On Feb 10, 12:35 pm, stan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 10, 11:50 am, "Mark J." <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Wanna be featured on Tribune-owned NY CW affil WPIX's "Pix Morning
> > News" segment "Dining Pix?" Well, cough up 100 $100 gift certificates
> > to be sold at half price on WPIX's web site--on an alleged news
> > program (but consider, of course, the "KTLA Morning News" and "WGN
> > Morning News" on other Trib-owned CW stations):
>
> >http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/02/09/2009-02-09_ins...
>
> > The "Pix" title is part of the Trib stations' downgrading of the CW
> > brand on their affils--the Trib says that it's because news viewers
> > don't watch "90210" and "Gossip Girl," the rumor has been that Sam
> > Zell and Randy Michaels are looking for a way to dump The CW ASAP.
>
> Maybe the "PIX" name is in preparation for bringing back the call-in
> video game where kids on the phone yell "PIX" and someone hits the
> "fire" button on the on-screen Intellivision console. If they hit an
> alien, the kid wins "valuable" prizes.
For those of you outside New York, it was called "TV POOOWWWW!"
everywhere else (and you yelled "POW!" into the phone). The exact
Channel F or Intellivision game used varied by market--some markets
used a variety of games, while I seem to recall that WGN in Chicago
only used the Channel F Shooting Gallery game. (We also only saw a
still frame of the show's titles, since "TV POOOWWWW!" was a segment
of "Bozo's Circus" and they didn't want to take away any play time
from the trumpet-Cordovox-drums band).
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