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 ...

I'm glad somebody remembers Don Pardo was the announcer on the original Jeopardy. For the record, Art Flemming was the original host.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Well, there's another media board where they have been known to ban people for "negative comments." Newsman123 might be happier there.

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...