Not Quite Dave Snyder

But close enough for this little task.

Today at lunch Mike expressed some anger that he couldn't find a way to call and talk to a Real Person at Spike TV to complain about their time offset. See, they start their shows 7 or 8 minutes past the top of the hour - but they publish their schedule with everything starting on the hour.

(This is a mere annoyance to the casual viewer but screws up the TiVO something fierce. It starts and stops recording at the wrong time, and you don't get to watch Kenny Blankenship's Top Ten Extreme Eliminations of the Day. Which sucks.)

I expressed skepticism. This skepticism was greeted with reverse skepticism. "Well, you find it." The gauntlet had been thrown.

My old boss (the Dave Snyder of the title) claims that you are never more than three phone calls away from something. With the internet I think that number may be shrinking. Via Google, I found a number for Viacom International, the parent company, called it, and spoke with a Real Person about this horrific problem.

Three Cheers and a Tiger for Me!