On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 3:49 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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) > I didn’t discover the UK series Red Dwarf until I went to college in Washington state and saw Lister and Kryton flown to Seattle to help with the pledge drive… they were clearly given access to somebody’s liquor cabinet and their antics and improv made me a lifelong fan > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/201c98c2-5e04-4d88-908e-949a2f9d321an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- 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/CAKgmY4BxAuDCsOugwSQvXLPbbzDwkQ12As47k2bnuWzT%3DwknNg%40mail.gmail.com.
