“Weather Channel” by Sheryl Crow (on the C’mon C’mon album). More specifically about the channel, not just using the word.
“Switch on the TV, we may pick him up on Channel 2” David Bowie, Starman.
Some right in the titles:
“Born In The U.S.A.” - Bruce Springsteen
“I’m On E” - Blondie
“We Belong” - Pat Benetar
Alan Jackson - Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)
“I watch CNN but I’m not sure I can tell you…”
This is the kind of answer I was hoping for when I posted the question (and many other good ones here, too). Thanks!
Elvis Costello-Brillant Mistake
Ac/dc – “tnt”
“I Take My Chances” by Mary Chapin Carpenter cites CNN.
I know that a Bruce Hornsby song references the Home Shopping Channel, but I can’t remember the title just now…
Pretty sure ‘In the Name of the Father’ by U2 mentions the BBC.
The Young Gods’ 1991 album T.V. Sky features a track of the same name.
Your efforts in this thread were not wasted! We just wrote the contest that ran this past weekend, and used a bonus based on this theme.
Here it is:
http://williamstrivia.com/hourlyBonus/AudioBonusfinal-EditComp.mp3
And the answer key:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1ZI5QW23FMLqaNBl-SnoLxDjOw957dy-m6pcW2JGIk6k
Wow, that took you a long time! Hope it was fun.
And here I was coming to point out another Weird Al song (Cable TV) before realizing how old this was.
Genesis - A Place To Call My OphrahWinfryNetwork
“Six O’Clock News” by Larry Norman ends with “CBS ABC NBC, CBS ABC NBC…”
Sailor - “The Old Nickelodeon Sound”
Soul Coughing’s Janine has the lines:
*I fell asleep by the blue light of Live at Five
And as I drifted off, I heard **Al Roker *say to me:
Dial one nine hundred
Four Jay Ay En Eye En Ee.
So WNBC. Sort of.
Everybody who has been posting should read # 32. No new suggestions are needed.
I understand the directions, but think there is too much latitude allowing the inclusion of any word that matches a TV network name, but is not in the context of an actual TV name…
For example, the word “Discovery” shows up in the context of a channel:
But it shows up as a lone word in 138 songs