Tag: Television
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Broadcast television is trying to kill itself
I bet you didn’t know that broadcast television is yet again going through a digital transition. Yes, I know, it hasn’t been that long ago in the United States where we all had to buy new TVs or set top boxes to receive brand new digital signals we never asked for. That was ATSC 1.0…
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SNL in 1975 had the sharpest edge
Now they’re as dull as a broom stick. Watch this two-minute bit with Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor. It’s about a black man who is interviewing for a job. This is the broadcast television of my youth. This is a sketch that could never be done today. SNL would be taken off the air. WARNING:…