9:31 AM on a Monday morning, have a sinus headache and watching “WKRP.”
It’s probably the 30th time I’ve seen this episode (Herb’s wife throws him out), but right now it’s better than TechLive. Yes, start with a slam of the early morning hours of techlive.
It’s not just that I’m upset that they took away chat coverage in the early mornings. Okay, I am. I’ll admit it. I sorta liked being able to jump into the room and have fun at 9 AM. I also liked how goofy product demos were at 6 AM pacific. Everyone was half awake, it was great. But now … well it’s the same as last month when they made the changes. Waaaaaay too much market coverage, the same empty set problem that faces “call for help” in the afternoons. It’s dead. There’s no spunk at all there and half the time it’s like no one wants to be there and you can feel it because the first two hours now are just a waste of time. I’ve stopped watching for that reason, as if anyone cares.
Right now? Flipped on TechTV to see Michaela and Erica look absolutely dead. Flipped back to WKRP. Didn’t want to catch the “cover story” because the cover story is repeated more often than the a CNN Headline News story. Worse yet, lately they’ve decided to “enhance” the segments by adding the worst songs in the world to open the story with. I don’t know about you but I wanted to strangle TechTV the other day when they opened up the cover story with “Jesse’s Girl.” Oh it was a cool song for a segment, but they only used the opening to it. They go you so far into the song then pulled away. Yes, I know it’s some sort of technique to mess with our minds, however, unlike nearly every other station out there, they never came back to the song to give you release.
Think about it. Imagine hearing the opening to the classic song “Wild Thing” as part of the segment.
WILD THING
YOU MAKE MY HEART SWING
YOU MAKE EVERYTHING
GROOVY
WILD THING …
I THINK I LOVE YOU!
Simple song, everyone knows the words right.
Well their use of Jesse’s Girl was like starting a segment with Wild Thing like this:
WILD THING
YOU MAKE MY HEART SWING
YOU MAKE EVERYTHING
Now the first time you hear it it’s okay. The second time you hear it it’s annoying. The third time you hear it you go “Groovy.” The 4th time? “@#$@#$@$ play the rest of the song.”
Now imagine this 10 to 12 times and … well I hope you get the point. If Jesse’s Girl comes on anytime soon I’ll be cursing under my breath.
But I’m an angry young man who has time on his hands.
It’s a pause in the crisis that’s been the last week and I’m venting again.
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