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MourningView posted:Berman and prime time always sucked, stay woke there was a kid i played ice hockey with/against that would loudly yell WHAAAP every time he deked someone, which was incredibly funny and cool
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The ten seconds of dead air while he silently read off a sheet of paper must have been incredible radio.
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MourningView posted:The ten seconds of dead air while he silently read off a sheet of paper must have been incredible radio. And yes n-thing that theme music is mostly boring and forgettable now. Although what was inexplicable back in the day was the absolutely hype as gently caress theme music that local news stations would put out sometimes. I mean... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUoFlFySijM HEY MILWAUKEE Y'ALL MOTHERFUCKERS READY FOR SOME NEWS Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Apr 24, 2019 |
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Crazy Ted posted:Would be better if it was filled with the Curb Your Enthusiasm music. lol 5:52 "1986 Browns Highlights" That was used for NFL Films.
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I’ve never ended my ultimate hatred for a Berman since he dissed Randy Moss after he fake mooned the packer fans. He said in the highlight, “sure, you won but cmon!” As if Berman was in a position of moral authority about a silly joke. I can’t wait til he dies!
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Crazy Ted posted:Would be better if it was filled with the Curb Your Enthusiasm music. Channel 6 is our local Fox affiliate. Tangential to this for the whole broadcasting thing: Go to NYC and LA, and the Big Three (ABC, CBS, and NBC) all have the same channels. Chicago has ABC and CBS the same, but... NBC is not. WTMJ was originally on channel 3. A station across the Michigan also had 3, but because they had it first, WTMJ switched to 4. When NBC decided to set up in Chicago, they had to go to 5 because WTMJ already had 4 and seniority.
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I gotta say that was not where i expected Francessa to land when I clicked on that clip. Hilarious as it was for him how he got there.
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Primetime really was nice because ...at the time? There really wasn't a highlights show one could watch "the same day" for events. Same with "Sportscenter" when it first started along with other programming like that ("Baseball Tonight", NBA 2 NIGHT, NHL 2 NIGHT, and my personal favorite "RPM 2 Night) I think there's nostalgia as a whole for the former pre-internet cable days a whole. I certainly to an extent have it because the options on my basic cable, sports or otherwise are rather slim pickings.
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FuzzySkinner posted:I think there's nostalgia as a whole for the former pre-internet cable days a whole. I certainly to an extent have it because the options on my basic cable, sports or otherwise are rather slim pickings. It is strange how far we've come. As a kid I'd get up early before school and watch the SportsCenter rerun from the night before. It was the only way to get highlights from other teams. I used to love how those in-game cut-ins where they'd send you to James Brown in the studio to show you a big play from another NFL game. You had to watch the halftime show to know what was going on in the league. Now something big happens and you can find the clip in seconds on Twitter. I would never want to go back but it was kind of cool how much stuff like an All-Star game mattered because it was one of the few chances you had to see a star player.
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I remember back in the 90’s when the Indians were really good and we’d go on vacation and the only way to find out the score was we would watch Headline News and they would have that sports break like every half hour or so. And this is before ESPN’s ticker was always at the bottom of the screen. It used to pop up at like 28 and 58 past the hour with that little audio cue.
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This was art when it aired. Still arguably is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ83nnODDjs Dallas won the late game, so none of this mattered in the end.
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Mahoning posted:I remember back in the 90’s when the Indians were really good and we’d go on vacation and the only way to find out the score was we would watch Headline News and they would have that sports break like every half hour or so. And this is before ESPN’s ticker was always at the bottom of the screen. It used to pop up at like 28 and 58 past the hour with that little audio cue. oh my god I forgot that ticker was a popup for so long, drat does that take me back
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Apr 25, 2019 14:18
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95 cents per minute Call 1-900-976 ESPN
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Round 1 of the NHL playoffs was the most-watched in a long timeNBC posted:On the strength of 10 overtime games, three Game 7s and two improbable sweeps, NBC Sports’ presentation of the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs across the networks of NBCUniversal delivered the most-watched First Round in seven years, according to Nielsen and digital data from Adobe Analytics. First Round coverage across NBC Sports’ cable platforms produced the most-watched First Round on cable in 25 years and ranks as the second-best First Round on cable on record (since 1994). The First Round milestones were punctuated by three Game 7s, including last night’s Hurricanes-Capitals series finale on NBCSN, which is now the most-watched First Round cable game on record.
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Apr 26, 2019 17:52
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Looking forward to sports anchors being forced to read diatribes about “the right way to play”, “the unwritten rules” and “thug players these days”.
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Apr 26, 2019 18:07
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Lee Corso just up and left ESPN's draft coverage in the middle of a segment last night and man I don't want to speculate anything but  It's really awkward to watch. He's pretty clearly struggling.
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DJExile posted:Lee Corso just up and left ESPN's draft coverage in the middle of a segment last night and man I don't want to speculate anything but according to this, it was the plan all along https://twitter.com/theMMQB/status/1121809188131414016 But I smell bullshit
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Didn't it finish pretty late on the east coast? He's a very old man who is not in great health, planning to get him out of there fairly early is probably a good idea. They do a pretty good job protecting him as much as they can on Game Day. Everyone there loves him, he's a huge part of the show's legacy, and he still seems to love doing it, so I get the instinct to let him keep going as long as he can or wants to, but it can still get pretty sad to watch at times.
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Apr 26, 2019 20:42
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Hell, he doesn't even do all of Gameday. He sits in for maybe half of the segments.
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Apr 26, 2019 20:51
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Oh I don't blame lee for ducking out mid-show but to do it while they're live and on-camera seems very strange. If he was gonna duck out I'd have expected it to be while they were at commercial or running some pre-taped segment.
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I think I can buy that he just wanted to do a dumb skit instead of just disappearing between commercials.
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Mahoning posted:Hell, he doesn't even do all of Gameday. He sits in for maybe half of the segments. Yeah he isn't really asked to talk much until they get to the picks at the end (where he still sometimes runs into trouble, but Kirk does a good job helping and covering for him). By and large he's only there so he can do the head gear gimmick at the end.
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Correction: Disney sold to those fuckers.
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on one hand it’s sad to see him struggle, on the other hand i love a good “welp see ya”
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10 billion seems way more than what some of the offers I had seen were but also, more in line with the going price. I guess that's the next logical step from Sinclair owning all the local market OTA TV, might as well get the regional sports networks too. Too bad ROH sucks now because they will probably eventually get something on these channels.
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How long has ROH sucked and dont say since the buyout.
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algebra testes posted:How long has ROH sucked and dont say since the buyout. Since a huge chunk of their then core left to start a new company en masse and also Bully Ray is like a key booker now apparently?
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algebra testes posted:How long has ROH sucked and dont say since the buyout. since they hired Enzo Amore and Colin Cassidy and had then do a shoot style run-in during their double branded show with njpw
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I keep saying we need a new Jim Crockett, but no one listens to me!
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soggybagel posted:I was really hoping amazon would buy the regional fox networks. Curious as to your reasoning here before I make judgment on good/ bad take
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iospace posted:Curious as to your reasoning here before I make judgment on good/ bad take I didn't feel particularly confident in the type of package a couple of the private equity funds who were bidding on the regionals had. On top of that, its not like we're talking about "good guys" when it comes to the regionals. You think if AT&T, Charter, or Cox bought the Fox regionals they'd be really cool good companies as opposed to Amazon? We're talking massive powerful conglomerate companies or private equity companies buying up the regionals. MY baseline is that its mostly business as usual and a bad case would be they deliver an inferior product than what the Fox Regionals were already doing. Which is why I thought Amazon buying them at the very least could be interesting. They handle a lot of streaming stuff and I was more than satisfied with how they've handled NFL stuff that they were partner streaming with. I'm not thinking they'd be a big "disruptor" but I'd be more interested to see what they could bring to the table versus say, Sinclair. On top of that I'm already a Prime Member so I would figure they'd have some sort of discount too.
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Since a huge chunk of their then core left to start a new company en masse and also Bully Ray is like a key booker now apparently? Cool thanks. I stopped watching when they got bought by Sinclair and all their then talent left for wwe so I was unclear why it got suddenly worse.
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algebra testes posted:How long has ROH sucked and dont say since the buyout. I enjoyed it like 15 years ago. I think I would've watched it like as recently as 2 years ago though if I had a low effort way to do it.
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ROH was quite good in the initial years after Sinclair bought them because their roster was great and Sinclair was almost completely hands off. As things progressed, the talent left for NXT or their own ventures, the Sinclair exec running ROH got a big head about their success and everything’s just kind of collapsed in a pile of hubris.
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Also, E:60 has been killing it lately with the full episodes for Tony Mandarich, Hafthor Bjornsson, the Humboldt Broncos and that series on Jim Calhoun. Would recommend all of those to everyone.
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sportsgenius86 posted:Also, E:60 has been killing it lately with the full episodes for Tony Mandarich, Hafthor Bjornsson, the Humboldt Broncos and that series on Jim Calhoun. Yeah E:60 gets kinda lost in the fold with all of ESPN's other work and the 30 for 30s but man almost every one of them are home runs.
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