Friday, May 22, 2009

TV Networks: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road












Chickaboomer's Golden Toad award goes to: TV broadcast networks ending the season down 16%. "Nobody watches TV anymore... can't they get it? TV is soooo sick!" -Disgusted Viewer

Dear Disgusted: Hang on another five years and TV will be as extinct as the Golden Toad and Dodo Bird.

The White House press corps is giving Obama the bird behind his back for shutting out the press pools and shooting events using his own network with a logo - OTV!

Ah, but OTV is already taken. In Romania. And man, you gotta see what THAT OTV is broadcasting in "OTV Kills Obama."

Remember when NBC unveiled a new logo with much fanfare in 1975 after spending millions on a design only to find Nebraska public TV conjured the same thing for free? They sued. NBC kept its expensive logo by bribing Nebraska ETV with $800,000 in new equipment and $55,000 for a new logo design.

Three years later NBC dumped the trapezoid N...

1 comments:

  1. I worked at NBC, 4000 Nebraska Avenue, DC, back then and an engineer there got in mucho trouble for wearing a t-shirt with the logo and "Nebraska Public Television" underneath.

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