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