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Been around the epilepsy block a few times
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Hello everyone, I found out about something just last night that I'd like to bring to everyone's attention. On Sunday, October 25, 2009 the CBS 60 Minutes is supposedly going to air a segment on CURE and epilepsy. For those of you who don't know about CURE, it is the nonprofit organization, Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy, and you can find out more about this organization through their website, at cureepilepsy.org
This will be the very first time I have ever heard of, or even seen, in-depth information about epilepsy being aired on nationwide television. Which in my opinion and how I've seen things, means that the Epilepsy Foundation of America did not have anything to do with this upcoming presentation through the media.
Now since this presentation is going to be shown on the CBS show 60 Minutes, I would like to give everyone a "heads up" on how I've seen 60 Minutes operate. 60 Minutes is usually scheduled to come on the air on the hour, such as 7 PM Eastern Time / 6 PM Central Time. However, if there just so happens to be some kind of sports game (football, golf, etc.) that has been scheduled to air at any point before the 60 Minutes, if the sports game last longer than expected, like if a game ends up going into overtime, what's being aired on TV is going to be lasting longer than expected. For example a game was expected to end at 4 PM, but winds up going into overtime and ends at 4:15 PM; what will follow is going to be the 30 minutes CBS Evening News, followed by 30 minutes of local news. If something like this does happen, 60 Minutes is still going to show their 1 hour-long presentation, but it will be starting at 7:15 PM Eastern Time / 6:15 PM Central Time. So for those of you who would like to record that 60 Minutes show on Sunday, October 25th, you might want to set your recorder for an extended amount of time, say maybe 30 minutes or 1 hour extra, in hopes of making sure that you record the entire 60 Minutes show.
This will be the very first time I have ever heard of, or even seen, in-depth information about epilepsy being aired on nationwide television. Which in my opinion and how I've seen things, means that the Epilepsy Foundation of America did not have anything to do with this upcoming presentation through the media.
Now since this presentation is going to be shown on the CBS show 60 Minutes, I would like to give everyone a "heads up" on how I've seen 60 Minutes operate. 60 Minutes is usually scheduled to come on the air on the hour, such as 7 PM Eastern Time / 6 PM Central Time. However, if there just so happens to be some kind of sports game (football, golf, etc.) that has been scheduled to air at any point before the 60 Minutes, if the sports game last longer than expected, like if a game ends up going into overtime, what's being aired on TV is going to be lasting longer than expected. For example a game was expected to end at 4 PM, but winds up going into overtime and ends at 4:15 PM; what will follow is going to be the 30 minutes CBS Evening News, followed by 30 minutes of local news. If something like this does happen, 60 Minutes is still going to show their 1 hour-long presentation, but it will be starting at 7:15 PM Eastern Time / 6:15 PM Central Time. So for those of you who would like to record that 60 Minutes show on Sunday, October 25th, you might want to set your recorder for an extended amount of time, say maybe 30 minutes or 1 hour extra, in hopes of making sure that you record the entire 60 Minutes show.