Mark just brought back a harrowing memory from many moons ago, when some of my fellow "Dr. Who" fans goaded me into going with them to "vol" at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Peeb WVIA. (WLVT didn't carry the Time Lord, ISTR... I watched enough episodes in 'movie' form on WNJT, which lucked its way onto the Easton-Phillipsburg cable)
B *"...we like Jersey... best!"* Mark Jeffries, to Diner and Doug Eastick, Dec 8th: > Telethons in the U.S. have become pretty much a dead issue since Muscular > Dystrophy ended the Jerry Lewis-less and much shorter appeal some years > ago. There's the cost of doing them and the fact that they do disrupt > programming, weekend sports programming in particular. Which is why PBS > stations stopped doing fundraising auctions some time ago, despite the > problem of offending the volunteers who put worked on them--program > disruption when people started actually watching PBS. Although, of course, > pledge drives already do program disruption for the regular PBS viewers who > are not happy about seeing the classic rock concerts and Suze Orman > infomercials that pop up during pledge drives and pre-empt > "Frontline"/"Nature"/etc. > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/201c98c2-5e04-4d88-908e-949a2f9d321an%40googlegroups.com.
