If you’ve been following this Blog for a while, you know that the Broadcasting aspect is the one and only aspect of Sports that I care about.
I am happy to hear that for the first time in decades, the Florida-based NHL Team will partner with Local, Terrestrial Television Stations to locally televise their events, instead of a Cable Channel, or a newfangled Streaming Outlet.
The Television Program Titled “Intervention” On The Cable Channel A&E, As Of The Time Of Writing This Post; Featuring Young And Middle-Aged Ponytail And “Man Bun” Males As The Subjects Of Their Episodes At This Time.
Many of these Drug Addict males, and some of the young and middle-aged male Interventionalists are also covered in tattoos.
Cases in point are the male Interventionalist from Australia by the name of Mike Diamond, fellow Interventionalists Zach Livingston, Vicki Lucas, and Michael Gonzales; and Drug Addicts by the names of Gabby, Patyrk, and Greg.
See this earlier post about Television Programs On The Cable Channel A&E Featuring, And Catering Towards Low-Class People for the type of programming, and the demographics the Cable Channel A&E currently has as of the time of writing this post.
The Cable Channel A&E was formed in 1984 as a joint venture between ABC and NBC, with the merger of ABC’s ARTS Cable Channel; and NBC’s ‘Entertainment’ Cable Channel. NBC (which, along with its parent company RCA; were both under the ownership of General Electric by this time) had sold their shares in the Cable Channel A&E in 1993.
Photograph of my personal friend Ken Squier from when he was a Baby, and later an Infant during the years 1935-1936; courtesy of his daughter Ashley Squier:
I am passionate about Automobiles (including the Automotive Industry), Agricultural Machinery, School Buses, Class 6-8 Trucks, Recreational Vehicles (RVs), Broadcasting, Amateur/Ham Radio, Electric Fans, HVAC Systems, the Stock Market, and Writing as a profession.
Not too long ago, I wrote a post about how I Am Saddened By The Death Of WXYZ-TV News Staffer Marilyn Turner.
As of the moment of writing this very post, I am writing about how I am very saddened over the recent death of WXYZ-TV Anchor and Reporter Doris Biscoe.
Doris Biscoe had started at WXYZ-TV in 1973, when it was owned and operated by ABC. She had retired from WXYZ-TV in 1998, when it was owned and operated by Scripps-Howard. Upon Doris Biscoe’s retirement from WXYZ-TV in 1998, she was replaced by one of Dick Purtan’s daughters; Joanne Purtan.
Prior to arriving at WXYZ-TV in 1973, Doris Biscoe had lived in Washington D.C; and had worked at NBC owned and operated WRC AM-FM, and at WRC-TV.
https://www.wxyz.com/news/former-wxyz-anchor-doris-biscoe-dies-at-the-age-of-77
How WJBK-TV, WJW-TV/WJKW-TV, WAGA-TV, And WITI-TV should forevermore continue to be: affiliated with CBS Television, and owned and operated by Storer Broadcasting/Storer Communications.
I am very happy about the fact that NBC Sports is contemplating (as of the time of writing this post) bidding on regaining the Television rights to the NBA for the first time since 2002.
I would also be happy if CBS Sports had regained the Television rights to the NBA for the first time since 1990.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/13/nbc-sports-prepared-to-make-nba-bid.html
For as much as I loathe Sports and fitness, the Broadcasting aspect of Sports is the one and only aspect about them that I care about, I only care about his time working at NBC Sports during the time they held the Television rights to the NBA; and I don’t care at all about his NBA playing career; I am saddened over the recent passing (as of the time of writing this post) of NBC Sports employee Bill Walton.
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you know I am passionate about the Commercial Broadcast Radio and Television Industry, and Broadcast History.
I am just as finicky over a Television Station’s News Department and Newscasts, and a Television Network’s News Department and News Programs as I am over an individual Television Station’s history, and a Television Network’s history.
In this earlier post I Am Worried About My Parents Potentially Choosing To Stay Put In The House That We’ve Tried Many Times To Move Out Of For So Many Years Prior, That My Parents Could Rekindle Their Relationships With My Mother’s Family, That I Could Wind Up Living With My Sister And Her Husband, And That My Parents May Acquire Any More Minivans, I’ve stated my intolerance towards my parents watching WDIV-TV’s Newscasts and WJBK-TV’s Newscasts as a FOX affiliate during the late 1990’s and the early 2000’s, and my parents having thought that a “Television Newscast, is a Television Newscast, is a Television Newscast” at that time. I also didn’t have any tolerance for my parents watching WKBD-TV’s Newscasts at that time.
To this day, I will not allow my parents to watch WDIV-TV’s Newscasts, WJBK-TV’s Newscasts as a FOX affiliate, and the current WWJ-TV (nee WGPR-TV)’s Newscasts.
Besides the facts that I’ve never wanted them in the family, and I’ve never had any tolerance for them being in the family, and them being in the company of my parents and I, in part and parcel; I’ve also never had any tolerance for my mother’s entire family watching WDIV-TV’s Newscasts, WJBK-TV’s Newscasts as a FOX affiliate, and WKBD-TV’s Newscasts.
I’ve always preferred if dissolute Warren Consolidated Schools employees Julie Belz-Stanaway, a Teacher; fellow Warren Consolidated Schools Teachers Carolyn Armbruster, Terri Dworkin, Patricia Venaleck, Carolyn Ann Tuzzo, Celia Socha, Ann Kolinski, Gilka Calazans-Paxton, Julie Dean, Darlene Zimmerman, and husband and wife Steve and Carole Gerling; Warren Consolidated Schools Special Education employees Mary Ellen Green and James “Jim” Devereaux; Counselor Julie Stegman, and School Bus Drivers Candace Imburnone-Barr, Kim “Froggie” Proch, Pam Mott, Penny Orban, Anita Jacob (nee Ginotti), Mary Behr, Cheryl “Sherry” Misiak (nee Baccarella), Sandra “Sandy” Rivera-Blaskay, and Sheila “Shelly” Marie Trendel-Bender-Griswold never watched WDIV-TV’s Newscasts, WJBK-TV’s Newscasts as a FOX affiliate, WKBD-TV’s Newscasts, and the current WWJ-TV’s (nee WGPR-TV) Newscasts; and that they only watch WXYZ-TV’s Newscasts. This is due to the fact that like with personal vehicles and with School Buses, they don’t know what a good Television Station is, and nor do they know what a good Television Newscast is.
Aside from the fact that a person that is near and dear to me, Children’s Entertainer, Puppeteer, and Ventriloquist Shari Lewis; and her early shows that were locally produced on WNBC-TV/WRCA-TV, a little bit later; were networked nationally on the NBC Television Network, and were even one of the NBC Television Network’s early Color Television Programs; Shari and my paternal grandmother were literally kindred spirits. Shari’s daughter, Mallory Tarcher-Lewis isn’t anything like her mother, and she is just as much of a contemptible person as Warren Consolidated Schools Teacher Julie Belz-Stanaway.
Besides the fact that God likely has arranged for a special place for all of the children from my mother’s entire family, modern NASCAR Drivers Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Elliott Sadler, Casey Mears, Brian Vickers, Kasey Kahne, Denny Hamlin, and Matt Kenseth and his son Ross; and modern Formula One Drivers Nick Heidfeld and Jenson Button to all wind up in together after their eventual deaths (see these earlier posts for more information regarding this scenario: The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With Have In Common With Modern Formula 1 Driver Nick Heidfeld, And Modern NASCAR Drivers Kevin Harvick And Matt Kenseth, The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With Have In Common With Modern NASCAR Driver Elliott Sadler, The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With Have In Common With Modern NASCAR Driver Kasey Kahne, And Modern Formula 1 Driver Jenson Button, The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With Have In Common With Modern NASCAR Driver Denny Hamlin, and The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With Have In Common With Modern NASCAR Driver Casey Mears); Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Elliott Sadler, Casey Mears, Brian Vickers, Kasey Kahne, Denny Hamlin, Matt Kenseth and his son Ross, Nick Heidfeld, and Jenson Button should all be barred from watching WDIV-TV’s Newscasts, WJBK-TV’s Newscasts as a FOX affiliate, and the current WWJ-TV’s (nee WGPR-TV) Newscasts; and that they only watch WXYZ-TV’s Newscasts if and whenever they travel both nationally and internationally to the Detroit area in Michigan, United States of America.
Several employees of Post-Newsweek/Graham Media-owned WDIV-TV (nee WWJ-TV) are accepting buyout offers. This might be good news for WXYZ-TV, because people who are dissatisfied with their favorite News personnel at WDIV-TV might flock to WXYZ-TV’s Newscasts, becoming the Detroit market’s #1 rated Newscasts all across the board for the first time in decades.
Post-Newsweek had swapped their flagship Television Station in Washington D.C, WTOP-TV/WDVM-TV/WUSA-TV for WWJ-TV, and changed the call letters to WDIV-TV in the process; because both companies were concerned that the FCC might enact a rule where a company can’t own a Television Station and a Newspaper in the same market; while owning an AM/Mediumwave Radio Station, an FM Radio Station, and a Newspaper in the same market would have remained permissible. Ultimately, this rule never came into fruition.
WDIV-TV (nee WWJ-TV), and WIVB-TV (nee WBEN-TV) are a couple of the inspirations for a rival Television Station that is always a distant third in the local ratings in a Book that I had wrote under my Pen Name “Wilbur Hay” titled “The Day-To-Day Lives Of A Well-Off Couple And Their Autistic Son”, available to purchase from Barnes & Noble:
Some time ago, I had written a post about the death of Marilyn Turner’s husband, fellow WXYZ-TV News Staffer John Kelly: Remembering Legendary Channel 7 Anchor John Kelly
This time around, I am writing about how sad I am over the recent passing (as of the time of writing this post) of Marilyn Turner, herself.
Kelly & Company, co-hosted by John Kelley and Marilyn Turner, like the locally-produced, in-house Talk Shows at ABC’s other Owned and Operated Television Stations in New York City (which would later evolve into the nationally syndicated Regis, Kathie Lee, Kelly, Ryan, and Mark Television Show), Los Angeles, Chicago (which would later evolve into Oprah Winfrey’s nationally syndicated Talk Show), and San Francisco (which, like Kelley & Company of WXYZ-TV; was hosted by another Husband and Wife team, Fred LaCosse and Terry Lowery); were all of the brainchildren of ABC Executives Richard “Dick” O’Leary and John Severino.
See this earlier post about the legacies of “Dick” O’Leary and John Severino during their tenures at ABC: The Legacies Of ABC Executives Richard O’ Leary And John Severino.
Due to the merger of ABC and Capital Cities Communications in circa 1985-1986, in order to not exceed the maximum amount of Television Stations an individual or a business may own per the rules set forth by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the merged ABC/Capital Cities opted to sell off WXYZ-TV in 1986. Scripps-Howard/the E.W Scripps Company had emerged as the buyer of WXYZ-TV from ABC.
Prior to both Marilyn Turner and John Kelly working at WXYZ-TV, they had both worked at WJBK-TV when it was still Owned and Operated by Storer Broadcasting, and when it was still a CBS Television affiliate.
https://www.wxyz.com/news/longtime-wxyz-weathercaster-marilyn-turner-dies-at-93
Some time ago, I wrote a post about the passing of PBS News Hour Anchor Jim Lehrer: The Death Of Founding PBS News Hour Anchor Jim Lehrer.
This time around, I am writing about how saddened I am over the death of PBS News Hour Anchor Robert MacNeil.
A phase in life that remains difficult for me to say goodbye to well into the present day, and well into the future; is the phase in both mine and my parents’ lives where we had Full-Size Station Wagons, Suburbans, Volkswagens/Audis, other European Cars of German, French, and Italian origin; we were closer to my father’s family than my mother’s, my parents had inundated me with Electric Fans, and we almost bought a sizable House on acres of property.
In part and parcel, WJBK-TV being a CBS Television affiliate; and being owned and operated by Storer Broadcasting is also a “phase” that will always and forever be hard to say goodbye to.
Yet another ‘phase’ that is hard to say goodbye to is NASCAR’s ways prior to the 21st Century, where NASCAR never tried to be as appealing to the average younger person as Basketball, American Football, Association Football/Soccer, Baseball, and Hockey; Stick and Ball Sports and Fitness weren’t ever in NASCAR’s mix, and NASCAR Drivers and members of Pit Crews were nothing more than regular Car guys.
Likewise to WJBK-TV becoming a FOX affiliate, my parents owning Minivans and Crossover Utility Vehicles such as the Pontiac Aztek and the Buick Rendezvous, and my parents becoming closer to my mother’s family than my father’s; I’ve unequivocally had and continue to have absolutely zero tolerance for NASCAR, since the 21st Century; trying to be as appealing to the average younger person as Basketball, American Football, Association Football/Soccer, Baseball, and Hockey; and modern NASCAR drivers being traditional stick-and-ball athletes turned Stock Car drivers because they had never made the cut as a traditional stick-and-ball athlete, and being a Racing Car driver was the only other thing they had trained to do or else they would have to enter an entirely new and different line of work.
For more information regarding me putting WJBK-TV becoming a FOX affiliate, my parents owning Minivans and Crossover Utility Vehicles such as the Pontiac Aztek and the Buick Rendezvous, my mother’s entire family, NASCAR in the 21st Century; 21st Century NASCAR Drivers, Sports and Fitness in general, cooking, eating at home, and sitting at the table together as a family all in the same basket; please see these other Posts: The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With Have In Common With Drag Racer and Television Personality Bruno Massel, and the Television Personalities on the Cable Channels HGTV and DIY/Magnolia Network Mike Holmes Jr., Mark Bowe, and Brian McCourt; The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With The Television Personalities On The Cable Channel HGTV Known As The “Property Brothers”; The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With Have In Common With Modern NASCAR Driver Casey Mears; The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With Have In Common With Modern NASCAR Driver Denny Hamlin; The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With Have In Common With Modern NASCAR Driver Kasey Kahne, And Modern Formula 1 Driver Jenson Button; The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With Have In Common With Modern NASCAR Driver Elliott Sadler; The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With Have In Common With Modern Formula 1 Driver Nick Heidfeld, And Modern NASCAR Drivers Kevin Harvick And Matt Kenseth; and More Of The Things The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With Have In Common With The “Property Brothers”
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