[TV orNotTV] Re: The Weather Channel takes it upon themselves to name all future winter storms.
On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 5:07:27 PM UTC-4, Wesley McGee wrote: http://www.weather.com/news/winter-storm-names-20121001 From a list of ancient gods and goddesses, storybook characters, people mentioned in their children's school textbooks, subway lines, random words plucked blindly from the dictionary, and various persons hated by employees at TWC, they have devised a list of names to give to winter storms (aka snow hurricanes). Why? I have no clue whatsoever, so I will just go to the standby: for ratings. The NBC station in Philadelphia tried this about 10 years ago. The approach was so laughable that it was dropped after one season, if not earlier. -Tim -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Re: The Weather Channel takes it upon themselves to name all future winter storms.
Knowing TWC's mindset, I would have thought Q was for the omnipotent, arrogant being who caused so much trouble for Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation (including making the Borg aware of the existence of our quadrant). On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 2:07:27 PM UTC-7, Wesley McGee wrote: *Q:* The Broadway Express subway line in New York City. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Plus-sized anchor goes at it with amateur critic
Yahoo/ABChttp://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/overweight-tv-anchor-jennifer-livingston-responds-bully-125420053--abc-news-fashion-and-beauty.html, CBShttp://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505270_162-57525027/wisc-anchor-to-weight-bully-talk-to-me-about-the-stories-i-cover/?tag=cbsnewsHardNewsFDArea;fdmodule: Jennifer Livingston, at a CBS affil in Wisconsin, got an email from Kenneth Krause about her lack of community responsibility stemming from her weight... she can't understand why, given most just ask her about stories she's reported on, and given October is Anti-Bullying Month, took the oppty to characterize him as one, as did her hubby/colleague, which might explain recent slowness at F___book ... Krause, whom my own research identifies as a local lawyer and pro-science skeptic, isn't backing down... -- BOB -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Three NBC shows back-nined
Revolution (3.6 adults, 9.8 million viewers live+same day), Go On (3.2, 8.6mil), and New Normal (2.2, 6mil). TheWraphttp://www.thewrap.com/tv/column-post/revolution-go-new-normal-picked-full-season-58861 -- BOB -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
RE: [TV orNotTV] Three NBC shows back-nined
Hey, so I'm 3-for-3 so far on the DVR selection list this year! (although Revolution is quickly losing its appeal). Doug Fields Tampa, FL From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bob in Jersey Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 3:35 PM To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com Subject: [TV orNotTV] Three NBC shows back-nined Revolution (3.6 adults, 9.8 million viewers live+same day), Go On (3.2, 8.6mil), and New Normal (2.2, 6mil). TheWrap http://www.thewrap.com/tv/column-post/revolution-go-new-normal-picked-full- season-58861 -- BOB -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] Three NBC shows back-nined
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Doug Fields d...@flids.net wrote: Hey, so I’m 3-for-3 so far on the DVR selection list this year! (although Revolution is quickly losing its appeal). Agreed on Revolution needing something... and soon. In my mind, the last thing the series should be about is how to turn the lights back on. The story gets more interesting as soon as power is restored and everyone has to adapt. But my sense is they will drag the plot along all f-ing season. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: The Weather Channel takes it upon themselves to name all future winter storms.
Tom Skilling, master meteorologist at WGN Chicago, is against it--that settles it: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-talk-winter-storm-names-1004-20121003,0,5197955.story On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:41 PM, K.M. Richards richard...@gmail.com wrote: Knowing TWC's mindset, I would have thought Q was for the omnipotent, arrogant being who caused so much trouble for Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation (including making the Borg aware of the existence of our quadrant). On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 2:07:27 PM UTC-7, Wesley McGee wrote: *Q:* The Broadway Express subway line in New York City. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Premiere-month haiku
(Ed. note: A day late and a ratings point short) Hart of Dixie (CW) Climate change, crimson Tide float O.C.'s Summer south (Wait - she's a doctor?!) Raising Hope (Fox) Fox mines MTV For Teen Dad-as-comedy; There's Grandma Lindstrom _ _ |_|_ Brad Beam- Belle WV |_|_ http://www.facebook.com/74bmw -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] Plus-sized anchor goes at it with amateur critic
- Original Message - From: Bob in Jersey Yahoo/ABC, CBS: Jennifer Livingston, at a CBS affil in Wisconsin, got an email from Kenneth Krause about her lack of community responsibility stemming from her weight... And it turns out that her older brother is Ron Livingston (Office Space) -- but no relation to the Livingstons who made two-thirds of My Three Sons. http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/10/03/go-big-brother-ron-livingston-defends-his-bullied-tv-anchor-sister/ _ _ |_|_ Brad Beam- Belle WV |_|_ http://www.facebook.com/74bmw -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: The Weather Channel takes it upon themselves to name all future winter storms.
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Mark Jeffries wrote: Tom Skilling, master meteorologist at WGN Chicago, is against it--that settles it: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-talk-winter-storm-names-1004-20121003,0,5197955.story In the comments of that story, one guy claims he got the idea to name blizzards all the way back in 2000, and that because of the noted legal concept of Firsties he will be having a stern talking to with the Weather Channel. Meanwhile -- likely using the same powerful computer systems that he used to help design his site, The Weather Space -- he has already determined that one storm has met the threshold for naming, and has thus claimed the storm and preemptively dubbed it Adam. Admittedly, his list of names is less stupid/less imaginative than TWCs. Here are his list of names, which he declares are the OFFICIAL nationwide Winter Storm names of 2012-13, as they are certified and notarized by the International Council of Officially Naming Things and Discount Web Design and Hosting: *Adam, Bree, Charles, Dominica, Edwin, Faith, Garrett, Hillary, Ian, Janet, Keon, London, Mackenzie, Naomi, Omar, Patricia, Quinton, Rachel, Seth, Tanner, Ukiah, Valarie, Winston, Xara, Yaro, and Zoey http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-10212-naming-a-winter-storm-the-weather-channel.html * http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-10312-martin-weather-channel-conversation-winter-storms.html http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-10312-winter-storm-adam-tonight-thursday.html The next update to this story will probably be The Weather Channel, LLC buys out The Weather Space for an undisclosed sum ($27). -- Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com http://sterlingnorth.vox.com http://drawing-a-blank.tumblr.com Twitter: @westwit G+: http://plus.google.com/113413697748381364954 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wesleymcgee -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Re: For those who can't get enough Sorkin -- Politics as Theater
Apparently, the Angels' ever-mutating capabilities include (spoilery!) the ability to possess any kind of statues - including cute li'l giggling cherubs. On Oct 2, 2:08 pm, Brad Beam b.b...@suddenlink.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv Super Bowl switched its spelling to Superbowl (as seen on Doctor Who on Saturday). Must have been quite the warm February Monday in Manhattan for everyone to be out picnicking. (And unsurprisingly -- to keep this somewhat spoiler-free -- the largest Weeping Angel of all isn't even truly made of stone.) _ _ |_|_ Brad Beam- Belle WV |_|_ http://www.facebook.com/74bmw -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
