Re: [TV orNotTV] Warners quietly becomes a Netflix/Amazon competitor

2013-04-04 Thread Jim Ellwanger
a press release here: http://www2.warnerbros.com/web/corpcomm/portal/press_release.jsp?id=WBCelebrates90th_10.3.12 The studio was founded in 1918, as Joe said...but the Warner Bros. company was incorporated in 1923, and they use the latter as their anniversary date. -- Jim Ellwanger train

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox threatens to go cable if Aereo is legal

2013-04-09 Thread Jim Ellwanger
, back, back... ...and that's when the bombs go off. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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

Re: [TV orNotTV] TDS TCR in repeats tonight only

2013-04-15 Thread Jim Ellwanger
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: TDS TCR in repeats tonight only

2013-04-15 Thread Jim Ellwanger
On Apr 15, 2013, at 8:19 PM, Dave Sikula dsik...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm guessing they didn't think it was the right day to bring the funny, given Boston. Tonight's repeats were previously scheduled -- events today were a coincidence. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http

Re: [TV orNotTV] TDS TCR in repeats tonight only

2013-04-15 Thread Jim Ellwanger
as eloquent -- and from then on, business as usual. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv/ -- -- 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

Re: [TV orNotTV] SportsTV: The Apocalypse Is Nigh

2013-04-17 Thread Jim Ellwanger
play it only on Sunday, but up in godless Hollywood, the Dodgers play it at every game (at least, this was true as of last season). -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you

Re: [TV orNotTV] SportsTV: The Apocalypse Is Nigh

2013-04-17 Thread Jim Ellwanger
will follow their 7th-inning-stretch God Bless America with Take Me Out (And, in my experience, a noticeable percentage of the crowd will sit down right after God Bless America, thus causing my eyes to hurt from the rolling.) -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv

Re: [TV orNotTV] I don't understand (NBC News coverage of Boston)

2013-04-20 Thread Jim Ellwanger
, for example, MSNBC cannibalizing Today viewership by simulcasting it at 7:00 Eastern, with no local news/weather/commercial inserts. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [TV orNotTV] FCC Goes Soft on Obscenity (Thanks a lot Obama)

2013-04-21 Thread Jim Ellwanger
, it aired on Fox. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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 tvornottv@googlegroups.com

Re: [TV orNotTV] Boston-bombing-related eff-up

2013-04-26 Thread Jim Ellwanger
/181VlPd -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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 tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

Re: [TV orNotTV] Boston-bombing-related eff-up

2013-04-26 Thread Jim Ellwanger
to. They'll usually clear out previously used abbreviations every so often, in order to avoid exactly this situation. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [TV orNotTV] COM Renews 'Jeselnik,' 'Nathan'

2013-04-26 Thread Jim Ellwanger
Mark's from the folks behind Tim and Eric description. Really, it's nothing like Tim and Eric. I assure you, you definitely should give it a shot. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you

Re: [TV orNotTV] McCain: A La Carte Cable And Get Off My Lawn!

2013-05-09 Thread Jim Ellwanger
Science Theater 3000... -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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 tvornottv@googlegroups.com

Re: [TV orNotTV] McCain: A La Carte Cable And Get Off My Lawn!

2013-05-09 Thread Jim Ellwanger
subscribing to HBO Sunday afternoon and unsubscribing Monday afternoon that they now have a 1-month minimum. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [TV orNotTV] Major Layoffs at ESPN?

2013-05-24 Thread Jim Ellwanger
.) There are a lot of sporting events out there -- and the problem is not that there are too many ESPN channels, the problem is that ESPN has paid a lot of money for the rights to carry a lot of sporting events. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] So long, Ed Shaughnessy

2013-05-27 Thread Jim Ellwanger
/obituaries/la-me-ed-shaughnessy-20130526,0,6466298.story -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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

Re: [TV orNotTV] Arrested not helping Netflix stock

2013-05-29 Thread Jim Ellwanger
on the events. (I definitely want to watch again, but I'll probably wait at least a couple months.) -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] NotTV: Tix to Disney Parks inching toward century mark

2013-06-04 Thread Jim Ellwanger
On Jun 4, 2013, at 8:11 AM, Bob in Jersey wrote: Raised a fiver, to $92 for most, $86 for widdle tids, as of Sunday, per the LA Times. Annual passes leap at least twenty bills. Those are Disneyland prices - Disney WORLD is a few bucks more than that. -- Jim Ellwanger train

Re: [TV orNotTV] Network Swapping for Dummies

2013-06-13 Thread Jim Ellwanger
half an hour to explain in 1995: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-1v8H2ubZM -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv/ -- -- 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

Re: [TV orNotTV] Where's Stephen?

2013-06-17 Thread Jim Ellwanger
On Jun 17, 2013, at 8:31 PM, PGage wrote: I guess by now the east coast knows if Oliver made any comment about this on TDS... Or those of us on the West Coast with satellite. He made no mention. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] Yesterday's Great Moment In Local Broadcasting

2013-06-20 Thread Jim Ellwanger
times for the late-night shows, so that the stations could program their automation from that. Date on this graphic is correct: http://i.imgur.com/jks4WOe.jpg -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received

Re: [TV orNotTV] NotTV, but...: My mother can not move to LA now

2013-06-26 Thread Jim Ellwanger
under my kitchen sink. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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 tvornottv@googlegroups.com

Re: [TV orNotTV] IYC: Comic-Con's TV attractions

2013-07-07 Thread Jim Ellwanger
, there are parents who bring their kids. That said, I have a feeling at least 90% of the audience for the Annoying Orange panel will be people who have a YouTube video that they want to turn into a TV series. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] SemiNoTV: Tribune Co. Spinning Off Newspapers

2013-07-10 Thread Jim Ellwanger
comic strips these days are dogs in the sense that there seems to be little, if any, growth potential in the traditional business model, with newspapers continuing to shrink and/or go out of business entirely. (You'll notice I didn't dispute Gasoline Alley.) -- Jim Ellwanger train

Re: [TV orNotTV] KTVU Officially Becomes Worst TV Station In US

2013-07-12 Thread Jim Ellwanger
happened as sending. It refers to those names being confirmed by the intern, which is something different. I think KTVU still deserves plenty of blame. I also don't see any indication that the intern was fired (either in that press release, or in other news reports). -- Jim Ellwanger train

Re: [TV orNotTV] KTVU Officially Becomes Worst TV Station In US

2013-07-13 Thread Jim Ellwanger
On Jul 13, 2013, at 7:46 AM, Bob in Jersey wrote: Jim Ellwanger, to moi: The linked press release doesn't characterize what happened as sending. It refers to those names being confirmed by the intern, which is something different. I think KTVU still deserves plenty of blame

Re: [TV orNotTV] Giving Tim McCarver His Due

2013-07-17 Thread Jim Ellwanger
for pointing this out.) -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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 tvornottv@googlegroups.com

Re: [TV orNotTV] KTVU Officially Becomes Worst TV Station In US

2013-07-23 Thread Jim Ellwanger
of the content). It's then up to each uploader to make a counterclaim of fair use in order to get each video viewable again. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [TV orNotTV] Jeopardy Judges Make Biggest D--k Move In Show's History

2013-08-01 Thread Jim Ellwanger
is Franklin? Seems more heartbreaking than yesterday's episode (in which the second-place contestant had no chance). -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [TV orNotTV] Jeopardy Judges Make Biggest D--k Move In Show's History

2013-08-04 Thread Jim Ellwanger
, this Abe Lincoln lover wants to go into politics, and the Final Jeopardy! category was THE CIVIL WAR. Thomas might as well have just written a hello to someone he has a crush on instead of trying to write Emancipation, which might have had better results for him. -- Jim Ellwanger train

Re: [TV orNotTV] Set Your DVR Now?

2013-08-04 Thread Jim Ellwanger
are in the database as if they're series episodes -- thus, it looks like a season pass created based on those previews will work to record the regular episodes once each show actually premieres. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv/ -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest

Re: [TV orNotTV] CBS Jumps Further Into Minis for Next Summer

2013-08-07 Thread Jim Ellwanger
to renew it for another season. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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 tvornottv

Re: [TV orNotTV] Dave Attell to top-line unbleeped standup series at COM

2013-08-25 Thread Jim Ellwanger
of Hawaii are too laid-back to care. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv/ -- -- 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 tvornottv

Re: [TV orNotTV] Love, American Style to be reimagined

2013-08-27 Thread Jim Ellwanger
On Aug 27, 2013, at 6:57 PM, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote: From the creators of CBC's Being Erica and Global's The Best Years... Sounds more like Love, Canadian Style, eh? -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv/ -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest

Re: [TV orNotTV] NotTV, but...: More reasons to use spellcheck

2013-09-01 Thread Jim Ellwanger
to FS1. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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 tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Golf on Fox follow-up

2013-09-01 Thread Jim Ellwanger
due to the heavily leaded screen) Heck, just this past Monday, woot.com had a factory-refurbished 32 Samsung HDTV for $185 including shipping. (Plug: my current day job is writing/editing content for the online-deals website http://bensbargains.net/ -- we post plenty of TV discounts.) -- Jim

Re: [TV orNotTV] BBCA drops Copper

2013-09-20 Thread Jim Ellwanger
. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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 tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

Re: [TV orNotTV] Breaking Very, Very Good (No Spoliers)

2013-10-02 Thread Jim Ellwanger
a crush on Courteney Cox and her telekinetic powers. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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

Re: [TV orNotTV] Weekend Arsenion repeats

2013-10-13 Thread Jim Ellwanger
as well, Saturdays at 11:00. Shades of the weekend Tonight Show rerun -- which was replaced by SNL -- which NBC affiliates ran on either Saturday or Sunday nights. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received

Re: [TV orNotTV] It's 1, 2, 3 strikes you're... moved?

2013-10-17 Thread Jim Ellwanger
allotment, and FS1 could very well be the winning bidder for that package, thus effectively moving some of Fox's NFL games to FS1. http://deadspin.com/report-nfl-considers-more-thursday-night-games-1446363612 -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] (Mostly NoTV) Going back to Cali

2013-10-22 Thread Jim Ellwanger
minutes after the taping ended, and I guess that's what really matters. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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

Re: [TV orNotTV] Parks Rec Feeling Community

2013-10-22 Thread Jim Ellwanger
early. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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 tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

Re: [TV orNotTV] CBS Back Nines Remaining Sitcoms

2013-10-27 Thread Jim Ellwanger
the same impetus as previous CBS shows titled “The New _”… So you don’t think it’s reruns of the previous version starring Bill Cullen. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv/ -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you

Re: [TV orNotTV] Barker Coming Back to 'TPIR' (Not as Host)

2013-10-29 Thread Jim Ellwanger
: http://on-camera-audiences.com/shows/The_Price_is_Right -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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

Re: [TV orNotTV] Conan's 20th

2013-11-04 Thread Jim Ellwanger
. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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 tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

Re: [TV orNotTV] FCC considering eliminating sports blackout rules

2013-11-04 Thread Jim Ellwanger
... This one is gone with the new 2014 TV contract -- Fox's Saturday games will be available on MLB.tv and MLB Extra Innings: http://www.baseballnation.com/2012/10/2/3443876/mlb-tv-blackouts-fox-sports-ending-2014 -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] FX Sets Winter Premieres

2013-11-06 Thread Jim Ellwanger
On Nov 6, 2013, at 10:26 AM, M-D November wrote: 2) FXX is just about the worst name for a TV network I could possibly think of. Well, after Spike anyway. Still waiting for FXXX. You know, Fox turned into a hardcore sex channel so gradually, I didn't even notice. -- Jim Ellwanger train

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'X Factor' Has Chyron Problems, Dumps Last Night's Votes

2013-11-07 Thread Jim Ellwanger
attorneys -- particularly if the problem was actually another company's inferior product. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox 32 News Brought to You by Blue Man Group

2013-11-09 Thread Jim Ellwanger
, since when have they been Fox 32 as opposed to Fox Chicago? -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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

RE: [TV orNotTV] Not One to Sit Idol, ABC Throws Its Voice Into the Ring

2013-11-19 Thread Jim Ellwanger
a week or more (because they shipped films or tapes). The TV Guide contents page used to show that Judith Crist's movie reviews were except in Hawaii, and I didn't figure out until much later that it was because the movies in Judith Crist's column wouldn't be airing in Hawaii that week. -- Jim

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'SOM' Director on What Went Right and Wrong

2013-12-16 Thread Jim Ellwanger
Lou Retton as Tiny Tim, but this would feature the Jule Styne/Bob Merrill songs from the animated special. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] TV orNotTV] NOTTV: Harvard Dialect Survey in NYT

2013-12-22 Thread Jim Ellwanger
the Federal Highway Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices), so it may not necessarily reflect local usage. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv/ -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [TV orNotTV] TV orNotTV] NOTTV: Harvard Dialect Survey in NYT

2013-12-22 Thread Jim Ellwanger
Pittsburghese while I lived there.) -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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 tvornottv

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: ABC Delaying Episode Streaming (Unless You Have Cable)

2014-01-03 Thread Jim Ellwanger
of sweeps day). If I recall correctly, they had sweeps hour in the Max Headroom universe. I think we're getting close. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [TV orNotTV] Weather Channel seethes as DirecTV deal wanes

2014-01-11 Thread Jim Ellwanger
. “Launched” in the quote here merely means “began carriage of. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv/ -- -- 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

Re: [TV orNotTV] So long, Professor Hinkley

2014-01-16 Thread Jim Ellwanger
, the odds were nowhere near as good. (I saw him live in 1996 at a “Mystery Science Theater 3000” convention; he was invited as one of the stars of “This Island Earth,” which was the subject of the riffing in “Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie.”) -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http

Re: [TV orNotTV] News only the late Tom H and I would care about on this list...

2014-01-22 Thread Jim Ellwanger
able to remember her lines, but she at least did a fairly good job of enunciating whatever words she was able to come up with. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [TV orNotTV] The Story of the Second Best Sports Theme Ever

2014-02-02 Thread Jim Ellwanger
I don't think it's been mentioned in this thread yet, but I've always liked the theme CBS used for Major League Baseball in the early '90s -- even if their coverage wasn't as good as NBC's had been in the '80s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95kTST5KtLw -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl

2014-02-03 Thread Jim Ellwanger
was transferred from the entertainment division to ABC News in the late '90s. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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

Re: [TV orNotTV] Apparently there wasn't enough SNL on Late Night W/Seth Meyers

2014-02-10 Thread Jim Ellwanger
.) -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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 tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

Re: [TV orNotTV] Jimmy Fallon Era Begins: Fallon Big Late Night Winner

2014-02-16 Thread Jim Ellwanger
On Feb 16, 2014, at 10:08 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: Fallon is 39, but (at least to my now old eyes) seems a lot younger than Leno's 42 was. Jimmy Fallon is 3 days older than me. So if he ever starts to seem old, that probably means I've started to seem old, too. -- Jim Ellwanger

Re: [TV orNotTV] Did Fallon need to introduce himself last night?

2014-02-19 Thread Jim Ellwanger
-ons. But I'm still a Conan/Stewart/Colbert man, and 2 hours of late-night talk is all I'm willing to commit to watching regularly.) -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you

Re: [TV orNotTV] Ks East of the Mississippi

2014-02-21 Thread Jim Ellwanger
, that is -- Delaware already has WHYY (noncommercial VHF), WDPB (noncommercial UHF) and WPPX (commercial UHF). -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] A Random Question That May Open Pandora's Box

2014-02-21 Thread Jim Ellwanger
for DVR-type functions are quite different from consumer-level DVRs. Here's one example: http://www.360systems.com/products_highdef.html -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you

Re: [TV orNotTV] A Random Question That May Open Pandora's Box

2014-02-22 Thread Jim Ellwanger
, the man on the sidelines wearing a headset and a pair of bright orange gloves, who was the most powerful person on the field. (That is, the man who signals TV timeouts to the officiating crew.) -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest

Re: [TV orNotTV] A Random Question That May Open Pandora's Box

2014-02-22 Thread Jim Ellwanger
the Creamsicle jerseys -- and the guy doesn't stand that close to the team bench anyway. http://espnfrontrow.espn.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/MNFTimeoutOrangeGloves.jpg -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You

Re: [TV orNotTV] Late Night with Seth

2014-02-25 Thread Jim Ellwanger
should be @TwelveOOne. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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 tvornottv@googlegroups.com

Re: [TV orNotTV] Late Night with Seth

2014-02-26 Thread Jim Ellwanger
Central's start times look even weirder, but as far as I can tell, they do stick to them.) -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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

Re: [TV orNotTV] NotTV: Doonesbury 'toonist takes (semi?) break

2014-03-05 Thread Jim Ellwanger
improved greatly over the years. Maybe I should complain to the L.A. Times about Doonesbury, the Peanuts reruns, and Get Fuzzy (which is in reruns just about every other week, although it can be hard to tell). -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] Cosmos Talk

2014-03-10 Thread Jim Ellwanger
and related genres). I liked it a lot, and didn't have any problem with the amount of visual effects. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] It's Colbert - or so says this Repor...

2014-04-10 Thread Jim Ellwanger
comedians in a roundtable discussion about the day's pop-culture news -- it was excellent, and I definitely wouldn't mind seeing CC going back to that (assuming PFT is available). -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You

Re: [TV orNotTV] It's Colbert - or so says this Repor...

2014-04-11 Thread Jim Ellwanger
Darren Glass wrote: I just want a Judge John Hodgman tv show. Period. Only if it also features Bailiff Jesse Shut Your Piehole Thorn. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you

RE: [TV orNotTV] Piers Morgan to be replaced by... nobody

2014-04-16 Thread Jim Ellwanger
Brad Beam wrote: (But then as Dad would say, You don't go on vacation to watch TV.) I want to watch TV in a different time zone! -- Homer Simpson -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message

Re: [TV orNotTV] Piers Morgan to be replaced by... nobody

2014-04-17 Thread Jim Ellwanger
through The Weather Channel, if I recall correctly). I loved the OCD-ness. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: family feud

2014-04-25 Thread Jim Ellwanger
at the same time on different networks -- two dramas both produced by Warner Bros., for example. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: KNBC's scaled down Universal newsroom named after Brokaw

2014-04-29 Thread Jim Ellwanger
the top of my head: KNBC is just plain KNBC (there never was a KNBC radio), WNBC is just plain WNBC (no one currently at Comcast remembers there was ever a WNBC radio), the others end with -TV. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: KNBC's scaled down Universal newsroom named after Brokaw

2014-04-30 Thread Jim Ellwanger
, in which case a suffix is required Thanks for the correction. Now I recall that I recently saw an on-screen station ID graphic on KTLA that said KTLA-DT, but they're just KTLA in the database. I should file an FCC complaint. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] KNBC's scaled down Universal newsroom named after Brokaw

2014-05-01 Thread Jim Ellwanger
on the same basis. If it wasn't clear, I was being facetious about complaining to the FCC about the use of KTLA-DT. Really, as anyone who's heard a radio station bury their legal ID between two commercials at :52 can tell you, the FCC doesn't necessarily care all that much about this. -- Jim

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC good through '32 Olympics

2014-05-07 Thread Jim Ellwanger
Brad Beam wrote: $7.75B, starting with Winter '22. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/Olympics/2014/05/07/NBC-Olympics-broadcast-rights-2032/8805989/ Some of the athletes who will be competing in 2032 haven't been born yet. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv

Re: [TV orNotTV] So long, Lee Marshall

2014-05-10 Thread Jim Ellwanger
To make this thread slightly less baffling for most of the TV or Not TV membership, here's the previously mentioned classic 20/20 news sounder: http://www.ellwanger.tv/collect/jingles/audio/drakenews.mp3 -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] NYC unveils Seinfeld-themed subway train

2014-05-13 Thread Jim Ellwanger
is a bonus. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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 tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: So long, Live Well Network...

2014-06-10 Thread Jim Ellwanger
is the network programming EARLIER (since I have DirecTV, I get cable shows 3 hours earlier anyway). But fat chance of that. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [TV orNotTV] CNN Reporter Hit by Tear Gas at World Cup Protest

2014-06-12 Thread Jim Ellwanger
that messes with the search results. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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 tvornottv

Re: [TV orNotTV] SNL and Ben Jerrys team up...

2014-06-19 Thread Jim Ellwanger
... that particular flavor needs to have instructions printed on the side, take 1 bite, mug to the camera, repeat every few weeks for 5 years. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you

Re: [TV orNotTV] Vin Scully back for 66th year

2014-07-31 Thread Jim Ellwanger
there hasn't been any actual arbitration yet -- none of the other providers have agreed to go to arbitration. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: Penn Teller - Fool Us

2014-08-08 Thread Jim Ellwanger
Fargo episodes actually ran longer than an hour in the U.S. -- more like 70-75 minutes. Sounds like you're still getting fewer commercials than us. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 8, 2014, at 3:54 PM, Adam Bowie a...@adambowie.co.uk wrote: Ad rules in the UK are complicated beast, and I won't

Re: [TV orNotTV] Tonight's Ferguson repeat

2014-08-11 Thread Jim Ellwanger
of the show (comedy segment) to make room. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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 tvornottv

Re: [TV orNotTV] Shep Smith and Todd Bridges regret remarks about Williams

2014-08-12 Thread Jim Ellwanger
. Danny Cooksey yet lives. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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 tvornottv

Re: [TV orNotTV] Tom Werner an outsider in MLB commish derby

2014-08-14 Thread Jim Ellwanger
going away. (My big Selig-created MLB pet peeve is God Bless America during the 7th-inning stretch, but I've seen some local broadcasts that give it a sponsorship when they show it on Sundays. Same deal.) -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] Live from New York, no longer

2014-08-19 Thread Jim Ellwanger
on another job. He's actually 76 years old -- I have the feeling Lorne and NBC would prefer to put someone younger in place. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [TV orNotTV] ABC daytime shuffle (was Re: Post-Katie, ABC Chicago unveils...)

2014-08-21 Thread Jim Ellwanger
) that's on the other stations. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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 tvornottv

Re: [TV orNotTV] The (ex)Chief and Dave

2014-09-04 Thread Jim Ellwanger
community (and I happen to know him from when we were both students at Northwestern University in the mid-1990s), but who hasn't been particularly active in the community since he started actually working on game shows -- I believe he's currently a writer/producer for Let's Ask America. -- Jim

Re: [TV orNotTV] Simpsons/Family Guy crossover

2014-09-08 Thread Jim Ellwanger
the primary voice recording about 9-12 months before the episode airs. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- -- 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

Re: [TV orNotTV] New Alex Baldwin Straight Line For Kevin...

2011-12-06 Thread Jim Ellwanger
electronic devices during takeoff and landing -- not because I think electronic interference would be a problem, but because of potential distractions in the event of an emergency (not to mention injurious electronic devices flying around the cabin). -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http

Re: [TV orNotTV] Olby's too busy, I suppose

2011-12-12 Thread Jim Ellwanger
last particularly long. http://twitter.com/#!/KeithOlbermann/status/146390724387160064 (Not his first reply, just the first one I happened to notice in my stream, since it was a retweet, not just a reply.) -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- TV or Not TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] Which New York-based talk show host was serviced by a hooker in the mid 1990s?

2011-12-14 Thread Jim Ellwanger
, that points at Conan O'Brien. As far as I know, Conan doesn't have any sort of theater background -- his background was in writing, not in performing (which was fairly obvious during his first few years on Late Night). -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] NYT: Sports tax is about $100/year

2011-12-17 Thread Jim Ellwanger
somewhat of an oddity here in that I feel that I watch enough of both sports and non-sports programming that it makes my DirecTV subscription perfectly worthwhile. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv/ -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC Exec: 'We Had a Really Bad Fall' (No Kidding)

2012-01-06 Thread Jim Ellwanger
We had a really bad fall? Follow up with something about all Comcast's horses and all Comcast's men not being able to put NBC together again. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you

Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: LAX or PSP trip April 2012

2012-01-08 Thread Jim Ellwanger
me for lunch (although it might not be particularly exciting for your son). -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- 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

Re: [TV orNotTV] Dylan Performing on Tomorrow's Critics Choice Award

2012-01-11 Thread Jim Ellwanger
On Jan 11, 2012, at 7:01 PM, Kevin M. wrote: Show is taking place two blocks from my school... gonna cause a traffic nightmare on Sunset Blvd. Yes, but really, days ending in Y cause traffic nightmares on Sunset Blvd. -- Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv http://www.ellwanger.tv -- TV

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