Loving this!
Point of order, Doctor:
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Originally Posted by RWood
Consider the ever-popular spin-off. I Love Lucy begot Andy Griffith that in turn begot Gomer Pyle, USMC. Green Acres was the Beverly Hillbillies in reverse. You get the picture. (Wait for groan.)
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Actually,
Andy Griffith spun off from
Make Room For Daddy, the Danny Thomas sitcom (Danny was caught speeding through Mayberry on a family vacation, introducing Griffith's laid-back country sheriff to TV audiences).
-Trivia-stuffed Steve
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Originally Posted by RWood
Second, they experimented with new wider formats like Cinemarama and Cinemascope. Some have suggested incorporating these formats into regular television. Experiments are on going but the current thinking is that the bandwidth requirements, how much frequency spectrum it would require, are too high. One report said they could do it but that they would need to combine three or four current channels to get the entire picture at once. That would reduce us to two television channels in Washington and require everyone to buy a new set. Don’t hold your breath.
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Interesting, considering where TV ended up! They figured out, through digital media, how to give us more media, how to use two channels to deliver one show,
and to get us to buy new sets...
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Originally Posted by RWood
It is an emerging world for television: signal strength is growing, pictures are clearer, more people are producing more programming for more stations, UHF stations are starting to get measurable ratings in some markets, CATV systems are growing, and there is a proposal to add a local channel to the NYC “Cable System.”
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(Insert "aha cool" moment here.)