I thought he was great in "Tombstone" as Doc Holiday. "I'll be your Huckleberry."

Go ahead is one of my biggest pet pet peeves. Don't go ahead, just DO it!

Others that drive me nuts:

Tempature instead of temperature.

The redundancy of "tomorrow morning at 9 a.m."

Using the word "less" when it should be "fewer."

And the annoying overuse of the word super, as in I'm super excited, or it's super important.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have some clouds to shout at.

I too bought 45s as a youngster, mainly because they were the hits I heard on the radio, and because my parents were not music lovers, so all they had was one of those old portable phonographs. When I was 17 I was able to scrounge up enough to buy a secondhand Viking stereo with a turntable and built in radio tuner. It was just slightly better than the old phonograph, but good enough to finally invest in albums.

My first was Universal Juveniles by Max Webster, followed quickly by The River from Bruce Springsteen, and I was on my way ...

RadioActive wrote:

The one thing you won't see on any Super Bowl is a secret that takes place in the broadcast booth. They're called "boards" and those calling the game would be lost without them. 

A sneak peek behind the scenes.

For Super Bowl broadcasters, game ‘boards’ are an indispensable booth secret

 

That was a good read. I was particularly impressed to read that Al Michaels has had the same spotter alongside him in the booth for over 45 years. I admire that kind of loyalty.

mace wrote:

There is one television spot that drives me to spin cycle. It's the Bell Art Exibit ad where viewers get to see his bad era and good era. He dropped cable for Bell Fibe. For some reason, I absolutely detest the woman portraying the art display hostess. Her oversized glasses, deep throaty voice, and snobby delivery could have something to do with it. But when she gleefully exclaims "It's A Masterpiece" at the end, that tops the cringe factor for me. A very close second is the Uber Eats ad where the couple attempts to get into a solidly booked restaurant. Out of the blue. a guy appears claiming that "Perhaps I can help" Get us a table? Oh no! Can't do that. Then he starts explaining how wonderful the sponsor's product is. I find him to be arrogant and extremely condescending. This ad failed miserably in attracting me to try their product. To be fair, no ad would have worked. I have never had any desire to use any of the food delivery services currently available.

 

I couldn't agree more about the Fibe ad. That woman's voice is very off-putting.

Speaking of off-putting voices, while watching the Saturday Night Live music special this week, I was shocked at the sound of Miley Cyrus' voice. Perhaps she was suffering from laryngitis, but she sounded like she had a 50 year four-pack-a-day habit.

RadioActive wrote:

 

I will fortunately be at the dentist will all this is going on and that seems only appropriate - because watching it will be like pulling teeth!

 

Don't be so sure. My dentist has a TV hanging right above the patient chair. They always seem to be tuned to CTV. If yours is similar you may need to keep you eyes shut and put some earplugs in. 😊

DaCosta wrote:

I watch Corrie and a few years back one of the bad-un characters was a hospital radio host/DJ.  It was interesting to see him at work. 

I had the same thought, remembering the dastardly Geoff Metcalfe. He was indeed a bad'n.

I also seem to recall an episode of the hilarious Scottish sitcom Still Game (available on Netflix I believe) where Jack and Victor tried their hand at being hospital radio DJs.


 

Thanks for posting this RA.

Personally, I'm saddened that four of those on the list were former co-workers, and three of those I was unaware of their passing.

They will be missed.

As it happens, the Christmas day edition of Jeopardy featured a full category marking Serling's 100th birthday and one of the questions was about the Christmas episode starring Art Carney.

The question was: 
 
In a classic "Twilight Zone", Art Carney loses his job as this "uniquely popular American institution"

The player who answered said Santa Claus, but was ruled incorrect when she was asked to be more specific and couldn't come up with "department store" Santa Claus.

ED1 wrote:

According to all the publicity that was launched earlier this year, a 10 AM hour of BT was supposed to launch with Cheryl Hickey and Tracy Moore back on Sept 9. But as of now it’s only been Judy Justice at 10 AM.

https://nowtoronto.com/lifestyle/tracey-moore-and-cheryl-hickey-team-up-for-new-show-on-breakfast-television/

 
That's what I thought too, that the 10 am slot would be an exclusively "lifestyle" version of BT with Moore and Hickey. Not that I really care, as those lifestyle shows don't appeal to me at all. But I wish they would put something other than Judge Judy on. Granted, I don't think I've ever watched a full show, but of what I've  seen, I find her to be a thoroughly unpleasant person.

And speaking of CITY TV, I've been noticing a lot of dropouts on the channel recently, with both audio and video disappearing for a second or so and the screen going to black. I was wondering if it is the station's signal, or a problem with my provider, Bell Fibe.

Has anyone else noticed these glitches?

cash wrote:

They changed the onscreen guide and functions. Of course, they made it worse and logged me out of various apps. Thanks. 

Could you be more specific? I have Fibe, but I can't see anything different about the onscreen guide. It looks the same to me.
 

Add me to the list of those who will miss Blue Bloods. Good stories and a great cast, headed by Tom Selleck. I also really like the supporting cast, especially Gregory Jbara and Steve Schirripa.

I'd have to go with two stations that were very important to me and a major inspiration to get into the business.

1050 CHUM in the mid 1970s.
I was pretty much glued to that station during my pre-teen and early teen years.

Q107 from the late 70s and early 80s.
As I got a bit older I migrated to the FM dial. I never found a connection with CHUM-FM or CFNY, but I really loved Q, especially Ted Woloshyn, then Scruff Connors in the morning and the Six O'clock Rock Report, which provided great rock music news when it was pretty hard to come by anywhere else.

mace wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

On a side note, now that texting is a firm part of every day life, can the people who make TV dramas not figure out a way to show those texts on screen in a way that is a) legible and b) on for longer than three seconds. 

Big screen TV or not, I find them almost impossible to read in the time they're shown. 

I'm not sure how you fix this, but there has to be a better way than what they're doing now. 

I PVR almost everything these days [except sports] and it is difficult to read on screen texts on my 65" tv when I am sitting eight feet away in my lazyboy recliner. I still have to get close to the set to read the text.

 

This is a big pet peeve for me too. I thought one show found a solution, but it was not permanent.
I can't remember what show it was, but it was a prime time drama. When a character received a text, the phone was shown, but the text was printed in a very readable font on screen, similar to closed captioning. It was great.

Sadly it only lasted for one episode.

splunge wrote:

betaylored wrote:

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

Thanks for the heads up RA, forewarned is forearmed, unless you're the Black Knight.

p.s. Eric Idle will be delighting Python fans with a new brand new book that hits the stores tomorrow.

i still want a shrubbery.... a nice one with a two tiered effect

... and not too expensive!