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Words of thanks and praise for a Kansas public television station and all who work there
For about a year, I worked as receptionist at KTWU Channel 11, a Kansas public television station on the Washburn University campus in Topeka. KTWU has been broadcasting local public television in eastern Kansas and parts of Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska since 1965. It is licensed to Washburn University, and the studios are located on…
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BoxingScene.com’s Television Pick of The Week
Pick It: TBRB #5 O’Shaquie Foster vs. Eduardo Hernandez (Saturday, DAZN, 9:00 PM EST) This one is sort of flying under the radar in a week overcome by antics and exhibitions, but for good meat and potatoes pugilism fans this could be the gem on the horizon. The 30-year old WBC 130 pound titlist Foster…
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BoxingScene.com’s Television Pick of The Week
Pick It: TBRB #5 O’Shaquie Foster vs. Eduardo Hernandez (Saturday, DAZN, 9:00 PM EST) This one is sort of flying under the radar in a week overcome by antics and exhibitions, but for good meat and potatoes pugilism fans this could be the gem on the horizon. The 30-year old WBC 130 pound titlist Foster…
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TV tonight: the brilliant last series of Ghosts approaches the end
Ghosts 8.30pm, BBC One As the end approaches, Ghosts is finding beautifully light ways to explore weighty topics. This week, the concept of eternity: as Mike and Alison’s earthly needs become ever more pressing, those of the ghosts become more trivial. While the owners are showing some prospective buyers around the property, the ghosts are…
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‘Fellow Travelers’ Premiere Recap: The Hottest Television Episode This Year
We are suffering from a catastrophic dearth of horniness, dear reader. The need for sex scenes is being discoursed to high hell. Films where sex—explicit sex, in particular—is an integral part of the storyline are being slapped with NC-17 ratings, forcing the likes of Passages and Blonde into brief runs in small arthouse theaters before…
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‘Icon,’ ‘a force,’ ‘a great lady.’ Lexington television pioneer Sue Wylie remembered
(TNS) Longtime Lexington broadcaster Sue Wylie was remembered on Wednesday by fellow journalists and fans as a pioneer in the television industry in Kentucky and elsewhere. Wylie, 90, died at University of Kentucky hospital after a five-car crash at Alumni Drive and Chinoe Road about 5 p.m. Oct. 24.
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OTT can never replace television, says Mishkat Varma
In television, you get to know the gist of the character when you audition for a role, and by that time at least 50 episodes are written. So, one knows how the character might shape up going ahead, but for me, I have never given my character as much importance as I give to other…
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Spectrum lost 320k subs in Q3
Charter Communications has revealed that its Spectrum brand has lost 320,000 TV subs in the 3rd quarter of 2023. It also reported that it paid out $68m in customer credits due to its carriage dispute with Disney that led to a blackout. “We continue to make significant progress against the multi-year strategic initiatives we outlined…
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AMC Networks enables programmatic ad buying on linear
AMC Networks has enabled programmatic ad buying on three of its linear networks after a successful pilot last month. AMC Networks says this technological advancement is noteworthy as “it marked the first time live linear inventory was able to be purchased programmatically – in a real-time, biddable ad environment”. The company created and executed this…
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Common sense doesn’t exist for television-wrecking sports broadcasters
Bitter? Over the continued needless destruction of sports as per the shortsighted plan? The greed-based dissolution of the World Series? You bet I’m bitter. You? Now that we’ve identified the indisputable — TV spends 10 times more to make telecasts 10 times worse — what do we do about it? Well, how much can you…
