Shorty Wave wrote:

Thanks for the heads up RadioActive, and I mean that sincerely since when the Jays games are on Apple TV, it doesn’t appear in any conventional listings, like the newspaper, and I often miss them as a result, and I have Apple TV to boot! What’s with the 6:45 start time?!

 
Well did I have egg on my face as the Globe and Mail had the game listed in their TV Sports listings, and noted it was in Apple+, first time I believe. However, it wasn’t mentioned in the Star’s listings. Not the end of the world!

I would tape the Top Twenty when I was a teenager and ended up recording the whole show as they really talked over the top of songs, right up to the posts, so I gave up on pausing. A few years ago I found one of those tapes and it still played, it was from 1976 I think, as Golden Years by Bowie was one of the songs. We sure worked for our music back then, appointment listening!

RadioActive wrote:

This isn't about broadcasting per se, but it's such a terrible idea, I can just see Bell & Rogers drooling in anticipation and wondering "why didn't we think of that?" Let's hope they don't. 

A New Zealand telco recently completed an experimental campaign that - wait for it - plays ads right before people are connected durng a phone call. It appears the idea was to reduce user's bills, but it's such an intrusive interruption that it would likely infuriate most of us. Still, you didn't have to hear the spot.

"...“There will be people who think, ‘instead of paying $40 a month, I’ll pay $5 and tolerate ads.’ There could be a legitimate business model there.”[/i][/b]


Skinny phone call ads: Why the telco tried a ‘dystopian’ campaign

 
The one problem I see with this is that Bell & Rogers would run the ads but still charge customers close to full service charges. They wouldn’t take much of a haircut if they control it and the consumer would end up with ads and little if any savings. Don’t go into the light!

Entertaining but I’m finding a lot of the AI stuff I see is somewhat creepy, can’t put my finger on it, but kind of like a fever dream without the fever. I think it is because I know it’s fake, but looks so damn real, disturbing!

Remember in the movie Gladiator, they “reanimated” Oliver Reed, as he died during filming. I found one of his scenes particularly weird, much like most of AI today. I will probably get used to it, eventually!

CNN just did a piece on him……

RadioActive wrote:

mace wrote:

Shorty Wave wrote:

Speaking of Howdy Doody, my former landlord who I am still friends with, was downsizing as he was selling his house. He had his original Howdy Doody lunchbox from when he was a kid in the 50s and gave it to me. It is in decent shape and now on my bookshelf, next to the Fireball XL5 one! They were actually well made by today’s standards.

I watched Fireball XL5 on Saturday Mornings. NBC ran it at 10;30 following Underdog which I also enjoyed.

Fireball XL5 had one of the best theme songs ever! It's pretty much forgotten today, but it could have been a hit record. (I think it was released in Britain and reached #32 on their charts.) 

 
Years ago I bought an album of Barry Gray compositions he had done for various Gerry Anderson shows, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds and a few others. It was actually a 10” and cost a bit as it was an import! I pulled it out last winter and gave it a spin, good stuff for a puppet show, highly orchestrated in some cases. I also have a collection of 7” singles with various Thunderbirds stories, the best part is the photo covers. Nostalgic fuzziness!

Speaking of Howdy Doody, my former landlord who I am still friends with, was downsizing as he was selling his house. He had his original Howdy Doody lunchbox from when he was a kid in the 50s and gave it to me. It is in decent shape and now on my bookshelf, next to the Fireball XL5 one! They were actually well made by today’s standards.

Drake sure did generate a ton of media with his recent publicity stunts but that news cycle died pretty quickly as I’m not reading nor hearing about it today so far. I wonder why he released three albums as opposed to spreading them out and potentially not splitting his sales. Still, the kids love him, I think. I heard a track yesterday and it sounded very old school, must be intentional.

8:55am - I stand corrected, CP24 just did a piece on Drake, and the beat goes on…….

Oddly enough, for about a week while I was listening to CFRB online, in Toronto, when initially tuning in I was hearing ads for businesses in London ON. I put it down to a glitch which eventually cleared up.

For the price, these are a fairly good deal and I can imagine the audio quality is fairly decent. I have read though that battery life is shorter than “advertised “, as you pointed out, cash!  Still, you avoid clogging up your phone.

Does anyone remember the Jerry Lewis MDA Labour Day telethon? I worked for a tv station out west that carried it and we also produced the local segments. McDonald’s was the food sponsor and it would show up every four hours or so. At first there would be a mad scramble for the McSpread, but as the telethon progressed, people were less enthusiastic, I think your system can only take so much grease. They actually showed up over night to boot. Fortunately, no fingers were lost RadioActive!

In the past year or so I read a piece about how Kars for Kids were aware their commercial annoyed many but were not going to change it as it gets attention, so I’m surprised they changed it. I wonder what size buys they make as they seem to be in every commercial break!

John Moore just talked about this on his show, so it is getting a fair amount of attention!

Thanks for the heads up RadioActive, and I mean that sincerely since when the Jays games are on Apple TV, it doesn’t appear in any conventional listings, like the newspaper, and I often miss them as a result, and I have Apple TV to boot! What’s with the 6:45 start time?!

RonaldS wrote:

Much to just about everyone's chagrin:

Fox Renews a Ton of Unscripted Series



 

 
Unscripted is so much cheaper to produce but has a short shelf life, that’s probably why you don’t see reality shows being rebroadcasted too often, very much of the moment. I have watched a few episodes but I prefer scripted programming, with real actors!