[TV orNotTV] Treatment of LGBT TV characters (Trek spoilers)

2018-01-07 Thread Kevin M.
S P O I L E R S P A C E One of my early podcast interviews was with a writer who was facing some backlash online because an LGBT character on a series he had worked on had been killed off. The community was claiming it was becoming common to basically use gay characters as either sac

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fewer people watching local TV news, but it is still tops

2018-01-07 Thread Tom Wolper
On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 5:15 PM, Kevin M. wrote: > > All too true. Credit where credit is due, through TVorNotTV, I have found > a few people on Twitter who do attend things like local city council > meetings and post about local events. I attempted to find Facebook groups > that cover local going

[TV orNotTV] Starting this week, local TV news in smaller markets is probably going to get worse

2018-01-07 Thread Steve Timko
The FCC voted along party lines 3-2 in October to no longer require television stations keep studios in the market in which they operate. That deregulation goes into effect this week. This likely does not mean cuts for larger stations. If anything, staff could be beefed up as they handle broadcast

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fewer people watching local TV news, but it is still tops

2018-01-07 Thread Jon Delfin
On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 5:15 PM, Kevin M. wrote: > > > All too true. Credit where credit is due, through TVorNotTV, I have found > a few people on Twitter who do attend things like local city council > meetings and post about local events. I attempted to find Facebook groups > that cover local goin

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fewer people watching local TV news, but it is still tops

2018-01-07 Thread Kevin M.
On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 2:01 PM, Tom Wolper wrote: > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 7:46 PM, Kevin M. wrote: > >> If it weren’t for all the car chases in LA, I’d have no reason to watch >> local news. >> >> I secretly hoped after LAist folded and after LA Weekly fired everybody >> except the weekend jani

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fewer people watching local TV news, but it is still tops

2018-01-07 Thread Tom Wolper
On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 7:46 PM, Kevin M. wrote: > If it weren’t for all the car chases in LA, I’d have no reason to watch > local news. > > I secretly hoped after LAist folded and after LA Weekly fired everybody > except the weekend janitor that KCET might scoop up a few out of work > journalists

Re: [TV orNotTV] Phil Rosenthal is the new Anthony Bourdain

2018-01-07 Thread Tom Wolper
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 12:47 AM, Steve Timko wrote: > I vaguely recollect that show now. Poor PBS. it lost Bourdain's "Mind of a > Chef" to Facebook and Phil Rosenthal to Netflix. > It used to be that PBS was the place for TV shows the networks deemed as having no commercial potential. Now ther