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Tag Archives: Television

Grammy Notes – Part 1

I don’t believe I have ever sat through an entire Grammy show before, and for the most part I enjoyed it. The recording industry may be stuck in quicksand from which it will not escape alive and unaltered, but the state of MUSIC is as strong as ever. Great music …

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Surprising Outlet For Indie Music

Independent bands have always had a tough time of it getting the word out, getting noticed, achieving some kind of critical mass upon which to build a career. The Internet is an excellent outlet and resourse, but certainly hasn’t been the miracle that many thought it would be. So how …

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Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?

Pepsi is sponsoring a two-hour contest special on the WB network in the fall where the top prize is a BILLION DOLLARS: The as-yet unnamed two-hour special promises to give contestants a shot at becoming a billionaire and is being produced by the same outfit behind the ABC hit Who …

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Joe Millionaire Goes Disney

For a show whose premise was to turn the tables on grasping gold diggers by faking a $50 million fortune, Joe Millionaire sure went the way of a Disney fairy tale at the end. The masquerading lummox had to choose between Sarah the bitch, and Zora the schoolteacher: sophisticated, blonde, …

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Your TV is Ringing

TV streaming for cell phone coming in Korea: Local press in Korea has confirmed that Korea Telecom will beam 9 TV channels to 3G phone users this month. The channels are believed to include a music channel and a news channel. The phone inset is the Samsung V3000 which is …

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Sampling

This short web film, S-11 Redux, an entrant in the Sundance Online Film Festival, is worth looking at on several levels. From a copyright theory standpoint, it shows the importance of making products of mass culture available for all to “sample” toward the creation of new art. On a content …

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Kingpin to DVD Before Series Is Over

In what could signal the continuation of a trend begun by 24, the NBC mini-series Kingpin is going to be released on DVD two days before the series concludes Feb 16: The move comes as networks look to such DVD releases to earn more from series. NBC said the “Kingpin” …

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Crazy

Thanks to NPR for broadcasting the UN Security Council hearing on Iraq yesterday (live call-in show debating the war on NPR today starting at 1PM EST). In between meetings, I heard much of it, and man, did it bring me down – not because the rational, considered, reasonable pleading from …

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