This may be a stupid question but...?

Question

If a TV show like Survivor or How I Met Your Mother, or whatever, airs at 8pm eastern time, does it air at 8pm pacific time? Or would it air at the same time in all US timezones (thus being 8pm eastern, 5pm pacific...)?

This has always bugged me, but I never knew the answer.

Answer 1

They usually delay the shows so that they air at 8:00 in their own time zone.  The only exception is central time - in Chicago they see things an hour earlier for some reason so they're seeing it at 8 eastern time.

Answer 2

Easy, just add 2 hours for East Time and 1 for Central Time.

Answer 3

Eastern time is an hour later than pacific time so 8p.m. eastern is 7p.m. pacific

Answer 4

Yes.  There is an east coast feed and a west cost feed.

People in the central time zone get everything an hour earlier (like shows on the east coast show at 8, they see it at 7).