T.H.A.T.
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Special Note about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani
It seems that back in January 1, 2026, and around January 1, 2026, a lot of news organizations failed purposely and out of laziness to report words spoken by newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a communist, in a public speech or even proclamation. To right the wrong, I present in this document one of the hideous statements that Zohran Mamdani presented on the day to the public, and the statement shows the evilness of his mind. Zohran Mamdani stated flatly and directly and clearly--"...We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism....". The statement can be called a lie, but, to Zohran Mamdani, that is what he wants to do. That means Zohran Mamdani wants you to become a non-individual--a person not with your own thoughts and goals and aspirations--or to become just another one of the group, under the umbrella of his arms and rules. Zohran Mamdani does not want you to work on your own behalf to be better in this world and life and be better than what the lowest common denominator is, and he does not want you to gain through time the strength through trial and error and work to be strong enough to stand up to the nonsense that he is. Zohran Mamdani wants to be your protector in life and provider in life--for his sake and ability to be free to do whatever he wants. Incidentally, a "collective" (a word often used by communists and like people) is nothing more than a collection of people who are supposed to be the same and alike and even be passive to a leader. In life, you have to gain stamina through your actions of doing things, and a person's being a individual and working for the self to make things and do things increases the strength of the person, but a person's relying on, for example, a government leader does not develop strength in the person over time. It must be pointed out the "rugged individualism" is an American term used to describe persons with the ability to do for the self, and, certainly, when Zohran Mamdani used the term, Zohran Mamdani was consciously working to put down and discredit the United States of America and Americanism and anyone who would not follow his ways of life for the masses or his "collective."
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Hey, I have done something that I have never done before. I picked a day of the past at random (roughly). I came up with Thursday, August 9, 1956. That is seventy years ago. I went to the database for The Windsor Daily Star (of Windsor, Ontario, Canada). I looked at the television-program listings for the day. I was looking to see if I could pick a day and report that for every half-hour there was something on television in the Detroit area (with the Windsor area) that a person could see (roughly) by going to YouTube. I am nothing thinking about see exactly what was on On August 9, 1956, and finding that exact something on YouTube. For instance, at 6:00 p.m., a person watching Detroit-area television at 6:00 p.m. could tune into an episode of Hopalong Cassidy (the television series and not the cut-down theatrical movies packaged into shorter stuff for television). On YouTube, today, you can find at least one episode of that television series to see. It was CKLW-TV, Channel 9, in Windsor that had the cowboy series on the air at 6:00 p.m.. At 7:00 p.m., a person could have an episode of The Lone Ranger on WXYZ-TV, Channel 7, and an episode of Sgt. Preston of the Yukon on WJBK-TV, Channel 2. So far, the series that I have been have episodes on YouTube today. At 7:00 p.m., there was The Best of Groucho on WWJ-TV, Channel 4, and The Bob Cummings Show on WJBK-TV. Yes, episodes of both of those series are available on YouTube now. At 7:30 p.m., WXYZ-TV had the half-hour Craig Kennedy, and WWJ-TV had the half-hour Dragnet, and WJBK-TV had the one-hour Climax!. Wow, episodes of all those are available on YouTube. An episode of The People's Choice was shown on WWJ-TV at 8:00 p.m., and episodes of that show are on YouTube today. At 8:30 p.m., WJBK-TV had an episode of Ford Star Playhouse, which can be found on YouTube as Ford Star Playhouse and Singer Ford Star Playhouse. Now I come to a problem. An episode of Code 3 was offered up by WXYZ-TV at 9:00 p.m., and that series can be found in part on YouTube. In the television listings of The Windsor Daily Star, it was reported that WJBK-TV had an episode of Top Plays of '56 for viewers at 9:30 p.m., and that title is only an umbrella title, and what episode was being presented was called "Indiscret Mrs. Jarvis," and, today, only a portion of the program can be found on YouTube, but at least it can be found. I have to add a note. Top Plays of '56 was a weekly program that offered viewers repeated stuff, stuff that had been on, for example, Fireside Theatre on broadcast network television; it was a syndicated product that was used at least by a couple stations in the country in 1956. By the way, when I first saw the title--Top Plays of '56--in television lists, I thought it was a program that offered filmed highlights of sports things of 1956, such as baseball games. Next, a person could see an episode of Susie on WJBK-TV at 10 p.m., and that episode of a series featured Ann Sothern as the main performer, and her series can be found on YouTube under these names--Susie and The Ann Sothern Show. And then at 10:30 p.m., WJBK-TV had an episode of Do You Trust your Wife? on the air, and, recently, I saw one of the episodes of that series on YouTube, and, in this case, the show refered to was the prime-time broadcast network series that was hosted by Edgar Bergen with his dummy pals, such as Charlie McCarthy. Basically, today, a person can go on YouTube and see what television looked like from 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 9, 1956. I used August 9, 1956, because sometimes I put on a new Television History and Trivia document on the Internet late each day that is the "9th" for the next day, listing the document as uploaded on the "10th."
Announcement for the novice again (reworked in March 2019): To get useful television-delivered news or Internet-delivered news, try Breitbart News Network (the history of which goes back to 2007), WorldNetDaily.com, Newsmax TV (which was started up in 2014), CNS News (which is on the Internet and which was launched on June 16, 1998), and One America News Network (a.k.a. OAN), since the entities do not blindly support Barack Obama-type people (communists, socialists, progressives, liberals, and Shariaists), as do CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV (Note: To learn about bad journalism, you might tune in to CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV from time to time to see how they differ from the better places mentioned). I note that the Fox News Channel is evolving into a rotten channel, becoming like those that I have put down in this paragraph. If you are unclear of my intentions, I say in different words that you should boycott CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV and even now much of what is on the Fox News Channel and hope they lose more ratings and advertising revenues, since they are expendable, and it is time for you to find the guts to be mean and heartless and cancel them--since they are hurting you. In 2019, "The Drudge Report" was sold, and it should be treated as suspect for now. [Note: Everyone in the Democratic Party in the country is rotten, and the Republican Party establishment has shown itself to be socialistic and communistic within the last few years, and only a few of the rotten people tied to the Republican Party are U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie.]
[Note: Here is an example of Chris Christie's rottenness. On Sunday, February 6, 2022, Chris Christie was a guest on This Week with George Stephanopoulos (of ABC-TV), which had Martha Raddatz as the host, and Chris Christie pushed out crap. For example, Chris Christie said--"...And let's face it. Let's call it what it is. January 6 was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump...an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress into doing exactly what he said in his own words last week--overturn the election. And he's trying to do a cleanup on aisle one here...." and "...He actually told the truth by accident. He wanted the election to be overturned....". That is bullshit!]Hey, on July 1, 1941, commercial televisioin--in black-and-white form only--was started up in the country. A bunch of people were so excited. In December 1953, the color standard--the compatible color standard--was approved, and, over the next decade, for instance, the broadcast networks slow pushed out color programs, but was not till about 1965 when the big push to have all programs in color came along. Everyone was excited by the arrival of color. In 2009, the analog television format was dropped, and the digital television age was now in full swing, and that was exciting, and it led to better images on the screen and more channels, and the more channels were the subchannels. However, one disadvantage with digital as opposed to analog is when a person gets out of range of a digital signal, it shut (in essence) shuts off, and the channel disappears (for becomes for a few moments small globs of pixels, if that), but the analog signal sort of faded out over time and distance so a person on the outskirts of a strong signal might something. Yes, people were excited by digital television. Basically, in 2016, "NEXTGEN TV" (television standard ATSC 3.0)--another digital standard and a so-called improved digital standard--showed up. Today, I am still in the "so-what?" stage. I am not excited. Good and nice programming is not being produced in earnest, as it had been before, for instance, the digital age began in 2009. Remember--I have reported that the heyday of good television was from 1941 to about 1980, and then I say that the 1980s and 1990s were the transition period, when nice and likeable new programs began to be made in fewer and fewer numbers. Also, incidentally, in that period, the syndication business was beginning to fade away. Since the start of the century, we have had not much to really be excited about, and even NEXTGEN TV will not really save the day, since the good and nice programming is not there, and there is too much of the same stuff, such as boring stuff or stuff that is filled with feministic crap and socialistic crap and violence. Since the digital age began, syndication has shrunk to almost nothing, and that is why "NATPE" not longer exists. What is "NATPE" stand for? It stands for "National Association of Television Program Executives," and it got started in the heyday of syndication in the country. Yearly, people when to a several-day NATPE convention, which was held somewhere in the country. At that place, the makers of television programs or the distributors of television programs worked to sell their programs--new series, one-shot shows, off-network series, et cetera--to television operators, such as station managers or program directors, and the the types of shows were of all types--from westerns to adventure programs and from documentaries to sports programs--and, of course, movie packages were big-deal products (at a time when television stations ran a lot of movies on a local basis). Over the years, I have seen the editions of Broadcasting magazine or Broadcasting & Cable magazine that talked about what was going to happen and did happen with the annual NATPE conventions, and I have seen all the types of programs that were available--those that were big hits or hits and those that seemed to go nowhere in the marketplace. Today, some shows are still syndicated to television stations, but, based on the Detroit television universe, few programs are used. In a way, subchannels have taken up using what used to be offered through syndication, but even in the case of subchannel and off-network series, little is offered really. A lot of programs that have been made over the decades must be just sitting on the shelves of either distributors libraries (as they can be called) or production company libraries. I do have to report that, in the heyday of syndication, a person or distribution company trying to get product on the air on television stations did not need to only show up at NATPE conventions, a person or a representative of a distribution company could go to television stations and work to sell programs in meetings. Contracts for air programs could state how many times a particular program could run in a given space of time, such as one year, and the program could be sold for cash, for cash-plus-barter (in which each party got so much commercial-spot time in a program), or barter. Generally speaking, this century, television stations have ended up using fewer shows because of the cost of the shows, such as off-network shows, have gone up, since the original budgets of network shows that might end up in syndication had been given bloated budgets (at least in relation to costs known as "above-the-line" costs, such include costs tied to actors and producers and writers), and stations then have ended up airing more than one episode of a series in a single day (which uses up airtime that could be used for other stuff) to pay for the shows and get enough ratings for a show (cumulative). Television stations are now in the habit of playing few things and repeating the things offen in a single day, and it is a habit that probably will never die. Having more and more ways to distribute the same few programs and the same few types of programs, almost all of which are boring or not nice or not fun, really does not matter to me, and it does not matter that television stations are adopting ATSC 3.0. The television industry is so focused on technology, that it has forgotten "showmanship" and providing entertainment, which was the goal of television people in much of the last century. In a way, I can say that too much of the same few things on television is killing television. So earlier this year, an NATPE convention was held (discribed as a "world" thing), and then it was announced that the convention was the last NATPE convention. Yes, NATPE is now dead. It should not be surprising to you, based on what I have been talking about in this edition of Television History and Trivia and past editions of Television History and Trivia. People were excited by the start of commercial television and by color television and digital television. Are a bunch of people or a lot of people--viewers--excited by ATSC 3.0 (or NEXTGEN TV) today, and will ATSC 3.0 get much use, given so much if out there and given so much nice stuff is not out there? At this stage, I mostly see some of the subchannels with stuff from decades ago and see stuff from decades ago on regular YouTube.
So I have given you the previous paragraph, and now I add a few side notes that show why I have no thrills about ATSC 3.0. In January 2026, ABC-TV pushed out the three-part special called DIRTY TALK: When Daytime Talk Shows Ruled TV, such as through streaming, and I finally came across the special on the network on Monday, May 25, 2026. The focus was on, basically, the one-hour talk shows that were a so-called big deal in the 1980s and 1990s, the tranisition period for television in the country--for television stations and broadcast networks (which includes PBS). During the period, television-station operators seemed not to consider the "tone" of their stations, and they jumped at the chance to air such programs as Sally, Maury, The Jerry Springer Show, The Montel Williams Show, and Ricki. There were several reasons to air the programs (one reason of which is the programs drew ratings (dumb viewers) and cost less to buy it seems than one-hour fiction series). The series were for the most part a presentation of gutter stuff and low-life stuff and inner-city jackass culture, and since there were so many programs, they sent the tone for television stations--and it was not a good tone. In essence, the distributors of such programs and the television-station operators who bought the programs and aired them killed the over-the-air television-station industry. The special called DIRTY TALK: When Daytime Talk Shows Ruled TV did not hint that the shows helped kill the overall tone of broadcast television during the rise of ugly television. In addition, on May 14, 2026, and May 21, 2026, Fox TV pushed out the two-episode short-flight series called Fear Factor: 48 Hours of Fear, and it was truly ugly television. By the way, it was another series in which the makers had to make sure to have a gay person in the cast, and, in this case, it was a black guy. In essence, the contestants of Fear Factor: 48 Hours of Fear ended up, for example, eating crappy-like stuff and getting exposed to icky situations. And that was considered entertainment by the makers! Really, such programs have pushed and are pushing better viewers away, and so NEXTGEN TV really does not matter.
Announcement: Recently, I have added some new documents to the collection of my documents at the website for The Hologlobe Press. One of the documents is entitled A Document that Dispels Myths and Nonsense of Science-Fiction Books, Movies, and Television Shows (A Logic Puzzle), which can be reached through this Myths link. Another document is And So You Think You're Going to the Moon, Mars, or the Stars..., which can be reached by using this Moon link. And yet another of the documents is entitled And the Stupid Women Shall Lead--and Lead Every Good Individual into Shit, Driven on by Communism, Feminism, and Defective Female Beliefs and Little-Girl Thinking, which can be reached through this Stupid Women link. And here are other documents--A Review of What Television Controlled by Socialists and Communists Worked to Sell as Truth in Relation to the U.S. President Donald J. Trump Impeachment (at Impeachment) and T.H.A.T. Special Edition--The First Helicopter-based Traffic Reporters on Radio for the Detroit area of Michigan (at Helicopter Traffic).
Remember: The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan was a television show that was produced across the pond and shown on CBS-TV in the late 1960s, and I urge you to find The Prisoner on DVD, maybe from a library, and watch it, and you should show it--all the episodes--to teenagers, or buy it as a present for teenagers.
Stay well!Vic
P.S.: You are urged to see my document entitled One of "The Rules of Man"--A Rule About Health Care that No Politician May Supersede with Law, which can be reached through this Rule1 link. I have deduced that all the Democrats and most Republicans support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and have no intention of killing it, though it should be killed for violating, for one, "The Rules of Man." For example, Republicans Jeb Bush and Chris Christie support the rotten law, and that is one reason that I define them as stupid men and not men who are good enough--in this day and age--to be the U.S. President. I note that the "mandate"--which forces everyone to buy government-approved health-care insurance--violates one of "The Rules of Man," and it is a rule that is attacked in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Anyone who supports the "mandate" is not a good enough person or a smart enough person to be the U.S. president--the mandate is "enslavism," and the "mandate" allows government people--who are often usually bad people, as history shows--decide what health care a person can get, and that is bad.
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