Could be a commercial.

Unknown2U

CNN = family guy?

DesiBoi

Are saying Obama is like Peter Griffin? How dare you, sir. Quagmire maybe; giggity giggity. But Peter, no.

D.E.P.C.

probably comedy central- to monitor what the Daily Show and Colbert come up with- they were running small interruptions through the regular shows.

mconheady

Really? Who cares?

schmere

Criminy, anything but politics! I can't blame them a bit.

pdok

hahah that rocks, someone in the newsroom must be bored.

baldingnerd

What about Fox? Are they watching SouthPark?

takashimiike yes really

@libre4vida: It's OK. Nobody will know.

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Can't believe I know this, but it's the episode when Brian catches Stewie reading books off the Oprah Book List...

libre4vida

by the way it IS the episode where peter and lois run against eachother for the school board.

Overheal

CNN has always had a plethora of TV stations around the situation room. You would know this if you were a news freak like me.

unkpku has a really long fucking screenname because i saw some other people do it

so i wasnt the only one that noticed this. whew.

Overheal

Because it was on TBS or cartoon network which are all owned by the same company.

daweinst

it's pretty likely they were watching it...this was posted at 11:15 and it comes on at 11 on cartoon network on the east coast

RedBeard

@ivealwaysgotmail10: Yes, we all know :P

Jon B.

@mconheady: i dont think they run family guy on comedy central

Glavan27

OBAMA WINS!

ivealwaysgotmail10

LOL actually, "most people" will be watching Fox News

Craysh

My guess is they had those tuned to multiple Turner stations. Family guy comes on at 11:00 on Adult Swim.

smartboydan hates college

i m watching nbc, i cant stand CNN, wolf blitzer sucks ass as a journalist

otis123

It is each of their transponders. They had all the turner networks on if you watch their shots they had more.

CCNA1AB

To be honest, we were watching Family Guy.

It was either watch something interesting or watch McCain get straight dominated in the worst election I have witnessed.

ttech10

@smartboydan hates college: you got it.

Paradise

@CCNA1AB: exactly.

Paradise

cartoon network (adult swim) is owned by ted turner, cnn is owned by ted turner. end of story.

i'm sure if you looked closely you'd probably see a commercial for FrankTV on TBS.

Paradise

Lucky there was Family Guy

Lucky there's a show who
doesn't kinda blow who

A E I O U (and sometimes Y)

He's a Fam-ly Guuuuuuuuy!

America!

strider_mt2k

@Unknown2U: That's the most likely situation. After all, the major networks watch each other to make sure they're not missing something they should be reporting on, as well. This is probably just a commercial playing on Fox.

While I was watching the DirecTV Election Mix channel (in HD, natch), I noticed a number of Family Guy commercials playing on Fox. They, along with the other networks, also had commercials for upcoming movies. It was very strange to see how close together those ads were played across the networks.

racermd

My 7 year old son noticed this before I did. "Dad, there's Family Guy up on that monitor!".

stopsucking

HAHAHA

I noticed this too, even posted a 12seconds about it. Between this and the Spongebob thing a while back, I think CNN is just crazy.

Pudge

@ttech10: Yeah, despite your political stance during the last 2 elections at least they were entertaining. This one was over at 10pm central or 7pm if you actually had a brain. So I went to the driving range and the gym, time well spent.

fumar

The real question is "Why isn't it?"

2001: A Space Odyssey

@otis123: But they had HOLOGRAMS!!!

fumar

@D.E.P.C.: Obama is Cleveland. Obviously.

Substance_D

The same reason TVs in the back of regular news broadcasts show other channels. The same reason they used to have clocks that show the time of day in other parts of the world.

It's something that happens. It's not a weird thing, it's not catching CNN in the act. It's normal.

justhesh

Looks like Toobs is at it again...

PobreGizmo

I never watch CNN. FoxNews is the only balanced network.

MadMacs

Family Guy airs on TBS, a TimeWarner/Turner Station, which in turn owns CNN. Though its weird during the election, it's not unusual for sister stations to put their programing on in the background and cross promote each other.

DonataGeseavie

There was an election?

Why the hell aren't I notified about these things??

Diskoboy