By The Beachwood Multiview Affairs Desk
AT&T is evil but this is pretty cool.
Posted on May 10, 2011
About That Wasteland
By Steve Rhodes
“Fifty years ago this week, Newton N. Minow delivered one of the most electrifying speeches ever given by a bureaucrat of the U.S. government,” Aaron Barnhart writes for the Kansas City Star.
“‘I did not come to Washington to idly observe the squandering of the public’s airwaves,’ he declared. ‘When your license comes up for renewal, your performance is compared with your promises . . . Many people feel that in the past licenses were often renewed pro forma. I say to you now: Renewal will not be pro forma in the future.’
“That line set off alarms across the TV industry. Minow was basically saying: Start serving the public interest (whatever that was), or I’ll give your station license to someone else . . .
“As a plan of action, though, the speech was a failure. Minow bears most of the responsibility for that.”
Posted on May 9, 2011
Media Toasts Royalty
By Stephen Colbert
There is nothing Americans love more than British royalty. It’s what our country was founded on. Or against. It was so long ago, who remembers.
Posted on May 2, 2011
Goodbye Empire Man
By The Beachwood Carpet Marketing Affairs Desk
1. “Lynn Hauldren, 89, the advertising copywriter who became the inspiration for the Empire Carpet Man in the 1970s and helped launch the company’s signature jingle into national recognition, died Tuesday, according to an Empire spokesperson,” the Tribune reports.
“Mr. Hauldren rose to became a decades-long advertising icon, as the person who wrote the catchy jingle that accompanies the company’s famous phone number, and often delivered it with style: ‘Five-eight-eight, two-three-hundred . . . Empire.'”
Posted on April 28, 2011
Dolla TV: 42nd Campbell
By THEREALJCDOLLA
AINT NO FAKE SHIT ROUND HERE JUST A TASTE OF HOW DA FUCK THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO CAMPBELL STREET SDz GET DOWN AINT NO FAKE GANGBANGIN OVER HERE KILL OR BE KILLED MU-FUCKER!!!
Posted on April 25, 2011
Save The Chicago Code?
By The Beachwood CSI: Chicago Code Affairs Bureau
“Chicago Code creator and executive producer Shawn Ryan, who was honored at the Hugo Awards last week, told guests that the show’s ratings for the next three weeks will be critical in determining the Fox show’s renewal for another season,” Reel Chicago reports.
“A good sign is improved ratings. Chicago Code Fan reported that Fox’s overnight ratings for the April 11 episode, a repeat, pulled in 5.98 million viewers with a 1.8 in the coveted 18-49 demos. This a sharp uptick from the March 28-April 3 report of 3.9 million total viewers.”
Posted on April 20, 2011
The Chicago TV Stand
By joyethan1
Gather every element of contemporary thought and structure as you marvel at the simple and graceful design of this unit.
Posted on April 19, 2011
Repo Chicago: Episode Four
Wild Boi TV: Spring Break in Miami
Powers TV Is Almost Here
Cop Show With A Superhero Element
“The producers of Powers, a TV pilot for Sony TV and FX Productions reportedly coming here in mid-June, are no strangers to shooting television entertainment in Chicago,” Reel Chicago reports.
“A-list television executive producer and director Michael Dinner returns to Chicago, after having been here on 12 episodes of The Beast, the FX Channel series that shot in Chicago in 2009 with the late Patrick Swayze . . .
“Two years in development and based on comic books by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, Powers follows a pair of homicide detectives who investigate deadly crimes committed by people with super-powers.”
Posted on April 14, 2011