Fun little side story on Regis Philbin, who, as his obituary noted, was a Notre Dame football fanatic and a loyal reader of the @nytimes print edition ...
When The Times created an early Sunday edition in the late 1990’s, the publishing time was set at 3:45 p.m., with the aim of getting it delivered to the far areas of the region. One understandably unforeseen issue: 3:45 was before most Notre Dame games were finished.
As it happened, that 3:45 paper was the edition Regis received at his home in Connecticut - and he wasn’t at all happy that his version of The Times was bereft of news about his beloved Fighting Irish.
After a couple of weeks of this, he brought it up on “Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee,” complaining that something was wrong with The Times if it couldn’t find a way to get Notre Dame football in the Sunday Paper.
That week, The Times created an evening “postscript,” sending updated versions of the sports pages to the press room at 6 p.m. in order to get Notre Dame game stories into the papers that went to Connecticut.
We called it the Regis edition and we never heard another word of complaint.
