TV Binge Watch (Part 2)

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Sports Announcers

  1. Jack Brickhouse
  2. Bob Uecker
  3. Bob Costas
  4. Howard Cosell
  5. Chuck Thompson

Voice of the Orioles for four decades (and sometimes the Colts and some national network stuff).

Ain’t the beer cold!

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Sports Announcers

  1. Jack Brickhouse
  2. Bob Uecker
  3. Bob Costas
  4. Howard Cosell
  5. Chuck Thompson
  6. Marv Albert
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Sports Announcers

  1. Jack Brickhouse
  2. Bob Uecker
  3. Bob Costas
  4. Howard Cosell
  5. Chuck Thompson
  6. Marv Albert
  7. Bill Schonely

Long time play by play announcer for the Portland Trail Blazers, coined phrases like “Rip city!” and “lickety-brindle up the middle!”

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Sports Announcers

  1. Jack Brickhouse
  2. Bob Uecker
  3. Bob Costas
  4. Howard Cosell
  5. Chuck Thompson
  6. Marv Albert
  7. Bill Schonely
  8. Red Barber

Better known for his radio work, but in 1939, he broadcast the first major league baseball game on television, and later had his own TV progam, Red Barber’s Corner.

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Sports Announcers

  1. Jack Brickhouse
  2. Bob Uecker
  3. Bob Costas
  4. Howard Cosell
  5. Chuck Thompson
  6. Marv Albert
  7. Bill Schonely
  8. Red Barber
  9. Jim Nantz
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Sports Announcers

  1. Jack Brickhouse
  2. Bob Uecker
  3. Bob Costas
  4. Howard Cosell
  5. Chuck Thompson
  6. Marv Albert
  7. Bill Schonely
  8. Red Barber
  9. Jim Nantz
  10. Chick Hearn

New category:

Tragedies witnessed live worldwide on television

  1. 9/11
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Tragedies witnessed live worldwide on television

  1. 9/11
  2. Space Shuttle Challenger
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Tragedies witnessed live worldwide on television

  1. 9/11
  2. Space Shuttle Challenger
  3. 2004 Tsunami in Thailand
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Tragedies witnessed live worldwide on television

  1. 9/11
  2. Space Shuttle Challenger
  3. 2004 Tsunami in Thailand
  4. R. Budd Dwyer commits suicide
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Tragedies witnessed live worldwide on television

  1. 9/11
  2. Space Shuttle Challenger
  3. 2004 Tsunami in Thailand
  4. R. Budd Dwyer commits suicide
  5. The Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby
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Tragedies witnessed live worldwide on television

  1. 9/11
  2. Space Shuttle Challenger
  3. 2004 Tsunami in Thailand
  4. R. Budd Dwyer commits suicide
  5. The Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby
  6. Hurricane Katrina, and its aftermath, in New Orleans
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Tragedies witnessed live worldwide on television

  1. 9/11
  2. Space Shuttle Challenger
  3. 2004 Tsunami in Thailand
  4. R. Budd Dwyer commits suicide
  5. The Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby
  6. Hurricane Katrina, and its aftermath, in New Orleans
  7. Branch Davidians in Waco, TX
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Tragedies witnessed live worldwide on television

  1. 9/11
  2. Space Shuttle Challenger
  3. 2004 Tsunami in Thailand
  4. R. Budd Dwyer commits suicide
  5. The Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby
  6. Hurricane Katrina, and its aftermath, in New Orleans
  7. Branch Davidians in Waco, TX
  8. LA riots after the Rodney King beating acquittals
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Tragedies witnessed live worldwide on television

  1. 9/11
  2. Space Shuttle Challenger
  3. 2004 Tsunami in Thailand
  4. R. Budd Dwyer commits suicide
  5. The Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby
  6. Hurricane Katrina, and its aftermath, in New Orleans
  7. Branch Davidians in Waco, TX
  8. LA riots after the Rodney King beating acquittals
  9. Jan. 6, 2021 attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol

A tragedy for American democracy IMHO.

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I wanted to wrap it up with Election Day, 2025, a very real tragedy.

Tragedies witnessed live worldwide on television

  1. 9/11
  2. Space Shuttle Challenger
  3. 2004 Tsunami in Thailand
  4. R. Budd Dwyer commits suicide
  5. The Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby
  6. Hurricane Katrina, and its aftermath, in New Orleans
  7. Branch Davidians in Waco, TX
  8. LA riots after the Rodney King beating acquittals
  9. Jan. 6, 2021 attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol
  10. 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and ensuing nuclear disaster at Fukushima

pass

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That would be 2024, and I agree.

Best TV show of all time

  1. Breaking Bad
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Best TV show of all time

  1. Breaking Bad
  2. The Carol Burnett Show

Ask me in a minute or two and I’ll have a different answer.

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Best TV show of all time

  1. Breaking Bad
  2. The Carol Burnett Show
  3. Star Trek

In the sense that it inspired spinoffs, movies, other TV and streaming series, novels, merchandise, fashion, interracial casting, and arguably influenced society more than any other TV show.

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Best TV show of all time

  1. Breaking Bad
  2. The Carol Burnett Show
  3. Star Trek
  4. The Sopranos

It was unlike anything seen on TV then, and continues to be copied. Reputed “wiseguys” regularly watched it.

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Best TV show of all time

  1. Breaking Bad
  2. The Carol Burnett Show
  3. Star Trek
  4. The Sopranos
  5. WKRP in Cincinnati

It gave us one of the most famous quotes in TV history:

“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”