IIRC, both Penn and Teller (on different episodes) did guest star
turns on 'Miami Vice' and both did well (yes, Teller had a speaking
role).

I actually like the premise and hope the writing is up to the concept.

Ron Casalotti
Wayne, NJ.

On Sep 21, 4:10 pm, "Mark J." <[email protected]> wrote:
> Boston pubcasting giant WGBH buys commercial station WCRB for $14M
> (according to radio-info.com and radio blogger Scott Fybush), only a
> few months after The New York Times dealt with Univision and WNYC to
> transfer WQXR to WNYC (and switch QXR's frequency to the weaker 105.9,
> as Univision's Spanish WCAA "La Kalle" moves to QXR's old 96.3 slot):
>
> http://www.wgbh.org/support/keepclassicalalive_main.cfm
>
> It's unclear whether CRB will be commercial or become a non-com like
> QXR will become on Oct. 8, when the frequency flip and WNYC takeover
> takes place, or if it will continue programming mostly only the Top
> 500 Most Loved Classical Favorites like most classical stations these
> days (their PD started the strategy at the long-defunct NY commercial
> station WNCN).  It is safe to say that GBH's daytime programming will
> become all-news-talk, putting them against competing all-NPR-news-talk
> station WBUR (home of Click and Clack, Robin Young and Tom Ashbrook)--
> GBH will continue to play jazz at night and above-92 commercial
> station that acts like a college station WHRB (owned by an NFP
> affiliated with Harvard) plays a lot of classical music.
>
> And three of the biggest radio deals of the year all involve public
> radio stations (KERA in Dallas is buying religious non-com KVTT for
> $18M to convert it in November to AAA KKXT).
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