I noticed that, as I've tried to find a focus for this blog, that I've concerned myself only with me. Maybe I should give helping others a try.
We've all seen it. You walk into a business and notice a television on. Or you're at the gym and there is a television on. Or you're sitting in your family room and there is a television on. In each case, you may wonder, "Why is it on this channel?" You ask the employees/family members. Typically, the answer is something to the effect of "we didn't know what channel to put it on and didn't want to spend time surfing," or "Mark, you know your son likes watching the Wiggles!"
So, it occurred to me to use the blog as a helpful resource to solve the problem of what channel to watch when no one is watching any channels. Fortunately, this involves two of my favorite pastimes : the internet and watching television. (Of course, my favorite pastime is working, but they only let me do that so many hours each day. Take THAT, you employers, 83% of whom use the internet to check on job applicants and the 45% of those who cowardly reject an applicant based on those findings!) I also enjoy fact checking.
It's pretty simple. I put the choices I've made for tomorrow's television viewing on the blog. You check the blog and put all of your televisions on said programs. I suppose if someone were to ask for a specific channel other than the one I've chosen, you could change it to the requested channel. But make sure you sigh, roll your eyes, look at your watch, and, after changing the channel, say, "THERE! Are you happy now?"
On a tangent (of, if you like music, on a coda), those of you who know me probably know that I find it fascinating that they show radio programs on television--past and present examples include Howard Stern, Don Imus, and "Mike & Mike in the Morning". Isn't that what radios are for? When I'm on a treadmill in the morning, I watch television but don't listen to it as I fear what earphones will do to my hearing. So, if the channel has a radio program, like Mike & Mike, I am watching (and only watching) a radio program on TV. This morning, I was noticed that the treadmill I was using AND the treadmill in front of it had Mike & Mike on. So, I was was watching (and only watching) a radio program on TV in stereo!
See below for the first day's schedule.
Pros:
Decisive
Teamwork
Helps solve a problem
Always something good on the TV when I'm walking through a room with a television
Cons:
So far, no one seems overly concerned about my thoughts on what should be on TV
The problem isn't big enough to necessitate the time spent
If I had any authority, this would be autocratic
Might be easier just to point people to a TV listing web site
Hopefully, my unselfish efforts will make publicly-placed televisions more enjoyable for everyone.
And have a good day.
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Let's start with September 19th.
0000: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (COM)
0030: The Colbert Report (COM)
0100: NOVA (TPT2)
0200: In Living Color (BET)
0230: In Living Color (BET)
0300: Babe Winkleman's Outdoors Secretss
0330: Happy Days (WGN)
0400: Happy Days (WGN)
0430: Are You Being Served (TPT2)
0500: Brief History of Disbelief (TPT2)
0600: The Wiggles (DIS) [Liam! Get away from the keyboard!]
0630: M*A*S*H (TVLand)
0700: Cheers (TVLand)
0730: Beverly Hillbillies (WGN) (it was either that or paid programming)
0800: Spin City (FX)
0830: All in the Family (TVLand)
0900: Ellen DeGeneres (WCCO)
1000: Scrubs (COM)
1030: Scrubs (COM)
1100: I Love Lucy (TVLand)
1130: Married ... With Children (FX)
1200: Twins baseball (FSN)
1500: NFL Live (ESPN)
1530: Cosby Show (WGN)
1600: M*A*S*H (Hall)
1630: Pardon the Interuption (ESPN)
1700: O Brother Where Art Thou (CMT)
1930: M*A*S*H (TVLand)
2000: Mythbusters (DISCOVERY)
2100: M*A*S*H (TVLand)
2130: M*A*S*H (TVLand)
2200: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (COM)
2230: The Colbert Report (COM)
2300: Cribs (MTV2)
2330: Cribs (MTV2)
3 comments:
What if you don't have cable or satellite? And, who's Mike & Mike?
Ooooh! I hate when I do that. I forgot to include the important bit in the original post:
For those of you without cable or satellite subscriptions, I have a solution. Call ChartDishCastTV. They offer the best channels at the best prices.
"ChartDishCastTV: If books aren't becoming to you, you should be coming to us!"
Visit them on the web at: their URL.
Hopefully, this still counts as "product placement." I'd hate to lose the money ... er ... HONORARIUM they offered.
Oh, and by the way, Mike & Mike are Mike Golic, a former professional football player, and Mike Greenberg. They are the co-hosts of a sports talk show on ESPN radio.
P.S. I finally did the fact check. According to an inset in the September 14, 2007, business section of the Minneapolis Star Tribune (page D2), 83 percent of recruiters use search engines to check on candidates. 43 percent of recruiters had eliminated a candidate based on the search engine findings.
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