Jul 24, 05 08:20 pm — There is a new Doctor Who series on, with this guy named Christopher Eccleston and a super hot bird Billie Piper.
The site
Was just wondering how many Who fans are out there? I know we got at least a couple of Brits, and at least a couple of you saw it.
You can see it pretty much anywhere except N. America. I'm not sure why the SciFi channel hasn't picked it up.
It used to be on PBS here in New York.
List of US stations that carry it:
State Station Broadcast Time (local)
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California KTEH San Jose Sunday 11 PM, several episodes
http://www.kteh.org/
Colorado KBDI Broomfield/Denver Sat. 11 PM, 2 episodes
http://www.kbdi.org/ Fridays night 12:30 AM repeat
Illinois WILL Urbana Saturday, 11:20 PM, episode
http://www.will.uiuc.edu/
Indiana WYIN Gary Saturday, 11 PM, 2 episodes
http://www.chicagowho.com/
Iowa IPTV Friday night 11:35 PM, 2 episodes
http://www.iptv.org/
Maryland MPTV Saturday night midnight, movie format
http://www.mpt.org/
Minnesota TPT Minn/St. Paul Saturday, 11:30 PM, episode format
http://www.tpt.org/ Sunday, 5:30 AM
New Hampshire NHPT Saturday Night 12 AM, 2 episodes
http://www.nhptv.org/ Thursday Night 12 AM, 2 episodes
Ohio WCET Cincinnati Saturday 11 PM, 2 episodes
http://www.wcet.org/
Pennsylvania WQED/WQEX Pittsburgh Saturday Night, 12 AM, 1 episode
http://www.wqed.org/
WYBE Philadelphia Saturday 11 PM, 2 episodes
http://www.wybe.org/
Texas KERA Dallas Friday Night 12:15 AM, 2 episodes
http://www.kera.org/
Utah KUED Saturday 11:00 PM, 1 episode
http://www.kued.org/ Saturday night rerun, 12:30 AM
Washington KBTC Tacoma Saturday 7 PM, 2 episodes shown
http://www.kbtc.org/ Rerun late Saturday, 12:30 AM
Why do all the TV stations have strange acronyms?
They are not really acronyms but station identification and call signs. Radio stations have them as well.
"BROADCAST STATION IDENTIFICATION"
Broadcast stations in this country are assigned call signs beginning with K or W. Generally speaking, those beginning with K are assigned to stations West of the Mississippi River and in U.S. territories and possessions, while those beginning with W are assigned to broadcast stations East of the Mississippi River. During radio's infancy, most of the broadcast stations were in the East. As stations began operating, the Mississippi became the dividing line between K and W call signs. The few exceptions to existing call signs within this system were assigned before the allocation plan was adopted. Station KDKA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is one example.
Since the beginning of broadcasting, stations have had the privilege of requesting specific call signs. In requesting their preferences for certain letters of the alphabet, broadcasters have presented combinations of names, places or slogans. For example, the letters NBC are used for stations owned by the National Broadcasting Company, CBS for those of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and ABC for the American Broadcasting Companies. Examples of individual station call letters are: WGN, Chicago ("World's Greatest Newspaper"), WNYC, New York (New York City municipal station); KAGH, Crossett, AK, ("Keep Arkansas Green Home"); WIOD, Miami ("Wonderful Isle of Dreams"); WLS, Chicago ("Worlds Largest Store"); WACO, Waco Texas); WTOP, Washington, D.C. ("Top of the Dial"); KFDR, Grand Coulee, Washington, (Franklin D. Roosevelt); WCFL, Chicago ("Chicago Federation of Labor"); WMTC Vancleve, KY, ("Win Men to Christ"); WGCD, Chester, S.C. ("Wonderful Guernsey Center of Dixie"); Educational TV station WXXW, Chicago, uses the Roman numerals for its channel 20; and KABL, Oakland, CA, selected its letters to represent San Francisco's famous cable cars. If a new broadcast station makes no specific request, it is assigned a call sign by the FCC. Since 1946 the FCC has not guaranteed specific call signs to be granted prior to the grant of a construction permit or special temporary authority.
As broadcast stations began to increase in the early 1920's, the three letter call sign could no longer accommodate the growing number of stations, making it necessary to add a fourth letter.
With the advent of FM and TV in 1941, new call signs for all such stations were not assigned. Rather, since many FM and TV stations were operated by the same AM licensee at the same license area, the general practice was for the associated FM or TV station to simply add "-FM" or "-TV", to the call sign of the co-owned AM station. International Radio Regulations do not require the use of call signs by broadcast stations if some other suitable means of identification is employed. For example, many foreign stations identify by announcing, "The Voice of ... "or "Radio..."
I hope that helps.
LOL@super hot bird! She's only just stopped shagging the country's ugliest, most ginger non-personality.
[Comment was edited by AndyPandy on July 25, 2005 at 04:45:47 AM]
Looks like she caught the orange in that pic.
I grew up watching Dr. Who, ^-^
Watched it a few times when Dr. Who had the extra-extra long scarf. It never really made any sense to me, so I never really got into it. I did like the groovy phone booth that he used for space travel, if that is what he did in it.
UK humor, sorry, outside of Monty Python and Mr. Bean I really don't get a lot of it.
I think I have an explanation for you. You see, Dr. Who isn't a humourous series, it's sci-fi. Could you perhaps be watching serious shows thinking that they should be funny?
I used to watch the Scottish cop series Taggert, just to hear them talk funny. I also found it amusing that the lead character always seemed to be on the point of a nervous breakdown due to the crime he was investigating. He used to say something like,
I refuse to accept the responsibility, or the consequence.
This is a guy who really got emotionally involved in his work in a way that seemed unhealthy. He looked like he was going to have a coronary at any minute, which was sort of amusing. Maybe it was intended to be funny, but I didn't think so.
Did you watch Touch of Frost too?
I love the old Benny Hill reruns.
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Who?