A couple of weeks ago, I posted what I thought was a screen-cap from the local NBC TV affiliate in Boston, WHDH. Part of my confusion came from seeing part of the “Circle 7″ station logo, and part from the fact that the big story in the local news that day was a massive explosion from a fuel-tanker truck and the cap was about people ejac….er, evacuating due to fire. As a student of broadcast history, I should have known better because the “Circle 7″ logo is nearly ubiquitous all across the United States. It was originally designed for ABC’s owned-and-operated stations in the 1960s, most of which were Channel 7s, to create a “national identity”, but other local stations rapidly adopted some variation on the basic design. This blog post reviews many of the logos in use today, including WHDH’s logo.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
