WCTX(MyTV9) will show 7 Connecticut Sun games this year. From WTNH:
Highlights of the broadcast schedule include home games against the defending WNBA champion Detroit Shock on July 11th and Sue Bird and the Seattle Storm on August 13th, as well as a road game in Phoenix against Diana Taurasi and the Mercury on August 29th.
“We are excited to continue out partnership with the Connecticut Sun,” said Jon Hitchcock, Vice President and General Manager of WTNH News Channel 8 and WCTX MyTV9. “Connecticut is the home of great basketball fans. We are thrilled to provide our viewers, with some of the best the WNBA has to offer.”
The rest of the schedule includes games at New York on June 7th, against defending Western Conference champion San Antonio on June 21st, at Chicago on August 1st and against Indiana in the regular season home finale on September 13th. This schedule is subject to change.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Comcast on its phone Internet etc bundle
In the course of writing about landlines (Sunday column, see nhregister.com), I asked Comcast's Laura Brubaker about the phone service they're offering and whether it had to be linked to digital cable in its bundle price.
Her reply:
"Anyone can get our Comcast Digital Voice service – regardless of what kind of cable service they have (analog or digital) and they can have it as a single product or also chose to take our other products as well (high-speed Internet and/or cable). For the Enhanced Cordless Phone that is mentioned within the release I sent over (which hasn’t launched yet), a customer would want to have our high-speed internet to really enjoy and experience all of the integrated services and advanced functionality that come with that (i.e. – ability to view e-mail and voicemail, IM and access yellow pages).
As for Caller ID to the TV, ... we are also scheduled to launch that feature later this year. With that, a customer WOULD have to have digital cable for that convergence of the two products to work…"
Her reply:
"Anyone can get our Comcast Digital Voice service – regardless of what kind of cable service they have (analog or digital) and they can have it as a single product or also chose to take our other products as well (high-speed Internet and/or cable). For the Enhanced Cordless Phone that is mentioned within the release I sent over (which hasn’t launched yet), a customer would want to have our high-speed internet to really enjoy and experience all of the integrated services and advanced functionality that come with that (i.e. – ability to view e-mail and voicemail, IM and access yellow pages).
As for Caller ID to the TV, ... we are also scheduled to launch that feature later this year. With that, a customer WOULD have to have digital cable for that convergence of the two products to work…"
Monday, March 16, 2009
News about TV
Dang, ABC has caneled "Life on Mars," which I rather liked.
Discovery Channel has two premieres Wednesday: "Inside the FBI" at 8 p.m. and "Global Warming: The New Challenge With Tom Brokaw."
A Connecticut native is among one of the top 16 finalists in Rachael Ray’s March Menu Mania. Sara Mayer, 27 from Trumbull, CT made the top cut with her Italian Chick N’ Ranch BBQ Crescent Squares recipe. The top 8 are being announced tonight (3-16).
Fox News Channel quoted a GOP operative saying that Obama was on a "delusional quest for historic grandeur." I don't think anyone attacked Bush in the first 100 days quite the way the right is doing with Obama as he tries to fix the ship of state. In Googling those words, I found the same wording in a piece by Andrea Tantaros,
Political Commentator. Not sure if that's who was being quoted on Fox News, but it's clearly a strategy to discredit our president. I hope Obama's fixes work splendidly, partly to shut these people up.
Discovery Channel has two premieres Wednesday: "Inside the FBI" at 8 p.m. and "Global Warming: The New Challenge With Tom Brokaw."
A Connecticut native is among one of the top 16 finalists in Rachael Ray’s March Menu Mania. Sara Mayer, 27 from Trumbull, CT made the top cut with her Italian Chick N’ Ranch BBQ Crescent Squares recipe. The top 8 are being announced tonight (3-16).
Fox News Channel quoted a GOP operative saying that Obama was on a "delusional quest for historic grandeur." I don't think anyone attacked Bush in the first 100 days quite the way the right is doing with Obama as he tries to fix the ship of state. In Googling those words, I found the same wording in a piece by Andrea Tantaros,
Political Commentator. Not sure if that's who was being quoted on Fox News, but it's clearly a strategy to discredit our president. I hope Obama's fixes work splendidly, partly to shut these people up.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Stewart's attack was an eye-opener
Jon Stewart's full frontal assault on CNBC last night (see video below) was a stunning moment in television, even for the late 2000s.
A faux news anchor took on the full ire of a country of investors, who have seen their life savings go from fat to emaciated because of Wall Street and finance guys who played fast and loose with other people's money.
And it came on the very day that Bernie Madoff went to prison for playing the fastest and loosest with gigantic amounts of money.
Cramer's program on CNBC has been a combination of interesting points about American companies, cable TV entertainment and a carnival sideshow led by a guy who seemed to know a whole lot about investing.
But Bear Stearns went down, others financial titans followed, the economy tanked, and Cramer was left looking as stupid and silly as other bullish investors.
Stewart showed a few of his trademark clips but mainly just spent the whole half-hour laying into Cramer for not only his own program's part in making Wall Street look good before the crash, but also CNBC's failure to do serious reporting during the lead-up to one of the greatest financial collapses in American history.
Cramer, as you can see from the video, was more than patient, contrite and agreeable. But Stewart didn't let him or the GE-owned network off the ropes. In Cramer's defense, almost no one was calling for caution, Stewart included, during the past decade when IRA accounts and 401K results were making people rich (on paper) and houses were escalating in price.
And further, Stewart's concern about CNBC's part in the Wall Street debacle could probably be extended to all of cable TV, marked by the need for 24-hour content and making the story du jour into a media circus (O.J., Britney, Lacey Peterson, etc.). It's an insatiable beast, and it takes more money than most are willing to spend to do serious business reporting.
But Stewart's not-so-rollicking attack on CNBC made me think of how I've been intentionally avoiding my investment account, so as not to be depressed about it. He reminded me how we really should be irate at the guys who did this, the brokers and hedge fund managers and credit rating agencies. Not to mention the mortgage wizards who would sell a $540,000 California house to someone making $75,000 or $80,000 a year with a subprime mortgage. The math never worked, but salesmen and brokers and ratings agencies got obscenely wealthy doing it.
For eight years, anytime we brought up the fact that some folks are getting unseemly wealthy at the top of society by questionable means, we were slapped down by "free-market" Limbaugh blowhrds who wagged their fingers and said that no one in America should resort to "class warfare." Well, the well-connected wheeler-dealers brought this on us, and many Americans are tired of protecting the uber rich. There's a reason for regulation, and moderation. The rich have earned the new tax assaults on their fortunes.
Let Stewart's tirade be an option for real journalists (in editorials or columns) when hugely profitable media businesses spin fluff about businesses taking extreme risks, as they share in the bounty and we shmoes share mainly in the risk.
A faux news anchor took on the full ire of a country of investors, who have seen their life savings go from fat to emaciated because of Wall Street and finance guys who played fast and loose with other people's money.
And it came on the very day that Bernie Madoff went to prison for playing the fastest and loosest with gigantic amounts of money.
Cramer's program on CNBC has been a combination of interesting points about American companies, cable TV entertainment and a carnival sideshow led by a guy who seemed to know a whole lot about investing.
But Bear Stearns went down, others financial titans followed, the economy tanked, and Cramer was left looking as stupid and silly as other bullish investors.
Stewart showed a few of his trademark clips but mainly just spent the whole half-hour laying into Cramer for not only his own program's part in making Wall Street look good before the crash, but also CNBC's failure to do serious reporting during the lead-up to one of the greatest financial collapses in American history.
Cramer, as you can see from the video, was more than patient, contrite and agreeable. But Stewart didn't let him or the GE-owned network off the ropes. In Cramer's defense, almost no one was calling for caution, Stewart included, during the past decade when IRA accounts and 401K results were making people rich (on paper) and houses were escalating in price.
And further, Stewart's concern about CNBC's part in the Wall Street debacle could probably be extended to all of cable TV, marked by the need for 24-hour content and making the story du jour into a media circus (O.J., Britney, Lacey Peterson, etc.). It's an insatiable beast, and it takes more money than most are willing to spend to do serious business reporting.
But Stewart's not-so-rollicking attack on CNBC made me think of how I've been intentionally avoiding my investment account, so as not to be depressed about it. He reminded me how we really should be irate at the guys who did this, the brokers and hedge fund managers and credit rating agencies. Not to mention the mortgage wizards who would sell a $540,000 California house to someone making $75,000 or $80,000 a year with a subprime mortgage. The math never worked, but salesmen and brokers and ratings agencies got obscenely wealthy doing it.
For eight years, anytime we brought up the fact that some folks are getting unseemly wealthy at the top of society by questionable means, we were slapped down by "free-market" Limbaugh blowhrds who wagged their fingers and said that no one in America should resort to "class warfare." Well, the well-connected wheeler-dealers brought this on us, and many Americans are tired of protecting the uber rich. There's a reason for regulation, and moderation. The rich have earned the new tax assaults on their fortunes.
Let Stewart's tirade be an option for real journalists (in editorials or columns) when hugely profitable media businesses spin fluff about businesses taking extreme risks, as they share in the bounty and we shmoes share mainly in the risk.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
NBC's March guest stars: Ernie Borgnine on ER!
March Guest Star Dates:· Maya Rudolph - Kath & Kim (3/5)·
Patti LuPone - 30 Rock (3/5)·
John Lithgow - 30 Rock (3/5)·
John Glover - Heroes (3/9)·
tephanie March - Law & Order: SVU (3/10 - multi-episode story arc)·
Ernest Borgnine, Eriq La Salle, Noah Wyle, Julianna Margulies, Susan Sarandon - ER (3/12)·
Carol Burnett - Law & Order: SVU (3/17)·
Matthew Lillard - Law & Order: SVU (3/17)·
Gabrielle Union - Life (3/18 - multi-episode story arc)·
Keith Carradine - Law & Order (3/18)·
Idris Elba - The Office (3/19 - multi-episode story arc)·
Jon Hamm - 30 Rock (3/19)·
Meredith Vieira - 30 Rock (3/19)·
Betty White - My Name Is Earl (3/19)· S
woosie Kurtz - Heroes (3/23)·
Kurtwood Smith - Medium (3/23)
Patti LuPone - 30 Rock (3/5)·
John Lithgow - 30 Rock (3/5)·
John Glover - Heroes (3/9)·
tephanie March - Law & Order: SVU (3/10 - multi-episode story arc)·
Ernest Borgnine, Eriq La Salle, Noah Wyle, Julianna Margulies, Susan Sarandon - ER (3/12)·
Carol Burnett - Law & Order: SVU (3/17)·
Matthew Lillard - Law & Order: SVU (3/17)·
Gabrielle Union - Life (3/18 - multi-episode story arc)·
Keith Carradine - Law & Order (3/18)·
Idris Elba - The Office (3/19 - multi-episode story arc)·
Jon Hamm - 30 Rock (3/19)·
Meredith Vieira - 30 Rock (3/19)·
Betty White - My Name Is Earl (3/19)· S
woosie Kurtz - Heroes (3/23)·
Kurtwood Smith - Medium (3/23)
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