{"id":197,"date":"2006-01-24T11:32:05","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T16:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2006\/01\/24\/i-talk-about-television-too-much-now\/"},"modified":"2006-01-24T11:32:05","modified_gmt":"2006-01-24T16:32:05","slug":"i-talk-about-television-too-much-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2006\/01\/24\/i-talk-about-television-too-much-now\/","title":{"rendered":"I talk about television too much now."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quote.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=10000006&#038;sid=aTUkc268e9Iw&#038;refer=home\" title=\"&quot;The long range plans look better,&quot; said Les Moonves, &quot;and BLOOD SATAN BEAST DECAY&quot;\">The WB and UPN will merge<\/a> in September, creating a new network called CW (because it&#8217;ll be jointly owned by <b>C<\/b>BS, which owns UPN, and Time <b>W<\/b>arner).  Presumably this means a bold new vision of alternating teensoaps with incredibly-low-production-values &#8220;urban&#8221; sitcoms and wrestling.  Also maybe Star Trek?<\/p>\n<p>This actually is a fairly big shakeup in the electromagnetic spectrum&#8211;a lot of areas have stations allocated to both UPN and the WB.  The WB reliably does better than UPN, so that&#8217;s probably the station where CW will reside in most markets.  I think it&#8217;s obvious, when all the factors are considered, that the leftover stations should go to:  me.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, the first thing I thought when I read that headline was &#8220;but&#8211;but&#8211;what will happen to Veronica Mars?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WB and UPN will merge in September, creating a new network called CW (because it&#8217;ll be jointly owned by CBS, which owns UPN, and Time Warner). Presumably this means a bold new vision of alternating teensoaps with incredibly-low-production-values &#8220;urban&#8221; sitcoms and wrestling. Also maybe Star Trek? This actually is a fairly big shakeup in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discoveries","category-obsessions","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}