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- Fri Oct 20, 2023 3:33 pm
- Forum: Getting Connected (or Cutting the Cord!)
- Topic: Prime Video Is TRASH
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10280
Re: Prime Video Is TRASH
I dropped Prime. Shows that used to run ad-free as part of Prime are now on Freevee with ads. So why pay for Prime when they take away ad free content to put in Freevee. What's the problem? The ad breaks are too long (they were shorter but have gotten longer). Too much repetition: I keep seeing the ...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 12:23 pm
- Forum: Remembering the Golden Years
- Topic: Announcer Johnny Gilbert story
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3268
Re: Announcer Johnny Gilbert story
I'm glad somebody remembers Don Pardo was the announcer on the original Jeopardy. For the record, Art Flemming was the original host.
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 8:55 am
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: WTF?> WDIV F*cks up NBC news feed on 4.3, again.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6867
Re: WTF?> WDIV F*cks up NBC news feed on 4.3, again.
Yeah, but I wanted to watch the 6:30 network newscast at, well, 6;30. Ended up watching BBC News which was starting at 7:00p. The Beeb is probably a much better choice. As would be the CBC on channel 9. In any case, the world is not about you getting what you want, when you want it. Stop your whini...
- Fri Sep 22, 2023 1:10 pm
- Forum: Lansing/Mid-Michigan
- Topic: Why It Was WMSB On Channel 10
- Replies: 31
- Views: 11894
Re: Why It Was WMSB On Channel 10
Ironically, now many people have the opposite problem. Most stations, no matter what they call their channel number, are really on UHF. Many of the so called HDTV antennas only work on UHF. But there are some stations whose real channel (RF channel) is actually VHF and they often have the same recep...
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 11:51 am
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: CBS News Detroit
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5658
Re: CBS News Detroit
Not quite. It's already been proven how important broadcast TV is when cell towers fail and/or there are carry disputes with cable companies and being dropped. OTA isn't going away. It hasn't gone away yet and it won't go away suddenly, but it is going away. They can't stay in business waiting for ...
- Sun Sep 17, 2023 3:14 pm
- Forum: Remembering the Golden Years
- Topic: Arthur Duncan
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3400
Re: Arthur Duncan
People who liked Welk used to make the phones - and cash registers - ring at pledge time. Less and less true all the time. Public television still calls itself "non-commercial" but it's all about money, like anything else. Money from so called "underwriters" and money from station "members." For bab...
- Sun Sep 17, 2023 3:00 pm
- Forum: Lansing/Mid-Michigan
- Topic: Why It Was WMSB On Channel 10
- Replies: 31
- Views: 11894
Re: Why It Was WMSB On Channel 10
I was in 2nd grade during the switch from 10 to 23. The teacher would play The Electric Company every morning. One day, a game show came on instead. She didn't know what happened. We lost our in-class TV time and favorite show. It took them weeks before they figured out what happened and how to get...
- Sun Sep 17, 2023 2:52 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: CBS News Detroit
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5658
Re: CBS News Detroit
This is the 21st century. Get traffic alerts on your cell phone. You don't have to wait for traffic on the whatever. You don't have to waste your time with backups someplace else. The phone knows where you are and you can tell if where you are going. It tells you what's relevant. Same thing for weat...
- Sun Sep 10, 2023 11:25 am
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Constant negativity
- Replies: 47
- Views: 6556
Re: Constant negativity
Well, there's another media board where they have been known to ban people for "negative comments." Newsman123 might be happier there.
- Sat Sep 09, 2023 10:58 am
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: 950 WWJ lies to its listeners
- Replies: 91
- Views: 12587
Re: 950 WWJ lies to its listeners
"lie: v. to speak falsely or utter untruth knowingly, as with intent to deceive." The temperature they gave was wrong. But nothing in MW's posts demonstrates they did it knowingly and with intent to deceive. Newsman123's post is even more troubling. He suggests a major market, all news radio station...
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 7:09 am
- Forum: Lansing/Mid-Michigan
- Topic: Why It Was WMSB On Channel 10
- Replies: 31
- Views: 11894
Re: Why It Was WMSB On Channel 10
I'm sure this split channel deal made Hal Gross happy. He had two weaker competitors: One operating part time from down near Jackson. The other operating from Flint. And WMSB was pathetic - like all "educational television." Panel discussions of a bunch of professors. A professor sitting in front of...
- Sat Aug 26, 2023 9:23 am
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Channel 4 wins yet again (8/24 tornadoes)
- Replies: 74
- Views: 5758
Re: Channel 4 wins yet again (8/24 tornadoes)
Hey, everybody now has cell phones. Weather alerts on TV are obsolete. (1) They interrupt what people have tuned in to see. (2) They are useless in an era of DVRs, when much of the audience watches hours or days later. (3) Cell phones know where they (you) are and provide targeted information. TV ma...
- Sat Dec 17, 2022 3:24 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Fox 2’s OTA signal
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4609
Re: Fox 2’s OTA signal
Details, please. What exactly is the problem? What kind of antenna do you have? Keep in mind that "2" is really channel seven (VHF), and every other station in town - regardless of channel number, is really UHF. The so called HD antennas are pretty much useless on VHF. Absent any information about w...
- Thu Nov 24, 2022 11:41 am
- Forum: Remembering the Golden Years
- Topic: Radio Stations And Personality References In The Movies
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8949
Re: Radio Stations And Personality References In The Movies
I remember Walter Cronkite doing the voice of an eagle in a cartoon some years ago. Are you sure? No reference to it on IMDb. Maybe it was somebody immitating Cronkite. Well, Cronkite's daughter played the Patty Hearst character in "Network." The director, Sidney Lumet, had been Cronkite's director...
- Thu Nov 24, 2022 11:38 am
- Forum: Remembering the Golden Years
- Topic: Milky The Clown
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5160
Re: Milky The Clown
Milky was NOT before my time. I watched the show and saw him in person once. He did not look "creepy" on TV. He was aimiable and he mostly did magic tricks on camera, at which he was pretty good. That said, I am not one of those who disliked clowns. They were all over early TV, network and local. My...