Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl Ratings

2024-02-13 Thread Joe Hass
To steal from Spinal Tap: "We laid off our national security and Justice correspondents." "What?" "Yeah. I wouldn't worry about it though, DC's not a big news town." On Tue, Feb 13, 2024, 18:14 Diner wrote: > And the layoffs include 20 at CBS News, notably reporters Catherine > Herridge (nat

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl Ratings

2024-02-13 Thread Diner
And the layoffs include 20 at CBS News, notably reporters Catherine Herridge (national security) and Jeff Pegues (justice). https://deadline.com/2024/02/cbs-news-layoffs-catherine-herridge-1235824772/ On Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 5:44:11 PM UTC-5 Kevin M. wrote: > Apparently ratings success

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl Ratings

2024-02-13 Thread Adam Bowie
On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 3:34 AM Kevin M. wrote: > What verifiable data is being supplied to or by Nielsen to support these > numbers? I feel like the networks and streamers distrust ratings unless the > numbers serve them. And I’ve not seen evidence that streaming services are > sharing user data

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl Ratings

2024-02-12 Thread 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV
I watched on Nickelodeon, as I can't take football seriously.  I'm probably covered somewhere in the fine print. I'm out of the SpongeBob demo, but I must admit that having SpongeBob and Patrick Star join CBS's fifth-string made for an entertaining watch. Best,David On Monday, February 12,

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl Ratings

2024-02-12 Thread Jim Ellwanger
I was at a friends’ apartment watching on good old-fashioned Spectrum cable. Some other people in the complex were loudly cheering for things about 45 seconds after we’d seen them, so I assume they were watching on Paramount+ or some other streaming option. > On Feb 12, 2024, at 7:56 PM, Stan

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl Ratings

2024-02-12 Thread Stan S
I got annoyed by the delay on Spectrum so I switched to plain old antenna. I remain unmeasurable. -Stan On Monday, February 12, 2024 at 10:34:47 PM UTC-5 Kevin M. wrote: > What verifiable data is being supplied to or by Nielsen to support these > numbers? I feel like the networks and streamer

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ratings

2024-01-29 Thread PGage
Last January 81% of US men identified as avid or casual NFL fans, vs 59% of US women. I don’t know the corresponding breakdown for Taylor Swift fans, but assuming it is at least as skewed the other way towards women, there is some potential for Swift bringing in new fans to NFL games. But again, th

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ratings

2024-01-29 Thread Doug Eastick
In my house, the following has happened since the Tayvis partnering: 1) wife learned the rules of football. 2) watched a number of KC games with me. 3) Asked at the beginning of the DET-SF game "are there any players in this game that are going out with a megastar? If no, I'm going to watch Netfl

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ratings

2024-01-29 Thread Adam Bowie
I saw in Matt Belloni's latest email that last week's divisional game got a record 50.4m viewers. So I assume that yesterday's will top that. Belloni predicts record breaking Super Bowl ratings - although I wonder if that is Swift fans, and not just the fact that, in the US, NFL is the monoculture

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ratings

2024-01-28 Thread PGage
I think we are still some years off from the Super Bowl being exclusively on Peacock or some other streamer (this year you will have the option of watching on P+). And while it is difficult to make predictions about absolute broadcast ratings these days, it is a lock that for as long as linear tel

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ratings

2024-01-28 Thread Kevin M.
As we are at the twilight of broadcast television, it is difficult to predict how the SuperBowl will fare when viewers must stream it. Sports has maintained ratings compared to other produced series, but sponsors are starting to realize that doesn’t automatically lead to audiences buying advertised

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ratings

2024-01-28 Thread Steve Timko
So Super Bowl ratings will spike this year since Taylor Swift will likely be there. She is scheduled to play Feb. 10 at the Tokyo Dome. That gives her enough time to take her private jet to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl. My question is, will this spike have a lasting effect? Will more people watch

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl Means Scripted Back on CBS

2023-11-14 Thread Mark Jeffries
The BIg Game on Feb. 10 will be the Eye's official call for the return of scripted programming, with the new Justin Hartley action drama tracker getting the coveted post-Super Bowl slot as originally announced. The following night, the schedules start to return to normal ("Neighborhood"/"Abisho

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl halftime performers will be...

2020-02-05 Thread Steve Timko
According to this article, Gay Twitter strongly came out in support of the performance. When I get some time I'll post this on the Facebook pages of all the LGBT crowd who criticized it. https://www.queerty.com/j-lo-shakira-took-everyone-queer-church-gay-twitter-religious-meltdown-20200203 On Wed

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl halftime performers will be...

2020-02-05 Thread PGage
I assume almost all of the Pearl Clutching is a sham to cover opposition to JLo’s graphic reminder that Puerto Rico is part of the USA. The pole dance sequence was a nod to Jenny’s popular and critically acclaimed movie from the summer. The parent of any kid too young to see that and still knows wh

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl halftime performers will be...

2020-02-05 Thread Tom Wolper
On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 9:29 PM Steve Timko wrote: > I saw it live on a TV monitor with the sound low and visually it looked > great. I just watched it again on YouTube and listened on headphones. It > was less impressive. > JLo and Shakira looked great. Interest dropped considerably when they > w

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl halftime performers will be...

2020-02-04 Thread Steve Timko
Here is a press release from something called Culturintel According to many opinions online, The Super Bowl Half Time show was too provocative and should have come with a warning for children. Though it may seem that this was overwhelmingly true across the world, Culturintel is here to say ot

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl halftime performers will be...

2020-02-03 Thread Brad Beam
Franklin Graham and his congregants weren’t impressed, either, giving them some rare common ground with the LGBT... community. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 3, 2020, at 21:29, Steve Timko wrote: > >  > I saw it live on a TV monitor with the sound low and visually it looked > great. I just wat

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl halftime performers will be...

2020-02-03 Thread Steve Timko
I saw it live on a TV monitor with the sound low and visually it looked great. I just watched it again on YouTube and listened on headphones. It was less impressive. JLo and Shakira looked great. Interest dropped considerably when they weren't on camera. Beyonce probably has the best halftime perfo

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl halftime performers will be...

2020-02-02 Thread PGage
I think both JLo and Shakira justified their selection by putting on a killer show today. On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 4:33 PM PGage wrote: > I don’t know about that. JLo is currently starring in the biggest box > office film of her career (and looks hot as hell in it). She won’t do as > well in the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl 54 ads sell out

2019-11-27 Thread Jon Delfin
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 5:25 PM Tom Wolper wrote: > >>> >>> >> > The Super Bowl and the Oscars are the only two events left on TV that will > get a huge general a

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl 54 ads sell out

2019-11-27 Thread Tom Wolper
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 4:25 PM Kevin M. wrote: > I can’t wait to not watch! > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 1:07 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < > tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> At least the in-game ones, and it's the first time in five years that >> sales haven't gone down to the final day

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl 54 ads sell out

2019-11-25 Thread Kevin M.
I can’t wait to not watch! On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 1:07 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > At least the in-game ones, and it's the first time in five years that > sales haven't gone down to the final days before telecast... > > > https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl 54 ads sell out

2019-11-25 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
At least the in-game ones, and it's the first time in five years that sales haven't gone down to the final days before telecast... https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/super-bowl-commercials-2020-fox-sell-out-1203415238/ (link) B -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

RE: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl halftime performers will be...

2019-09-28 Thread Brad Beam
From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kevin M. >JLo y Shakira. > >https://twitter.com/jlo/status/1177309550015332353?s=21 > >https://twitter.com/shakira/status/1177311780906917890?s=21 Meanwhile, the CFL has gone dow’nundah for Keith Urban. https:

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl halftime performers will be...

2019-09-27 Thread 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV
JLo also toured North America this year, been on a couple of network shows, and recently finished one of those now commonplace Las Vegas 'residencies' the older pop acts seem to like. Sure, they aren't going for the young demo, but this seems like a reasonable play for the Latinx demo from a pr

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl halftime performers will be...

2019-09-27 Thread PGage
I don’t know about that. JLo is currently starring in the biggest box office film of her career (and looks hot as hell in it). She won’t do as well in the demo as, say, a Korean Pop group, but I think the NFL can do (and has done, repeatedly) worse. On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 3:38 PM Tom Wolper wrot

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl halftime performers will be...

2019-09-27 Thread Kevin M.
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 3:38 PM Tom Wolper wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 10:08 PM Kevin M. > wrote: > >> Me gusto Jennifer Lopez >> >> No me gusto Shakira >> > > I had to look it up. Jennifer Lopez is 50 and Shakira is 42. Not exactly > trying to appeal to the younger generation. > I think J

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl halftime performers will be...

2019-09-27 Thread Jim Ellwanger
> On Sep 27, 2019, at 3:38 PM, Tom Wolper wrote: > > Heinz Field used to bring in country/americana acts to play during halftime > at Steelers games. I'd stay in my seat and feel sorry for the acts as two > thirds of the crowd went to the concourse and the acts played to what looked > like

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl halftime performers will be...

2019-09-27 Thread Tom Wolper
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 10:08 PM Kevin M. wrote: > Me gusto Jennifer Lopez > > No me gusto Shakira > I had to look it up. Jennifer Lopez is 50 and Shakira is 42. Not exactly trying to appeal to the younger generation. Heinz Field used to bring in country/americana acts to play during halftime a

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl halftime performers will be...

2019-09-26 Thread Kevin M.
Me gusto Jennifer Lopez No me gusto Shakira On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 6:52 PM Doug Eastick wrote: > Bueno? > > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 9:32 PM Kevin M. wrote: > >> JLo y Shakira. >> >> https://twitter.com/jlo/status/1177309550015332353?s=21 >> >> https://twitter.com/shakira/status/117731178090

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl halftime performers will be...

2019-09-26 Thread Doug Eastick
Bueno? On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 9:32 PM Kevin M. wrote: > JLo y Shakira. > > https://twitter.com/jlo/status/1177309550015332353?s=21 > > https://twitter.com/shakira/status/1177311780906917890?s=21 > > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Googl

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl halftime performers will be...

2019-09-26 Thread Kevin M.
JLo y Shakira. https://twitter.com/jlo/status/1177309550015332353?s=21 https://twitter.com/shakira/status/1177311780906917890?s=21 -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiv

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ad rates about the same as last year

2019-01-24 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
Give or take... $5.1 to 5.3 mil, sources tell Bloomberg News [link; soft paywall] B -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" gro

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ratings lowest since 2009

2018-02-07 Thread M-D November
I'd still take Al Michaels over Joe Buck any day of the week. On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 11:11:35 PM UTC-5, Greg Diener wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 12:03:27 AM UTC-5, PGage wrote: >> >> Collingworth, who I generally like, had a really, really bad game. I am >> not sure if

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ratings lowest since 2009

2018-02-06 Thread 'Greg Diener' via TVorNotTV
On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 12:03:27 AM UTC-5, PGage wrote: > > Collingworth, who I generally like, had a really, really bad game. I am > not sure if he really is just in the tank for Brady > As a New Yorker who has mostly grown up a Jets fan, I've listened to Michaels and Collinsworth ca

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ratings lowest since 2009

2018-02-06 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
PGage, to Steve Timko, today (2/06): > > Collingworth, who I generally like, had a really, really bad game. I am > not sure if he really is just in the tank for Brady - my thought was that > he has been thrown by all the attention given Romo and was trying to be > more enthusiastic. But he was

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl commercial ripped for using Dr King's voice

2018-02-05 Thread Kevin M.
All the while, people were nervous a purple hologram was rumored to perform at the halftime show. If they’d only known. I am too jaded. Too cynical. I expect the worst of any advertising campaign, so when something ugly surfaces, I can’t even react with shock or dismay. I have been thinking recen

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ratings lowest since 2009

2018-02-05 Thread PGage
Collingworth, who I generally like, had a really, really bad game. I am not sure if he really is just in the tank for Brady - my thought was that he has been thrown by all the attention given Romo and was trying to be more enthusiastic. But he was way off on a couple of things (though he did a good

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl commercial ripped for using Dr King's voice

2018-02-05 Thread PGage
The Ram SB Ad is, in my view, the single most offensive commercial I have ever seen. The problem is not using King to sell trucks, the problem is they used excerpts from one of his most sacred speeches (given a few weeks before he was murdered, included in his funeral) to sell trucks, ignoring the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ratings lowest since 2009

2018-02-05 Thread Tom Wolper
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 11:07 PM, Steve Timko wrote: > > TV by the Numbers is brutal on the NBC broadcast. He doesn’t like the > announcers or the half time show. I appreciate that Timberlake didn’t lip > synch. It was a great game. I think many who didn’t tune in didn’t care to > see Brady win an

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ratings lowest since 2009

2018-02-05 Thread Steve Timko
TV by the Numbers is brutal on the NBC broadcast. He doesn’t like the announcers or the half time show. I appreciate that Timberlake didn’t lip synch. It was a great game. I think many who didn’t tune in didn’t care to see Brady win another ring. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/t

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl commercial ripped for using Dr King's voice

2018-02-05 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
An ad for Ram Trucks with parts of the civil-rights pioneer's "Drum Major Instinct" speech in its soundtrack was *not* approved by the Martin Luther King Jnr Center for Nonviolent Social Change (there'd've been serious fine print therein if it had been), and ripped by its leader Bernice King am

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ad stuff

2017-01-18 Thread M-D November
That seems to be the trend this year. Well, that, and just backing out of spots entirely (Frito-Lay, Toyota). -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! 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

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ad stuff

2017-01-18 Thread Bob Jersey
Variety: The brewer of Budweiser passes (again) (link) on the first national spot in Fox's Feb 5th game-cast... and promises a 'back to basics'

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ad rate could break $5mil barrier

2016-06-09 Thread Steve Timko
I am reminded of Jerry Seinfeld's comment that "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" gets Super Bowl type viewership (not all at one time) for a fraction of the cost. On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Bob Jersey wrote: > > Fox is toying with 5 to 5-1/2 meg and higher, which would include ads in the >

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ad rate could break $5mil barrier

2016-06-09 Thread Bob Jersey
Fox is toying with 5 to 5-1/2 meg and higher, which would include ads in the streamcast, sources tell Variety (link)... B -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are su

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl Sunday to stream free

2015-01-21 Thread Bob Jersey
>From the 12noon start of pregame stuff through the *Blacklist* premiere afterwards*... but with periodic PSAs about how to log into NBC's system later... Lost Remote on Adweek (link) B *Is there a line

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl

2014-02-04 Thread PGage
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Joe Hass wrote: > A question if someone knows it off the top of their head: a quick search > of Google isn't helping me. This "tradition" started with President Obama, > right? I don't see a note of someone from Fox (who had Super Bowl 42) > interviewing Dubya in 2

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl

2014-02-04 Thread Joe Hass
A question if someone knows it off the top of their head: a quick search of Google isn't helping me. This "tradition" started with President Obama, right? I don't see a note of someone from Fox (who had Super Bowl 42) interviewing Dubya in 2008. On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 11:45 PM, PGage wrote: > I

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl

2014-02-03 Thread M-D November
"Today" is still under the news division, yes. And those of us who lived in the New York market in the early-mid 90's remember Matt Lauer as WNBC's journeyman anchor, starting with the 6-7am "Today in NY" shift, moving over to read the news on the "Today" set, then running back up to the 6th fl

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl

2014-02-03 Thread PGage
I would not have mined a hard hitting serious interview - Evan one with a rightward spin. But this was just a rehash of Debunked Fox News talking points since the election. On Monday, February 3, 2014, Adam Bowie wrote: > Sky Sports in the UK carried Fox's pre-game show for three hours this > ye

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl

2014-02-03 Thread Adam Bowie
Sky Sports in the UK carried Fox's pre-game show for three hours this year, and it was the first time I'd ever seen it or any equivalent shows from previous years. I just found the whole Obama interview toe-curling. While I wouldn't expect any interview with a nation's leader full of soft pitches,

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl

2014-02-03 Thread Jim Ellwanger
On Feb 2, 2014, at 10:41 PM, PGage wrote: > Except - even though Lauer was not an evening news anchor, he is the anchor > of a news show (I assume Today still is run by the News Division at NBC? As I > recall Good Morning America is not, but I think Today is)... "GMA" was transferred from the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl

2014-02-02 Thread PGage
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 10:13 PM, David Bruggeman wrote: > The President sat down with Scott Pelley last year, Katie Couric in 2010, > and with Matt Lauer in 2009 and 2012. > > So CBS went with their evening news anchors, FOX and NBC opted not to. > Perhaps FOX isn't the only network not particula

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl

2014-02-02 Thread David Bruggeman
h the Presidential interview? Don't we get the pleasure - again - of avoiding part 2 of this genital measuring contest tomorrow night? David From: PGage To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, February 3, 2014 12:45 AM Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Super

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl

2014-02-02 Thread PGage
I won't comment on the game, so can skip the spoiler space. I have a question about Fox's decision to again use Bill O'Reilly to interview the President. I am not suggesting they don't have the right to do that, but I am wondering why it is in their best interest to. All of my conservative friends

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl

2014-02-02 Thread Bob Jersey
S P O I L E R S My next-younger brother is feeling rather mellow right now. 43 for the green-blues, 8 for the orange-blues. I saw a couple of commercials (Seinfeld q.v.), couldn't care less about 'em. If those who didn't watch are wondering, Bradshaw went home after learning

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ads mostly ineffective: study

2014-01-11 Thread Bob Jersey
Grabbing one's attention is one thing, says research group Communicus, but many of the spots from last year's game failed to influence buying decisions... http://www.thewrap.com/super-bowl-commercials-mostly-ineffective-study-finds B -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You rece

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl Ads Sold Out (on OTA)

2013-12-04 Thread Mark Jeffries
I don't really remember, to be honest with you--at the H&R Block office where I was working the streaming was fitful--and we had customers, even on Super Sunday. Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.com On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Joe Hass wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 a

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl Ads Sold Out (on OTA)

2013-12-04 Thread Joe Hass
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Mark Jeffries wrote: > ... there's still ad space available on the live web stream of the > telecast (I streamed CBS last year and I don't think they had any ads > during the game) ... > What did they show during the TV timeouts? -- -- TV or Not TV The Sma

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl Ads Sold Out (on OTA)

2013-12-04 Thread Mark Jeffries
Fox has sold all of its Big Game ad time on Feb. 2 to 43 advertisers, including such standbys as Anheuser-Busch, Pepsi, Chevy, Doritos and GoDaddy, but there's still ad space available on the live web stream of the telecast (I streamed CBS last year and I don't think they had any ads during the

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl on NBC

2012-02-05 Thread PGage
NBC just went to The Voice at 7:20 PT. Costas said that Belichick was late coming out of the loser's lockeroom, and they could not wait because they had to go to The Voice. But my DVR indicated that The Voice was supposed to start at 7:30 - so what was the rush? NBC did a great job covering this g

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl Halftime (not a spoiler really

2010-02-07 Thread Keith Privett
Hey the halftime show band played the theme from CSI:New York and in now playing the one from CSI:original recipe... How'd that happen? ;) -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ad rate falls

2010-01-12 Thread Bob in Jersey
A company that tracks things like this, finds that 30 seconds on the Feb. 7th CBS contest will run you $2.5 to 2.8 mil, down from $3 mil last year... but #44 will sell out quicker than #43... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100111/ap_en_tv/us_super_bowl_advertising -- BOB -- TV or Not TV Th

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl was most watched ever

2009-02-03 Thread Steve Timko
NEW YORK (AP) — Upon further review, Nielsen Media Research now says that the Arizona-Pittsburgh Super Bowl game was the most-watched in history. Nielsen said 98.7 million people, on average, were watching Pittsburgh's exciting 27-23 victory Sunday night. That beats the 97.5 million who watched th

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl LXIX ?

2009-02-02 Thread Ben Scripps
Tuscon, AZ Comcast subscribers apparently saw their Super Bowl coverage replaced briefly by porn: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7864733.stm http://www.kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=9769617 -- -- Ben Scripps benscri...@gmail.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ T

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl

2009-02-02 Thread Karla Robinson
It always helps when the game is as exciting as last night's event, but I really enjoyed the Super Bowl this year. NBC was really on point with some of their packages last night, and Al Michaels seemed well prepared to talk about almost every player's backstory. I loved the package they had on Ku

[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl Halftime: Boss or Big Balls?

2008-12-09 Thread Mark J.
For the first time since 2003, the Super Bowl halftime (on NBC) will be counterprogrammed by another network as ABC offers a special edition of their goofy summer game show "Wipeout"--a full-length edition with cheerleaders playing against "couch potatoes" will counterprogram "The Office" after th