I was a member of Columbia House (I think it was called Columbia Record and
Tape Club when I joined, which would give you some idea of how close I am
age-wise to the dinosaurs) and also of RCA's (later BMG) similar club,
which had product from some labels Columbia didn't ... and vice versa ...
One thing that I noticed in reading the press release was the continued
dual times/single feed for AntennaTV.
Of the big four classic channels (MeTV, Cozi, and Retro being the other
three) Antenna is the only one that doesn't have a second feed, three
hours' shifted, for the Pacific and
Unfortunately for Mr. Egonian (that's his real last name, disclosed at an
event honoring him a few years ago) his current outlet is a pair of
underpowered FMs on the same frequency simulcasting, meaning the two
transmitters have to be spaced to meet FCC requirements. This means less
than
and
Current's case, they overreacted to Keith being Keith. It's not like they
didn't know this is the way he is, because this is the way he's always been.
On Friday, July 24, 2015 at 2:02:23 PM UTC-7, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:54 PM, K.M. Richards richa...@gmail.com
Great minds and all that ... I just made the suggestion about rehiring
Olbermann on an industry message board.
The phrase I used was he's always going to be the way he is, live with it
and defend him instead of trying to keep him on a short leash.
On Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 8:53:57 AM
I solved the entire dilemma. I cancelled my DirecTV on Monday.
I should point out that I live just under 25 miles away from Mount Wilson,
from which virtually all broadcast television service -- excluding some
LPTVs -- transmits, and I get great reception even though I am using the
ancient
Encore Action is a basic channel now? Since when?
On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 2:02:00 PM UTC-7, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:
... which channels would you most likely pay for?
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What struck me was that, after that wonderful build up, when Dave thanked
him, Paul immediately turned the attention back to the band, giving them
another round of applause after they had just gotten recognition by Dave as
individual band members. Such a classy thing for Mr. Shaffer to do, and
I remember a story he told late one night while a guest of Tom Snyder's
Late Late Show about one of the television commercials he produced over
the years.
The cigarette brand Lark had a series of commercials in which they drove
down the street in a truck with the sign show us your Lark package
On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 10:22:22 PM UTC-7, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:
I refuse to pay any credence to blind quotes anymore. And any journalist
who bases an article on them (I'm working my way through this one and am
underimpressed so far) is an abysmal failure in my estimation.
In
Please allow me to add my sincerest condolences to those already expressed
by the rest of the group.
As was said earlier, we heard so much about Mother Jersey she seemed like
a part of our own families.
On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 7:31:02 AM UTC-8, Bob Jersey wrote:
Congestive heart
Should have included: Airtime 9:00pm ET/8:00 CT, host Robert Alda (Alan's
father).
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Not that it necessarily means anything, but this coincides with a move by
local talk host Mark Levin from Cumulus-owned KABC/790 to Salem-owned
KRLA/870 starting next week.
Levin's arrival at KRLA is causing a shuffle, displacing Miller's
syndicated talk program ... which will move on a
I know what I'd like to see (which is why it would never happen):
Classic Britcoms!
Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister
Fawlty Towers
Are You Being Served?
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Last of the Summer Wine
Keeping Up Appearances
... and whatever that show was starring the recently-departed
I had already decided not to continue watching the series, whenever USA
deemed it worthy of new episodes (like Kevin, I grew weary of the erratic
scheduling), because it was desperately searching for a direction this past
season. Annie has a heart condition, Annie hides the condition from the
On Friday, December 19, 2014 9:17:15 AM UTC-8, PGage wrote:
... but the Washington Niggers or Washington Kikes would be just fine.
To tell the family secret, my grandmother was Dutch ...
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MeTV (and Antenna TV, and Retro, and Cozi) doesn't lose big brand
advertisers because of the currentness of their programming. If that
were the case, TV Land wouldn't get those ads either. The problem is that
the classic diginets have far too much of their viewership over the age of
55,
PTV is where I discovered Monty Python, Fawlty Towers and Are You Being
Served? It is also where I got to see the remaining episodes of Last of
the Summer Wine after being introduced to it by the original AE back in
the 1980s, and where I found the sequel to Yes Minister (another AE
Maybe we can get her to drop the e from Clark in return for you dropping
the second n from Sinead, Kevin.
:P
On Sunday, October 19, 2014 4:16:22 PM UTC-7, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:
Any way to get word to Sinnead that Clark doesn't contain an E at the end
of it? And officially it is dick clark
MeTV also aired those three best-known Webb shows back-to-back-to-back for
about six months when the first two moved over from Antenna TV.
On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 6:24:37 AM UTC-7, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:
And I know the Jack Webb trio of Dragnet, Adam 12, and Emergency aired
back to back
But you weren't an *employee* of a commercial station, you were a
*volunteer* air talent at a non-commercial one. Employees and their
families are supposed to be screened out of ratings participation, as are
employees/families of advertising agencies. The big difference is that your
And they didn't disqualify your household during pre-screening? Very
sloppy of them.
On Friday, September 19, 2014 7:36:53 AM UTC-7, Joe Hass wrote:
(My stepfather was, at the time, in sales at one of the local TV stations,
but I wasn't going to give up the chance to be a real Nielsen
Sold out, but perhaps that's just as well; from what I read in Amazon's
feedback, the inner sleeves are made of cardboard and have caused issues
with DVDs warping.
Maybe that's why they were on sale.
On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 2:37:33 PM UTC-7, David Bruggeman wrote:
Apparently Walmart has
As I listened to the reports of his mental illness and his already
well-known substance abuse problems, a thought came to my mind which I
believe may be the kindest reaction possible: At least he is now free of
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I had Encore Westerns as part of my DirecTV service for a couple of years
when they were running through all the Maverick episodes in order. I saved
the Garner episodes to DVD but not the others. That should tell you what I
thought of brother Bret compared to brother Bart, cousin Beau, cousin
Fun factoid #2,973: The Her-Ex building was also the location of the
Associated Press' Los Angeles bureau and took up most (if not all) of one
floor, as it also handled the west coast print and broadcast wire feeds.
If memory serves, the AP remained there for several years after the paper
shut
Bill Cullen does hold the record for the number of game shows hosted (as in
separate titles) and Bob Barker did have a long run with Truth or
Consequences so it is conceivable that one of them hosted more total
episodes across all show titles hosted than Alex.
Another possible contender would
Then why is the all-80s radio format making a comeback?
On Thursday, June 5, 2014 10:11:29 AM UTC-7, Tom Wolper wrote:
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I admit to being a fan, having once won (vinyl 33 record) radio-station
copies of the
Wait ... you mean NBC still exists?
I thought it had become a Comcast cable network.
On Monday, June 2, 2014 7:01:08 PM UTC-7, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:
It's official: I won't be watching anything on NBC this fall.
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Generally speaking, although the network is the direct descendant of the
original classic television channel, Retro Television Network (which
dates back to 2005), its original owner, Equity Media Holdings, had a bad
financial tumble in 2008. That was when the current owner, Henry Luken,
The main reason KFRC never used Boss Radio (they were always The Big
610) was that Drake had used the boss handle pre-RKO when he programmed
crosstown KYA.
My recollection is that, among the RKO properties, only KHJ used boss
under Drake, although countless imitators appropriated the word.
On
I'm not 100% certain of this, but I think television stations were always
allowed to use the suffix -TV even if it wasn't officially part of their
assigned call. If so, I suspect the FCC would tell you they can use -DT on
the same basis.
Unfortunately, I don't have time at the moment to
Not quite, Jim.
When analog television for full-power stations was discontinued, stations
had three options:
- Call letters plus the suffix -DT
- Call letters plus the suffix -TV
- Call letters only, unless also on a co-owned radio station somewhere,
in which case a suffix is
Yes. It does that if you set it to six-hour format and have ad blocking
turned on. If you turn your ad blocker off, you'll see that Titan puts a
huge ad to the right of the grid. For some reason it doesn't mess with the
default four-hour grid format.
On Sunday, April 27, 2014 7:52:23 PM
I think you will find, upon closer investigation, that most of the old
movie fans' complaints revolve around three specific changes made over the
past several years at AMC:
- Commercialization (especially spacing of breaks at such short
intervals that the breaks seem longer than the
I am a contributor to the online radio aircheck site
ReelRadiohttp://www.reelradio.com.
And this morning that site broke format to pay tribute to J.J. Jackson,
best known as the black VJ during MTV's first five years. He passed away
ten years ago tomorrow, and to mark that sad anniversary,
From prostate cancer, at age 74:
http://www.robertfeder.com/2014/02/21/garrick-utley-1939-2014/
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On Monday, February 3, 2014 11:54:26 AM UTC-8, MelissaP wrote:
But it’s good to read that – finally -- LA is making progress toward using
the Universal City station (which has plenty of room) as transit a hub. I
know when I was there the last time, I wondered why more buses weren’t
routed
As a Los Angeles resident who uses public transportation, I politely
disagree, unless your definition of most difficult means a half-block
walk from the nearest bus stop (Line 155, which connects with the Red Line
subway at Universal City Station) at Alameda/Buena Vista.
There are also
Sikula wrote:
Even better, they should bring it back with both Evans and the late Jack
Germond.
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On Saturday, February 1, 2014 10:34:18 AM UTC-8, K.M. Richards wrote:
Better they should bring back The Capital Gang, even minus the late
Robert Novak.
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I agree with Mark's description of the confetti as a prop. Whereas Taylor
was maniacal, running around throwing confetti all over the place, Madden
always had a deadpan expression while throwing a single handful of
confetti, straight up and half-heartedly.
On Thursday, January 16, 2014
So the only castaways left are Ginger and Mary Ann.
Gilligan (Bob Denver): d. September 2, 2005
Skipper (Alan Hale Jr.): d. January 2, 2000
Jim Backus (Thurston Howell III): d. July 3, 1989
Natalie Schafer (Lovey Howell): d. April 10, 1991
Russell Johnson (Professor): d. January 16, 2014
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And now TWC has officially gone dark on DirecTV (as of midnight ET Monday
night):
http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/73263/the-weather-channel-gone-from-directv
TWC's CEO accused DirecTV of putting profits ahead of public safety and
said they wanted a deal that allows for continued investment
I've watched both. I like WeatherNation better.
Is anyone urging me to ask my elected officials to support DirecTV dropping
TWC?
Hmmm. Didn't think so.
On Saturday, January 11, 2014 5:45:34 PM UTC-8, Bob Jersey wrote:
TWC is looking at a Jan 14th cutoff unless a new agreement is reached,
DirecTV has the channel on a higher tier of service than I presently
subscribe to, so I won't miss it.
Hadn't been watching it even when I had it, which pretty much proves
Springsteen right.
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Meanwhile, DirecTV has finally moved FXX from its old channel (619, Fox
Soccer Channel's old slot) to channel 259, right next to FXM (Fox Movie
Channel).
However, like its new next-door channel, you still have to have the
third-highest tier of service to get it, which is a $16/month jump over
Acting Chair Mignon Clyburn says changes in the marketplace (namely, high
ticket prices at venues) may make the rules no longer in the public
interest. But the leagues can still negotiate with broadcasters, cable and
satellite to create and enforce blackout rules of their own:
I remember the HBO version. It starred Powers Boothe as Marlowe and was,
I thought, very well done.
On Monday, October 21, 2013 2:37:52 PM UTC-7, Bob in Jersey wrote:
Andrew, cocreator of *Castle*, teams with that show's writer (also his
wife) Terri Edda Miller and Oscar-winning director
In Los Angeles, that number will be two next season as the Dodgers follow
the Lakers into we have our own cable channel land, meaning the only OTA
games featuring the blue crew will be those carried by Fox.
The losing OTA affiliate in both cases is CBS-owned indie KCAL/9.
On Saturday, October
He generally does not call *non-playoff* games played east of Denver. He
has made recent exceptions for the 2007 season opening series in Milwaukee,
a 2007 series against the Chicago Cubs, and a 2010 series against Boston.
I read somewhere that if the Dodgers make it to the World Series, Vin
Crime Story was one of my favorite programs in its day, and finding out
that Farina was a former police officer just made it more of a pleasure to
watch.
It was the first TV series I bought on DVD and I still enjoy watching it; I
only wish Michael Mann had been allowed to shoot a made-for-TV
I'm with you, Joe. While I get the original sentiment behind adding GBA to
the 7th inning stretch, it has now become annoying, especially as a great
many of those chosen to sing it, can't.
Here in L.A., both KCAL and Prime Ticket have apparently become fed up as
well and now take a longer
Third. KVME in Bishop (up along the Nevada border but part of the Los
Angeles market) simulcasts KDOC-DT3 full-time except for a short block of
paid religious programs early in the morning.
Happened about a year ago.
On Sunday, June 30, 2013 9:42:02 PM UTC-7, terry wrote:
Actually, it would
As I understand it, the ban still allows for specialized plastic bags,
such as the smaller ones used for bagging produce. I would think those
would be sufficient for the specialized use David references.
I'll be on the lookout, of course, for the new Recycled Plastic Bag Channel
which has to
I dunno, Kevin. Being 3D is a distinct advantage in this world.
After all, look what happened to the last 2D visitor to television world ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behold,_Eck!
On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:08:48 AM UTC-7, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:
One-eyed guys like me rejoice. Down with
Actually, Barrett resumed writing a watered-down version of his column a
few months ago, after forwarding articles from other sites to former
subscribers proved popular. He makes it available for free, but doesn't
necessarily update it every day, and it has a bit less insider content
since he
On Friday, February 22, 2013 2:33:54 PM UTC-8, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:
One of my favorite shows of all time continues to be The Match Game,
reruns of which I continue to watch regularly. The problem is that
gameshows got too elaborate.
I TiVo Gene Rayburn Co. every weekday morning at
There's a reason for the Nelsons being fuzzy; Cozi fills some program slots
with public domain programming (they also have copies of the ten existing
kinescopes of the early Burns and Allen shows that had been done live,
before George and Gracie went to pre-filming in season three); those are
I have an even better indicator of a show's potential to make it to season
two.
For the last several years, any show on the big three (I haven't liked
anything on Fox or CW enough to care) I liked enough to watch on a regular
basis was cancelled no later than mid-second season. The one
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
Overstated and incorrect, Kevin.
Four stations were evacuated: The two mentioned in the original article,
KNX and KFWB (CBS' two AMs) and two of their five FMs (KRTH and KTWV).
Three of CBS' FMs in Los Angeles are located at the old KHJ transmitter
site at Venice/Fairfax: KCBS-FM, KROQ, and
Without knowing what type of DVR you have, I can only relate this to my own
TiVo, which gets its listings data from the Tribune Company, meaning
Zap2It.com reflects the same data.
Checking their online site's Olympics coverage, it is exactly as you
stated. The schedule shows a block of time
Kevin, are you perhaps laboring under the impression that KKGO is
still AM 1260? Because Saul Levine moved the format to FM 105.1 a
couple of years ago.
While I know the Radio-Locator maps aren't as accurate as a FCC
contour map, I nevertheless offer them for comparison purposes:
KKGO:
AP story via TVNewsCheck:
http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2012/04/08/58608/cbs-news-mike-wallace-dies-at-93
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Funny you should say that, Kevin. Not knowing WTH GCB was when I
saw ads for it plastered on the side of Metro buses here in L.A., I
did some Googling ... and came to the conclusion, sight unseen, that
it was a Desperate Housewives clone.
Since I am not a fan of Desperate Housewives I therefore
The original Millionaire did not have entirely new contestants each
show. Doesn't anyone remember that annoying foghorn-type siren that
announced they were out of time for that show?
Each show picked up where it left off with the current contestant;
they did not start from scratch at the top of
Someone should remind NBC what happened when ABC sent Who Wants To Be
a Millionaire into oversaturation ten years ago.
On Feb 7, 8:24 pm, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:
But these guys are starving to
death, and they have finally found something that will grow, and no doubt
they want to squeeze
Late this afternoon (February 6) I received my first digest in more
than two weeks, and it contained only posts dated January 22 through
27. And I didn't do anything to my subscription.
Wonder if I'm going to get catch up digests ...
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The real problem FMC has is that they recycle the same films too
frequently, and after a while viewers get the feeling that they've
seen everything in the library ... so they stop checking the channel
to see what's on.
FXM will probably backfire on them, because being on the same channel
as FMC,
Generally easier to find on satellite than on cable.
DirecTV clusters all of the Discovery networks between channels 278
and 287 (the exception being Discovery Fit Health, which was FitTV
until the original Discovery Health was replaced by Oprah Winfrey's
ego ... er, network).
Similarly, Dish
Keith Olbermann also devoted the segment around :30 in last night's
Countdown (where he usually does the viral videos in the Time Marches
On) to an obit.
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Said party has now qualified for the California ballot, says the
political e-newsletter I received this morning.
One plausible path is through Americans Elect, the third-party populist
campaign funded by big money with support from people like Lady Lynn
Forester de Rothschild ...
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I believe you're thinking of Bryant Gumbel, Kevin.
Brokaw was an anchor at the NBC OO here in L.A. before jumping to the
full network.
On Dec 9, 6:03 pm, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
Tom Brokaw was once a sports reporter, if memory serves
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Pittsburgh, of course, was a Westinghouse market for as long as there
was a Westinghouse.
Not for television. KDKA-TV started life as DuMont OO WDTV in 1949
and did not become a Westinghouse property until 1955.
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I have one of these:
http://www.meritline.com/kingwin-sataide-to-usb-adapter-for-25-and-35-drive-model-usi-2535---p-50793.aspx
It's useful for moving files off old hard drives, because it will
allow pretty much any hard drive from the 1990s to the present to be
temporarily connected to a machine
Can't make it due to a previous commitment. Perhaps next time.
On Oct 9, 1:30 pm, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
The first (to my knowledge) west coast gathering of folks from this
message board will take place on Friday, October 14th, at 5pm at the
infamous -- dare I say notorious
Either you purchased it at a rail vending machine (there is still a
transitional period during which the day pass can issued on a rail
ticket, but that is scheduled to end within the next several months,
once all the vending machines are reconfigured) or you were on a bus
where the operator ran
Yes, but ...
The $5 day pass requires that you have one of Metro's TAP cards (a
smart fare card), otherwise it is still $6 (the price it went up to a
couple of years ago).
Fortunately, there is an easy way to obtain a TAP card. Just board a
Metro bus and pay $6 for a day pass and the operator
Another option would be not to drive but instead take the Metro Red
Line subway, which has a station at Hollywood/Highland, literally
across the street from where Kimmel tapes.
There are park/ride lots at Universal City Station (one stop away) and
North Hollywood Station (two stops away). The
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
For comparison purposes, I offer up the promos and IDs on Antenna TV.
which are voiced by Gary.
On Sep 16, 11:24 am, Dave Sikula dsik...@yahoo.com wrote:
Is it? I realize Owens doesn't sound like he used to, but it sounds
like someone doing Owens -- like the initial VO sounds like someone
You mean that show is still on the air? Who knew?
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I have a Series 2 single tuner TiVo. As Jim Ellwanger already said,
that is an important distinction because only the single tuner Series
2 boxes have an RF input; that is critical because the TiVo depends on
getting the output of a digital broadcast converter via RF channels 3
or 4 to function.
MeTV is devoting the whole weekend to Lucy's 100th birthday.
Starting at 3:00am ET/Midnight PT this morning, their usual schedule
(except for the E/I block this morning and tomorrow morning) has been
replaced by reruns of I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, and the We Love
Lucy edited episodes of the
I am annoyed by *any* use of an apostrophized word when the non-
apostrophized one is correct.
Or the addition of an apostrophe at the end of a word ending in s
when there is no ownership to imply.
On Jul 29, 8:26 pm, donz5 do...@aol.com wrote:
(2) it's (the table lost it's legs)
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The original two-hour pilot for Ellery Queen aired as a special episode of
the Sunday Mystery Movie in the spring of 1975. On the Ellery Queen DVD set,
the version of the pilot used is a syndication copy, retitled Too Many
Suspects, in
According to the Brooks Marsh book, here are the rotating series
from Mystery Movie's run on NBC, season-by-season:
1971-72: Columbo, McCloud, McMillan Wife (McCloud having debuted the
previous season as part of Four-In-One)
1972-73: Columbo, McCloud, McMillan, Hec Ramsey (Sunday); Banacek,
On Jun 18, 10:55 am, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
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For the record, we have two K.M.'s here. Kevin, and me.
Or do we?
I think your brother (who posts here occasionally) knows we're two
different people
For the record, we have two K.M.'s here. Kevin, and me.
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More Hobbit-ual disdain from K.M.?
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55 here. DirecTV with a DVR. Selective about what I record for later
viewing and zap past the commercials, as I have an older Replay TV
with the quick skip feature. Only watch Dodgers games and Keith
Olbermann (returning three weeks from Monday!) live. Haven't found a
big 4½ network prime-time
Unfortunately, there is an unwritten rule about gadlfies that they
must never back down and give any credit (even when the entire rest of
the world realizes it is due) because doing so is seen as a
softening of their position.
One of the many things I do in my life is public transportation
I was always under the impression that what did Millionaire in was
that ABC overexposed it by running an hour-long version in primetime
nearly every night, because they had a lot of poor-performing series
and little in the pipeline to rush into development for air ... but I
can't deny that it
Since Group W has been mentioned, we should pay homage to the all-too-
short lived Satellite News Channel from nearly 30 years ago (has it
really been that long?!?), a joint venture of Group W and ABC which
used its own variation on the you give us 22 minutes ... imaging
liner that Group W made so
I guess those commercials are polarized ... either you love them or
you hate them.
Personally, one of the best commercials I've seen in recent years was
the Aflac spot where Yogi Berra spouts his usual share of malaprops in
a barber shop while Gilbert the Duck tries to (in vain) make sense of
EANS tests aren't scheduled, per se, by the cable companies or the
broadcasters. The routine tests, which are designed to test the
equipment that interrupts programming and inserts the message, tend to
run in the late-night/early-morning hours because (for whatever
strange reason) it is an
Except that CBS would first have to *have* a cable news channel.
On Feb 10, 4:00 pm, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm wondering if -- within the next few years -- CBS will join Fox and
announce that they will no longer provide news on their broadcast
network except in the event of
7 Days was on UPN, not the WB. For whatever that's worth to the
discussion.
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On Dec 1, 5:25 am, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
Here is where I again get nit-picky -- is this the same in the AP and
MLA style manuals?
My recollection is that the AP style manual (The Word) deals more
with syntax, choice of words, and general writing style than it does
matters
A nitpick, if I may, Kevin.
On Nov 12, 8:53 pm, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
And whereas Maddow stated neither she nor any other member of
MSNBC's news team has endorsed a candidate, Keith's recent newsmaking
revealed that to not be the truth.
Strictly speaking, Keith did not
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