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By The Museum Of Classic Chicago Television
“Here’s an editorial by Dillon Smith, editorial director of WMAQ Channel 5, soaking in the sun at poolside outdoors during a company outing, and summarizing some good news of the summer season.”
Posted on May 27, 2014
The Pilot America Wouldn’t Buy
According to Jack Sullivan, who uploaded this to YouTube on Monday, this aired in 1957 as a pilot that was not bought.
Posted on May 20, 2014
Most Of What You See On TV Isn’t True
1. Tribune: A Visual Perspective On Chicagoland.
2. The Truth About Shark Tank.
“Emory University student Kaeya Majmundar survived the ‘sharks’ and secured a deal for her invention during ABC’s Shark Tank on Friday night,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
“Majmundar, a rising senior, was featured on the show’s season finale with her ‘BZbox’ invention. The BZbox is billed as a durable, collapsible cardboard packing box that doesn’t require assembly.
“Lori Greiner, the Queen of QVC, agreed to invest $50,000 in BZbox for a 40 percent stake in the company if it can be marketed as a storage box. Greiner also noted that some aspects of the product need improving.
“Majmundar, a Chicago native came up with the idea two years ago when she and her roommate were packing up their dorm room for summer break. Before BZbox, her parents wanted her to become a doctor, she told the television investors.”
Posted on May 19, 2014
Plus: Chicago’s Lizard King
1. “Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl will present and produce his own TV series on HBO, according to a report in Classic Rock magazine,” Jam Bands notes.
“The untitled series will expand on what Grohl set out to do in his Sound City documentary, as the frontman will visit and record at some of the world’s most iconic recording studios.
“In addition to the recording, Grohl will conduct interviews with some of the artists who have recorded at each facility. Studios in consideration include Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio in Chicago.”
Posted on May 14, 2014
By Steve Rhodes
In this corner, Chicago Newsroom host Ken Davis, with guests Rick Kogan, Richard Steele, Ray Salazar and Bill Ruthhart.
In that corner, Mark Konkol, Marc Levin and Chicagoland.
Not even close.
Posted on May 2, 2014
By Steve Rhodes
“Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday sought to pivot away from questions about how his top aides worked with producers to coordinate scenes for CNN’s Chicagoland documentary,” Bill Ruthhart reports for the Tribune.
Pivot is one word for it. Let’s take a look.
Posted on May 1, 2014
By Steve Rhodes
“Alfredo Vasquez-Hernandez pleaded guilty in connection to operating the Chicago hub of the Mexican drug ring ran by Joaquin ”El Chapo” Guzman,” Chuck Goudie reported Tuesday for ABC7 Chicago.
“Alfredo Vasquez-Hernandez made it official Tuesday in federal court was after a false start on a guilty plea a few weeks ago.”
That’s one way to put it. False reporting is another. Let’s take a look.
Posted on April 30, 2014
By Steve Rhodes
Now that the finale has aired, the real news begins.
“If it seemed as though some scenes of CNN’s documentary series Chicagoland were coordinated by Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s City Hall and the show’s producers, that’s because they were,” the Tribune reports.
“More than 700 e-mails reviewed by the Tribune reveal that the production team worked hand in hand with the mayor’s advisers to develop storylines, arrange specific camera shots and review news releases officially announcing the show.
“Producers asked the mayor’s office to help them set up key interactions in what the cable network has billed as a nonscripted eight-part series, including Emanuel’s visits with the school principal who emerged as a star of the show, e-mails show.”
To those professing this is not surprising, I call bullshit.
Posted on April 25, 2014
Scalia Confused By HBO, Sotomayor Baffled By The Cloud, Roberts Still Wondering About Pagers
“In the end, the Supreme Court’s ideal frame of reference was the phonograph,” Brian Fung writes for the Washington Post.
“In struggling to find the right conceptual analogy for the two-year-old start-up Aereo, our nation’s top judicial officials also considered the difference between a car dealership and a valet parking service. But the fact that their first instinct was to turn to an invention created 137 years ago speaks gigabytes for how well the justices approach the day’s most important technology cases.
“It’s easy to poke fun at the bench. Justice Sonia Sotomayor kept referring to cloud services alternately as ‘the Dropbox,’ ‘the iDrop,’ and ‘the iCloud.’ Chief Justice John Roberts apparently struggled to understand that Aereo keeps separate, individual copies of TV shows that its customers record themselves, not one master copy that all of its subscribers have access to. Justice Stephen Breyer said he was concerned about a cloud company storing ‘vast amounts of music’ online that then gets streamed to a million people at a time – seemingly unaware of the existence of services like Spotify or Google Play. And Justice Antonin Scalia momentarily forgot that HBO doesn’t travel over the airwaves like broadcast TV.
“This is hardly the first time the court has seemed to betray a poor grasp of technology. Earlier this year, Justice Anthony Kennedy flatly assumed that many computer programs could be written by a college kid in a coffee shop over a single weekend. No one corrected him. And it’s been only four years since Scalia asked the room whether you could print out text messages.”
Posted on April 24, 2014
