 10 hours ago in the United States. The fact that it was to be his final show has been known for about a week. Thus, many people were prepared for it.

Here, in Australia, American late night talk shows are only broadcast on pay-TV. The Late Show with David Letterman is the only show that’s broadcast on a free-to-air station. These shows are broadcast about 10 hours after they’re shown in the USA. That’s fine, I guess; it would be nice if they were shown at the same time (during the day) — it is pay-TV after all.

The thing is, Australia is essentially a day ahead of the USA. So, an episode shown on Thursday night in the USA is shown on Friday night in Australia. If we stuck to this method, then Conan’s final show would be shown on Saturday night (tonight). That usually isn’t the case though. We see Friday episodes on Mondays. You’d think on this special occasion — especially after all the hype in the news about it — they’d just broadcast the show on Saturday night. For those used to the Friday-shown-on-Monday schedule, they could just broadcast it again on Monday.

Do you know what’s going to happen now? I’ll just find the episode on a video sharing website, and not need to wait until Monday.

Whether or not the programming is set by The Comedy Channel, Foxtel, or the station in the United States (NBC), they lose.

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