Program changes due to daylight saving time

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For the first time ever, the United States is changing to Daylight Saving Time (DST) several weeks before the rest of the world. The U.S. springs forward an hour on March 11, 2007. However, Europe doesn't switch until March 25.

Sports fans should take special note that during this two week period, all live shows on radio and television will air an hour earlier than usual. Pre-recorded programs on the television channels will be time-shifted and appear at their regular times. The exception is the Pacific channel. Programs will air an hour earlier than usual because that region does not have Daylight Savings Time.

Power Network radio's live shows such as Rush Limbaugh and Ed Schultz will appear an hour earlier during the two-week period. Listeners will not hear some of their pre-recorded mid-day and late afternoon shows. These will be replaced by live programming. A complete schedule for Power Network 11-25 March is available on the AFNE web site, www.afneurope.net.

Please continue to use the schedules at http://www.myafn.net/ to find your favorite television show.

Below you'll find a more detailed description of what will happen on AFN television until March 25.

Europe
AFN/prime Atlantic
Sunday, March 11:
Starting at 1100 CET, and continuing until Europe changes to DST, live sports will be seen one hour earlier than normal. The Broadcast Center will shift all taped programs so our audience in the Atlantic region will see these programs at their normal time.
At 1500 CET Everybody Loves Raymond will be preempted, with the tape-delayed re-airing of 1 vs 100 airing one hour earlier than normal, followed by the re-airing of Survivor. Live sports that follow Survivor air one hour earlier than normal.

- NOTE: During the week of March 12-18 there is no Survivor as the network is preempting the series for coverage of March Madness. Survivor returns the following week at its normal time.

Saturday, March 17 and 24:
At 1300 CET the following block of programs will be seen one hour earlier than normal: New Adventures of Old Christine, The George Lopez Show, CSI NY , Law & Order SVU, and Rock Star. Live sports follows that block and will also be seen one hour earlier than normal. The re-airing of Nanny 911 is moved to after the live sports event on the 17th and is preempted on the 24th.

Sunday, March 25:
At 0300 CET the European region springs to DST and all programs should return to their normal air times.

AFN/prime Pacific
Sunday, March 25:
When the European region springs to DST at 0300 CET programming will be seen one hour later. This will last until the first Sunday in November when the United States returns to Standard Time.

AFN/prime Freedom
Sunday, March 25:
In the regions changing to DST programming on AFN Freedom will be seen one hour later than normal until Iraq changes to DST one week later.

Sunday, April 1:
When Iraq springs forward all regions that observe DST will resume seeing programs at their normal time. When Iraq springs forward all regions that observe DST will resume seeing programs at their normal time.

AFN/spectrum, AFN/movie, AFN/family
Sunday, March 25:
At 0200 CET, one hour will be skipped from each of these three services so all other programs will be seen at their normal time.

AFN/spectrum will skip the re-airing of Brothers and Sisters
AFN/movie will skip Sexiest Movie Stars
AFN/family will skip Americas Funniest Home Videos
AFN/sports, AFN|news
Sunday, March 11:
All programming will be seen one hour earlier until your area switches to DST. Regions that do not observe DST will continue seeing the programs one hour earlier than normal until November when the United States switches back to Standard Time.

AFN/xtra
Sunday, March 11:
Taped programming in each of the Atlantic and Pacific primetime viewing regions will remain unchanged. However, live sports move when the Broadcast Center goes to DST so viewers not observing Daylight Saving Time will see live sports one hour earlier than normal. Saturday Night Live will move from its normal spot just before live sports to the end of the live sports block until the Atlantic region springs forward to DST on March 25.

Sunday, March 25:
At 0200 CET programming targeted for the Pacific viewing regions will be seen one hour later than normal.