McCaskill is awful. Her voice gets way too high and squeaky when reading a story, for absolutely no reason. It’s almost cartoon or teenage male puberty like. [...] Around the same time this afternoon, McCaskill was giving a report about the man who was assaulted with baseball bats. Her chirpy, gidd...

recently , while watching a network local signal thru our Comcast cable, I have seen digital video signal breaking up. (Pixelating) quite often, No way to tell if the on-air signals were also breaking up or it was in the cable system. I am thinking of adding an antenna and a switch to select air or...

Current flight of Xfinity spots for internet and mobile has a different female voiceover from recent past.
I had really hoped the scratchy "vocal fry" voice thing had gone away, but alas, no.
Once you notice it, you always notice it. Irritating AF.

I hate the idea of another RF transition, IE ATSC 3.0 I like the idea what this guy has done in Eugene. If I was at the FCC, I would ask TV vendors to provide software patches for older sets. Maybe even setup a software group to help do this. Very very few "older sets" are capable of software or fi...

I rather liked Johnny and Zito. IIRC Johnny had a background in standup, and brought that to the show (with varying degrees of success).
Spike and Sarah I remember from their brief stint on the lamented (by me at least) The Edge 105.1.

I doubt it would even impact any of the Michigan banks. Was this on CNBC or Bloomberg? I've seen this PAC ad both on broadcast and on cable. No idea if they've bought time on CNBC or Bloomberg. The irritating and misleading thing about it is that it doesn't attribute these Proposed Capital Regulati...

I agree with Ermani on the ballot thing. I don't ever recall having to declare which ballot I wanted in the past, as there was only one ballot. [...] When there was only one ballot, with each party's slate carried on it, people who didn't/don't understand how party primaries work were splitting tic...

LOL! Why am I not surprised that incident occurred on channel 62? Ahmad Bajjey is a space and science aficionado. If he made mention during his shift of the solar activity/flares, he would have debunked the reports linking that to the cell outages, and likely would have given viewers a short tutori...

A PAC ad is running lately, ranting about "Washington's Proposed Capital Regulations" I for one have no idea what these "proposed regulations" are about, who is pushing for (or against) them. No reference to any specific House or Senate Bill, none of the usual "call Senator/Congressman x and tell th...

Did GTE (the phone company) and Sylvania (the electronics corporation) used to be related to one another? [...] Sylvania made some darn good TVs in the 80s. IIRC WGTE was callsign-speak for "Greater Toledo Educational" not General Telephone and Electronics. Long before the 80s, Sylvania black & whi...

A sad update to an old thread. WWJ recently reported the February 15 passing of Sandy Wood, longtime host of the astronomy program StarDate. She had such a silky, smooth voice, causing a lot of "driveway moments," that need to finish listening to an episode to its very end, before being able to shut...

Shame something as cool sounding as Pants Galore isn't still around. https://www.waterwinterwonderland.com/images/mallsandretail/2707/a001%5E1973%20article%20on%20chain.jpg What's the date of that article? Worth discussing over on a Tech forum, not here, is the story down in the corner (would like ...

If the copper is only worth $100, it's like petty theft. Misdemeanor at worse. So they were after the copper in the transmission line which was probably hardline/heliax, also the FM radiating elements (if they knew about those). Not to mention malicious destruction of property (est. $500K+), loss o...

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Sun Jan 21, 2024 2:27 pm

Pants Galore? Tops Galore? I don't remember either of those. Detroit was kickass in 1971.

Pants Galore was a frequent advertiser on WABX and other FMs in that era.

Oh no!
I sometimes twist the dial across the AM band late at night. Always found it amusing to hear Carl Babinski on WWJ, then on WBBM, WINS, WBZ, KYW and a few others, giving those local markets' forecasts within a few minutes of each other. Always opened with "Early on this __day morning..."