Plus, a lot of those posts from individuals get pulled down on YouTube because someone has re-upped, or still has an active copyright to a series. Posting copyrighted TV shows is against YouTube TOS.
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Are broadcast networks becoming obsolete 10-20 yrs from now?
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Today, less than half of the comedies make it through one season. And hlf again don’t go beyond two. So 75% are two seasons or less.
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One kid at my school had money. His parents had one in the 70s.
When I finally saw the first episodes of "The Beverly Hillbillies" I could tell these were good actors.
The incorrect spelling comes from "Gilligan's Island" where the boat was named that.
You needed to have money to buy the early ones. The list price of the cheapest Sony Betamax when it was introduced in the U.S. in 1975 was $2,000. That's $11,000 adjusted for inflation. When RCA introduced the first VHS player in 1977, part of its appeal was that it only cost $1,000---but that's $5,500 in today's money.
In fact, now that I think about it, I bought my first one when I got my first job in TV---1981---and it was $795 on sale.
No, it comes from the actual word "minnow," a small fish. I'm sure Mr. Minow suffered misspellings of his surname long before "Gilligan's Island" debuted.
Oh boy, more old tech ruminations! Mine was a JC Penney-branded Panasonic in 1983. I spent $450 on it.
I got one in 1979. It was "free" via a trade with the stations I was managing.
Let's tick off Kelly.
Say, CTListener---remember those machines where you could record black and white TV on wax cylinders?
“Thank you.”
Nice of them to throw in the minnow gratis.
In my region it's actual news. The police issue statements on Nextdoor. I get reports of missing pets, crimes, various criminal trends to watch out for, fires, etc. on Nextdoor.
It may vary from region to region.
And I get virtually no local news otherwise. It's all Seattle-Tacoma news, state, or national on radio and other online news sources.
Mr. Hagerty, that was Mr. Eduardo's statement about the 20 million, not my statement.-----
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You are forgetting the huge percentage of households where making the money last till the 30's of the month is a skill and a challenge. And we are seeing more and more people in that class, particularly with estimates that show over 20,000,000 undocumented immigrants, most with less than a 6th grade education... and over 2 million a year arriving now.
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That 20-million number (and I don't doubt someone is reporting it as news, and I doubt I'd be surprised by the source) is double the real number:
What the data says about immigrants in the U.S.
As of June 2025, the country’s foreign-born population had shrunk by more than a million people, marking its first decline since the 1960s.www.pewresearch.org
I'd need to see some verifiable facts on the two-million undocumented immigrants per year as well, given that the total number of immigrants (documented and undocumented) tends to be half that yearly.
And before someone says "politics", we're talking about factual and quality news reporting in this thread, so let's back up any claims.
Mine was about the poverty level in general.
As for the number of illegals in the US, the DHS and Center for Immigration Studies estimate there are just over 11 million.
Estimating the Illegal Immigrant Population Using the Current Population Survey
We estimate that in January 2022 there were 11.35 million illegal immigrants in the country — a 1.13 million increase over the 10.22 million in January 2021.
cis.org
That said, obviously, there are families whose children are legal, but the families themselves may still be in poverty. And 11.34 million people is more than the population of many states. So it's a considerable number of people in financial stress.
And we have had over 2,000,000 "registered" and another 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 who were not stopped and processed in just the last 20 months. The estimates towards the end of 2000 were somewhere between 12 million and 14 million.
And because inflation has affected basic needs like food and gasoliine and electricity, the effects on the lowest income people is the greatest. The definition of the needs that determine poverty have not been redefined for decades.
The DHS is failing to take into account the crisis at the border with Mexico and has not adjusted the figure for over a decade. The Pew Center is even low, as there is no way of keeping up with the flood of migrants crossing the southern border.
And there is a gray area of illegal immigrants who have children who are automatically US citizens.
An example: There are now ads in the papers and online in Perú about helping process papers for pregnant women to travel to the US and get citizenship for their child. The participants are upper middle class and upper income who qualify for tourist visas and need help finding a residence and hospital servicias to give birth in the US. The political and economic situation there is so dire that there are tens of thousand of families buying homes in the West Palm Beach and Treasure Coast areas of Florida to get out "before it all falls apart".
All very true. As soon as CL heated up, newspapers lost 40% of their revenues.
But at the same time, the internet became the go-to for news, instead of the local paper. So the papers were slammed from more than one direction. And papers were already starting to decline before CL finished them off. Nationwide, daily newspaper circulation began to decline after 1984, and the decline is a fairly steady curve downwards.
When it comes to revenues, there were two peaks, in 2000 and 2005, after which it dived -- cut in half between 2006 and 2009.
I'm surprised that there still is a print edition of Seattle Times. I'll miss it when it disappears. You get that way when you grew up with a medium and worked in it.
I was thinking of 60's and 70's comedies primarily. We've sure had a bunch of stinkers in recent years.
I did too. Blank tapes at that time ran about $16 here locally and they wouldn't sell you more than three.
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