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From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
Newsgroups: tor.general,ont.general
Subject: Re: Breakfast TV
Keywords: Attack of the tragically hip...
Message-ID: <1989Oct16.233906.10732@telly.on.ca>
Date: 16 Oct 89 23:39:06 GMT
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Reply-To: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
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Organization: Telly Online, Brampton, Ontario
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In article <10418@attcan.UUCP> cv@attcan.UUCP (CV) writes:
>Those of you who watch Breakfast TV, on City TV weekdays from 7:00
>to 9:00 am know that Steve Anthony brings a touch of humor to the
>show everymorning by "putting Toronto on the map".

Sigh. I barely understand how people tolerate Breakfast TV (on ANY
station), let alone why anyone would make a personal sacrifice of time
or a stamp to support it.

Most people I know don't have time in the morning to sit and stare at the
tube. They're in the shower, eating brekkie, reading e-mail or otherwise
preparing for whatever horrors or pleasures the coming day has in store.

So if the TV's on, nobody's watching it. The wasteland gets wasted.

Funny, but there's a medium that specializes in feeding you information
and a bit of humour without requiring you to look at it. Radio. Wonder
why morning is radio's Prime Time?

>He does his 
>segment of the show live from a different Toronto location everymorning.
>So far he has been at the St. Lawrence Market, a day care centre, 
>on street corners, bus shelters, subway stations, in
>somebody's home and cooked them breakfast, he really makes the show
>that much more enjoyable.  

Wow. David Letterman late at night and a clone of him early in the morning.

Anthony couldn't succeed with his 'Letterman' ripoff shtick on radio, so
he's peddled it elsewhere.

>Well, now he has been served with an injunction to prevent him from
>going out on the streets or from what I understand on location.

For anyone to launch an injunction like this, Anthony must have done
something REALLY stupid or irritating. Why doesn't this surprise me?

Please explain the grounds of the injunction before asking people to
kneejerk to Anthony's defence.

>If you want to help correct this injustice, please send me via e-mail
>a quick lines that says "We want Steve Anthony back on the streets".

The real injustice has been done by CITY to local viewers, in claiming
BT to be either informative or amusing. It's neither. CITY should consider
putting one of their more intellectual shows in this time slot ... like
Electric Circus.

>Come on people, let's put Steve Anthony 
>back on the streets!

Better on the streets than on the air...

-- 
   Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
                 evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!attcan!telly!evan
Canada could have enjoyed: English government,French culture,American know-how;
Instead we ended up with:  English know-how,French government,American culture.