By the time children reach kindergarten they watch 4000 hours of television - twice the hours spent in high-priced college classrooms if they even get there.
Do you watch more, less, same amount of TV sports now than high school? What type of program is missing from network television? Who should be television's next Letterman or Leno? How can television networks increase NFL football audiences?
If I'm home and watching television:
ALL television and radio should be commercial broadcast instead of cable. I'm glad I don't live where I'd need cable to get regular broadcast! I like whatever's interesting. No miniseries - too much time commitment required. I like seeing audience signs and costumes. Next Letterman or Leno? President Clinton.I watch television sometimes if I'm home but I won't stay home or go home to watch. I don't buy tapes, CDs or computer games. I won't buy players because they break down too much. No jewelry, tattoos or cosmetics. I never drink coffee or tea and rarely buy soda. I don't smoke. I couldn't love a man who did. I'd like to see other people's survey responses. Thanks for asking.
ON NATIONAL TELEVISION TODAY Entering a phone booth to make a call, he can't get out. Comedy becomes desperation as he can't free himself. Passersby at first attempting to assist leave him trapped, alone and helpless. Despair turns to relief as a phone company truck arrives. Instead of releasing the hapless victim they transport the booth and its occupant to a huge hangar of countless phone booths, each containing a decomposing corpse.TELEVISION V-CHIP And INTERNET FILTER BLUES
They only serve to antagonize kids and rightly so. Teach your children to think for themselves! If my mother thought a show was junk she'd say so and go about her business. Well she's a citizen, she has a right to her opinion. I'd watch another minute, figure Hey, Mom's right! We went to art shows, concerts and ball games together. Want a message for your kids? Boycott sponsors whose television ads show kids saying "Cool" instead of "Thank you." Watch Star Trek instead! Countries without pornography laws can't give it away but they make fortunes selling it here. Unwanted irrelevant "adult" site listings increase signal-to-noise ratio while searching for other material. I'm not impressed.
REMEMBER BILLY BASS
the Singing Fish? Remember his friends the otter, the lobster, the raccoon? Seen in Walgreens' window today: on sale for $30+, 30" tall James Brown goes home with you, wiggles his hips and sings his greatest hit "So Good (I got You)"
It's boring when guest characters always die in the end. Is that all there is? I quit watching. Repetitive scenes are sleepy.
Television Docudrama
Sunday evening Feb 24, 2001. Black History Month, on the verge of Women's History Month, another fascinating History Month. The Rosa Parks Story on Fox's ICU network gasped itself away, sustained only by life-support. It rambled all over the place, tangently pasted together without meaning. Actors showed little enthusiasm for little pay. Critics panned it. No, that wasn't Martin Luther King. That was some squeaking Cleopatra boying King's greatness. One hears acting teachers and coaches worldwide holding their noses, not believing this guy. Hallmark Hall of Fame it ain't. This important story must be told. It's about events that made it possible for Vonetta Flowers to enter the Olympics in the first place and win bobsledding's gold. Let's get the best of both: Turn the project over to Hallmark Hall of Fame, who cares enough to present the very best, and star Vonetta Flowers as Rosa Parks. Then it'd be interesting enough for people to sit up for two hours for even if they do have to fight constantly for good TV reception. My favorite buswrap is still the one with Rosa Parks. Next comes Popular Mechanics Magazine's buswrap displayed in New York, the magazine's headquarters.
LOSING MONEY?
Rather than rely completely on advertising income when advertisers go out of business, why change free to fee? Customer goodwill is a tangible asset without which no business can survive.
Sell postcards and greeting cards in stores, your logo on them! Users with cameras or graphics tablets can earn extra cash counted as printing expenses. Users copyright their material and earn commissions. You make money. It should work. Cards always sell.
Useful merchandise. Few people buy crafts nowadays. T-shirts, ceramic coffee mugs, notebooks, towels, plastic drink bottles, snowscenes, etc. General, local, seasonal user-contributed work like in cards. Great for gifts, giveaways or own use. Also carry stuff that glows permanently in the dark.
Farm out offsite project work for cash. Project workers category? Check box "does project work" Even if your site is about poems or cars or whatever you're listed available for project work, with a subcategory of offsite work showing our pages as samples. We project workers are tired of finding nothing but scams listed. We don't want to impact other income over a $50 project either. I've seen it happen.
These perennial moneymakers keep your site free to users, carry ads, and afford things like email handlers and toll-free customer care. Not a monopoly - anyone can start up a card, t-shirt or other business. There's always room. Advertise on Yahoo and Geocities. List Geocities sites and show the world.
ENERGY CRISIS A leased, sponsored onsite wind turbine is great bragging rights. Its picture on your company website, making reliable urban residential or small-business wind turbines affordable to average consumers.
1) Start with the given: CUTE PURPLE DINOSAUR 2) Change all U's to V's (proper Latin anyway): CVTE PVRPLE DINOSAVR 3) Extract all Roman Numerals: C V V L D I V 4) Convert into Arabic values: 100 5 5 50 500 1 5 5) Add all the numbers: 100 + 5 + 5 + 50 + 500 + 1 + 5 = 666 Thus, television fans, Barney is Satan!
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