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30 years ago today MTV went on the air: where did the video go?
Back in ancient times there was a new cable channel that would play pictures with music on your TV set. They called it Music Television or MTV for short. At 12:01 AM on August 1st 1981, MTV switched...
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Retransmission Wars
Like clock work, the end of the year brings us some retransmission wars in cable television. The FCC allows local broadcasters to charge a fee to cable companies that retransmit its signal to...
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Girls Guide To Depravity? Not So Much…
Sally Golan & Rebecca Blumhagen – stars of The Girl’s Guide to Depravity The other day I watched a few episodes of the Cinemax After Dark series ‘The Girl’s Guide to Depravity’, based on a Internet...
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Bunheads Is A Nice Diamond In The Rough At ABC Family
Cast of Bunheads (2012) I am not a normal viewer of the ABC Family cable channel with its heavy focus on teen girls both as an audience and subject matter of their shows. The only logical reason for...
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Falling Skies Season 2 Finale Even Shocked Me
Noah Wyle and Will Patton on Falling Skies I admit I’m a jaded TV watcher. I’ve seen so many of these post-apocalyptic shows like “Falling Skies” and then I get disappointed when they hold back their...
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Honey Boo Boo Killed Cable
Honey Boo Boo Killed Cable TV I remember when I would be excited to get home from work to see some show on cable TV. I would forgo some purchase to make sure my cable bill was paid on time. But today I...
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Cable Channel Does Good: Cancels Trashy Reality Show
In my last post I lamented the very bad trashy reality shows, like “Here comes Honey Boo Boo” on TLC, that some cable channels seem to be addicted to like crack. I wrote that these shows weren’t...
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Never Ever Do This At Home is perfect for Spike TV
Teddy Wilson & Norm Sousa, Hosts of ‘Never Ever Do This At Home’ There wasn’t anything on TV the other night so I ended up watching a couple of episodes of the new reality/comedy show ‘Never Ever...
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Most Cable Channels Are Worthless
Cable TV is expensive. Most standard packages include hundreds of channels but you have to ask yourself, are those channels worth it. The current pricing scheme the industry uses means your hundred...
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No I Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne
Andrew Mayne Andrew Mayne is a magician, illusion designer and filmmaker. He has worked for Penn & Teller and the Amazing Randi. He has a new show on A&E titled ‘Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne‘. I...
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