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WGBH: Are you listening?
20 Feb 2007Dave Sifry launched a few great ideas that will be studiously ignored by PBS execs because they know better. [here]
I have said this many times in the past [here, here, and here]: asking me for money while showing “Lord of the flies dance to 60s motown classics sung by Celtic women” is not helping your [...]
Dear WGBH:
It is Spring Pledge time again. You have replaced all of the shows I love to watch with drivel about growing old gracefully and saving money I don’t have, interspersed with do-wop and motown revival concerts.
Once again, I will not be donating to your station, in protest.
I want more of what I like, not [...]
$87M Headquarters = Lousy Pledge Programs
5 Feb 2005WGBH is building a brand new $87M Headquarters. [here]
Maybe this is why their pledge programming is so awful.
Spread the Love:
WGBH is having ANOTHER Pledge Drive
29 Jan 2005WGBH is the richest PBS station in the nation.
WGBH produces some of the finest Public Television in the United States
When they have pledge breaks, they show programs that make commercial TV look amazing and spontaneous.
I am tired of Muzak, hits of the 50’s, 60’s and Disco, another tenor super-group, and self-help gurus who make me [...]
WGBH – TV: Wasting airspace, again
In: Commentary| RANTING| WGBH
25 Aug 2008WBGH, again you win the contest as the most clueless PBS station in the world.
There is this small news event occurring this week, called the Democratic National Convention.
And what are you showing tonight?
John Denver, a man and his music.
Are you completely clueless?
Another year, another lack of donations from me.
When will you start showing the programs [...]