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Phillip Swann is the editor of — On Sportico’s ‘22 Must-Follow List; Wrote 2 books; Ran TV magazines; Worked at Sony; Lots of other stuff
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The TV Answer Man!
The latest news on the new television.
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Bob Carpenter
@scorebook_bob
does a better job of calling a game from a remote location than some announcers do from the location itself.
#nats
#masn
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@Jimfrombaseball
He’s in a convertible with Ann-Margaret in her prime. If we all could live up to THAT potential.
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@CodifyBaseball
Does anyone remember Matty Alou? This is how he made a living. Soft taps. Hitting them where they ain’t,
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Netflix cancels Blockbuster for the second time.
Netflix has canceled "Blockbuster," a workplace comedy about the last Blockbuster Video in the world.
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Titles added today to Netflix:
Eric Andre: Legalize Everything (Netflix Comedy Special)
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Directv Stream just announced a price hike. Hulu Live’s next price hike starts next week. YouTube TV just lost Disney and ESPN.
Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.
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The TV Answer Man
Simple solutions to TV technology problems. Have a question? Ask the TV Answer Man!
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Excellent story on Tom Cruise, Scientology and the corruption of celebrity 'journalism.'
http://t.co/KDzs83SFoe
@EmilyYahr
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DIRECTV has been missing roughly 200 stations for 2 months in the biggest carriage dispute ever and it gets zero coverage in the national media. Spectrum, based in LA/NY, loses 26 channels and it’s the biggest story in TV.
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Even priests are using VPNs to avoid MLB blackouts.
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Top X Accounts For Sports Media News & Analysis
@Ourand_Puck
@AndrewMarchand
@crupicrupicrupi
@Aquinas82nd
@HowieLongShort
@MMcCarthyREV
@JacobFeldman4
@SportsTVRatings
@paulsen_smw
@Sportico
@KaplanSportsBiz
@awfulannouncing
@AndrewBucholtz
@benjstrauss
@dfbarron
@sportsrapport
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Just a thought: Seems to me that stories promoting the purchase of a new 4K TV for the Super Bowl should note the game won’t be broadcast in 4K.
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‘Ozark’ Renewed For Supersized Fourth & Final Season By Netflix – Deadline
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HBO Max: Not sure which is more confusing. The name similarities to HBO Now and HBO Go, or the acrobatics required to find an app that works on the streaming device of your choice.
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Top X Accounts For Sports Media News & Analysis
(Please forgive me in advance for forgetting some folks.)
@Ourand_Puck
@AndrewMarchand
@crupicrupicrupi
@Aquinas82nd
@HowieLongShort
@MMcCarthyREV
@JacobFeldman4
@SportsTVRatings
@paulsen_smw
@Sportico
@KaplanSportsBiz
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There is nothing that can make me laugh harder than this County Hospital short. L+H still rule.
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The TV Answer Man site had nearly 600K views in September, best one month total ever. Shows there’s a need for simple answers to tough TV tech issues.
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I had to put my 13-year-old cat to sleep today so you probably won’t hear much from me for a few days. He was my buddy for a long damn time.
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NFL Sunday Ticket: So far, so good. Excellent 1080p picture. No significant glitches yet. Multiple Multiview options. Still early but good start for Google.
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Support independent journalism.
@TVAnswerMan
@TalkNats
@thepatriotsbeat
@HighDefDiscNews
@MichaelSaves
@hdreport
@aagave
@thedigitalbits
@paulsen_smw
@SportsTVRatings
@CordCuttersNews
@TheDeskDotNet
@axsmithsports
@whatonnetflix
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Today is the last exclusive Sunday Ticket day for DIRECTV. After 28 years of holding the exclusive rights.
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What a Terrible Time To Be a 4K TV Owner!
By Phillip Swann
Former editor of 4 TV magazines. Author of TV Dot Com.
They may be trying to tell us something.
That we are either damned fools or saintly creatures with the patience of a New York
#Jets
fan. Either way, the Powers
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I was actually on the Donahue show once as a "TV expert" on the media's impact on real-life violence. Phil was very gracious on and off stage, coming back to the green room after the show to thank everyone for their participation. He was an icon and true original. RIP.
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They can do this but they can’t do 4K?
A reminder that ESPN is making a bit of broadcasting history today, sticking its announcers inside Meta VR headsets to call a fully animated version of an NHL broadcast.
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Peacock now has 22 million subscribers. Not bad for a so-called failure.
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Without a photo ID, I would not have guessed that’s Jay Mohr in a thousand years.
Jeanie Buss just added another ring to her collection -- the Los Angeles Lakers owner is engaged to Jay Mohr!!
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Sorry, but celebrating MTV’s 40th anniversary is a bit silly considering the channel essentially died 20 years ago.
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@WhitStillman
Casablanca: 102 minutes. If made today, it would be 202 minutes - and terrible.
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Support Independent Journalism. Don’t Support Google Search.
@TVAnswerMan
@TalkNats
@thepatriotsbeat
@HighDefDiscNews
@MichaelSaves
@hdreport
@aagave
@thedigitalbits
@paulsen_smw
@SportsTVRatings
@CordCuttersNews
@TheDeskDotNet
@axsmithsports
@whatonnetflix
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Top X Accounts For Video Streaming
(Please forgive me in advance for forgetting some folks. Also, this is for the video streaming industry in general, not sports specific. I will post the sports media list next.)
@JBFlint
@whatonnetflix
@sarafischer
@xpangler
@ThisIsNextTV
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Irony. I’m trying to write a story about Comcast, but my Comcast Internet service keeps going down.
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Anyone who thinks people won’t watch a baseball game on TV because there’s no fans doesn’t have a clue about baseball fans.
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Someone needs to hire
@ellen_adair
as a baseball analyst immediately. She’s a talented actress, but she would be a star on
@ESPN
,
@mlbnetwork
or
@FOXSports
.
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Welles was a superb filmmaker, but his actual life was his greatest movie of all.
Orson Welles on the time he became a fake psychic and quickly quit after becoming a bit too good. Fantastic story.
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YouTube TV is late in adding the Tennis Channel today and tennis fans are not happy. It's scheduled to be added sometime today.
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@HamillHimself
First, we’ll need to get these credits reordered. Fisher first, Fraser second...
#StarWars
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I’m signing off Twitter for the night. Amazon’s TNF pix looking excellent from my perspective. 1080p for sure. HDR, not so sure. But bright images with vivid colors.
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4K TV in a nutshell: Two viewers have exact opposite reactions to the same 4K broadcast.
This is common. Depending upon the device, provider, and Internet service, the picture quality can vary.
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…hopefully treatment will keep it that way.
So I’ll keep writing and keep fighting. :)
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Seems to me that Disney just used ESPN as a lethal weapon to force Dish and Sling to carry the entire suite of Disney channels.
Should Disney Reconsider ESPN's Future?
$DIS $DISH
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@TalkNats
Right now, Trey is the best 3B in the organization. House is second. Trey should play until House can change that.
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Rich says $35 a month.
I say $39.99 a month as a debut discount and rising to the regular rate of $44.99 after six months or so.
@sherman4949
says $45-50 with a possible debut discount.
Consensus forming it won't be cheap. Any more guesses?
Yesterday evening Disney’s ESPN, FOX and Warner Bros. Discovery announced a new joint venture to launch a sports-focused vMVPD in fall 2024, that we will call the “Winners’ Bundle." We are estimating a $35 initial price point escalating to $40 in year two, with Disney receiving
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@BizballMaury
@stoolpresidente
Maury’s logic is undeniable here. Most small biz owners bust their butts. That’s not a defense.
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Happy 11th Birthday to my daughter, Lucy, who fills my every day with love, humor and purpose. I am so proud of her each and every day. (Not a recent picture; she would get mad at me if I posted a recent one.)
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@TalkNats
@HbgSenators
@babesandballers
Wood to Nats. Then Crews to Rochester in mid-June. (Fingers crossed.) Rosario to DFA.
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In the consumer's mind, fake news doesn't seem all that different from unverified stories from real journalists. It all blends together.
Watching
@brianstelter
on CNN: “fake news is a symptom of loss of trust in real news." He's calling in from PHX studio
#newsgeist
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NFL Sunday Ticket: Everything You Need to Know
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I want to thank all postal carriers, UPS, Federal Express, and Amazon drivers. I got all packages in time and in perfect condition. Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Reality is starting to sink in for 4K TV owners.
How is the super bowl not in 4K?
@DIRECTV
what a joke!! People pay extra for 4K and there’s never anything on it!!! It’s the super bowl!! The biggest event in the world!!!!! But no
#trash
#superbowl
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So I was diagnosed with Glaucoma yesterday, another example of life’s cruel ironies; the guy who writes so frequently about 4K TV gets a disease that can blind you.
But despite some irritating cloudiness in my right eye, my vision is still functional and…
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Ongoing major carriage disputes:
DIRECTV vs. Nexstar, Mission, White Knight
Dish vs. Cox Media, Mission, White Knight, Hearst
Spectrum TV vs. Disney
Comcast vs. Imagicomm
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BTW, when doing your YouTube TV Sunday Ticket sub calculations, take into account that a significant portion of DIRECTV's Ticket base is in rural areas with spotty or no Internet reception. They are not likely to switch over.
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The Disney blackout has begun on Spectrum.
The Spectrum alert page just went blank.
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To get HBO, I'll have to pay $4 more a month because Max now has Discovery, which I don't want.
#thebundlelives
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HBO Max coming to Roku - tomorrow.
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At that price, one of the worst values in streaming.
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Apple TV+’s MLB games have a better picture, but Peacock/NBC Sports has a better broadcast. And it’s not close.
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Support independent journalism.
@TVAnswerMan
@TalkNats
@thepatriotsbeat
@HighDefDiscNews
@MichaelSaves
@hdreport
@aagave
@thedigitalbits
@paulsen_smw
@SportsTVRatings
@CordCuttersNews
@TheDeskDotNet
@axsmithsports
@whatonnetflix
@HowieLongShort
@HollywoodInToto
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If you were hoping for the NFL to learn a lesson from this, the lesson turns out to be more streaming exclusives for even bigger bucks.
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Looks like Apple and MLS are cracking down on free access to MLS Season Pass this year. Don't see any one month free trial offers, free games, or a free T-Mobile tie-in. Season starts tomorrow.
If they stay with this, it will be a realistic test of how successful it can be.
Cheap price and easy availability to a one month free trial. That’s how Messi boosted Apple’s MLS subscription numbers in 2023. Let’s see if they can sustain in 24.
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Someone should launch a news channel that actually covers the news.
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Salute to
@TalkNats
and
@MarkZuckerman
for keeping
#Nats
fans informed about all team aspects during the up-and-down 2023 season.
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Glaucoma Update: I’ve noted here a few times that I have the eye disease which is incurable. But the good news is that laser surgery has reduced my eye pressure in both eyes to 17. That means my vision shouldn’t get much worse if I can keep it there. (It’s about 50% now in the
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Midnight has passed. Fox still on Directv. We wait for statements.
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Streaming roughly 3.3 percent. Yep, traditional TV must be dead.
Sunday's
@Eagles
-
@Buccaneers
NFC Wild Card Game delivered FOX's top telecast of the season with 30+ million viewers. 📈
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DIRECTV: This month's lineup of live 4K shows is so weak that the satcaster hasn't even updated its 4K schedule page. Basically, it consists of a handful of English Premier League soccer games. 4K has yet to click, folks, and here we are talking about 8K. LOL
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@MarkZuckerman
All I’ll say is this: They are 8 games back. There should be no legacy positions available.
#nats
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What’s wrong with Journalism, part 178:
DIRECTV pays Rolling Stone affiliate fees to write about DIRECTV Stream.
Magically, Rolling Stone then picks DIrectv Stream as the nation’s best streaming service.
Which enables DIRECTV Stream to promote Rolling Stone’s selection on its
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You would think a streamer would be more sympathetic to something that occasionally freezes up.
Netflix Co-Founder and Major Democratic Donor Reed Hastings Says Joe Biden ‘Needs to Step Aside’
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Peacock dropped all its 4K labels on the app for several days. I’ve been asking why and whether 4K was done at Peacock. The labels are starting to show up again.
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Hulu, which is owned by Disney, which owns ABC, can’t carry some ABC stations because they are owned by another company (Sinclair).
And you wonder why people get confused by the new television?
On March 8th, Disney-owned Hulu decided to remove WXLV ABC45 from their platform, and our viewers are now without local news, The Bachelor, American Idol, The Oscars and the upcoming NBA playoffs airing on WXLV ABC45. Please contact Hulu at (888) 265-6650, support
@hulu
.com
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Does Tony know that ESPN’s ever escalating carriage fees is a significant reason why Comcast has to raise his bill?
Tony Kornheiser Rips Comcast For Repeatedly Raising His Bill
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4K Blu-ray Vs. HD Blu-ray: Does the 4K Disc Really Have a Better Picture? - The TV Answer Man!
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Today's
#watchespn
failure is another reminder that streaming isn't replacing traditional TV anytime soon.
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Excellent explanation of the Euro model's influence on hurricane forecasts.
@SciGuySpace
#IrmaHurricane
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