[TV orNotTV] Meet David Gregory (maybe)

Gregory has been my prediction all along, but may still be too early to tell. I would like to see them go back to a moderated panel of journalists (if they can find any actual newspaper reporters). http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/nbc/david_gregory_to_moderate_meet_the_pressmaybe_102106.asp?c=

[TV orNotTV] Re: See? It's not just you

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Bob in Jersey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Some ads ARE being repeated wa too much, and too closely to each > other, admits AdAge: > > http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=132884 > > [MUTE]. I am a pretty aggressive commercial zapper. I have not s

[TV orNotTV] See? It's not just you

Some ads ARE being repeated wa too much, and too closely to each other, admits AdAge: http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=132884 [MUTE]. -- BOB Live the good life! Click now for great retirement planning assistance!

[TV orNotTV] Re: WTotN?*: ABC reporter tackles eating challenges

Gregory's, not far from Lehigh Valley (ABE) Airport, still has a 120oz steak, but apparently no challenge. -- BOB Love Graphic Design? Find a school near you. Click Now. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/PnY6rw3huHoZfVamG4v

[TV orNotTV] 'Movies' Ratings Go In Toilet Without Roeper, (Blessing of) Ebert

And "At the Movies" had been experiencing ratings woes and downgraded time slots since the death of Gene Siskel, but viewers are indicating to Disney that Bens Lyons and Mankiewicz are not their choice: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/11/minus-ebert-at.html --~--~-~--~---

[TV orNotTV] Re: NotTV: Legendary Radio Programmer Bill Drake Dies at 71

Mark J. wrote: > His "Boss Radio" concept of Top 40 at KHJ Los Angeles and later many > other radio stations made the format sound classier and less schlocky > (quick acapella jingles, a ban on horn-blowing, bell-ringing DJs more > interested in telling hoary jokes than playing the music) and chan

[TV orNotTV] Re: WTotN?*: ABC reporter tackles eating challenges

Bob in Jersey wrote: > > *Was This on the News? (could also qualify as Didn't Sweeps End Already?) > > Scott Mayerowitz, normally a business correspondent for the alphabet-net, > must have watched that Food Network or Travel Channel show about > gi-normous food items that they'll give you for fr

[TV orNotTV] Re: WTotN?*: ABC reporter tackles eating challenges

The local breakfast eatery, The Broken Yolk, here in the Pacific Beach community of San Diego (there are no suburbs of San Diego, only neighboring communities which all fall within the city limits), features a 24 egg omelet. I love the Broken Yolk's motto, "We've Got Huevos." No, I have not attem

[TV orNotTV] Don't Worry, Ex-Chief--SAG Strike Won't Cripple TV

So says the LA Times' Scott Collins, in a rebuttal to the ex-Chief's second "Not Working for Me" item today, thanks to many series starting production earlier than normal and the fact that more and more scripted filmed series are under AFTRA contracts instead of SAG (not to mention reality shows,

[TV orNotTV] Re: The Veteran Local Anchors Are Going...

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Mark J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Victims of the tight economy and high salaries, those familiar aging > faces are disappearing and being replaced by your basic ambitious > young people who look on the local gig as a way station for Fixed > Noise or "Entertain

[TV orNotTV] Re: a call for public mockery

At 03:01 PM 12/1/2008, you wrote: >Ed Dravecky, to Jon Delfin: >> I took it as wordplay since the guest star gave the team >> inaccurate or incomplete information *and* proved an >> inept, arrogant, and foolish mission planner so he both >> misled them and mis-lead them. I, for one, am looking >

[TV orNotTV] Re: WTotN?*: ABC reporter tackles eating challenges

The burger, I recollect, has been getting steadily larger over the years. I think they're having a hissing match with some other giga-burger joint...maybe it's this one in central PA? http://www.dennysbeerbarrelpub.com/ Travel is about to unveil a guy who treks in search of gluttonic Everests:

[TV orNotTV] Re: a call for public mockery

Bob in Jersey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wasn't character-happy radio host Phil Hendrie cut loose from the show? He was the station manager at fictional KTML ("The Missile") where the writers had finally given the Kim Brown character a useful, interesting job where she was a success... which al

[TV orNotTV] Re: 'Husband Reveals How Tina Fey Got Scar - Entertainment News Story - WBAL Baltimore'

Jason Carpio, to Melissa Pollak: > Huh.. She's very protective of this information. I wonder if her hubby is getting an earful. The piece suggests this was a both-of-them-together interview...she prolly thought long and hard about it before giving him an OK-go-ahead look... -- BOB __

[TV orNotTV] Re: WTotN?*: ABC reporter tackles eating challenges

Bob in Jersey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott Mayerowitz, normally a business correspondent for the alphabet-net, > must have watched that Food Network or Travel Channel show about > gi-normous food items that they'll give you for free if you finish them > within a reasonable time -- features t

[TV orNotTV] Re: a call for public mockery

Ed Dravecky, to Jon Delfin: > I took it as wordplay since the guest star gave the team > inaccurate or incomplete information *and* proved an > inept, arrogant, and foolish mission planner so he both > misled them and mis-lead them. I, for one, am looking > forward to next week's episode even tho

[TV orNotTV] WTotN?*: ABC reporter tackles eating challenges

*Was This on the News? (could also qualify as Didn't Sweeps End Already?) Scott Mayerowitz, normally a business correspondent for the alphabet-net, must have watched that Food Network or Travel Channel show about gi-normous food items that they'll give you for free if you finish them within a re

[TV orNotTV] NotTV: Legendary Radio Programmer Bill Drake Dies at 71

His "Boss Radio" concept of Top 40 at KHJ Los Angeles and later many other radio stations made the format sound classier and less schlocky (quick acapella jingles, a ban on horn-blowing, bell-ringing DJs more interested in telling hoary jokes than playing the music) and changed the way music radio

[TV orNotTV] Re: 'Husband Reveals How Tina Fey Got Scar - Entertainment News Story - WBAL Baltimore'

Huh.. She's very protective of this information. I wonder if her hubby is getting an earful. On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Pollak, Melissa F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The link: > http://www.wbaltv.com/entertainment/18178160/detail.html?treets=bal&taf= > bal > > > > > -- Jason Carpio

[TV orNotTV] 'Husband Reveals How Tina Fey Got Scar - Entertainment News Story - WBAL Baltimore'

The link: http://www.wbaltv.com/entertainment/18178160/detail.html?treets=bal&taf= bal --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Like TV only smarter. 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

[TV orNotTV] Re: WKRP in Cincinnati -- for real!

K.M. Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't show any application to change WKRP in Nashville's call > letters to anything else, so I doubt Block officially has them. What Block has, quite unexpectedly, is a limited trademark on "WKRP" and "WKRP Cincinnati" for use identifying a broadcast t

[TV orNotTV] Re: Amazing Race question

Jay Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That was Egypt. I had forgotten about his hurt knee. IIRC, one of them > (both?) was a big guy. Yeah, they were the brothers who owned an Italian restaurant in Dallas which was later destroyed by fire when the club/theater next door was accidentally set abla

[TV orNotTV] Re: a call for public mockery

Jon Delfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last night's episode of "The Unit" was titled "Mislead and Misguided." > This was, perhaps not astonishingly, the third time in a week I've seen > "misled" misused. The two blog instances were mildly annoying, but > this one I find inexcusable. I took it as

[TV orNotTV] Re: Amazing Race question

Maybe wrote: >> In Egypt when a team couldn't find something buried in a sand pit. >> >> Any others? > > And there were the two guys who just quit because one of them hurt his > knee and Phil came to them and eliminated them. That was Egypt. I had forgotten about his hurt knee. IIRC, one of th

[TV orNotTV] CNN Going Into Print Wire Service Business

As some papers are considering bailing out of the AP (or "The A.P.," as the NYT calls it, as if it's The CW or The WB), CNN is offering its internal/web site copy to newspapers for lower prices than the AP's membership fees--of course the AP's chief is trash-talking it as "abysmally written": htt

[TV orNotTV] The Veteran Local Anchors Are Going...

Victims of the tight economy and high salaries, those familiar aging faces are disappearing and being replaced by your basic ambitious young people who look on the local gig as a way station for Fixed Noise or "Entertainment Tonight"--and as much as you may want to bring up Ron Burgundy, it's like

[TV orNotTV] Re: Amazing Race question

On Dec 1, 7:59�am, Jay Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark J. wrote: > > On Dec 1, 9:27 am, "Steve Timko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I had my own Amazing Race question. Why did Phil intercept the team instead > >> of waiting for them at the finish line? They weren't that far behind, were

[TV orNotTV] Re: Amazing Race question

I kind of suspected that the location with the mat might have closed (or not been a good place to be hanging around) after dark, given that the light was fading when Phil eliminated the team that hadn't checked in yet. It was seen but not heard that there was bunching at the start of the leg beca

[TV orNotTV] Re: Amazing Race question

Mark J. wrote: > On Dec 1, 9:27 am, "Steve Timko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I had my own Amazing Race question. Why did Phil intercept the team instead >> of waiting for them at the finish line? They weren't that far behind, were >> they? Or maybe he had to hit the road. >> How often has that

[TV orNotTV] Re: Amazing Race question

I had my own Amazing Race question. Why did Phil intercept the team instead of waiting for them at the finish line? They weren't that far behind, were they? Or maybe he had to hit the road. How often has that been done? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Like TV only smarter. Yo

[TV orNotTV] Re: Amazing Race question

On Dec 1, 9:27 am, "Steve Timko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had my own Amazing Race question. Why did Phil intercept the team instead > of waiting for them at the finish line? They weren't that far behind, were > they? Or maybe he had to hit the road. > How often has that been done? It's be

[TV orNotTV] Re: Amazing Race question

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Jon Delfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Obviously it didnt matter last night, but it seems as though there should > be some kind of penalty (other than looking like a fool on national tv) > > > I had the suspicion that the production team had the cab's number, a

[TV orNotTV] Re: Amazing Race question

At 09:53 AM 12/1/2008, you wrote: >I'm gonna put in some spoiler space just in case... > >s >p >o >i >l >e >r >. >. >. >. > >On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Jon Delfin <[EMAIL >PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Anybody have any information on why there was (apparently) a 24-hour re

[TV orNotTV] Re: Amazing Race question

I'm gonna put in some spoiler space just in case... s p o i l e r . . . . On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Jon Delfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anybody have any information on why there was (apparently) a 24-hour rest > period between legs? I imagine it's because none of the tasks could be >

[TV orNotTV] Amazing Race question

Anybody have any information on why there was (apparently) a 24-hour rest period between legs? I imagine it's because none of the tasks could be performed in the middle of the night, so everybody got a break, and it would have been awkward to explain -- Am I close? jd --~--~-~--~

[TV orNotTV] a call for public mockery

Last night's episode of "The Unit" was titled "Mislead and Misguided." This was, perhaps not astonishingly, the third time in a week I've seen "misled" misused. The two blog instances were mildly annoying, but this one I find inexcusable. Shame on you, "The Unit"! Shame on you, Todd Ellis Kess