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What broadcasters need to know about the core demo.

14 January, 2008 (19:44) | Computers, TV, rant | No comments

They don’t watch TV. Mostly. Get it?
OK, I’ll repeat myself. Broadcaster’s (and many cable networks) are not relevant to young people most of the time. This is not news any longer, however it bears repeating, because thick-headed, narrow field-of-view TV execs, GMs and news directors keep fooling themselves into believing they [...]

TV News. My apathy is becoming loathing.

5 January, 2008 (09:00) | TV, rant | No comments

I remember the day I lost any faith in local or national news. It wasn’t when the Colombia Space Shuttle exploded and CNN put this erroneous ‘factoid’ on the air:

A few years ago I was sitting in a department head meeting when the news director piped up about a story of significant public safety [...]

My new PS3 - Go! Go! Blu-Ray!

24 December, 2007 (23:00) | Computers, Fun, HDTV, TV, rant | No comments

Today I made the plunge and finally got off the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray format fence and bought a PS3 system.
There were several reasons for this; first I did NOT buy it because I love Blu-Ray. I like that it has multiple studio and vendor support as well as about 25GB storage per layer, but the hardware [...]

DTV Transition

14 November, 2007 (09:47) | Analog Transition, DTV, HDTV, rant | No comments

For the old…. err.. “seasoned” television viewer that doesn’t understand what a “Tivo” is and still tunes in to re-runs of Matlock (after adding more tin foil to the rabbit ears), a few items just popped up on my radar I thought I would forward to everyone.
First is a website discussing the digital transition [...]

HDTV and Me (and my soapbox)…

1 October, 2004 (10:26) | DTV, HDTV, rant | 1 comment

I am a fond proponent and avid ‘flag waver’ of local broadcasting and free HDTV and I would be happy to answer questions on the subject for anyone to the best of my ability. It is fun to show friends and neighbors what HDTV looks and sounds like when I invite them into my [...]

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