WRAV!NGS 2013 April POSSE
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82 Then the 1980s came and you got a cable box, complete with the line that stretched from your TV to your chair and that clicky channel changer. There were some good stations, but the airwaves were still dominated by network programs and staple network shows — Alice and Dallas, Little House and Mickey Mouse, Family Ties and Magnum PI — were the driving forces. The list was long, but still limited. THE REMOTE DID AWAY WITH THE CHANNEL CLICKER, televisions have gone HD, and those little cable networks are now producing the country’s hottest programs. What you can watch on televi- sion is virtually limitless. If I had told you 20 years ago people would like shows starring zombies, duck hunters, glorified garage sale junkies and flipping houses, you would have called me crazy. Yet, The Walking Dead, Duck Dynasty, American Pickers and Love It or List It are among the hottest TV shows. None of them are on what many would call “major” networks. I knew I had to reevaluate my top five shows when they were: Duck Dynasty, The Walking Dead, Rattlesnake Republic, Finding Bigfoot and Gator Boys. Not exactly Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley or M*A*S*H, but indicative of what’s hap- pened since the ’70s and ’80s. Heck, if I had known half crazy people dressed up in camouflage, running around with shotguns, performing stupid stunts and saying, “Hey Jack,” was going to be pop- ular, most all the people I hung out with could have co-starred. Even I would have given it a shot. WE ARE ALSO THE BEN- EFICIARIES OF THE REACH OF ATHLETICS ON TELEVI- SION. Network agreements PROGRAMMING O RANGE -inal THE EVILS OF TECHNOLOGY HAVE INSPIRED ME TO WRITE ARTICLES ON MANY OCCASIONS, SOME OF THEM IN THIS VERY SPACE. Those technolo- gies and the stresses associated with them cause me, like many of you, to gaze wist- fully into the past for simpler times and more wholesome ways to relax and unwind. The advances in television, however, are one of the wonders of the 20th and 21st centuries. You can view multiple live sporting events across the US and the world on almost any given night. One of the major changes in TV over the last 30 years is in programming and providing what a multitude of viewers want to watch. We all remember what it was like to have a tuner knob and rabbit ears for your relatively small color Zenith or Sylvania sets (remember those house- hold names?). WHEN WE ONLY HAD NETWORK TELEVISION, VIEWING OPTIONS WERE PRETTY LIMITED. Bad programming or shows people found uninteresting inspired them to get up off the couch, pick up a football, basketball, baseball and bat or just go outdoors and find something to do. Instead of watching Dick Van Dyke, you could pick up a book and read about pirates, King Arthur, princesses, wicked witches, Hank Aaron or anything that struck your fancy and stimulated your mind. have spread major money to conferences and given great exposure to teams, and in many cases, sports, that might not have ever seen the light of a camera in the past. OSU ATHLETICS CERTAINLY HAS ITS SHARE OF THE LIMELIGHT. Most all football and men’s basketball games are televised. Many women’s basketball games are available and other sports are getting into the action. Bowl games, tour- naments, regionals and a plethora of other competitions showcase the Cowgirls and Cowboys on TV throughout the year. THERE ARE, HOWEVER, A FEW THINGS TV CANNOT REPRODUCE. NEVER WILL. TELEVISION CAN’T REP- LICATE THE EXCITEMENT YOU GET WHEN YOU HAVE A TICKET AND GO TO THE GAMES LIVE. There’s the smell of the popcorn, the roar of the crowd, the feeling you get when you help will a player over the goal line or get the pin, score two points or slide into second base with a run-scoring double. Plus, you get the benefit of owning the brag-point in saying you were there when. So the next time you begin watching one of those hot new shows on TV, JUST REMEMBER ANOTHER GREAT EXPE- RIENCE OF WATCHING OSU MIGHT BE JUST AROUND THE CORNER. AND WHILE ADVANCES IN TV MAY BE GREAT, NOTHING BEATS EXPERIENC- ING IT LIVE AND IN-PERSON. And see if you can find me some of that new Duck Dynasty camouflage, size large … in Orange. GO POKES. KYLE WRAY VICE PRESIDENT ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT & MARKETING APRIL 2013
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Article by Kyle Wray appearing in the April 2013 issue of POSSE, the official magazine of OSU Athletics.
Transcript of WRAV!NGS 2013 April POSSE
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Then the 1980s came and you got a cable box, complete with the line that stretched from your TV to your chair and that clicky channel changer. There were some good stations, but the airwaves were still dominated by network programs and staple network shows — Alice and Dallas, Little House and Mickey Mouse, Family Ties and Magnum PI — were the driving forces. The list was long, but still limited.
THE REMOTE DID AWAY WITH THE CHANNEL CLICKER, televisions have gone HD, and those little cable networks are now producing the country’s hottest programs. What you can watch on televi-sion is virtually limitless. If I had told you 20 years ago people would like shows starring zombies, duck hunters, glorified garage sale junkies and flipping houses, you would have called me crazy. Yet, The Walking Dead, Duck Dynasty, American Pickers and Love It or List It are among the hottest TV shows. None of them are on what many would call “major” networks.
I knew I had to reevaluate my top five shows when they were: Duck Dynasty, The Walking Dead, Rattlesnake Republic, Finding Bigfoot and Gator Boys. Not exactly Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley or M*A*S*H, but indicative of what’s hap-pened since the ’70s and ’80s. Heck, if I had known half crazy people dressed up in camouflage, running around with shotguns, performing stupid stunts and saying, “Hey Jack,” was going to be pop-ular, most all the people I hung out with
could have co-starred. Even I would have given it a shot.
WE ARE ALSO THE BEN-EFICIARIES OF THE REACH OF ATHLETICS ON TELEVI-SION. Network agreements
PROGRAMMINGORANGE-inal
THE EVILS OF TECHNOLOGY HAVE INSPIRED ME TO WRITE ARTICLES ON MANY OCCASIONS, SOME OF THEM IN THIS VERY SPACE. Those technolo-gies and the stresses associated with them cause me, like many of you, to gaze wist-fully into the past for simpler times and more wholesome ways to relax and unwind.
The advances in television, however, are one of the wonders of the 20th and 21st centuries. You can view multiple live sporting events across the US and the world on almost any given night.
One of the major changes in TV over the last 30 years is in programming and providing what a multitude of viewers want to watch. We all remember what it was like to have a tuner knob and rabbit ears for your relatively small color Zenith or Sylvania sets (remember those house-hold names?).
WHEN WE ONLY HAD NETWORK TELEVISION, VIEWING OPTIONS WERE PRETTY LIMITED. Bad programming or shows people found uninteresting inspired them to get up off the couch, pick up a football, basketball, baseball and bat or just go outdoors and find something to do. Instead of watching Dick Van Dyke, you could pick up a book and read about pirates, King Arthur, princesses, wicked witches, Hank Aaron or anything that struck your fancy and stimulated your mind.
have spread major money to conferences and given great exposure to teams, and in many cases, sports, that might not have ever seen the light of a camera in the past.
OSU ATHLETICS CERTAINLY HAS ITS SHARE OF THE LIMELIGHT. Most all football and men’s basketball games are televised. Many women’s basketball games are available and other sports are getting into the action. Bowl games, tour-naments, regionals and a plethora of other competitions showcase the Cowgirls and Cowboys on TV throughout the year.
THERE ARE, HOWEVER, A FEW THINGS TV CANNOT REPRODUCE. NEVER WILL. TELEVISION CAN’T REP-LICATE THE EXCITEMENT YOU GET WHEN YOU HAVE A TICKET AND GO TO THE GAMES LIVE. There’s the smell of the popcorn, the roar of the crowd, the feeling you get when you help will a player over the goal line or get the pin, score two points or slide into second base with a run-scoring double. Plus, you get the benefit of owning the brag-point in saying you were there when.
So the next time you begin watching one of those hot new shows on TV, JUST REMEMBER ANOTHER GREAT EXPE-RIENCE OF WATCHING OSU MIGHT BE JUST AROUND THE CORNER. AND WHILE ADVANCES IN TV MAY BE GREAT, NOTHING BEATS EXPERIENC-ING IT LIVE AND IN-PERSON.
And see if you can find me some of that new Duck Dynasty camouflage, size large … in Orange.
GO POKES.
KYLE WRAYVICE PRESIDENT ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT & MARKETING
APRIL 2013
