Pilot's Log

NFL Season.

The regular season schedule came out this week, so tonight I went to Yahoo!Sports to make a quick survey as to who plays who when. It's tough to be a fan of one or two teams when you don't live in the home city. I'm a fan of the Steelers in the AFC and of the Buccaneers in the NFC (granted to mundane levels); east Tennessee TV is going to concentrate its efforts on two AFC teams in particular (the Tennessee Titans and the Denver Broncos--the latter because of favorite son quarterback Peyton Manning, who was traded there from the Indianapolis Colts a few weeks ago) and two NFC teams because of the national marketing (the Atlanta Falcons and the Carolina Panthers). CBS carries most of the AFC games and FOX carries most of the NFC ones; NBC, ESPN and the NFL Network carry the rest of the regular season games. The Steelers have three NBC showings this year, one ESPN one and their NFL Network game is against--the Titans. The Bucs, OTOH, have just the one NFL Network game against the Vikings.

What's weird is that the Titans DO NOT play the Broncos, the Falcons OR the Panthers in the regular season at all in 2012. Granted, with 32 teams and only 17 weeks in the schedule (and everybody getting a bye week) it's bound to happen every so often. But that means since there are no showdowns there are no synergistic instances when a Sunday timeslot will open up for CBS or FOX to program a game that has nothing to do with any of the Gang of Four.

I'll need to look at the schedule again as if I work for the local CBS and FOX affiliates.

Team America lost against Canada and Fiji earlier, but beat Argentina overnight. If they win the next two games today, they'll get the third-level trophy for the Tourney. Unfortunately, if they lose the first one--against the powerhouse Australian team, it's over.

And the game will be too early for TV coverage. Nuts.

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No. I don't believe anything I watch is nominated for any awards.

PS: It's on FOX, which cuts down the odds even more that I'd want to watch it. Got more interest in the Football game on NBC tonight.

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I hear she herself dislikes the role. Why make an actress play a role she doesn't want to play? Or do you feel that something dramatic would be served by the love/hate relationship between audience and performer?

Wally's World.

"Wally's World" was a segment on NBC's NASCAR coverage in which semi-retired driver Wally Dallenbach, jr. would take a celebrity for a few laps around the course.

The Pittsburgh Penguins just won Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals (in Triple Overtime!), keeping their hopes alive. Advantage is still on the side of the Detroit Red Wings, but who knows? Perhaps this series will go the distance!

This time, it's NBC and their (Thugs On Film) One-Rolex (/Thugs On Film) coverage of the Princess Diana tribute concert. An all-day event and the Peacock only gives us most of one hour of it, counting commercial breaks. Only enough time for one song from less than half of the acts that appeared, except for Reg (Elton John), who got two.

My thinking is if it had been FOX handling the event, they would have used all four hours of Sunday Prime-Time to give this show the time it deserved.

I fear for the upcoming Live Earth, which will also be carried by NBC.

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This is one Friday Night that I wish Friday Night Videos was on.

Yes, there once was a broadcast network program devoted to music videos, and NBC had it in the timeslot following The Tonight Show every Friday for a few years in the middle 1980s. And it was good.

Since I've never had cable or satellite TV, I never see music videos (although YouTube is beginning to rekindle the flame) and I miss them. Or maybe not, if modern pop's repute for suckage is warranted.

So what horked up the good thing that was FNV? I blame a twerp name of David Letterman, who had to have a talk show after Carson and thus shoved the timeslot further back into the wee small hours...plus the fact that music videos were getting longer and more broadcast-unfriendly. I've forgiven Letterman but don't forgive the music industry.