Two great men have died over the weekend: actor Bill Paxton of Apollo 13 and Judge Joseph Wapner of the original People's Court from 1981 to 1993.
I learned that Paxton had died of a stroke at 61 years old, and that Wapner had died of respiratory failure at 97 years old.
I hope those two men rest in peace.
Monday, February 27, 2017
Monday, January 23, 2017
NFL confirms Luke Bryan as Super Bowl LI's national anthem performer
Country fans have wanted Luke Bryan to sing the national anthem at Super Bowl LI and now the NFL confirms!
The country music star has recorded various country hits!
The country music star has recorded various country hits!
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Actor Alan Thicke and sportscaster Craig Sager die
Alan Thicke (born Alan Willis Jeffrey on March 1, 1947), a Growing Pains star, died of a heart attack at 65 years old just two days ago, but sportscaster Craig Sager (born Craig Graham Sager on June 29, 1951) died today of leukemia at 69 years old.
TNT could be sad to hear about Craig's death. Many people have been sad to hear about Alan's and Craig's deaths this week.
I hope Alan Thicke and Craig Sager rest in peace! God bless them!
All I want Craig to do now is "make God score", since he should be good for God forever. Craig is now in a better place, but there may be a different one still on Earth, his son Craig Jr, but I'm shocked to announce that Craig Sr died.
TNT could be sad to hear about Craig's death. Many people have been sad to hear about Alan's and Craig's deaths this week.
I hope Alan Thicke and Craig Sager rest in peace! God bless them!
All I want Craig to do now is "make God score", since he should be good for God forever. Craig is now in a better place, but there may be a different one still on Earth, his son Craig Jr, but I'm shocked to announce that Craig Sr died.
Monday, December 12, 2016
I like audio description! (For Garrett Leach and other DVS fanatics!)
I first heard audio description in the mid 2000s, when I listened to various narrators in the DVS versions of Nickelodeon shows Blue's Clues, Dora the Explorer, Go Diego Go, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius, and even Rugrats.
Too bad SpongeBob SquarePants didn't have DVS available a long time ago. It now does. I've heard various narrators in the past do DVS, like Joel Snyder, Wendie Sakakeeny, and her daughter Kria (the youngest DVS narrator of the 1990s).
I heard Wendie during an episode of It's a Big Big World.
But Kria is a DVS narrator on very few more Dora episodes and a Blue's Clues episode. A narrator named Tom is a DVS narrator on a few episodes of Dora and one of Blue's Clues. Kria can be found on home video releases with DVS available such as the DVS VHS and 2010 DVD release of the 1995 film Toy Story and a few other DVS VHS's from the late 1990s to mid 2000s.
Wendie and Kria have been a mother-and-daughter team of DVS narrators at WGBH for over a decade. Kria should still do two jobs at once, at both WGBH and Oxfam America. She has already done two jobs at once, as a DVS narrator at WGBH and a news anchor and reporter at WMUR-TV in Manchester, NH.
I like many other voices of DVS now, such as Miles Neff, Leilani Jones-Wilmore, actress Adrienne Barbeau, Joel Snyder himself, and the DVS narrator I heard from LazyTown a long time ago. I want to hear Kria as a DVS narrator on the 2010 re-release of Toy Story on DVD and a few more DVD's that use her voice for DVS. Leave a comment about the narrators' use on DVS DVD's, and explain what other Dora episodes Kria is used on.
I actually found Kria from a DVS VHS of Toy Story itself, along with her voice from a DVS VHS of The Wizard of Oz, since TBS, TNT and Turner Classic Movies airings of that movie also use Kria's DVS track from the DVS VHS of Wizard. I know that she's also used on TCM's airings of the classic 1949 family film The Secret Garden.
One of Kria's first DVS narration assignments was the 1996 DVS VHS of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, but I remember hearing her voice on the Dora episode "Fish Out of Water".
This is for Garrett Leach on YouTube!
Check out Kria's DVS presentations on Ray Starr's Descriptive Videos for the Blind website in the meantime!
Toy Story (from the 1996 DVS VHS; missing description of Walt Disney Home Video logo and reading of format screen)
The Wizard of Oz (shortened version of the 1999 DVS VHS presentation; the full DVS VHS version, with Kria's reading of the FBI warning, description of the 1997 Warner Home Video logo, and descriptions of the bonus features intact, also exists but in a ZIP folder with two MP3 files)
The Secret Garden (the 1949 film, from a Turner Classic Movies airing on its SAP channel)
Too bad SpongeBob SquarePants didn't have DVS available a long time ago. It now does. I've heard various narrators in the past do DVS, like Joel Snyder, Wendie Sakakeeny, and her daughter Kria (the youngest DVS narrator of the 1990s).
I heard Wendie during an episode of It's a Big Big World.
But Kria is a DVS narrator on very few more Dora episodes and a Blue's Clues episode. A narrator named Tom is a DVS narrator on a few episodes of Dora and one of Blue's Clues. Kria can be found on home video releases with DVS available such as the DVS VHS and 2010 DVD release of the 1995 film Toy Story and a few other DVS VHS's from the late 1990s to mid 2000s.
Wendie and Kria have been a mother-and-daughter team of DVS narrators at WGBH for over a decade. Kria should still do two jobs at once, at both WGBH and Oxfam America. She has already done two jobs at once, as a DVS narrator at WGBH and a news anchor and reporter at WMUR-TV in Manchester, NH.
I like many other voices of DVS now, such as Miles Neff, Leilani Jones-Wilmore, actress Adrienne Barbeau, Joel Snyder himself, and the DVS narrator I heard from LazyTown a long time ago. I want to hear Kria as a DVS narrator on the 2010 re-release of Toy Story on DVD and a few more DVD's that use her voice for DVS. Leave a comment about the narrators' use on DVS DVD's, and explain what other Dora episodes Kria is used on.
I actually found Kria from a DVS VHS of Toy Story itself, along with her voice from a DVS VHS of The Wizard of Oz, since TBS, TNT and Turner Classic Movies airings of that movie also use Kria's DVS track from the DVS VHS of Wizard. I know that she's also used on TCM's airings of the classic 1949 family film The Secret Garden.
One of Kria's first DVS narration assignments was the 1996 DVS VHS of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, but I remember hearing her voice on the Dora episode "Fish Out of Water".
This is for Garrett Leach on YouTube!
Check out Kria's DVS presentations on Ray Starr's Descriptive Videos for the Blind website in the meantime!
Toy Story (from the 1996 DVS VHS; missing description of Walt Disney Home Video logo and reading of format screen)
The Wizard of Oz (shortened version of the 1999 DVS VHS presentation; the full DVS VHS version, with Kria's reading of the FBI warning, description of the 1997 Warner Home Video logo, and descriptions of the bonus features intact, also exists but in a ZIP folder with two MP3 files)
The Secret Garden (the 1949 film, from a Turner Classic Movies airing on its SAP channel)
Friday, November 18, 2016
Charter rebrands Bright House (and Time Warner Cable) into its Spectrum brand + free alternatives in the event of Spectrum service outages
I learned earlier this week that Charter Communications had rebranded Bright House Networks and Time Warner Cable into the Spectrum brand. The brand was announced to Bright House and Time Warner customers back in May.
My mother's house, where I still live in, has all the equipment needed for our Spectrum services. The equipment was actually carried over from the previous Bright House brand, but Charter decided to replace the Bright House logo on its digital cable systems such as our living room cable box with a Spectrum logo because the equipment was carried over from the Bright House brand.
If you have a future Spectrum service outage, you can use the following as free alternatives, like my mom and me.
My mother's house, where I still live in, has all the equipment needed for our Spectrum services. The equipment was actually carried over from the previous Bright House brand, but Charter decided to replace the Bright House logo on its digital cable systems such as our living room cable box with a Spectrum logo because the equipment was carried over from the Bright House brand.
If you have a future Spectrum service outage, you can use the following as free alternatives, like my mom and me.
- Home entertainment equipment such as a VCR or DVD player (for movies and TV shows such as those recorded from a pay TV system), or one or more digital over-the-air (OTA) converters and one or more digital antennas for your TV's. These are used as alternatives to pay TV.
- Media that was saved to a USB flash drive and a computer's built-in hard drive, such as videos, photos, music, and other audio files, used as a free alternative to media on the Internet. Those files should be downloaded from the Internet to the built-in hard drive on a computer (or to a USB flash drive).
- Cellphones; used as an alternative to home phone service.
Friday, October 28, 2016
GSN re-acquires Wheel of Fortune reruns with the 2013-14 season
GSN has re-acquired reruns of the nighttime syndicated Wheel of Fortune after it had been off the schedule since 2010.
The network will air the 2013-14 season of Wheel at 11:00 and 11:30AM.
Clips from other past seasons of Wheel can be found on the Internet, such as closing credits on Dailymotion.
The network will air the 2013-14 season of Wheel at 11:00 and 11:30AM.
Clips from other past seasons of Wheel can be found on the Internet, such as closing credits on Dailymotion.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
QVC dropped from Bright House analog cable lineup
I'm sorry to report that QVC has been dropped from Bright House Networks' analog cable channel lineup. QVC Plus can be found on digital channel 162.
QVC is also dropped from my grandmother Zoe Ann Clark's channel lineup for less than a decade.
For those of you who don't have QVC on analog cable anymore, check out the QVC live webstream on their official website.
For those of you who don't have QVC on analog cable anymore, check out the QVC live webstream on their official website.
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