DirtyHarry

LOL - I finally got my parents to get a cell. They have a $3-ish a month pay-as-you go plan from T-Mobile (30 minutes a month plus 10 cents a minute after that). I buy that for them, too. (They're not poor, just technologically incapable of loading the phone up with more time every couple months when you have to add money to the account.) If you have wireline cable, get an Obi202. It can work in conjunction with a Google Phone Number and it usually allows you to fax. Not perfect, but it usually works. Best part about it is that it is effectively free except for the cost of the box. (No monthly fee.) My home landlines are with Obi. Maybe it works with wireless internet, I haven't tried. Also, there is faxzero.com (free but limited to 2 pages) and faxaway,com, which I have been using for years. $1 a month gets you a Seattle-based fax number with a 206 area code and unlimited incoming faxes that come in through email. For outgoing faxes, there is a nominal fee. You compose/scan something in Word or PDF, email it to them and they fax it for you automatically. Also, I didn't realize this until a few months ago, but my T-Mobile voicemail accepts incoming faxes too, but then you have to forward to a regular fax machine.

Time for a new formula, in my opinion. I think the tabloid approach has gotten a little stale.

True. The power company installed a new electric meter which I have the ability to monitor through an app. I have a 10-year old 58 inch Samsung Plasma TV. The knock-on plasmas was that they were supposed to be energy hogs, right? Wrong. That huge TV uses only about 100 Watts according to the app. But when I have the cable box on, power usage spikes to 500 watts. I couldn't believe it and then I googled it and sure enough these boxes can use up to 500 watts. And I don't even have a DVR. I canceled the DVR because I found that I watch a lot less TV when I don't have the ability to record. This is just a plain jane HD cable box and it uses 500w. That's probably about as much as my electric oven uses. Un-freakin'-believable.

I rarely watch anyting on TV. It's usually just on as background noise. I like some of the LPTVs around here because there are a handful of channels that show old movies.

My parents are too old and stupid to handle streaming. Even email's a challenge for them sometimes. I buried a wire, technically illegal, but I told the cable company what I was doing. They don't care - they just wanted a sale. My dad is 85 and he watches a lot of football and futball. My mom is 81 and likes the old movies on TCM and all the woman channels. They both watch the news channels and the local stations.

I shouldn't have to pay for anything that isn't ad free. Besides, they're killing the golden goose. The only reason I still have cable is because my parents live next door. I buy it for them. Otherwise, I mostly watch over the air TV. I pay $120 ish a month for what they call the medium package and internet. Internet only is about $40 for 100 megabit or maybe it's up to 300 megabit now. That $80 a month extra is a charitable contribution to keep my parents from fighting with each other out of boredom. Is the crap you see on cable worth $80 a month or $960 a year? Nope.

Like I said, cable companies should do what the satellite companies used to do and hook you up in a manner so that you just pick up channels off the air, but they get tuned through the cable box. Then these silly disputes will stop and so will the <strike>stream of revenue</strike> extortion money paid to broadcasters.

The switch to MeTV was pretty seamless on WBNS. At midnight, right in the middle of the intro to "Star Trek: Enterprise," the music stops and Perry Mason appears, already in progress. The PSIP still says "Heroes" on 10.2 but earlier today I noticed that it only said "4.2" on WCMH. Decades is still on 10.3. I didn't check to see if there is now a 10.4. I hope so.

Good question. I bet they do get the music and graphics, but the logo looks pretty good right now. I didn't like it before, but I think it looks good with their blue color theme and inside a blue square. Likewise with WTHR. I think their logo looks great since they updated it. I don't know that I liked their graphics so much though. Too much gray for my tastes.

If I were TEGNA, I would downplay it. Most people who don't follow this stuff think the stations are still locally (or in the case of WTHR, almost locally) owned. There is an advantage to that. In fact, I would have given the Wolfes token ownership in the stations (like 100 shares of Tegna stock) just so they could continue to pretend they are locally owned.

Cincinnati is only a Cincinnati problem. Ohio State football is a statewide problem. If you don't believe me, check out the ratings big OSU games get in Cleveland and Dayton. Even the Ohio part of the Charleston-Huntington market watches a lot of OSU football.

"MeTV will air on WBNS-TV over the air channel 10.2 Spectrum Channels, 986, 142, 1141, 187, WOW Ch. 112, Frontier Ch. 60, Horizon View Ch. 13, Sycamore Telephone Ch. 17" All those extra channels listed make me wonder if MeTV was the one that dumped Nexstar.

I wonder if that's just an interim move until Antenna TV's deal expires with WSYX. I also wonder what's behind this. I doubt Court TVs going to be as popular as MeTV or do they even care? Is it all about who pays the most to lease the channel?

Slightly off-topic: Nexstar is dropping the very popular MeTV from WCMH 4.2? What gives? Or are they going to replace with Antenna TV (which sucks)?

I like it. It's different. I don't like that desk, but I do like the general look they tried to give it. The new logo is a lot better than what they had, which was very long in the tooth. Change was long overdue. I'm not sure this is what I would have changed to if I were the decision maker, but we'll see how they roll this out. It's got some potential.

I tend to agree with this. Everybody has the four anchors with no personality, they all sit behind a desk in a studio that looks like the bridge of the USS Enterprise. Something different is long overdue.

Some of you are haters. I don't think "Go" is such a bad name as it is being used alongside "3 News." It's different and it doesn't sound dated like calling it Eyewitness Action News or something like that. The way you guys were talking, I thought they were going to call it simply "Go," which is a little more awkward. I don't mind the name Go, but I don't think it conveys that it is a newscast. (It sounds like another "Extra" wannabe.) But "3 News: Go" is just fine depending on how they use it during the program.

If I was AT&T I would put up a slide that details how much everybody pays for Disney channels today, how much they want and how much their bill will be going up if Disney gets what they want. I would imagine the fee is pretty substantial with ESPN involved. And if you live in a market with an O&O, I bet you it's costing you over 10 bucks.

Not to be a party pooper, but it is adults 25 to 54. Kind of like when I tell my only nephew that he's my favorite. Nevertheless, they are the station I tend to watch the most. So good job.

I know that being an atheist in some quarters is considered enlightened but the human body is a complicated organism containing specific parts that do specific jobs. Kind of hard to believe that your eyes, ears, nose, circulatory system, digestive system, brain and self-repair properties just kind of happened on their own. I don't know if you realize this, but being an atheist is like saying that if you throw a bunch of sand (glass), some unrefined petroleum (plastic) and chunks of metal ore (copper, gold) at a wall enough times, it would randomly arrange itself into an iPhone, complete with all the computer programming necessary to be an operable device including internal power source. In other words, believing in a creator is much more plausible than believing that pond scum gestating long enough could turn itself into the complicated beings that we all are. God, mother, country, national anthem! It's about time people stopped entertaining Marxist nonsense.

I'm watching the Bengals/Colts game on WSYX. I was curious who the originating station was since there are no station logos on the broadcast so I looked it up. I just thought it was amusing that 4 of the 6 stations carrying the game are Sinclair stations. (The other two stations are Block.) PRESEASON WEEK 4: COLTS AT BENGALS | THURSDAY, AUG. 29 AT 7 P.M. TV Affiliates and Information Cincinnati: WKRC (CBS Channel 12) Dayton: WKEF (ABC Channel 22) Columbus: WSYX (ABC Channel 6) Lima: WLIO (FOX Channel 8.2) Lexington: WDKY (FOX Channel 56) Louisville: WDRB (FOX Channel 41)

Speaking of netlets and the free market, I just saw Newsnet for the first time. My first impression is that it's a journalism professional trying to put a newschannel together in his basement. That's not really an insult. It's a good effort but they have a long way to go. Unfortunately, they picked the worst LPTV to be on. They have the worst signal, and it looks like it's all leased out. A channel can be down for weeks before they'll do something about it. In the case of Newsnet, the volume is turned down so low you can barely hear anything. https://yournewsnet.com/

There is something about the production value of their in-house stuff that strikes me as cheesy. I don't know if it's the graphics, the lighting, the intro or what, but there is something about these bits they produce that really get under my skin and it has nothing to do with the content. It just looks small market to me for some reason and Sharyl Atkinson is a pro so her show shouldn't look like this. (Just my opinion.)

Pros and cons of cursive? LOL

Not that I know him, but he once smiled and said hi to me on campus as we were about to bump into each other for no reason. So my impression of Jeff is that he's a nice guy! I don't know if I like him as evening anchor, though. I'm all about the voice and he doesn't have a deep, entertaining voice. LOL Jack Nicklaus, Archie Griffin, Dave Thomas, Fred/Charles/Bob/Simon Lazarus (Macy's), Les Wexner, John Wolfe, Woody Hayes LuAnn Stoya, Kurt Ludlow, Mike Kilburn and Erin Carroll too