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    Is HD news on the way out?

    What about Headline News? Ever heard of Headline News? Headline News (CNN's *sister station*) started not long after CNN itself, and is a rolling thirty-minute *wheel* (with spot updates) that runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Only *some* of it's thirty-minute...
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    Is HD news on the way out?

    CNN? No, Thanks CNN? Ah, no. Not me. (And I'm not even a VOOMer yet.) While CNN started off great, nowadays if I want no-spin news, I watch MSNBC. If I want *reverse-spun* news (anti-CNN-spin) I watch FOX News Channel. The *only* CNN programming I find watchable is Lou Dobbs (and his...
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    Is HD news on the way out?

    HDNews: The *future* of *all* newscasting? Of *all* the HD programming that is available (from VOOM and everybody else), HDNews is the *most* likely to be copied. Why? Not unlike what CNN did when they started 24/7 news carriage in the first place, HDNews used a combination of...
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    VOOM infomercial

    VOOM infomercials: Multiple Locations! VOOM infomercials air not just OTA (in fact, WUSA-TV/DT aired it again, this time on *Saturday afternoon*, in a half-hour block prior to the Home Depot/SEC College GOTW), but even on basic cable (so far, I've seen their infomercial on *four* different...
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    My First "Through The Window Effect" on Voom

    WETA-HD and current programming Check WETA-HD (the DIGITAL subchannel: 26.1) in the post-PT and overnight hours (especially Virginia Reel, which WETA produces). Virginia Reel is what PBS HD programming *aspires to*, but rarely is, in terms of PQ. I pick up WETA (all four channels of it)...