That similarity will be fodder for cable news chatter as the networks seek to fill hours of analysis during the court's deliberations.
But the persistent focus on the sniper meant that the networks had to scramble to fill hours of time between developments, which were few and far between.
BSkyB, which holds the exclusive live rights to the Ryder Cup, was left to fill hours of airtime with interviews, smeared lenses and archive footage.
Outside the hospital massed ranks of media from across the globe braved the bitter chill to fill hours of airtime with the few facts at their disposal.
In 1966, television viewership was exploding, and stations around the country found that they could fill hours easily and cheaply by broadcasting old movies.
Health Care GORE Healthh care, as we all know, is an extremely complex issue -- one that could fill hours and hours and hours of adult, intelligent debate, preferably in front of a national audience on all major networks, ahem, ahem.
Other firms, such as TV-Africa, also provide content (plans for a pan-African soap opera are under way) to fill hours of prime-time for dozens of African terrestrial broadcasters, in exchange for the right to sell adverts.
Pictures of beautiful people wearing beautiful clothes cover the sides of buses, fill hours of prime-time television and dominate page after page of advertising in magazines, newspapers and, increasingly, on the Internet.
Though its far-flung reports on obsessed winemakers have their merit for the curious oenophile, the show sags in trying to fill hour-long episodes with more than exotic countrysides and rumpled casual banter.
The station, WMAR-TV, had to fill hours upon hours with original programming.
