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  • The Fascinating History Of Television Commercials: How They’ve Changed Over The Years

    03/24/2024 6:51:53 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 58 replies
    All About Television ^ | 3/8/23 | Jay
    Television has been a staple of American culture for over half a century, and along with it, the commercials that go with it. In fact, the television commercial is so integral to the medium of TV that the two are nearly inseparable! From simple product placements to elaborate marketing campaigns, TV ads have been a mainstay in our lives since the early days of television. Let’s take a closer look at the evolution of television ads over time.
  • Dying Oscar Telecast Bombs with 4th Lowest Ratings in History

    03/12/2024 6:13:54 AM PDT · by Bon of Babble · 50 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 3/12/2024 | JOHN NOLTE
    With only 19.5 million viewers, Sunday night’s Academy Awards bombed with the fourth-lowest viewership in Oscar history.
  • Biden jokes Taylor Swift endorsement is ‘classified,' jabs at Trump's mental acuity on ‘Late Night

    02/27/2024 6:55:12 AM PST · by Recovering_Democrat · 14 replies
    NBC MIAMI ^ | 2/27/2024 | Brendan Brightmsn
    The eagle has landed. President Joe Biden made a surprise appearance Monday on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" alongside comedian Amy Poehler, who he joined on stage to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Meyers' show.... ...Poehler left the stage and just Biden and Meyers got to more serious subjects. Addressing criticism about his age, the 81-year-old president noted former President Donald Trump is also older, while taking a dig at his Republican rival's own mental acuity and policy ideas.
  • Smart TV brand that does not pimp their ads on the home screen?

    02/22/2024 4:15:51 AM PST · by LouAvul · 101 replies
    My Sony flat screen TV is old and is rebooting at least once a day. And the pimps at Sony have overridden my "preferences" to hawk their "woke" alerts and advertisements. All this on the home screen. Since I'm going to upgrade anyway, is there a brand that doesn't pimp the Psuedo Cause du jour when it fires up?
  • TV Drug Ads Are Not About Selling More Pharmaceuticals, They’re About Big Pharma Buying off the Media

    02/21/2024 2:27:55 PM PST · by AT7Saluki · 19 replies
    Natural News (via Liberty Daily) ^ | 2/21/24 | Ethan Huff
    All those obnoxious pharmaceutical commercials that get laced into just about every television and cable “news” program that airs in the United States these days might seem like they are simply about selling more drugs and getting people hooked, but Big Pharma’s true agenda is actually much more sinister than that. Former pharmaceutical industry insider Calley Means spoke to Tucker Carlson recently about what he described as an “open secret” within the pharmaceutical industry. In essence, Means says that Big Pharma is buying the media with all those ads, which allows the drug industry to control what gets broadcasted on...
  • ‘The Simpsons’ Episode That Was Banned After 9/11

    02/10/2024 8:37:17 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 8 replies
    Far Out Magazine ^ | Sat 10 February 2024 | Scott Campbell
    One of the most unexpected legacies generated by The Simpsons is the repeated insistences in which the creative team have some form of clairvoyancy, with so many real-world events appearing to be predicted well ahead of time by Springfield’s most famous family. With that in mind, it was inevitable that an episode removed from the airwaves in the aftermath of the September 11th terror attacks gave rise to a predictive conspiracy theory, even if it was nothing more than a matter of coincidence and a show of respect. The first episode of the ninth season, ‘The City of New York...
  • Blazing Saddles at 50: the button-pushing spoof that could never get made today.

    02/07/2024 2:23:42 PM PST · by Carriage Hill · 76 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 2.07.2024 | Scott Tobias
    Though it rarely gets mentioned in the same breath as The Wild Bunch, McCabe and Mrs Miller and the wave of revisionist westerns that came out of Hollywood in the late 60s and early 70s, Mel Brooks’s Blazing Saddles doesn’t need any artfully hazy Vilmos Zsigmond cinematography to upend Old West mythology. True, it is a comedy where a horse gets cold-cocked, a Native American chief (one of three characters played by Brooks) speaks Yiddish and Count Basie’s orchestra makes an appearance on the plains. Yet from the opening sequence, where Chinese immigrants and recently freed Black slaves work under...
  • All ATSC 3 TV Tuners will EXPIRE & More DRM News

    02/03/2024 8:50:08 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 82 replies
    YouTube ^ | January 29, 2024 | Lon Seidman (as LonTV)
    I've collected more ATSC 3.0 over the air television news. Unfortunately it's not great news: I learned that all ATSC 3 tuners will have certificates that will expire after a certain length of time and there's been very little progress towards getting gateway devices to work.00:00 - Intro00:59 - DRM Petition Update02:23 - Tuner Expiration Dates04:13 - All ATSC 3 Devices "Phone Home" For Decryption04:48 - Zero Progress on Gateway Devices05:44 - ATSC 3 statement10:08 - Broadcaster Moving 4k to Streaming Only11:07 - Could Cable Access Channels Use Unwanted Spectrum?13:58 - ConclusionAll ATSC 3 TV Tuners will EXPIRE & More...
  • Suzanne Somers' widow Alan Hamel says 'very strange things' are happening at his house after death of Three's Company star 3 months ago

    01/16/2024 12:16:36 PM PST · by Beowulf9 · 57 replies
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | Jan 16, 2024 | HEIDI PARKER
    Three's Company star Suzanne Somers passed away at age 76 on October 15- one day before her 77th birthday - in Palm Springs, California. Now her husband Alan Hamel, 87,has said that 'very strange' things are happening inside the house they shared together. In one day, three unusual things occurred that made him wonder if the blonde beauty's spirit was in their home, he told PageSix.
  • Antitrust Suit Against NFL TV Deals Moves Toward Trial

    01/16/2024 8:16:14 AM PST · by trebb · 14 replies
    Newsmax ^ | 16 Jan 2024 | Jim Morely
    A decades-long legal battle over the part of the NFL's television package may soon be decided and the verdict could cause a broadcasting earthquake that would affect all of the league's 32 teams, Deadline has reported. The $6.1 billion lawsuit was first filed in 2015 when Sunday Ticket was on DirecTV and was bought by "2.4 million Sunday Ticket subscribers in the residential class and nearly 50,000 bars, restaurants, and other establishments in the commercial class," Deadline reported. The essence of the class-action suit is that fans were compelled to pay higher than market prices to the NFL to watch...
  • Nolte: ‘Sopranos’ Creator David Chase Says TV’s Golden Age Is Dead

    01/15/2024 12:18:18 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 114 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/15/2024 | John Binder
    Sopranos creator David Chase is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his iconic show’s premier and lamenting the death of television’s exquisite Golden Age. In an interview with the Sunday Times, the 78-year-old who changed television, but sadly not forever, said, “Yes, this is the 25th anniversary, so of course it’s a celebration. But perhaps we shouldn’t look at it like that. Maybe we should look at it like a funeral.”
  • Honeymooners star Joyce Randolph dies at age 99: Actress played Trixie opposite Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows in the 1950s classic TV show

    01/14/2024 8:02:46 AM PST · by Libloather · 42 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 1/14/24 | Heidi Parker
    Joyce Randolph has passed away at the age of 99. The actress - who played Trixie Norton on the TV show The Honeymooners - died in her sleep in New York City on Saturday, her son told TMZ on Sunday. The star was in hospice as she was suffering the effects of old age, it was added. She played one of the main characters on the popular sitcom The Honeymooners, which aired from 1955 until 1956. The show was centered around Jackie Gleason's rough NYC bus driver character Ralph Kramden who was always yelling at his wife Alice, played by...
  • Ecuador TV studio taken over live on air by masked people brandishing guns

    01/09/2024 12:58:45 PM PST · by RomanSoldier19 · 13 replies
    Reuters via MSN ^ | 1/9/2023 | Reuters
    A live broadcast by Ecuadorean television station TC was interrupted on Tuesday by armed people who obliged staff to lie and sit on the floor, as shots and yelling were heard. The people, wearing balaclavas and largely dressed in black, were seen wielding large guns and accosting huddled staffers on the live feed, which eventually cut out. Some of the invaders gestured at the camera and someone could be heard yelling "no police".
  • The Texas Wheelers (1975) "The Widow"

    01/08/2024 7:12:52 PM PST · by ValleyofHope · 1 replies
    The early 70's tv show, starring Jack Elam and Gary Busey
  • Pigskin Pickem Thread: Week 17

    12/28/2023 8:06:22 AM PST · by Impy · 77 replies
    12-28-2023
    Fool's Ball Week 17!!!!!!!!!! Your home for all things Fool's Ball! In Memoriam Danny Lee (BENDER2)
  • Andre Braugher, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ and ‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ Star, Dies at 61

    12/12/2023 6:34:23 PM PST · by Rummyfan · 55 replies
    Variety ^ | 12 Dec 2023 | Michael Zee and Pat Saperstein
    Andre Braugher, the two-time Emmy winning actor who starred in the hit television series “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Homicide: Life on the Street,” died Monday after a brief illness. He was 61. Braugher’s publicist Jennifer Allen confirmed the news of his death to Variety. Braugher was known for his role as Captain Raymond Holt on the police procedural comedy series “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” from 2013 until 2021. His character’s stoic and no-nonsense personality made him an instant fan favorite of the show, especially when paired with Andy Samberg’s hotshot Det. Jake Peralta in a scene. He won a lead actor Emmy for...
  • Trailer for Fallout television series (produced by Amazon, coming April 2024)

    12/02/2023 2:52:03 PM PST · by Ciaphas Cain · 25 replies
    YouTube ^ | December 2, 2023
    "War. War never changes."This actually looks pretty good. It's got a strong cast coming together also. Anything with Michael Emerson is bound to be good.
  • Russian TV hacked to broadcast Zelensky’s speech vowing to liberate Crimea

    11/30/2023 9:01:08 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 12 replies
    NY Post ^ | 11/30/2023 | Snejana Farberov
    Pro-Ukrainian saboteurs hacked into Russian television channels in Crimea overnight to air President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech vowing to liberate the occupied peninsula. In a further humiliation to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime, the pranksters renamed all 20 channels in Crimea’s IPTV network “Putin is a d—head,” as seen in videos shared online. In his brief address to the people of Crimea, who have lived under Moscow’s control since the region was illegally annexed in 2014, Zelensky promised that the occupiers’ presence there “will not last forever.”
  • THREAD: Sat., 11/18: The Miss Universe Pageant LIVE from El Salvador starts at 8PM on YouTube & Telemundo (2 trans contestants

    11/17/2023 3:06:46 PM PST · by SilvieWaldorfMD · 41 replies
    Miss Universe ^ | 11/17/23 | Myself (somewhat)
    The 72nd Annual MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT will be broadcast LIVE from El Salvador on Saturday, November 18th on YouTube, Roku or Telemundo in the United States, starting at 8:00 PM ET. The pageant's owners, JKN Global Group, out of Thailand, just filed for bankruptcy last week. This year's pageant will go on as scheduled. I always watch this contest on Telemundo because Latin American countries take this pageant very seriously and do a great broadcasting the event. They even have a pre-show scheduled as well. Two trans women, Miss Portugal and Miss Netherlands, will be competing amongst the 84 candidates....
  • Today in History (Kind Of)

    11/13/2023 11:13:59 AM PST · by TBP · 2 replies
    Youtube ^ | 1977 | ABC
    On November 13, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence; that request came from his wife. Deep down, he knew she was right, but he also knew that some day he would return to her. With nowhere else to go, he appeared at the home of his childhood friend, Oscar Madison. Several years earlier, Madison's wife had thrown him out, requesting that he never return. Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy?