Posts Tagged: Radio and TV
Free
Posted by on Saturday, March 5, 2005 in - leave a comment
It's freedom night on my TV apparently. CBC plays A Bug's Life - yea, kill the grasshoppers - and then the less happily ended Braveheart - yea, kill the English...oops - and flip to PBS's Austin City Limits and it is the Polyphonic Spree (warning - the best and most appropriate use of introductory …
Feds to Fund CBC 'Cause They Can
Posted by on Monday, February 21, 2005 in - 7 comments
From this morning's Globe and Mail: • “An Ipsos-Reid poll shows that 47 per cent of Canadians think the Prime Minister and his Liberals deserve to be re-elected. This represents a jump of 18 points since the question was asked during last spring's federal election campaign, which saw the …
A Real Treat
Posted by on Friday, February 18, 2005 in - 1 comment
From Lisa in Budapest from a Soviet era Hundarian TV ad for blood sausage. • If you think the photo is funny, here is the whole ad: [.mpg, 6.6 MB].
Which Mythmakers?
Posted by on Thursday, February 17, 2005 in - 4 comments
I listened to NPR's The Connection this morning and its roundtable of US religious leaders on the place of Christian religious belief in the present political debate on same-sex marriage. One very interesting aspect is how each person reaches back to a different set of mythmakers, mid-1900s civil …
Listening To Somers
Posted by on Thursday, February 17, 2005 in - 11 comments
Last night I listened to one of the most lucid voices on the NHL lock-out and season cancellation - Steve Somers on weekday evenings on WFAN 660 AM broadcast out of New York. Besides the fact that he was one of the most pleasant voices to listen to on radio (he is known as "the schmoozer" …
Indoctrination By Arthur
Posted by on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 in - 4 comments
Via Michael, it is sad to see another cartoon accused of promoting family values other than the families valued by the people who are at it, you know, valuing families at some kind of family-valuing headquarters in Washington DC: • “The not-yet-aired episode of "Postcards from Buster" shows the …
Captain Scarlet Returns
Posted by on Sunday, January 23, 2005 in - 1 comment
Timpany lovers and bad Cary Grant impersonators everywhere will be pleased with Captain Scarlet's return to Canadian TV on BBC Kids. As a recap: • “It is the year 2068 and, following what they mistakenly believe to be an attack on their Martian city, the Mysterons declare war on mankind. In the …
The Metropolitans
Posted by on Monday, January 10, 2005 in - leave a comment
I like lots of teams. I am a fan of sports as much as more than living and breathing one side over another - except maybe for the Morton...and maybe the Red Sox. But once in a while a team strikes your imagination. For years I have listened to WFAN New York 660 am and WNBC before it - not on-line …
Indonesian Aid
Posted by on Wednesday, January 5, 2005 in - 6 comments
I was quite disheartened to see last night on the CBC TV's main news show, The National, a report from Indonesia showing the army there is feeding itself very well from the food being donated to the survivors of the tsunami. Camera shots showed it being stockpiled and withheld while people …
David Brudnoy
Posted by on Thursday, December 9, 2004 in - 1 comment
I heard the most extraordinary radio last night. WBZ's longtime evening talkshow show David Brudnoy is near death. I have listened to WBZ from the Ottawa Valley to the Martimes for the last ten years pretty faithfully and for most of my life since I was a kid looking for long distance listening …
