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harrisburgpatv
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onairb said:
No doubt helped by the episode where Lori Beth married Richie by phone proxy with The Fonz as the stand-in.
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Weirdest beliefs about TV among the (non-geek) "laity?"
- Thread starter Stanislav
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No doubt helped by the episode where Lori Beth married Richie by phone proxy with The Fonz as the stand-in.
When the "big switch" in the Springfield,IL/Decatur/Champaign market involving Sinclair-owned WICS/WICD (NBC to ABC) and Block Communications/LIN-owned WAND (ABC to NBC) occurred on Labor Day weekend 2005, one letter to the editor of the Springfield State Journal-Register hoped that the network swap would also result in Mark Hyman"s "The Point" commentaries (then airing on Sinclair stations) moving to WAND! (the writer apparently wrongly assumed that "The Point" was an NBC commentary just because it happened to air on a then-NBC local affiliate).
harrisburgpatv said:
Correct-a-mundo!
I haven't seen that run of 'Happy Days' in a while, but I seem to remember a lot of references to Richie simply because it was as if the viewers/studio audience expected them and/or 'needed' to hear his name. That 'stand-in wedding by phone' episode was just one of several where the Cunninghams were shown either on the phone with their son; just getting off the phone with him at the start of the episode; or just about to phone at the end...and this was (very) long-distance, Milwaukee to Greenland, supposedly in the '60s, on the old Bell System! Cunningham Hardware must have been selling toilets to the Pentagon to pay that phone bill!;-D
Plus, 'HD', like 'MASH' of the same era, went through their 'letter from Richie/letter from Radar' phase before finally moving on.
I've heard some funny stories from DXers over the years, too. Some of them used to like to try to get QSL confirmations from stations they logged (like SW or AM DXers do), but sometimes your request fell on deaf and dumb ears depending on just who at the station read the letter. Chief engineer, good -- secretary or non-tech staff, not so much. One guy attempted to QSL a distant UHF that he had picked up during a big opening, and got back a clueless letter chiding him for wasting their time with his joke, and patronizingly lecturing him about TV being "line of sight only" and his alleged reception impossible.
Another DXer told me that when he first discovered "skip" as a teenager, he proudly showed his mother the smeary, fading, fluttery signal he was getting from some thousand-mile distant station, and Mom panicked and feared that he had somehow "broken the TV."
Another DXer told me that when he first discovered "skip" as a teenager, he proudly showed his mother the smeary, fading, fluttery signal he was getting from some thousand-mile distant station, and Mom panicked and feared that he had somehow "broken the TV."
I remember at the time of the WSB/WXIA switch some people
thought the stations were going to become WXIA Ch. 2 and
WSB Ch. 11. Nothing of the sort. Nothing changed but their
network affiliations. And yes, there were those who thought
Dave Michaels and John Pruitt were moving to 2, while Wes
Sarginson and Monica Kaufman (Pearson) were moving to 11.
(They were the news anchors on those stations at the time;
Pruitt eventually did return to 2 and Sarginson eventually went
to 11.)
thought the stations were going to become WXIA Ch. 2 and
WSB Ch. 11. Nothing of the sort. Nothing changed but their
network affiliations. And yes, there were those who thought
Dave Michaels and John Pruitt were moving to 2, while Wes
Sarginson and Monica Kaufman (Pearson) were moving to 11.
(They were the news anchors on those stations at the time;
Pruitt eventually did return to 2 and Sarginson eventually went
to 11.)
My first radio station, a 500-watt daytimer in McKenzie, Tennessee, got a letter and a cassette from a "listener" in England who claimed to have received our signal. They played that cassette for me, but all I heard was gibberish. He also sent them a dollar to cover the cost of postage for returning the tape to him (this was 1990), but the station, being the tightwads that they were, kept the tape AND the dollar!Stanislav said:
When I was very young, say five years old, I used to wonder how the news reporters knew who to look at in the room while reporting the news. I remember moving from one chair to another in our family room while watching the news, but no matter where I sat, the reporters always looked at ME whenever they looked up! I used to think they should look at (or want to look at) my parents while reporting the news, because my parents actually watched the news, while I, being a child, obviously had no interest in seeing the news.
Stanislav said:
Sounds like a letter a friend of mine from Missouri who recently had received in regards to picking up Denver's new CHR station HOT 107.1 FM KONN in Missouri thanks to E-skip...The station for the record is owned by Max Media.
I will now present some highlights from that letter.........
".....OMG..your request is so RETARDED !!"
"Hot 107.1 is a DENVER radio station...Colorado we care about but not a state that SUCKS ASS like Missouri !!"
"..now go back and take your damn meds.."
"..our signal is NOT ALLOWED to be heard outside Denver metro"
"your letter sucks...thanks for wasting our time"
Whatever happened to just being nice?
Probably the sales staff...
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harrisburgpatv
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I'm thinking I was not the only one with this belief as a child, but when I saw something in black & white, I knew it was something from "a long time ago" - I assumed that the entire world was in black and white at one point like I saw on TV...
harrisburgpatv said:
Except for antique photographs. So in the 19th century, the whole world was often in sepia.
harrisburgpatv said:
Here is an explanation of how the world turned color:
http://www.freewebs.com/calvin-hobbes-org/dadbandwandcolour.jpg
harrisburgpatv said:
My 6 year old daughter has seen me watch enough of the black & white Andy Griffith Shows on TV Land that when there was a Munsters marathon (all black & white as well) on WGN America earlier this year her first question was "Is that Andy Griffith?" I told her that it was The Munsters and then asked her why she thought it was Andy Griffith and she said "Because it's the same color." ;D
When my brother bought our first VCR and connected it to my parent's TV, my mother was suspicious that it would cause burn in like video games tended to do at that time. :
mleach said:
You've got to be kidding. That is absolutely disgusting. Did anyone at KONN ever apologize for this? That kind of conduct by radio station staff in listener relations would attract the scrutiny of the CRTC if it was a Canadian radio station. I can't speak for the FCC on this, but I can imagine the FCC turns a blind eye to this because of the First Amendment.
The FCC doesn't enforce letters sent back to listeners. These guys at KONN apparently didn't know radio waves can go further and they probably really thought somebody was trying to prank them.
Give you another one, it was asked of me fairly often when in my early radio days (1975 and after). People had to have thought this about TV too...I'd get asked if the ABC News we ran was on tape (Yeah, sure is. All this stuff happened three weeks ago!)
Give you another one, it was asked of me fairly often when in my early radio days (1975 and after). People had to have thought this about TV too...I'd get asked if the ABC News we ran was on tape (Yeah, sure is. All this stuff happened three weeks ago!)
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