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Fox TV and other ass gripers

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The deal with Sinclair broadcasting is done. Time Warner and Sinclair got their respective shit together so Homer, Jack Bauer, et al. are all staying put. This was a nationwide thing. Los Angeles was sweating losing their ABC affiliate. The whole thing was that Sinclair didn't like the existing arrangement. That being we put Fox and My TV commercials on the cable channels like we do for 2,4, and 7. Their argument being that since more people watch 24 than watch Trading Spaces, the cable company should pay a fee since a fee gets paid to TLC for Trading Spaces. This whole scenario was playing out in all the former Adelphia areas, but it's done now. And the clerk at Spot who saw my Time Warner dog tags yesterday can now shut his pie-hole.

Elsewhere, I was running some errands before work yesterday and saw the moving trucks in front of the Albright Knox yesterday. Couldn't tell if they were moving out or in, but the whole thing is troublesome. What the gallery is giving up ain't coming back. Is what is coming that valuable that a priceless collection needs forever compromised? I don't think so. You could make the argument that if the operating budget couldn't permit the purchases, maybe they shouldn't be buying. Guess that makes too much sense.

Hope all the snowbirds are happy. Side effect of the late starting snow is that all the plow guys are too. I took my car for an oil change yesterday at the Valvoline place on Delaware and nearly didn't make it. The entrance has a pretty steep incline and I had to slalom my way up to make the garage door without falling back to Delaware.

Domestic responsibilities made it impossible to get to the party, but Happy Birthday anyhoo @paul . Hope a grand time was had.

I've yet to meet @joshua in person but I trust his beer judgement implicitly. Got some Tetley's from TOPS and it rocks.
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  1. jenks ·

    one question- Say fox had NOT reached a deal- isn't fox a free broadcast (i.e. non-cable) channel? Meaning, couldn't we have gotten our trusty rabbit-ears and gotten it? Not that anyone still has rabbit ears anymore, but you know what I mean. I'm glad I live under a rock and didn't even know there was a chance of fox leaving. Greedy businessmen. Ugh.

    And I am with you on the Knox. I went to try to see Sheva a while ago, but she was already gone. And I commented on a particularly bad piece of "modern" photography, and was told that THAT is what they are selling off the antiquities to buy more of. That and crap video installations. Ew. I guess the argument is its mission is to be a modern gallery. Whatever, I still think it's a bad, bad move.

  2. metalpeter ·

    Yes you are correct that with Rabit Ears you could get fox 29. But then you would also have to change all your imputs to antena instead of Cable to see the picture and on the vcr if you where going to tape it. But the thing is one reason why people get the dish or cable is so they don't get that often bad reception. IF anyone had an old TV they would get 29 as a UHF station along with Ch17, 49, and 23 or any other stations that I may not know about. Speaking of older TV does anyone remember the station called the box. It played music videos all day and people payed to have there song played.

    The way I think a art muesum should work is that you have Pieces like the miror room for example that are always on display. Those would be pieces that will always be there. Then you have second teir art that is planed to stay there but if the muesum gets a chance to get something better takes its place but still things would be on display for long periods of time. Then maybe about 30% of the museum area would be for traveling art displays and shows. Maybe you could even have a part for art that is a show. For example video art or other forms of performance art. I think it is also important that the pieces of art can and do move around the muesum. That way if a display comes that is best suited for a differant area then where it would normaly go you can move stuff around so it fits better.

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