[TV orNotTV] Billy Graham Coverage

[stannc]

I’m in Charlotte which, among other things, is Bill Graham central. 
The three major networks dumped out of their network morning shows in favor of 
local coverage. 
It was odd that WCNC showed local coverage instead of KLG with Meagan Kelley on 
the Today 9:00 hour doing a tribute to Billy Graham. WBTV used their 9:00an 
local lifestyle hour to discuss him. It looked like WSOC went to Kelly and Ryan 
at 9:00. 
After that I had to work :) 

-Stan

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Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC’s Winter Olympics

[Tom Wolper]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 5:11 PM, Chris Neuman  wrote:

> Despite the fact that the US doesn’t dominate the Winter games quite the
> way they do the summer games, I commented a few days ago to my wife how odd
> it was to not see the US higher up in the medal standings. My theory is
> that it’s a regression to the mean.
>
> I present, without opinion of any kind, a story that appeared in today’s
> Globe and Mail about the US performance in PyeongCheng to date. The author
> links the Elizabeth Swaney debacle and DJT to the American performance and
> crowd presence.
>
> https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/
> sports/olympics/the-americans-and-their-terrible-horrible-
> no-good-very-bad-games/article38026417/
>
> (The author is something of a provocateur, a fact you’ll likely pick up on
> in the first para. I still haven’t forgiven him for his hit piece on my
> hometown of Edmonton two years ago, when he was here to cover the Women’s
> World Cup. Such a Toronto-centric A-hole.)
>

The answer to why American athletes aren't doing well has to be found in
the time before the Olympics, during World Championships and other
international events. Are the Americans dominant there? I don't follow any
of these sports and I will defer to anybody here who does. I thought the
Winter Olympics added snowboarding and other X-Games style events to give
the US more medals and it may be that they have been passed by other
countries. as we don't pay attention to these sports outside the Olympics
we see NBC try to rev up interest in the games by talking about and to
local athletes without giving a sense of if they are objectively expected
to win medals at their sports. With our sense of national entitlement
deflated, US viewers may choose to stop watching as American athletes
continually fall short.

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[TV orNotTV] Re: Jeopardy! on-line tests

['Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV]

Thought I'd put this here... Alex will be the keynote speaker at the 
Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce's annual dinner 
 (link) Oct 1st at Hershey Lodge, and if 
they both show up, will moderate a debate between incumbent Governor Tom 
Wolf and his Republican opponent... B

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Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC’s Winter Olympics

[Chris Neuman]

Despite the fact that the US doesn’t dominate the Winter games quite the
way they do the summer games, I commented a few days ago to my wife how odd
it was to not see the US higher up in the medal standings. My theory is
that it’s a regression to the mean.

I present, without opinion of any kind, a story that appeared in today’s
Globe and Mail about the US performance in PyeongCheng to date. The author
links the Elizabeth Swaney debacle and DJT to the American performance and
crowd presence.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/sports/olympics/the-americans-and-their-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-games/article38026417/

(The author is something of a provocateur, a fact you’ll likely pick up on
in the first para. I still haven’t forgiven him for his hit piece on my
hometown of Edmonton two years ago, when he was here to cover the Women’s
World Cup. Such a Toronto-centric A-hole.)

Chris



On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 07:27 Brad Beam  wrote:

>
> Somebody somewhere -- perhaps an Olympic-Athlete-from-Russian bot farm --
> is working on a "Kirstie is not impressed" meme:
>
> http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-kirstie-alley-olympics-curling-feud-20180220-story.html
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 21, 2018, at 09:16, Doug Eastick  wrote:
>
> if you are keen into curling and twitter, check out the encouragements
> that @Hollywoodcurl   has been putting out to people to go try the sport,
> including @MrT
>
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[TV orNotTV] Sinclair to unload three Trib stations to quiet Feds

['Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV]

Two are biggies: WGN and WPIX... which they will continue to operate under 
agreements with the as-yet-undisclosed buyers.

KSWB San Diego's eventual taker will be completely free to ignore the 
conglom.

A commenter (nobody I know) at Variety 

 
(link) says this fails to pass the smell test.

B

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[TV orNotTV] Jeopardy! on-line tests

[Doug Fields]

It's that time of the year.  Invitation emails to the next Jeopardy! on-line 
tests just went out.  Adults - March 6-8.  Teens - March 15.


https://www.jeopardy.com/be-a-contestant/?utm_source=spe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=February_2018_BAC_Kickoff&utm_content=Story_1_CTA

[https://www.jeopardy.com/Assets/jeopardy/images/_facebook/fb_contestant.jpg]

Be a Contestant | 
Jeopardy.com
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Find out everything you need to know about becoming a Jeopardy! contestant. 
From registering and creating a profile to taking the online test.


Doug Fields

Tampa, FL

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Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC’s Winter Olympics

[Brad Beam]

Somebody somewhere -- perhaps an Olympic-Athlete-from-Russian bot farm -- is 
working on a "Kirstie is not impressed" meme:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-kirstie-alley-olympics-curling-feud-20180220-story.html

Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 21, 2018, at 09:16, Doug Eastick  wrote:
> 
> if you are keen into curling and twitter, check out the encouragements that 
> @Hollywoodcurl   has been putting out to people to go try the sport, 
> including @MrT

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Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC’s Winter Olympics

[Doug Eastick]

the few times I've put on NBC, in the evenings, I've been impressed how
much has actually been live.

As usual, I've been impressed with the trio of Canadian coverage (CBC,
TSN's 5 channels, and Sportsnet's 3 channels).  Not all of the TSN and SN
channels are used, but we usually have 3 live channels to pick from each
evening.   And if you can't find what you want, stream+chromecast works
just fine.

if you are keen into curling and twitter, check out the encouragements that
@Hollywoodcurl   has been putting out to people to go try the sport,
including @MrT

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[TV orNotTV] Re: NBC’s Winter Olympics

[JW]

> For the record, I have been generally pleased with how NBC is covering
> these Olympics.

I'm glad you are. I find myself completely uninterested, and haven't sat
down to watch anything. When I've been someplace where they're on, I've
looked but find myself totally unengaged.

If NHL players were there, I'd probably pay some attention to hockey, but I
have yet to flip by NBC and feel any compulsion to stop.

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