Word today from Broadcasting & Cable magazine that Microtune, a manufacturer of digital TV tuner components, has been sampling the competitor’s wares and finding them lacking.
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Bruce's Blog
by Bruce A. Johnson
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Uh-Oh.
As if the DTV transition wasn’t already screwed up enough…
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Monday, March 24, 2008
Science is EVIL!
The Lighting Told Me So!
It was only about ten years ago when a stunning announcement came from the west end of the campus of the University of Wisconsin: In the wake of the cloning of Dolly the Sheep, UW scientists had successfully created a cloned cow egg. Well, it was a no-brainer that we at Wisconsin Public Television would go all the way across campus to cover this momentous event. And we weren’t alone.
more »Thursday, March 20, 2008
In Michiana, The Future Arrived Today.
And It Was Only 11 Months Early.
It’s funny how after a vacation, all kinds of things seem to happen at once. I was taking a short week of skiing with my family in the north end of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan (where they still have great snow, BTW) and was trapped in a condo at night...with only dialup Net access. What is this, Siberia? In any event, I let a lot of email pile up. This morning, as we were driving home, I read a message from Jim Feeley asking,
more »Monday, March 03, 2008
The Passing Of A Local Legend
I’m not a very sentimental guy, usually. The trajectory of people’s lives is fairly common - we get born, we live, we pass away. It’s what we fill the middle part up with that matters.
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Sunday, March 02, 2008
The Best Five Bucks You’ll Ever Spend
Greetings from sunny Florida. The family has run away from the 90+” of snow in Madison for a mini-family reunion this weekend. Of course, it can’t be a family reunion without some kind of weapon of mass distraction…
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A 1981 graduate of the Boston University College of Communication, Bruce A. Johnson got his first job in broadcast television at WFTV, an ABC affiliate in Orlando, FL. While there, he rose through the ranks from teleprompter operator to videographer, editor, producer and director of many different types of programming. It was in the early 1980's that he bought his first computer - a Timex/Sinclair 1000 - a device he hated so much, he promptly exchanged it for an Atari 400. But the bug had bitten hard.