This is a picture of my friend Don Foss, who worked at WRTV and was an expert videographer and editor who normally worked with our Promotion and Sales Departments. We lost Don to cancer late last week, and said goodbye to him at a service earlier today.
I’ve discovered that going to several funerals over a relatively short period of time doesn’t make going to them any easier. Like most of you reading this, my losses have been more private, but Don’s story has been public with occasional coverage on the station’s newscasts and on the indychannel. So Tom Davis and I decided to devote OFF THE CUFF to him today. Don was part of the show’s extended family, contributing his skill with his camera, with his acting, and most memorably in designing the animated close that finishes every episode. So watch the show here, and say a prayer for his wife Susan, and their two kids. It’s not the first time Don’s parents have lost one of their children, and I can tell you that takes Faith to deal with. Please include them also. And enjoy the clip…Don would.
WRTV General Manager Don Lundy is a long time indychannel blogger (he’s no OFF THE CUFF, but he has a reputation to protect) and he has an interesting discussion about the WISH TV versus Brighthouse Cable controversy. If you want the other side of the coin, go to the Brighthouse web site.
clipped from rtv6blogs.com
As I write this, the battle between LIN Television and Bright House Networks continues into its second day. The parent company of WISH-TV (Channel 8), WNDY-TV (Channel 23), WIIH-TV (Channel 17) and the LWS Cable Channel is at odds with the company that provides cable television service to around 135,000 customers in Indianapolis’ center city and outlying northern suburbs.
Neither side could agree to terms moving forward on carriage of the television stations and cable channel, so all of them are no longer being provided to Bright House’s customers, of which I am one. No CBS. That means no CSI…no David Letterman…no Katie Couric. (OK, two out of three ain’t bad.)
I know my biases are showing, big time. But, I’m a strong believer that anyone who takes a product and resells it should compensate the rights holder, in this case, LIN-TV. It would be akin to someone renting a DVD at Blockbuster and charging people to watch it in a theater. That’s illegal.
