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This document, like those that are similar, is designed to show history--particularly history related to television, mostly between 1940 and today. I research and write all the documents, and materials come from television shows and old newspapers and magazines mostly, and, by the way, I have been associated with broadcasting for some five decades (and that association includes a BA degree (radio-televison-film) from Wayne State University (which to me is no great thing in relation to what studies that I have made about television since 1977, when I left Wayne State University*). I do not use recently published books or recently published websites with information about television to get information for my documents or files as a rule, but, at times, I may see something that I can do research on and work to prove is valid or invalid, and I do not use such newer stuff as reference material, such as from Wikipedia, because I have seen so much wrong information over the years (as I prove to myself by seeing stories written at the time of such and such event). Anyone may challenge the statements within my documents. That is fine. However, a person who makes a challenge must present proof, as I can do when I make a challenge. Recently, a stupid person reported that my documents do not give "sources" (such as at the end), but some of mine do, if you look at all the documents on my website. The television-related documents do not list sources (except in special cases), and that is like what happens in the newspaper business. If I were to list on a Television History and Trivia all the sources--which often include notes that I have made from seeing television shows--the number could go into the dozens and dozens and dozens for each document. You should be aware that newspaper stories rarely list sources; they can note who said such and such and put materials within quotation marks. However, in the newspaper business, reporters and editors and such are required to keep their research notes, which, if necessary, may be shown in court cases as defense materials. In relation to the work that I do, my notes exist on some 170,000 index cards, and if articles are found in newspapers and magazines and such from the past and I get data from them and put that data on index cards, you will find titles of articles, publication titles, page numbers, et cetera. Incidentally, some information is general information that no newspaper or magazine can claim expressly as material that belongs to it, and such material is free-use information for everyone. Today, I still get information from old magazines and newspapers about television and television shows, such as Variety, Broadcasting, Radio and Records, Sponsor, The Detroit News, and the Chicago Daily Tribune. Rarely, do I take direct sentences and phrases from old magazines and newspapers and such, because what I write is not written anything like that of original sources, and, anyway, a statement of mine often comes about by combining data from several sources (or more) into one. I use quotes when I am taking direct material from some source. Yes, if you wish to challenge me about something, have at it, but you had better have a way in which to prove me wrong. In addition, I write these documents to show how television has changed over the years--for the better or for the worse--and that is done by being well informed about the history of television, which probably goes beyond the skills of almost anyone else in the country, and because of my background, I have the knowledge to take on those who push out jackass information or bad information, especially purposely to make people stupid, which is the way of propagandists. I argue well a television historian--like me--has great value, as has any honorable historian tied to other subjects, such as the history of a country or the history of a city or the history of architecture. In the long run, I really write the Television History and Trivia documents to show--to me, first--the good of television and the bad of television, and it is simply reporting true history so that I know what really has gone on and what is going on. And, of course, others may learn from what I put together. I do not put these documents together to make people like me, and I do not put these documents together to get in with the in-crowd. I write these documents to help others learn, for example, what rottenness is going on in the country in relation to the television business and sometimes the radio business, because bad people are using television and radio greatly today to pass along crap and hurt people. And I put these documents together to beat up on crappy people, even if the person is a president of the United States of America, and that I like to do, and I am good at it.
[* = On January 27, 2024, at about 12:20 p.m., I was in the kitchen, and I was cleaning a "George" unit. At the time, a radio set was tuned to WJR-AM, Detroit, a super-famous radio station in the country, and an episode of the feminist-based series called Women Who Lead was on the air. Right then, Ann Thomas--one of the regulars of the show--was interviewing the president of Wayne State University, Dr. Kimberly Andrews Espy, and at that time, Ann Thomas directed the conversation to the number of students today who do not have to pay tuition to be at the university, and Dr. Kimberly Andrews Espy--while sounding elated and excited--reported that about 50 percent of the students do not have to pay tuition to be at the university. That means, for instance, taxpayers have to take on the burden of paying for others and supporting others, who do not have to work as hard to stay and be at the university, as has been the rule for people for decades and decades. That is jackass stuff! People are getting free stuff or are not really having to work for stuff--they get to put the burden on others. Yes, that is crap in Michigan! Oh, by the way, you can see a "source" in the story is Dr. Kimberly Andrews Espy.]
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The state of television news is nowhere near good, and since the 1960s, it has steadily gone down--gone down to the point it often offers useless news or girlie news and avoids what should be known by the public. Good examples to show my proof--at least in relation to Detroit television--are the recent 75th anniversary programs tied to WDIV-TV (or WWJ-TV/WDIV-TV), WXYZ-TV, and WJBK-TV, all of which I have reviewed (access to which are tied to these links--WDIV-TV review, WXYZ-TV review, and WJBK-TV review), and all were bad journalism, and the worst of the three specials was and is the one about WDIV-TV, and the next worse was and is the program about WXYZ-TV (Channel 7). Over the years, a lot of people have contributed to the downfall of television news, most of which have been behind the scenes and not in front of the cameras, since they have made decisions about what does or does not get reported and they have written the materials that get presented, and many of them have been females, especially feminists, and with the rise in females in control on news content (and politics), the worse the country has become, because as rule women emotionally based and not logic based. Those in front of the camera can be blamed often, being nothing more than shallow figure heads and low-level thinkers, who follow along so that they can be famous and maybe make big money; news presenters need not be smart people, since they mostly only have to be able to read well and provide an image of smartness or prettiness or handsomeness on screen, and, anyway, not much in the way of words is presented within, for example, a half-hour newscast. Some of the people who have been on camera in the Detroit area over the years have been true screw-ups, and some examples are Charles Pugh and Gerald Harrington. Unfortunately for television viewers, viewers often never learn who are the real screw-ups and jackasses on television, because the true images do not exposed from underneath the facades, though sometimes the crappiness of a person gets shown later when the person is no longer on the air in Detroit, as happened with former Channel 7 anchorman Kelly Burke, who while driving drunk killed a person in sort of the Washington, D.C., area in July 1984, for which he got, in essence, a slap on the wrist. Andrea Isom of WJBK-TV was another drunk, especially a drunk driver, ending up on the Lodge Freeway in the wrong direction in November 2006. Yet, Another drunk of Detroit area television news was Bill Bonds, who was a big deal at Channel 7 from about August 1964 to October 1968 and from about May 1971 to January 1995, and who did a bit of work for other television stations in the Detroit area, and it was his actions as a drunk in around 1994 that led to his being let go from WXYZ-TV in 1995. Bill Bonds was a stupid man, and when a person looks back at the history of Bill Bonds, and the person can see the signs of stupidity easily, and, by the way, the person can see the screwed-up mind of Bill Bonds. For example, Bill Bonds showed himself to be a supporter of inner-city gutter culture, especially inner-city black culture, by chumming up to a rotten man known as Coleman Young (a Democrat), who was a mayor for Detroit for many years (and who left Detroit and Michigan with a really gutter-type son, Coleman Young Jr. (yet another Democrat)), and Coleman Young set Detroit on a path toward third-world status, from which it will probably never recover, since the city is ruled mostly by black communists and socialists and most of the citizens support black communists and socialists (pushers of such nonsense as "universal income," "social justice," "economic justice, and "reparations"), as recent elections have shown. On October 21, 2008, the managers of WXYZ-TV put Bill Bonds on the air for a special news broadcast (starting a 7:00 p.m.), and Bill Bonds presented current so-called news with John Kelly (a former on-air personality for the station), and Marilyn Turner (a former weathercaster for the station and yet the wife to John Kelly) did the weather segment in the half hour. The program also had Bill Bonds doing nearly a two-minute-and-a-half commentary, and it must be remembered it was the time of (roughly) the 2008 economic crash, a big driver of which had been come from the Democratic Party, which had made federal laws that forced banks and savings institutions to make bad mortgage loans for years. During the commentary, which is available as "WXYZ Bill Bonds" on YouTube, Bill Bonds passed along fluff. Bill Bonds opened with thoughts about the energy crisis, and he noted that he has always believed "optimism and hope are the twin fuels that made this democracy run right....". That is fluff and idiocy, given it was actual work done by people--not guided by government--that made the country run right and got things done over time. At the time of the commentary, Barack Obama was running to be the U.S. president by telling people he represented "hope" and "change." In addition Bill Bonds noted that Americans are an "optimistic people" and "hopeful people," and that said nothing useful, given so many people in the world are hopeful, praying with hope (a vague thing) in mind. Bill Bonds said that he does not "trust my government," and at the time, George W. Bush, who called myself a "Republican" and was at least a bit socialistic, was the US. president, so when a person at the time was thinking about "government" and not "trusting" the government, the person probably thought of the "Republican Party" foremost, and it seems very likely Bill Bonds was working to suggest that to viewers. Yet, Bill Bonds reported that both parties maybe should be dumped and a new party should be formed. But Bill Bonds did not hint at what type of party he would want created. So that was more nothing from Bill Bonds. Barack Obama at the time of the delivery of the commentary by Bill Bonds was, in essence, something new. Several days after Bill Bonds passed along the commentary, America put sort of a "new" guy--Barack Obama, a rotten black man who clearly had ties to communism and supported communism as a way of life for Americans--into the office of the U.S. president, and he would be instrumental in making "Obamacare" law in the country. Although a person might deduce Bill Bonds was trying to put blame for the current state of the country on both political parties, it was probably more likely Bill Bonds was suggesting that votes should go to Barack Obama, which would hint at as a tactically smart action on the part of Bill Bonds, but that does not change the fact that Bill Bonds was a stupid man about what makes the world work right. Oh, Bill Bonds never addressed, even in one word, the cause for the economic crisis of the time in the commentary, and he never mentioned the crash. Yes, it looked as if Bill Bonds was a big supporter of the Democratic Party (clearly communistic and socialistic and anti-American (anti-The U.S. Constitution) political party). Proof of Bill Bonds' true nature came in big form on Saturday, December 10, 2005, at 7:00 p.m., when Bill Bonds hosted a salute to and a television special (The Dean of the House) about U.S. Representative John Dingell (a Democrat related to Michigan) on WWJ-TV, Channel 62. John Dingell--who was a big pusher of a nationally controlled health-care system for the country and the destruction of all non-government-controlled health care in the country--was a hard-line socialist (at least). I note that, when the federal government completely controls the health-care system of a country, and the country is rotten, and the citizens are enslaved, and yet Bill Bonds praised John Dingell. Bill Bonds praised John Dingell for "social-justice" work and for taking on other causes that--I say--were and are now bad for the country. Only a jackass would have taken on the job of hosting a special praising a rotten man, whose rotten wife--Debbie Dingell--is yet screwing up the country by helping to enact communistic laws that hurt people and by supporting Joseph Biden, the worst U.S. president in history [which I show only in limited from in a document that can be reached through this Rotten Biden link]. Bill Bonds helped set the pace of what television news people should be like and do on camera (at least in Detroit), and much of it was and is nothing more than to present a "show" and present a facade of useful news and information, and now much of television news in Detroit is girlie based news, in which the basis of television news is to touch emotions and feelings and touch the heart and not make people aware of the crap that is going on, especially in government and from government, which, in Michigan, is controlled by socialists and communists and freaks (as can be seen in, at least, my document about Governor Gretchen Whitmer, which can be reached through this Hate Whitmer document), and yet more and more broadcast time is devoted to so-called news stuff. Since now about half of the on-air talent (slightly more than half really) for newscasts in Detroit is female and since the industry has gone down, men alone can no longer be given the main blame for the fall of television news.
I have to report that many reporters on network television seem to have degrees in social science or political science, if my memory of a survey that I did some years ago is remembered properly. Many of the big-name people come from so-called elite schools, such as Yale and Harvard. I say that the majority of reporters and such are stupid because because they have never actually done something or built something in their lifetimes, and all the knowledge that they really have is book-extracted stuff, and they have grown up during school days to be memorizers and not thinkers. In addition, since the 1970s, many reporters have gotten into jobs because they are women or black or black women, and they have been given preferential treatment [some persons that got schooled in the Detroit-area, such as at Wayne State University, in the 1960s, got schooled when university teachers were using tactics (pushed upon them by higher-ups) to not flunk blacks (as I have learned from a teacher of some four decades)). By the way, the unqualified black teachers then when into, for example, the Detroit school system, and I have reported how the children of Detroit are doing badly in Detroit schools, and I add that there has been a culture in which black people did not what white teachers to teach their children in Detroit, and blacks have wanted to be taught black culture or black studies. Proof of how bad big-name reporters are can be can be seen in at least some of my Television History and Trivia documents that I have on the Internet that show very bad reporting, especially about Donald J. Trump, over the last ten years and some other stand-alone documents that I have on the Internet. In the 1970s, I saw a falling off of standards in the broadcast industry in Michigan, and one reason for that was many people entering the workforce were high-school kids and such who simply went to a "broadcast school" for a few months or so, such as to Specs Howard, where they received no more general-knowledge education. Wayne State University fed many people into the broadcast business from the 1930s to about the late 1970s, and then Central Michigan University became a popular place to get "broadcast training" [?] in the 1980s. Universities in Michigan are no longer the big places to get a good broadcast education, as I see it, based on what the themes of the universities are (tied to "wokeness" and socialism and such). Elsewhere, in the country, that seems to be the same story, and as I have said, many big-name broadcasters come from so-called elite schools and are taught poorly about many things. But an examination of the ways of schools, such as the University of Michigan and Harvard University, can show why the people in the broadcast industry, especially in news, are rotten. A good example is what can be shown about the nature of Harvard University. Claudine Gay is a black woman, and history shows she has been tied to stealing other persons' writings, and history shows that she is no great thinker. Between July 1, 2022, and January 2, 2024, Claudine Gay was the head ("head") or president of Harvard University, and she had to resign when her true nature became publicly known, such as her thoughts about Israel and Hamas. On January 2, 2024, the management of Harvard University presented a letter about Claudine Gay to the public, and the letter showed off the thinking style of the university, and it was not good. The letter opened with--"With great sadness, we write in light of President Claudine Gay's message announcing her intention to step down from the presidency and resume her faculty position at Harvard.". So, Claudine Gay screwed up, but she gets to stay at Harvard University and continue to teach students. The next paragraph of the letter was--"First and foremost, we thank President Gay for her deep and unwavering commitment to Harvard and to the pursuit of academic excellence. Throughout her long and distinguished leadership as Dean of Social Science then as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences - where she skillfully led the FAS through the COVID-19 pandemic and pursued ambitious new academic initiatives in areas such as quantum science and inequality - she demonstrated the insight, decisiveness, and empathy that are her hallmark. She believes passionately in Harvard's mission of education and research, and she cares profoundly about the people whose talents, ideas, and energy drive Harvard. She had devoted her career to an institution whose ideals and priorities she has worked tirelessly to advance, and we are grateful for the extraordinary contributions she has made - and will continue to make - as a leader, a teacher, a scholar, a mentor, and an inspiration to many.". The set of words from the management is bullshit of the highest degree, beginning with the idea in the first sentence presented as "the pursuit of academic excellence", which is counter to her having plagiarized works a number of times. Notice how the letter is much concerned with emotions and feelings, and that is the way of women, or that is the thinking base of women and feminized men, and the letter was not concerned with reality and fact. The second paragraph is a newsworthy story--a national story--and I bet the story was not covered by local broadcasters, who are more based on reporting stories about car crashes and fund-raisers. I report that, really, the letter should have been a short thing in which the management should have said something like--"Today, we excepted the resignation of Claudine Gay as the president of Harvard University, and we have appointed.....". In essence, the second paragraph of the letter worked sell that idea that Claudine Gay, who had shown herself to be a piece of crap, is good. Oh, the second paragraph reminds me of the commercials from the news department of Channel 4 and the news department of Channel 7/Channel 2, which are designed to sell emotions and feelings and family crap to get people to watch, and the worst set of commercials are those tied to WDIV-TV, in which members of the staff (such as Mara MacDonald, who always looks angry and mean, Will Jones, Devin Scillian, Rod Meloni, Dr. Frank McGeorge, and Priya Mann) are shown in black and white and present fluff. Really, there is little reason to praise newscasters--local or network--given they do not do much that is useful.
Announcement for the novice again (reworked in March 2019): To get useful television-delivered news or Internet-delivered news, try Breitbart News Network (the history of which goes back to 2007), WorldNetDaily.com, Newsmax TV (which was started up in 2014), CNS News (which is on the Internet and which was launched on June 16, 1998), and One America News Network (a.k.a. OAN), since the entities do not blindly support Barack Obama-type people (communists, socialists, progressives, liberals, and Shariaists), as do CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV (Note: To learn about bad journalism, you might tune in to CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV from time to time to see how they differ from the better places mentioned). I note that the Fox News Channel is evolving into a rotten channel, becoming like those that I have put down in this paragraph. If you are unclear of my intentions, I say in different words that you should boycott CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV and even now much of what is on the Fox News Channel and hope they lose more ratings and advertising revenues, since they are expendable, and it is time for you to find the guts to be mean and heartless and cancel them--since they are hurting you. In 2019, "The Drudge Report" was sold, and it should be treated as suspect for now. [Note: Everyone in the Democratic Party in the country is rotten, and the Republican Party establishment has shown itself to be socialistic and communistic within the last few years, and only a few of the rotten people tied to the Republican Party are U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie.]
[Note: Here is an example of Chris Christie's rottenness. On Sunday, February 6, 2022, Chris Christie was a guest on This Week with George Stephanopoulos (of ABC-TV), which had Martha Raddatz as the host, and Christ Christie pushed out crap. For example, Chris Christie said--"...And let's face it. Let's call it what it is. January 6 was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump...an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress into doing exactly what he said in his own words last week--overturn the election. And he's trying to do a cleanup on aisle one here...." and "...He actually told the truth by accident. He wanted the election to be overturned....". That is bullshit!]In the previous edition of Television History and Trivia, I reported that this edition of the publication would present information about Solutionaries, which is tied to the Graham Media Group of television stations, one of which is WDIV-TV, the home of Devin "Cuba Lover" Scillian. A few days before January 1, 2024, would show up, I discovered that WDIV-TV was going to air an episode of Solutionaries on the station on January 1, 2024, at 4:00 p.m., and then I already knew the Solutionaries series--which is mostly a streamed product--had been in existence for about two years. On January 1, 2024, I went on YouTube in the morning to see some of the presentations of Solutionaries that already existed, and I wanted to get a better understanding of the purpose of the series before the episode for the day for WDIV-TV would show up. I found several shows, and some of those were Solutionaries: Taking on Inflation (March 31, 2022), Solutionaries: Safer Streets (August 2, 2023), and Solutionaries Infrastructure Solutions (September 20, 2023). I learned that some of the regular reporters for the series are Jenna Zibton, Vic Micolucci, Joel Eisenbaum, and Erik Sandoval, and the host is Louis Bolden (a black guy), and I found two reporters of WDIV-TV have been involved with the product so far--Victor Williams and Priya Mann. The people are employees of various stations of the Graham Media Group, and those stations are KPRC-TV, WDIV-TV, KSAT-TV, WKMG-TV, WJXT-TV, WCWJ-TV, and WSLS-TV. While I watched the programs, I quickly got a sense that the overall theme of the series is tied to manmade climate change that is killing the planet (which is a false premise, being pushed out by communists and socialists and progressives and liberals and other bad people of the world). For example, the show about planning for death (Solutionaries: End of Life Solutions) pushed out the idea that people should get involved in "Green Burial" [to save the planet seems]. The episode called Solutionaries: Combating the Climate Crisis (February 22, 2022), which--I believe--was the first program touted as something to see by WDIV-TV, which was done by airing commercials for it on the station some time ago, such as on the subchannels for the station, began with a freaky looking woman saying--"We are really, really close to a tipping point.". The statement was not backed up with fact, and it was bullshit (as can be seen by seeing at least two of my documents that are on the Internet at the website for The Hologlobe Press, one of which focuses a lot on "Climategate," the climate-reporting scandal of some years ago that involved scientists and other who put out fake data about the planet). I could go on to much more about the nonsense of the Solutionaries series, but I will only make one main point, which really shows up the crap that is being pushed out overall by the Graham Media Group reporters, writers, and producers, and once you see the information, you will see the series should be forgotten. The program called Solutionaries: Taking on Inflation really showed up the underlying bad journalism of the production entity and the people within it. At one point in the program, Louis Bolden started talking about the "three" types of inflation, and one of the topics involved the idea of "supply and demand." I state that there is a fourth idea (at least) that was not touched on, though it can be the biggest driver of inflation. Louis Bolden did not talk about or hint at federal-government-induced inflation, one cause of which is over-spending, and only one of the other causes is the federal government can make laws that force companies to do more work or go through more processes to create things or mine things, which, in the longer run, adds to the cost of products and services**. Remember--The program was a 2022 program, and, at the time, it was well known by smart and honorable people that the federal government had caused super-inflation, and yet nothing was said about it by Louis Bolden. In the end, that shows crap work done on the part of the host, the producers, the writers, and everyone involved. A good and honorable person can deduce Solutionaries is tied to the ways of climate activism and to socialism and communism and to bad people of today, and it is the type of series that should be avoided. So, on January 1, 2024, I fired up a television set (and a video recorder), and I got exposed to the episode of Solutionaries for the day. The episode was Solutionaries: Pet Solutions, and it featured reports (segments, really) from such regulars for the series as Jenna Zibton, Zachery Lashway, and Vic Micolucci, and this time, the host was Victor Williams. One of the sections I found to be silly or stupid, and it was about pet-finding drones, and that is kiddy stuff and useless stuff. Based on what I saw of all the episodes, I am worried Graham Media Group might try to syndicate the series to other places in the country and other station groups and stations, and that means it could help promote idiotic thoughts often times, especially about climate change, and that would be bad. In the long run, people should not feel bad about missing episodes of the series or not seeing the series at all, given it is more of the stupid same stuff that can be found, for example, on YouTube for free and at any time.
[** = There are other drivers of inflation, but I have kept the number at "four" for the discussion in the previous paragraph. Another type of inflation is caused by other government entities, such as city governments, forcing companies to pay workers more money, particularly an amount that is unrealistic in relation to the type of work done and in relation to the marketplace. When some workers' pay goes up because of government order, it can cause others--those who work in jobs that have required more study or education and educational expense--to ask for more money. The more that wages go up because of government intervention, the higher that the costs of goods go.]
I have this extra information. The program called Solutionaries: Pet Solutions was shown in a two-hour block of programming on the afternoon of January 1, 2024, that included an episode of Inside Edition (the nationally syndicated series featuring Deborah Norville), a local program called What's in that Garage: Primetime (which was hosted by Christy McDonald), and a local show called A Conversation with...., which was hosted by Christy McDonald. What's in that Garage: Primetime was a passable program, and it had Christy McDonald's talking with owners of old-time vehicles, and the guests were Ken and Melody Klemmer, Don Soenen, and Doni Muzzy (who is associated with Throttle Gals magazine). A Conversation with... had Christy McDonald's talking with such persons as Mojo (a Detroit area disc jockey), Nandi Comer (the Poet Laureate of Michigan), Kelly Stafford (the wife of Matthew Stafford), and Tom Izzo, and the parts with Kelly Stafford and Mojo had junk about their marriages or their marriages being not so good a times, and it was unnecessary stuff. A Conversation with... had a big crap moment, and it was at the time when Christy McDonald was talking with Bill Ford Jr. (of the Ford Motor Company), and the topic was EVs, and Bill Ford Jr. pushed out this nonsense (related to people's being forced to buy electric cars)--"Nobody's forcing anybody into anything." That is a sign of a idiot man in relation to the general nature of the country and the world.Announcement: Recently, I have added some new documents to the collection of my documents at the website for The Hologlobe Press. One of the documents is entitled A Document that Dispels Myths and Nonsense of Science-Fiction Books, Movies, and Television Shows (A Logic Puzzle), which can be reached through this Myths link. Another document is And So You Think You're Going to the Moon, Mars, or the Stars..., which can be reached by using this Moon link. And yet another of the documents is entitled And the Stupid Women Shall Lead--and Lead Every Good Individual into Shit, Driven on by Communism, Feminism, and Defective Female Beliefs and Little-Girl Thinking, which can be reached through this Stupid Women link. And here are other documents--A Review of What Television Controlled by Socialists and Communists Worked to Sell as Truth in Relation to the U.S. President Donald J. Trump Impeachment (at Impeachment) and T.H.A.T. Special Edition--The First Helicopter-based Traffic Reporters on Radio for the Detroit area of Michigan (at Helicopter Traffic).
In the past, I have talked about Whoopi Goldberg, a rotten woman. For the record, I present what Whoopi Goldberg said on The View on January 11, 2024, and the topic from Whoopi Goldberg was designed to suggest Donald J. Trump, if he were to become the U.S. president again, would harm people (if not kill people maybe). Whoopi Goldberg said (in a sloppy style of speech and in an inner-city gutter black's dialogue form) while pretending to be speaking as Donald J. Trump--"I'm gonna put you people away. I'm gonna take all the journalists, I'm gonna take all the gay folks, and I'm gonna move you all around and disappear you.". This is the standard crap that comes out of the mind of Whoopi Goldberg on television, stuff that would never have been said fifty years ago on television (in a better television age, when a person would get remove from television by management for passing along such crap that could end up in a libel or slander case (depending on if it was both presented in audio form and text form).
Late-night television has really turned to crap since at least the 1990s, guided along into crap by such persons as David Letterman. Every time I finish watching Perry Mason on MeTV on weekdays, I change the channel to see other stuff, and I drift through the Seth Meyers program (of NBC-TV), and every opening piece for this show seems to be a political hit job on Donald J. Trump. Years ago, Johnny Carson did hosting for The Tonight Show, and a person was not hit every day with communistic and socialistic propaganda, especially right at the start of every show. Yes, ugliness is the rule for the late-night talk shows on network television. On the edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live! for ABC-TV for Thursday, January 18, 2024, Jimmy Kimmel pushed out his ugliness for everyone to see, and the ugliness inspired the audience in the studio to support him with laughter and such. Jimmy Kimmel said--"...I wonder, once Trump is dead and gone and buried on the 18th hole of one of his golf courses, and will things get better or will we have a whole new crop of MAGA brains to deal with it....". Yes, the sentence is poorly constructed. But the point of ugilness--something Johnny Carson never said or came near to saying--shows off the shit in Jimmy Kimmel's head!
Oh, on January 18, 2024, a new coach for the New England Patriots was introduced, and the new coach is Jerod Mayo (a black guy). Jerod Mayo said at one point during the press event--"...I do see color because I believe, if you don't see color, you can't see racism....". Hey, let me treat Jerod Mayo as I would a white guy. I state that Jerod Mayo is jackass, and his jackassness was shown clearly on television! A football event, which should have only been about football, was turned into crap by Jerod Mayo.
This section of Television History and Trivia shows off some of the true rottenness of television journalism today, and I could have put it in the next edition of Television History and Trivia, which shows off a bunch of nonsense of WDIV-TV news. On Monday, January 15, 2024, there was an election (a primary) in Iowa, and on the Republican side, Donald J. Trump came out the winner--by a big amount. It is commonplace for politicians and such to give speeches upon winning or losing an election, and it has been commonplace for news entities to cover the events (at least a little), and, really, the events are not usually tied to "hard" news and are usually fluff in nature, such as based on thanking people. Something extraordinary happened in the coverage or non-coverage by some big-name news entities of a speech by Donald J. Trump on the evening on January 15, 2024, and it showed the rottenness and corrupt nature of the news entities. During Donald J. Trump's speech, CNN was doing some live coverage, but at one point, Jake Tapper broke in and began to speak over Donald J. Trump. Hold it! When Donald J. Trump's speech was going on, it was clearly evident--as it had been for months and months--that immigrants in great numbers had been crossing into the United States of America illegally and staying in the country illegally, and the Joseph Biden administration was instrumental in letting the immigrants, such as at a rate of some 10,000 a day, enter the country illegally. So when Donald J. Trump got on the subject of how the country was, in essence, being invaded by illegals, Jake Tapper pushed out the idea that Donald J. Trump was going on again with his "anti-immigrant rhetoric." That was bullshit from Jake Tapper! Jake Tapper's statement could be seen a something akin to slander (or libel if the statement is set into text form). Jake Tapper's statement was not news related; his statement was opinion and propaganda, as facts about border crossings show. Elsewhere, Rachel Maddow (a freak, as I have defined her for a long time) was on the air for MSNBC, and at one point, Rachel Maddow said--"...At this point in the evening, the projected winner of the Iowa caucuses, uhm, has just started giving his victory speech. Ah, we will keep an eye on that as it happens. Ah, we will let you know if there is any news made in that speech, if there's anything noteworthy, something substantive and important. Uhm, the reason I'm saying this is, of course, there is a reason that we and other news organizations have generally stopped giving an unfiltered, live platform to remarks by former President Trump. It is not out of spite. It is not a decision that we relish. It is a decision that we regularly revisit. And, honestly, earnestly, it is not an easy decision. But there is a cost to us, as a news organization of knowingly broadcasting untrue things. That is a fundamental truth of our business and who we are. And so, his remarks, tonight, will not air here live. We will monitor them and let you know about any news that he makes.". That material from Rachel Maddow was bullshit! Before the speech was delivered, Rachel Maddow had no idea whether or not Donald J. Trump was going to give lies, and if he were to give lies ("untrue things"), Rachel Maddow and her associates could have pointed them out after the speech had been given, and they could have backed up their statements with facts. By not airing the speech, Rachel Maddow and her associates were able to block out (at least a bit), for one, truth--such as the idea that, indeed, an invasion is taking place at the border between the United States of America and Mexico. Rachel Maddow and her associates were selling the idea that they are going to be the deciders of truth and what is true and is not true--before others could see the topic or topics. Rachel Maddow was working to sell the idea that you can trust us (at MSNBC) to pass along the truth. Hey, news entities broadcast stuff from people all the time, and it is commonplace for people to pass along lies to news entities, and those lies get on the air, but rebuttals can be made after the fact with facts and data by news people. In the case of Rachel Maddow and her MSNBC associates, they were not doing journalism, letting the audience see both sides to the story as it was happening. It was rotten journalism, and it was propaganda (by omission). And Jake Tapper did crap journalism, too!
Late-night programming on the broadcast networks has gone to crap since at least the 1990s, as I have noted already, and it is loaded with socialists and communists and jackasses and propagandists and such. On Tuesday, January 23, 2024, I finally caught an episode of the new late-night show called After Midnight, which had debuted a few days earlier on CBS-TV. The show takes the time slot once held by The Late, Late Show with James Corden, airing for an hour beginning at about 12:37 a.m. and running for about one hour. The show is a game show (of sorts), and it is hosted by Taylor Tomlinson (a blonde gal), who has a foul mouth. The show was on tape, and while I watched the show, Taylor Tomlinson had to be bleeped a small bunch of times. By the way, in the period of television between 1946 (or so) and the 1980s, game show hosts--such as John Daly, Allen Ludden, Tom Kennedy, Gene Rayburn, and Garry Moore--never had to be bleeped, especially a half dozens times in a single program, and the hosts were likable and somewhat formal and nice. Basically, After Midnight is a game show in which foul-mouthed Taylor Tomlinson poses questions to a so-called panel of three personalities (who were Chad Daniels, Kelsey Cook, and Milana Vayntrub (the AT&T spokes gal) on the show that I saw), and Taylor Tomlinson awards points in some way to a person's giving useful answers. Mostly, I could not determine why points were awarded, since the awarding stuff was all vague, and giving the right answer was vague. In essence, the show was at least flat. For one, little said by the celebrities or Taylor Tomlinson was funny, and Taylor Tomlinson seemed to fake enjoying the answers--her so-called laughter seemed fake. In addition, it was as if the studio audience (not seen), which may have only been made of the production crew (in a studio at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, California), was only made up of a handful of people, and often it seemed only six persons were clapping in response to something that was so-called funny. Really, After Midnight was a bomb. It reminded me of a time in the 1950s, when Jackie Gleason launched a new weekly show on CBS-TV, and the debut show bombed, and the following week, Jackie Gleason used the time slot to apologize to the American people for putting on a bad show and used the time to promise a new thing--that would be better--would show up in the time slot next week. I think the makers of After Midnight show should apologize for After Midnight and revamp it or get rid of it. Incidentally, the above-the-line crew seems to be bloated; for example, 12 persons got an "executive producer" credit for the show that I saw, even though it was a studio-based show, and two more persons got a "co-executive producer" note. Stephen Colbert--the pusher of socialism and communism--is an executive producer of the show, and he hosts The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which is on the air right before After Midnight. So, 14 persons, in essence, were tied to the show as executive producers or were making money by being listed with the show, which was a bomb. I think I should now say--After Midnight was a bad show and even a somewhat "ugly" show, especially since it has a foul-mouthed host.
Recently, I saw a video on YouTube that presented an episode of Kelly & Company (a television series--version two of from 1977 to 1992--on WXYZ-TV), and the episode was aired on WXYZ-TV on Friday, October 25, 1985. I looked at the credits, and I noticed that Clyde Adler was listed, and he was tied to "electronic graphics" work for the show. Generally speaking, Clyde Adler worked behind the scenes of television shows made at WXYZ-TV in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, but he also worked as an actor on television shows featuring Soupy Sales (and, for while, Clyde Adler was with Soupy Sales in California, such as in around 1961). And that is a simple note of history tied to Clyde Adler. [Note: This section was a little break piece from the garbage stuff.]
I was thinking about delaying what appears in this section till a future edition of Television History and Trivia, but given what this edition has, I changed my mind. I have reported that many entities on the Internet have the wrong date about when the DuMont Television Network was closed down, and I have reported that I reported to Britannica that it has a page on the Internet with the wrong date, and I have yet to hear a response. On January 23, 2024, I reported the proper date to such persons has Clarke Ingram (who has a website on the Internet devoted to the network) and the staffers at The Henry Ford (a museum in Dearborn, Michigan). On January 24, 2024, I saw that I had a response from The Henry Ford and no response from Clarke Ingram, and I added more information about the network end date in another email that was sent to "Kathy M" of The Henry Ford (an internationally famous museum, which had been dedicated on October 21, 1929), and I presented proof of the date to "Kathy M." Also on January 23, 2024, I sent an email to Jen Heller, who has a webpage on the Internet called "Going the Distance: The Life and Death of DuMont Television" (of the "Rerun Rewind" website), my having seen a number of history problems with the page, such as when the network died and the idea that the Paramount Television Network (of the late 1940s and the early 1950s) was a "network," though it was only a syndication entity in the late 1940s and 1950s. What I did was pass along correct information to Jen Heller, and I reported that she should see T.H.A.T #217 and T.H.A.T. #218 and T.H.A.T. 235, which have information about Ms. Anna May Wong. On January 24, 2024, I saw in my email box a response from Jen Heller, and it came off as a message from an angry feminist and socialist [Note: The previous day, I had seen a photograph of her, and she looked like a typical socialist/feminst.]. Jen Heller reported in her email--"Thanks for your bizarre, unsolicited message full of inconsequential claims with no sources, but I'm not interested in in your comments or your disturbing and lengthy diatribes on your website, which incidentally looks like it was last updated circa 2003. I cited all my sources at the end of my article, so if you would like to know where I found the information, take a look there.". There is an old rule for writers--If your sources are crap, your end product will be crap. When I first saw Jen Heller's webpage on January 23, 2024, it looked as if much of it was stolen from an article about the DuMont Television Network on Wikipedia. On January 24, 2024, I passed along a little more information about my skill level and time involved in doing television history research to Jen Heller, and I told her that I would report her response in an edition of T.H.A.T., which you have now seen. And, now, you know the history value of Jen Heller's work, and it is crap, and you know the nature of Jen Heller. Incidentally, Wikipedia says that the first day for the DuMont Television Network was August 15, 1946, and that date has me wondering what is really meant, since on April 15, 1946, the network was officially opened, when a hook-up event took place involving television stations in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City [Note: A number of newspapers reported the event on April 16, 1946, such as The Film Daily ("Dedicate DuMont Tele Studios: First Two-Way Hookup Between N.Y., Capital" page 1 and page 6.]. Hold it! I am not done. I did reply to Jen Heller's email, and I noted some of my background, such as my work as a television historian for about 51 years, and I noted that she came off as a feminist and a socialist. Later in the day--on January 24, 2024--I looked at the email inbox, and I saw another email from Jen Heller. By the way, Jen Heller's first email should have been about the idea of having me prove my case that she has wrong information, and since she did not send such an email, it showed off her rotten research skills and her lack of wanting to tell truthful information. So, this time, Jen Heller said (n the second email)--"Yup, that's right. You got me. I'm an evil angry socialist feminist coming to take away your guns and make you sterile. Please publish my email and send me a link. I can't wait to see it. Enjoy your index cards....". That stuff (guns and sterile) is cliché stuff from socialists. To me, the two emails show that Jen Heller cannot be trusted to present true and useful information in relation to television history (and maybe any history), since other matters are more important to her, such as those of a little bratty girl, who has not grown up. Yes, correct television history means nothing to her--it is all about her. And late in the afternoon of January 24, 2024, I sent the proof about the September 15, 1955, date in published form (published in October 1955 in a broadcast trade magazine) to Jen Heller, and that was that. [Note: For the moment, I will not give you the proof documents or published pages, and I will make you do work to track them down because they exist, and you will find them if you have any skill at tracking that is worthwhile.] And I am not done. On the webpage created by Jen Heller, Jen Heller reports that the DuMont Television Network aired the first made-for-TV movie in 1944. That is big-time wrong. She did rightly call the production--Talk Fast, Mister. Jen Heller only used the date "1944" in her so-called work. Wikipedia has a page on the Internet called "Television film", and the page notes that Talk Faster, Mister [and not Talk Fast, Mister] was, in essence, a "precursor" to television movies, and the date of broadcast for the so-called "movie" is listed as December 18, 1944. That date is wrong. By the way, if Jen Heller would have used "December 18, 1944," she would have screwed up again. Incidentally, the Wikipedia page that is cited actually has the film listed as Talk Faster, Mister, and that is yet another screw up with Wikipedia. Talk Fast, Mister was shown as a part of a program related to a banquet held for delegates of the Television Broadcasters Association in New York City, and a part of the banquet was televised on WABD-TV, starting at 11:00 p.m. on December 11, 1944. A bigger problem that almost everyone is unaware of is Talk Fast, Mister was and is not a "movie." Talk Fast, Mister only ran about six minutes and a half (making up only a small portion of the broadcast on WABD-TV on December 11, 1944). I could argue well the production was not even a precursor to a half-hour sitcom or a fifteen-minute filmed fiction show, but forget that. Basically, I can only call--for the moment--Talk Fast, Mister the first "story film" (fiction film) to be made expressly for television, and the filmed product was based on a story that had been written by Clarence Buddington Kelland, and some of the performers in the "story film" were Eddie Nugent, Royal Beal, and Harvey Stephens. Okay, right here, I just want talk about the United States of America as it was in 1948. Generally speaking, local telephone service was offered up in the country by many small telephone companies, and local service was also offered up by what was called "The Bell System" (seven regional telephone companies that were own by AT&T), and AT&T was the only entity to provide long-distance telephone lines for long-distance telephone calls in the country. In addition, in 1948, AT&T was the entity that had and owned cable or coaxial lines and microwave systems that allowed television signals to be sent from city to city somewhat; lines only existed for somewhat long-distance television-signal delivery in three main regions--the Eastern United States of America (sort of called the East Coast Network system), the Midwest (which sort of had such cities connected as Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, and Chicago), and the Western United States of America (which covered, for example, at least parts of California). In 1948, there were no connecting systems between the East Coast and the Midwest, between the Midwest and the West Coast, and between the West Coast and the East Coast. Now I report that Jen Heller's article has this nonsense--"But our man Dr. DuMont invested $3 million in coaxial cable that linked his stations on the East Coast to Paramount's stations in Chicago and Los Angeles so they could simultaneously broadcast live programs, establishing another future TV standard." What the hell does that mean? For one, when did it happen? Jen Heller does not say. That is crap journalism! But let me blow it apart even more. In the winter of 1949 (January 12, 1949), AT&T finally had coaxial lines and microwave systems set up so that distribution of television programs could be done between the East Coast system and the Midwest system, and it was not till the fall of 1951 when AT&T had television distribution systems and equipment set up so that television signals could be distributed from one place (a particular television station or a particular television network headquarters) to, basically, any other place with a television station in the country. It was AT&T that set up the lines and owned the lines. Now, did "Dr. DuMont" invest in AT&T so that the 1951 connections could be made? I have no idea, and I do not care at the moment. I do know that "Dr. DuMont" was not instrumental in getting the country set up so that television signals could be sent from the East Coast to the West Coast live and from the West Coast to the East Coast live. Jen Heller's stuff is stupid stuff! But I have to expand on the "Dr. DuMont" thing, and I will present references that are clearly tied to the data. When April 1940 arrived, the amount of money that had been used for television research in the country was already at about $28,000,000 ["TELEVISION OUTLAY PUT AT $28,000,000." Motion Picture Herald, 27 April 1940, p. 60.]. The cost to put in the first transmitter (an experimental thing) for Allen B. DuMont Laboratories at 515 Madison Avenue, New York City, New York, was about $100.000 ["RCA TELEVISION TURNING TO 16mm; DU MONT-MAJESTIC DEAL IN WORK." Motion Picture Herald, 27 April 1940, p. 60.]. In November 1948, the value of the connection between Pittsburgh and Cleveland was about $4.5 million ["EAST-MIDWEST CO-AX." Broadcasting - Telecasting, 8 November 1948. p. 27.]. In about the middle of 1949, it was estimated that it would cost about $12,00,000 to set up a 20 microwave radio relay system for television signals between Pittsburgh and Chicago ["AT&T PLANS RADIO RELAY FOR MIDWEST TV SERVICE." Broadcasting - Telecasting, 21 March 1949, p. 4.]. In August 1949, it was estimated that a link between Chicago and Des Moines would cost about $4,000.000 ["INTER-CITY TV RELAYS." Broadcasting - Telecasting, 14 August 1949, p. 41.]. In about November 1951, the value of the full television-signal distribution system (related to the Long Lines Department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company) was about $85,000,000. And, for the record, I report that Broadcasting -Telecasting for June 20, 1952, shows the "BELL SYSTEM TELEVISION NETWORK ROUTES" in place on July 7, 1952 ["BELL SYSTEM TELEVISION NETWORK ROUTES." Broadcasting - Telecasting, 20 June 1952, p. 25.]. Incidentally, when I talk about the AT&T "networks," I am talking about hardware "networks," which are made up of such things as coaxial cables, microwave systems and towers, switching systems, and amplifiers. You will find nothing about Dr. Allen B. DuMont's having installed lines or radio-relay systems for television use in the country. And now I get to something that clearly shows Jen Heller's rotten ability to tell true television history on even a simple subject and shows why Jen Heller's defending her "sources"--and she only has 20 sources listed--is all crap. Her document has this sentence--"Asian American actor, Anna May Wong, starred in the DuMont series, The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, from 1951 to 1952." [Note: All the commas should not exist in the sentence, and that shows her rotten ability to use proper English grammar, even though she is a "technical writer" by trade.] If you read Television History and Trivia #217 (which can be reached through this T.H.A.T. #217 link), Television History and Trivia #218 (which can be reached through this T.H.A.T. #218 link), and Television History and Trivia #235 (which can be reached through this T.H.A.T. #235 link), you will see how I have knocked down a number of bad writers and researchers who have done written materials about Ms. Anna May Wong and her television series. You will see that The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong was a 13-week series on the DuMont Television Network, and it was only on the air in 1951. What jackass source--which Jen Heller would probably tout as great to the death--led to her writing "1951" and "1952"? I say that, in essence, Jen Heller is "inconsequential." I am not going to provide any more information or any more correction material about Jen Heller's webpage, since too many big things are wrong with the page, and I consider the page a throw-away thing, and no one should waste any time looking at it. By the way, in the 1930s and 1940s, it was commonplace for B-movies for theaters, such as Westerns, to run about 60 minutes (or a little less or a few minutes more), and "features" (better-quality films) ran longer than 60 minutes. For the record, I say that a "made-for-TV movie" or a "television movie" or a "TV-movie" has to fit at least in a 90-minute block of time (with commercials), so such a product runs somewhere around 72 minutes or 75 minutes or something like that. Six minutes and a half is far from "movie" length. This whole incident involving Jen Heller reminds me of that old saying of mine--A person can be lauded over and over again for having degrees and honors, which the person shows off regularly, and yet the person can be quite childish and stupid (being filled with nonsense and shallowness, such as that gained from a so-called elite university). Hold it! I am yet not done. On January 26, 2024, I discovered Jen Heller showed herself to be more than I had analyzed her to be at first, or I can say that I underrated her--She is a hard-line socialist and even a communist by nature. On January 24, 2024, at the "Rerun Rewind" website, Jen Heller put on a page related to me, and at the top of the page was "An old man with a pile of index cards totally pwned me", and under that was "And other angry feminist rantings". Below those set of words was an image (from The Simpsons television show), which she probably did not pay royalties to use, and it showed Grandpa Simpson with a newspaper that had as a headline--"Old Man Yells at Cloud". The caption for the photograph was "Actual photo of Victor Edward Swanson, historian". I jump over some of her text for a moment, and I report that she provided on the webpage my email to her of January 23, 2024. What I am about to show you shows that Jen Heller is more concerned with herself than with providing proper television history. I say--It is all about her in her mind. That shows her selfishness. The main piece of text of the webpage was--"I've always dreamed my writing would one day piss off some conservative cishet white man, and this week, my dream finally came true! Last night I received this puzzling email from communications@hologlobepress.com. It is reproduced here exactly as I received it, complete with grammar and spelling errors and the 'Date,' 'To,' and 'From" at the top. The sender added that."*. Do you see her concern is about her dream to attack an anti-communist and an anti-socialist and an anti-liberal and an anti-progressive and is not about backing up her work? By the way, Jen Heller reported that my written materials with data do not come with "sources" listed, but I say that that is the way of, for example, the newspaper business (and I have written articles for newspapers); newspapers do not report as a rule all the sources and notes on which a story is based, since it would be impossible, but the reporters are required to keep notes on file, and in my case, my notes and such exist on some 170,000 index cards. I hope you noticed the jackass words--"cishet" and "pwned"--that Jen Heller used. Yes, Jen Heller is hard-line rotten, and she made the case! On January 26, 2024, I sent this section of Television History and Trivia in draft form to Jen Heller, so, if Jen Heller wished, she could defend her rotten history writing before I put the finished version of this section on the Internet (but I well know she cannot defend her bad research). Later in the day on January 26, 2024, I received an email from Jen Heller, and I never opened it up. On the evening of January 26, 2024, I went to the webpage that had me being compared to Grandpa Simpson, and I discovered that it had been updated, having, for example, my email from earlier in the day. I was showing a friend the page, and we both laughed at the idiocy presented and the out-of-context material present, such as in relation to the draft document that I sent, and we noted that the page was nothing more than character assassination based on no facts and was nothing more than something that a person could expect to come from a nasty little girl (with time on her hands). Oh, her so-called presentation of thoughts about my draft page reminded me of Rachel Maddow's statement about not presenting the speech by Donald J. Trump--Jen Heller was hiding what would hurt her and her cause (my facts about her wrong information). I make it clear that on the evening of January 26, 2024, the "Grandpa Simpson" page had nothing that showed my information about her webpage related to the DuMont Television Network was wrong, and, in fact, she mentioned nothing about her work. On that evening while we looked, I had already determined that Jen Heller should be forgotten and left to her childish and evil ways--and to her work of doing character assassination through so-called comedy and cartoons--and I determined that I was done with Jen Heller, and I decided not to send this document in completed form to her, since Jen Heller would care not to have it and use it to go on a journey of research to correct her crap. If you wish to take to heart Jen Heller's material, be aware--some day--someone like me might come along and show that your stuff is crap and that you teach crap to others. And that is that!
[* = I have to add an explanation. I only send emails by computer. I do not use a wireless phone. My emails are always written up so that they have "To" and "From" and "Date" on them. When a person receives my email and the person prints out the email on a printer, the email looks more like a formal letter and not like slop, and that letter can be filed away, such as in something called a "filing cabinet." And a person can latter look back at the letter and see who sent it, who received it, and when it was received. Jen Heller is so stupid, such as about doing at least somewhat business-like and formal-looking communications through email systems. I do not do what amounts to jackass shorthand, such as that exhibited in texting, with non-standard crap, like "pwned" and "cishet" and other American communist's words. In addition, I can say that, when you take into consideration all my documents available at the website for The Hologlobe Press, you might find misspellings, but it must be noted that the website has hundreds and hundred and hundreds of pages, and I do all the work, and, for example, when this document is in single-space form, this document runs runs about 24 pages in WordPerfect (a writing program, the history for which goes back to the 1980s), and I have some 230 television related documents at the website, and, in a way, my 24-page document can be likened to a quarter of the length of many books--if they have no photographs--and be as much as many books if the books are loaded with photographs. A person will find it hard to find grammar errors on my website, but I may have slipped here and there, since so many writers and broadcasters and regular people speak poorly regularly, and I may get momentarily affected adversely by them (and I am sure you have heard radio people often say--"...between him and I...." (which is a screw up). I follow the standards in such books as Modern American Usage (which is associated with Wilson Follett) and versions Harbrace College Handbook, which I have had for decades, and I do not use "woke"-based pronouns. I wonder what Jen Heller uses for a standard in relation to English usage, especially since her one sentence--"Asian American actor, Anna May Wong, starred in the DuMont series, The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, from 1951 to 1952."--contains four commas that should not exist. She cannot even do the basic stuff right in a simple sentence.]
I reported at the beginning of this document, that you can challenge anything that I say, and I report that everything that I have noted in the section about television history you will find to be true. However, I do note you will have a hard time finding information that September 15, 1955, is the true end date for the DuMont Television Network, since that information is hard to find because few writers reported the true end date years ago (maybe thinking it was not important for future use), and many reporters since 1955 have done a lot of assuming about the end date. For example, a number of years ago, I took up a search for the date on which the DuMont Television Network died, and I took up the hunt because so many publications--especially publications of recent decades--reported that the event took place in 1956 or 1957, and everything was vague, and no writer could pin down the date, and that seemed odd to me. While I searched for the date, I came to the conclusion the writers who put down 1956 or 1957 simply decide the end date had to be when the last so-called DuMont Television Network show went off the air. However, that causes a mess. Take on this example. Pretend that it is 1955, and the DuMont Television Network (having at least two stations as affiliates) airs The Victor Swanson Show, The Ema Hayasaka Show (with a cutie), and The Barbi Benton Happy Time Show (with another cutie). Then, the network operations are shut down, and the management of the company that is tied to the network sets a date of ending at September 15, 1955, so that it can report to tax officials that the network was done on that day (and save money on taxes). However, the three shows are yet in production. Once the network is dead, the shows are now really only local shows, and they cannot be called network shows. Pretend The Victor Swanson Show goes off the air on December 16, 1955, and The Ema Hayasaka Show goes off the air on March 31, 1956, and The Barbi Benton Happy Time Show goes off the air on August 11, 1956. Someone years later, doing little research, might think that the end of the network was on August 11, 1956, because that was when The Barbi Benton Happy Time Show went off the air. The deduction is wrong. Then again, a researcher might not take The Barbi Benton Happy Time Show into consideration--not knowing about it--and use March 31, 1956, as the end date. I think my example applies to the DuMont Television Network. Many people have determined the network died in 1956, such as in August 1956, because that is when the people have determined the last show (originally tied to the DuMont Television Network) went off the air. Today, a lot of people, even at famous museums and encyclopedias, say that the DuMont Television Network died some time in 1956 or 1957. But that is wrong. The network was gone on September 15, 1955. If a person were to work to prove me wrong about the date, they would find a lot of sources--in book form and magazine-article form and newspaper-article form and Internet-article form--that do not report "1955" as the end time. Fortunately for me, I know where the right date can be found. I have found it! If you have stamina, you will find it, too.Well, I have shown you a bunch of rotten people, especially women, in this edition of Television History and Trivia. If you dislike what I have presented, so be it. See if you are tough enough to take me on--to take on this man. By the way, I recently picked up by second auto scanner, and it is an Innova 5610 (a rather high-end unit from Innova), and now I have two scanners, the other of which is an old Actron (of nearly twenty years of age, which I had to repair a few months ago). I yet repair cars and such, such as put in brake lines. I work on house things--from plumbing to whatever. When I am up north, I (at 70 years of age) yet shovel what amounts to up to 400 feet of lane, even at 12 inches of snow. So, that is what a man does, and that is not what a piss-ass guy does or can do (such as one of those guys who sets up in that gangster stance with a bunch of gold around his neck, as if he were a girl. So, I have this for real men, few of whom seem to exist. It is nice to see Glenda ("Miss Erotic News Gal") Lewis (of WXYZ-TV) from time to time in low-cut blouses and dresses, especially when parts of her pretty brown boob skin show. Oh, on Saturday, January 27, 2026, in the morning, I caught another cutie wearing a nice low-cut blouse, which suited her well. It was Liz Lewin of WJBK-TV. Remember--I know not what is heads of Glenda Lewis and Liz Lewin, and I am not talking about brains here. I--as a real guy and not a feminized guy-- simply note that Glenda Lewis and Liz Lewin are nice to look at, showing off as women and not men. Oh, am I supposed to provide some "source" material to make this talk? Remember--I am no news junkie or news fan, and I think most news people are no great thinkers, and I am not promoting you watch the news on television, and I am not persuading you to see Glenda Lewis and Liz Lewin regularly. I am only reporting facts about what I see of Liz Lewin and Glenda Lewis, even if the facts are only enjoyed by me.
Special happy feature about a super-big discovery: On October 10, 2022, I posted Television History and Trivia #222 on the Internet, and a spin-off document to that document--The Happy Search for Soupy Sales' Naked Gals--was posted on the Internet on October 31, 2022, and the second document was a restatement of parts in Television History and Trivia #222, and the focus of the spin-off document is on the two events in which television production crews surprised Soupy Sales on air by having a nude gal show up on the set during live broadcasts. One event took place at WXYZ-TV, Channel 7, in Detroit on some day in the summer of 1958 it seems when Soupy Sales was doing an episode of Noon Time Comics, and the other event took place at KABC-TV, Los Angeles, on some day in late 1961 or very, very early 1962, and that show was The Soupy Sales Show. For years, video clips of the KABC-TV event have been on the Internet, and the clips have been in censored form and uncensored form, and over the years, I have found no one who could identify the gal who took part in the event. By the way, when the event took place, the nude gal was never seen in the nude by the television audience. On January 29, 2024, I discovered the name of the gal who took part in the KABC-TV event, and I made the discovery by looking for pinup-gal images on the Internet, as I had done several times before, and I found--at first--one image that gave me a name of the gal, and then I looked for more images of the gal, now using the name in a search. I now have at least two dozen photographs of the gal, and she is a cutie to me, and with the photographs in hand, I can prove my case about the name of the gal. I report that the entire search process for the gal is in my document called The Happy Search for Soupy Sales' Naked Gals, and to see that document, use this soupygal.htm link. At this point, I report that the gal who took part in the KABC-TV event was--Sandy Benson (who was a pinup model in around the early 1960s). Instead of offering up a Looking at the Movies section for this edition of Television History and Trivia, you can go on YouTube and see a version of the KABC-TV event, and some of the versions available are "Soupy Sales Naked Lady Prank On Live TV" (an uncensored version posted by Billy Ingram), "Soupy Sales - Soupy's Surprise Visitor", and "Soupy Sales blooper censored" [Note: Other versions are available on other websites.]. For some 60 years, the general public has had no idea who the gal was. I have found her, and I announced again--as a formal introduction--the gal was Ms. Sandy Benson.
Remember: The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan was a television show that was produced across the pond and shown on CBS-TV in the late 1960s, and I urge you to find The Prisoner on DVD, maybe from a library, and watch it, and you should show it--all the episodes--to teenagers, or buy it as a present for teenagers.
Stay well!Vic
P.S.: You are urged to see my document entitled One of "The Rules of Man"--A Rule About Health Care that No Politician May Supersede with Law, which can be reached through this Rule1 link. I have deduced that all the Democrats and most Republicans support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and have no intention of killing it, though it should be killed for violating, for one, "The Rules of Man." For example, Republicans Jeb Bush and Chris Christie support the rotten law, and that is one reason that I define them as stupid men and not men who are good enough--in this day and age--to be the U.S. President. I note that the "mandate"--which forces everyone to buy government-approved health-care insurance--violates one of "The Rules of Man," and it is a rule that is attacked in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Anyone who supports the "mandate" is not a good enough person or a smart enough person to be the U.S. president--the mandate is "enslavism," and the "mandate" allows government people--who are often usually bad people, as history shows--decide what health care a person can get, and that is bad.
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