Boycott 'em

KKTV, the CBS affiliate in Colorado Springs, has bumped Jeopardy from 6:30PM to 4:00PM to make room for more news. At least one fan won't take it sitting down.

Carl Hansen, who builds race car engines for a living, squawked: "I don't need more news. And I'm willing to bet there are a lot of people like me who would rather have an intellectually stimulating program to unwind with when they get home instead of over-sensationalized hysteria about the weather, etc."

Sorry, Mr. Hansen, but TV has lived on hysteria since the dawn of the tube of boob. Anyway, Carl started a boycott-KKTV page on Facebook. So far 13 other folks have signed on, which won't inspire fear at the station.

To mollify Jeopardy fans, KKTV runs old episodes on one of its digital subchannels at 6:30PM. The CBS station in my home Dallas-Fort Worth area does the same. And this September, those famous "contractual issues" will be fixed and KKTV will start rerunning the new Jeopardy eps at 6:30PM.

Meanwhile the boycott will have no effect, of course. But Facebook exists for this sort of thing, doesn't it?