I guess it'd be totally out of the question to just run a news hour? I mean
it's not as though actual news (rather than comment) is available to any
massive extent at 9pm. I see that they're doing precisely than at 10pm. I
guess I'm just used to a world in which BBC News Channel (the UK version)
and Sky News both just run news bulletins in rotation with only a hint of
personality shows. Indeed their big fights tend to be over who gets the
next days papers first to review.

Incidentally, I'm just about to return to the UK after a month of watching
much less television than usual while I travelled around the US. I have two
key observations:

1. Barely any hotel or motel has any kind of understanding of aspect
rations. They all have widescreen TVs, but mostly they're somehow
stretching the picture wrongly even though it too is widescreen. And this
has very little bearing on how expensive or not the room is. The best
adjusted TV I came across was in a dirt cheap motel. (I'd have a moan about
HD downgraded to analogue SD before it gets delivered to the room's HD TV,
but that'd be too easy).

2, For the entire 29 days of my trip, I don't think I've seen CNN cover
anything apart from that Malaysian plane. Right now, Anderson Cooper is
probably bored to tears as he conducts yet another feature on it. They were
showing how they found the Titanic earlier because that's relevant...
Sometimes, they just make it easy for Fox to make fun of the "Plane
Channel",


Adam


On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:

> At least no single individual will take over the timeslot. CNN execs are
> hoping a random mish-mash of "documentaries" and "specials" (those were
> airquotes, by the way) from the likes of Anthony Bourdain and John Walsh
> will lead to ratings success.
>
>
> http://www.cleveland.com/tv/index.ssf/2014/04/cnn_replacing_piers_morgan_wit.html
>
> --
> Kevin M. (RPCV)
>
> --
> --
> 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 [email protected]
> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> [email protected]
> For more options, visit this group at
> http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
> ---
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "TVorNotTV" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to [email protected].
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>

-- 
-- 
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 [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
[email protected]
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
--- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"TVorNotTV" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to [email protected].
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Reply via email to