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Yes, I love technology.
Here's what's happening in my living room right now. I'm watching the Rangers on satellite TV. I have my laptop out with a wireless Internet connection. I learn that the boys at The Ticket (who are all living in one house this week called the Compound) are doing an unusual broadcasting bit: Four of their hosts (for those that understand: Norm, Bob, Craig, and Boyd's own "The Hammer") are sitting around watching the Ranger game and are commenting on it on the radio in real time. I mean they all are mic'd up and just talking about the same game I'm watching. So I listen to them over the Internet. (They call if "Mystery Science Rangers".) They are incredibly relaxed, with sometimes 30 seconds of silence, and it's like they are in my living room. I can't tell you how odd it is.
Then, confusingly, Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News (pic above) who is at the game in Arlington, calls into the Boys at The Ticket because he has heard what they are doing. So now I'm listening to Evan talk to the Boys at the Ticket over the Internet. Suddenly, and I don't know why, Evan Grant is shown on the television screen by Fox Southwest. The Ticket boys, who see him on television (since we are watching the same channel), tell him to wave. He does. I'm watching Evan Grant waving on my television screen at the prompting of the Boys on The Ticket - who I just heard over the Internet.
So what? We are on the dawn of a whole new Media Age. Television, as we know it, will be gone in 10 years. I don't know how newspapers will survive. Everything we take for granted in media (radio, newspaper, and TV) will change. It'll be a mixture of Internet and Satellite and instant connectivity that we haven't remotely begun to understand. I just wish I was 10 years old so I could watch it happen for as long as I could.
6 comments:
What a nerd you are bare.
I am doing the same thing and remember when I was a kid listening to a transistor in bed at night and to have all this going on is just like being a kid again. They broadcast until 1:30am last night so I guess I will be up late again.
You can watch them on the internet too by the camera link.
My parents recently moved back to Texas, and one of many things they brought back with them was their old time stereo cabinet, complete with a phonograph. They also had all my old LP's from back in the early to mid-70's. While we visited with them, my 15 year-old son, who is a straight A student in honors classes and very technology literate, tried invane to play one of my old LP's. He had no idea how the phonograph worked. I had to show him how to lift the stack arm and swing it out of the way, how to put the record on the spindle and swing the stack arm back in place, and the funniest part, I had to explain what the "33" and "45" meant on the speed control selector.
Ah....the times....they are a changin'
I still think one of their best Ticket bits ever is "Emergency Brake of the Week."
Your little blog made the Sutrminator's blog today.
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