Broadcasting in General 3D TV from The Masters in April 2010 A $64,000 moment Ads on radio should mention their product again at the end Anchors' intros to reporters' intros to reporters' stories Applause?  No, wild cheers — for anything we remember Asian graphics may require backgrounds with a taller aspect ratio Audiences are aging at the same rate as traditional TV networks Audiences laugh even if we misread the joke from the teleprompter Audio from 16mm film is muddy (with beagles Him and Her) Audio of Big Bang Theory airing begins with no dialogue, only laughter Awards to sitcom characters; future award for mRNA vaccine? Backdrops for TV could have been minimal rather than realistic Bands can be televised with many cameras, or with one Baseball on radio has to go to commercial in a hurry Beethoven instrumentals from 1801 and 1808 turn up in commercials Bingo arrives on ABC-TV "Boring" is a quality for a bank to brag about? Burns and Allen Show goofy moment Cable TV channel numbers expand to four digits Calling a nearby threatened character's name repeatedly? Odd Canadian series make up for a shortfall of American TV Captioning can sometimes be unintelligible Captioning explains what's happening in a commercial Captioning is apparently prerecorded on Saturday Night Live Captions: can they be auto-generated if the words aren't in English? CBS is not CVS Character names mentioned often in sitcom scripts Characters call each other by name excessively Circus TV; re-pairing a basketball doubleheader Closeups nowadays are not that close up CNN stays on one story for hours on end Color bars: seven hues from three primary colors Commercial clutter on a radio morning show Commercial copy for psoriasis and propane Commercials change dramatically once the election is over Commercials for competitors back-to-back? Commercials include disclaimers too compressed to be understood Communication when you can't respond Conan and Cardozo Correction:  they're working in the tape room Debates like Kennedy/Nixon were better without a cheering audience Details about evidence in drama scripts Dialogue on TV episodes always includes a certain question Dickens on NBC-TV in 1956, with Basil Rathbone as Scrooge Digital switchover now on staggered schedule; might be a good thing Documentary on ancient sunken Helike seems to include ringing phones Dollar amounts aren't spoken; instead, characteres write notes Donnie Iris turns 75, looking better than a body has a right to Episode titles hint at what's to come Fading to black between TV segments is standard — usually Fans could attend games via Zoom Film and video images once were easy to tell apart Fog in football stadiums could be adjusted out of the camera video Fonts getting squeezed compared to adjacent fonts (pet peeve) Football TV should concentrate on the players, not the coaches Fox Box has added more information, some via symbols "Fulton" not laughed at in radio comedy Giving the score is out of fashion for TV announcers Graphics: to contrast with yellow, green's better than lime; D needs serifs Graphics were primitive on TV in 1962 and 1952 Grease Live assistant director calls the choreographed shots HD radio can be eight seconds out of sync Headline News almost announces a tragedy that didn't happen Headset orientation for booth announcers His mouth is always open; why?  Also, in what year is this show set? Honkus, Debbie:  award winner How I Met Your Mother final scene Jo Stafford sings "And LOVE ... cn'come to ev'ryone" Jubies and bummage Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, 1962 Larger fonts are easier to read, duh Laugh tracks:  why not screen the show for a real audience? Laverne?  Are we being honest? "Lay out!"  In other words, it's a home run, so stop talking Le Batard's name doesn't mean what it means Liberty Mutual's "Lee-moo" ought to be pronounced "Limm-yew" Literal-minded cameramen Mandalorian fails to win an Emmy; so what's a mandalorian? Marathon presentations of TV series episodes Mary Tyler Moore and my recollection of a single woman in the 70s "Mast cam" provides good location for televising 3D sports Memory of faces doesn't always connect to surnames Menu boards with movable letters once used for TV graphics Microphone on host's desk isn't even wired up Minicams for news coverage are getting even smaller Mistakes in the telecast of a horse race, with likely explanations Mister Rogers gets a scary statue Mockumentaries:  Pay no attention to the fictional cameramen Monk gets good numbers but not good demographics Munich 1972:  No translator available Names with meaning can help viewers of TV dramas NASCAR on TV, says Mike Joy, is better nowadays NEP's fleet of remote units for the Super Bowl Newark Airport?  Is he really expecting to see you there? New Girl makes me wonder?  Jess!  Sí, sí! News story from 1960 as I remember it Nichols & May classic inspires Garrison Keillor No Jingles or Mascots in commercials for New Jersey Manufacturers Oscars 2015 and non-terrible music Oscars 2017 and the wrong (but almost unreadable) envelope Paar's censored "WC" story, leading him to walk off the Tonight show Penguin wedding on Parks and Recreation Perry Como finds skaters rolling "Round and Round" Podcasts sometimes need to be paused for better comprehension Polling by phoning folks?  It no longer works well Predicta:  the Edsel of television sets Presenters, include the viewer in your conversation Presidents quit in 1968 and 1974:  my recollections Price Is Right dates back to 1956 Radio music once had more variety Raymond and Cool Kids titles lose meaning after the first episode Refs and umps tell sportscasters what officially happened Scripts that interleave three story lines Season-ending episodes should be identified, especially cliffhangers Seats for guests may be lower than seats for interviewers Set designers always seem to raise the entry door Shandling's Show interacts with Michael Dukakis and Jon Stewart Sitcom characters we never saw Sitcom uses outdated joke references Soap opera that my grandmother watched goes off the air 'Splainin'?  I can explain everything Split-screen audio Sponsorship:  1950 product placement, 1960 billboards Stats should be side-by-side for easier comparison Stedicam operator covers the winning driver from all angles Stock images are sometimes required for news stories Studio sets and moving parts "SunRides Earth" tours a national park in Maine Super Bowl XLII inside the TV trucks Switching cameras and calling a WVU game from a Connecticut studio Synching live radio with live video Tabernacle Choir produces its annual Christmas program Theatre on Broadway installs video screen in 1931 "Touch of Evil" and "The Dish" Travolta's goof at the Oscars is unnoticed by me TV closed-captioning goofs TV movies are 37% commercials TV shows that invite you to leave them? TV sports ratings indicate the game's quality, not the production's Two-strip Technicolor in silent movies; other updates Using ancient Shatner footage Viewers of a TV station are not its customers Volume down on TV leads to chirping and XXXX captions Wall-mounted camera for the Pope Watergate's John Dean (from Marion, Ohio) is portrayed on Starz WDVE abandons me for three weeks at the holidays Web addresses in radio ads need to be spelled out Welles' War of the Worlds panic?  Less than newspapers implied What on Earth discovers remaining relics of warfare “Why?  But why?”  Questions in documentaries keep our interest Widescreen TV on the wall — in 1966 Wide Wide World and Dave Garroway's squeaking globe Winter preparations inexplicably take over half of mid-November newcast WLW introduces color to Cincinnati TV:  Ruth Lyons, Hayride, baseball Yvonne Strahovski's two front teeth Zooming in on a surveillance video doesn't work