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On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Kevin M. <drunkba...@gmail.com>: Oct 02 05:59PM -0700

I teach a History of Pop Music elective in my middle school. I’m
contemplating a companion elective centered around television. Throwing
this concept open to this group.
 
Looking at about ten hours of content (one hour a week for one quarter of
the academic school year).
 
Do I go chronologically from early early years to the present day, or do I
focus on a different genre each class (drama, sitcom, talk show)?
 
Most iconic shows? The ones that need to be preserved in a time capsule? A
day devoted to the worst TV shows?
 
I feel like I need to include the following:
MASH
Johnny Carson
NYPD Blue
Wheel of Fortune
Monty Python
The Cosby Show
Star Trek
The Real World
Wide World of Sports
The OJ Simpson trial
Cronkite announcing the death of JFK
 
People will probably also want me to include:
I Love Lucy
Milton Berle
Bob Hope
Ernie Kovacs
SNL
 
Open to any and all ideas
 
Kevin M. (RPCV)
Kevin M. <drunkba...@gmail.com>: Oct 02 05:40PM -0700

Musk wants people to boycott Netflix because of a trans-friendly animated
series. The kicker: Netflix already cancelled the series two years ago.
 
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/elon-musk-calls-for-canceling-netflix-whats-happening.html
 
 
Kevin M. (RPCV)
Bob F <bobj...@ptd.net>: Oct 02 02:37PM -0700

NBCSN 2.0 appears to be a go, as a new deal announced with Youtube TV and
NBCU (part of which might or might not be honoured by Versant when the
spinoff occurs) includes it... the deal also adds Peacock's fare to the
separate Youtube Primetime Channels, which already incorporates other
streamers' content, and extends its availability through Android platforms
Google Play/Google TV:
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/nbcuniversal-youtube-tv-google-deal-relaunched-nbc-sports-network-1236537349/
(link)
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Moi, July 27th:
 
Said Joe Flint at WSJ, hearing from sources... a consultant tells him it
would not hurt Peacock, from which plenty of its content would be...
they're likely preparing for the distinct possibility that after Versant
swipes all those channels like USA, they wouldn't have enough bandwidth to
carry wide-ranging stuff such as NASCAR and the Olympics...
https://archive.is/WeiHy, aka
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/nbcu-is-exploring-launching-a-sports-cable-network-92bb2b03
(links)
Bob F <bobj...@ptd.net>: Oct 02 12:54PM -0700

Before the same judge that once ruled that Spencer Elden filed his original
complaint over the *Nevermind* cover photo after a statute of limitations
expired, only to have it tossed right back in his lap by an appeals
panel... this round he rehashed parts of the first ruling about the lack of
"lascivious" content, along with Elden's embracing of the role in recent
years, not only of the title:
https://www.billboard.com/pro/nirvana-nevermind-album-cover-lawsuit-naked-baby-dismissed/ (link,
not paywalled when I tried it through Newser
<https://www.newser.com/story/376224/judge-nirvanas-famous-album-cover-isnt-porn.html>
(link)
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Bob F <bobj...@ptd.net>: Oct 02 04:16AM -0700

...after Eeeeeelon calls for a boycott of the streamer... even though
Hamish Steele's *Dead End: Paranormal Park* was canned after one season in
2022, it remains available there, and social-media righties harped on a
clip therefrom where a character says he is transgender and allegations
ensued:
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/elon-musk-cancel-netflix-dead-end-paranormal-park-trans-story-1236536129/
(link)
Of course, unless you pay his "verification" $ub$cription fee, the former
DOGE leader won't give you the time on the platform he acquired...
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