[TV orNotTV] Re: What the Heck is a 'YouToo'?

2011-09-23 Thread Bob in Jersey
Tom Wolper, to Joe Coughlin: > > Wow, they're going to be as raunchy as Fuckbook? > > > Calculated risk for a channel like that. > > Apparently there are some zealous Facebook fanboys who might find this > thread on a Google search and flame us. They can get in line, like all those gwelbs alleged

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: What the Heck is a 'YouToo'?

2011-09-23 Thread Tom Wolper
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Joe Coughlin wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Bob in Jersey > wrote: >> >> ALN. YouToo, as I said, is an online social site a la F___book or >> Twitter. > > > Wow, they're going to be as raunchy as Fuckbook? > > Calculated risk for a channel like that. A

[TV orNotTV] Re: Fox Sports crew confuses "actual headlines" with "crap we made up"

2011-09-23 Thread Bob in Jersey
Fox Sports' VP/communications went on one of Chicago's sports-radio stations to apologize. http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/09/22/fox-apologizes-for-cutler-headlines/ -- BOB -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Grou

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: What the Heck is a 'YouToo'?

2011-09-23 Thread Joe Coughlin
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Bob in Jersey wrote: > > > On Sep 22, 7:54 pm, Wesley McGee wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Bob in Jersey >wrote: > > > > > > > > > Service Electric, who's carried this channel for quite a few years, > > > refers to it in its (TV Guide-branded) intera

[TV orNotTV] Dish Network is far more interested in saving Dish Network than beating Netflix...

2011-09-23 Thread Wesley McGee
Netflix is vulnerable, very vulnerable. The dash for the panic button last week confirmed it. Thanks to ill-advised and ill-explained action, Netflix has lost the confidence of its customers who are vowing to leave the service, and its shareholders who sold enough to cut Netflix's stock value in ha

[TV orNotTV] Re: What the Heck is a 'YouToo'?

2011-09-23 Thread Bob in Jersey
On Sep 22, 7:54 pm, Wesley McGee wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Bob in Jersey wrote: > > > > > Service Electric, who's carried this channel for quite a few years, > > refers to it in its (TV Guide-branded) interactive program guide as > > "YouTV". > > To clarify, as the American Life

[TV orNotTV] Re: What the Heck is a 'YouToo'?

2011-09-23 Thread K.M. Richards
I suspect they meant to type September 19, based upon this notice on Time Warner's eastern Wisconsin system: http://www.timewarnercable.com/Wisconsin/learn/programming/legalnotices/legalnoticeSE.html In addition, from time to time we make certain changes in the services that we offer in order to

[TV orNotTV] What would the new fall season be without the PTC?

2011-09-23 Thread Tom Wolper
This time, they're taking on The X Factor: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/09/23/parents-television-council-to-file-fcc-complaint-against-foxs-the-x-factor/104669/ Excerpt: Now the PTC has set its sights on something more people actually watched: Fox's The X Factor. It's no surprise the PT

Re: [TV orNotTV] Not TV: HP's New Boss

2011-09-23 Thread Joe Coughlin
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Tom Wolper wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:07 AM, PGage wrote: > > No TV connection - but I do have to note that if I woke up and found out > > that Meg Whitman was my new boss, my primal scream could be heard in > space. > > > > Her first email to the troops

Re: [TV orNotTV] Not TV: HP's New Boss

2011-09-23 Thread Tom Wolper
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:07 AM, PGage wrote: > No TV connection - but I do have to note that if I woke up and found out > that Meg Whitman was my new boss, my primal scream could be heard in space. > > Her first email to the troops is a tour de force of caricaturing corporate > double speak: > >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Semi-OT: Mark Zuckerberg's keynote at F8

2011-09-23 Thread Darren Glass
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Kevin M. wrote: > Is anyone else watching this? I now firmly believe he stole the idea > of Facebook from other people, because he doesn't seem smart enough to > come up with fire or a wheel without help. > > Let me make sure I understand...you're saying that you

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Torchwood in trouble

2011-09-23 Thread Jon Delfin
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:47 PM, David Bruggeman wrote: > It looks like BBCA will start reairing Torchwood (from the beginning they > say) starting tomorrow night.  11:30 Eastern, two episodes.  My DVR lists the > episodes as first airing (in the States, I assume) in 2006. It's a coin toss. I'