Uploaded To YouTube By Dance Grind TV
Local highlights from ABDC Season 7 auditions.
Posted on January 31, 2012
The Yasmin Acree Story: How The Media Has Treated The Case Of A Missing Austin Teen
By Steve Rhodes
TV One launched Find Our Missing this month with a show that included the cases of Austin teenager Yasmin Acree and the missing South Side Bradley sisters under the well-documented proposition that black girls – and poor black girls in particular – who have disappeared don’t get nearly the media coverage (if any) that white girls – pretty white girls in particular, and the wealthier the better – get.
“Find our Missing, launched Jan. 18, was designed to put names and faces to people of color, like Yasmin, who’ve disappeared without a trace. Each episode tells the story of a missing person or persons, beginning with the day they vanished and the frantic searches by loved ones and investigators to find them,” Austin Talks reports.
“Nearly one-third of the missing in this country are black Americans, while we make up only 12 percent of the population. Yet stories about missing people of color are rarely told in the national media,’ Wonya Lucas, president and CEO of TV One, the network airing the series, said in a press release.”
Point taken. But Acree’s case actually has attracted a fair amount of national media coverage, as we shall see, and her disappearance is more complicated than one may think, as we shall also see. And then you can check out TV One’s telling of her case.
Posted on January 29, 2012
Epstein’s Mother Stars In Robert Hegyes Death Tweets
God Calls A Sweathog Home
“Robert Hegyes, the New Jersey-born actor who played Jewish Puerto-Rican wheeler-dealer Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos Epstein on the 1970s classic Welcome Back Kotter, died after an apparent heart attack in his Metuchen, N.J., home Thursday morning,” McClatchy Newspapers reports. “He was 60.”
According to Twitter, Epstein’s mother signed the note. Let’s take a look.
OpieRadio: Juan Epstein from Welcome Back Kotter has died from apparently a rubber hose up his nose. Signed, Epsteins mother
Posted on January 27, 2012
The Genius That Was The Chimp Channel
Quite Possibly The Best Thing To Ever Appear On Television
“The National Institutes of Health [last month] suspended all new grants for biomedical and behavioral research on chimpanzees and accepted the first uniform criteria for assessing the necessity of such research,” the New York Times reported recently. “Those guidelines require that the research be necessary for human health, and that there be no other way to accomplish it.”
For some reason we thought this gave us a good excuse to replay highlights from the late, lamented Chimp Channel.
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Posted on January 25, 2012
The Joke’s On The People’s Court
Not A Very Funny One, Either
“During a brief romantic and creative hiatus, Nora sued Nick on The People’s Court,” Nick and Nora of The Nick and Nora Variety Hour say on a Tumblr dedicated to the well-timed launch of their new show. “These were dark days for the both of us, but with the help of Judge Marilyn Milian and the American judicial system justice and love triumphed.”
Nick & Nora on The People’s Court from The Nick and Nora Variety Hour! on Vimeo.
Posted on January 23, 2012
JBTV Is Bad, Nationwide
By The Beachwood JBTV Affairs Desk
This just in from JBTV HQ, augmented by the Beachwood YouTube Curation Desk:
JBTV, Chicago’s longest-running music television show that mixes cutting-edge interviews, music videos and live, in-studio musical performances from emerging and established artists, has inked a deal with NBC Universal that will bring the weekly, one-hour program to 14 major markets across the United States.
Beginning on Saturday, February 18th, 2012, JBTV will air weekly one-hour episodes on Saturday nights at 10 p.m. on NBC’s newly-consolidated, national NBC “Nonstop” channel in Chicago, New York City/New Jersey, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco/San Jose/Bay Area, Miami/South Florida, Philadelphia, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Connecticut, Delaware, Washington D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia.
Posted on January 20, 2012
When WTTW Pledge Master Marty Robinson Kept Interrupting Doctor Who
Saving The Station From Destruction!
“Nearly 15 years ago, Marty Robinson appeared before a WTTW-TV camera on his first pledge night reading from a script written by the engineer,” the Sun-Times reported in 1986. “Since then, Robinson has become a star of improvisational fund-raising for the station.”
The Video Archive Project uploaded a reminder of why to YouTube this week, accompanied by this text:
“Anyone growing up in Chicago between the mid 70s all the way to 1998 will remember the face and voice of Marty Robinson – a Chicago broadcasting legend and the host of many WTTW subscription drives.
“This one was put to VHS because it was during Doctor Who, my favorite show on the network. This was also at a time when Channel 11 was being very aggressive in its purchasing and broadcasting of Doctor Who and this particular evening kicked off ‘The Trial Of A Timelord’ – one of the seasons during Colin Baker’s tenure as The Doctor.”
Posted on January 19, 2012
Chicago Academy High Banned This Student Newscast
By The Beachwood Student Journalism Defense Affairs Desk
Uploaded to YouTube this week by jctCHI:
“The 2009-10 Journalism class at Chicago Academy H.S. were required to make a newscast to explain the rules and regulations of CAHS to incoming freshman. Since we were so real and funny, they didn’t allow us to show it, just the boring non-funny parts. So enjoy this real corny and low quality newscast made by former students who worked hard but also had a great sense of humor.”
Posted on January 18, 2012
In Other Words, This Isn’t A News Event At All!
But WGN “Reporter” Strains To Make The Most Of It
The blowing! The drifting!
Posted on January 17, 2012