[78-L] Carlin Mark Twain award ^

[David Lennick]

It's on KCTS right now (too bad I didn't look earlier) and the sound is 
excellent. So WNED is obviously screwing up somewhere.

dl

David Lennick wrote:
> If you can, catch the George Carlin special on PBS (probably 11 Central, 12 
> Pacific as far as those of us in the centre of the universe are concerned). 
> Fabulous stuff, a lot of clips I had never seen before, and even the presenters 
> didn't try and top George and make asses of themselves. I never thought 
> "Wonderful WINO" was the least bit funny till tonight, seeing him just sitting 
> at a table and changing expression as he did the jingles and music.
> 
> Warning: the sound is TERRIBLE. Either that or the Buffalo station hasn't 
> figured how to deal with HD..the entire perspective was reversed, the announcer 
> and the people speaking into mikes were inaudible but the orchestra was at full 
> volume, the ECHO of the comic could be heard but not his original voice. On 
> clips that weren't being played at the Kennedy Centre, like a Stephen Colbert 
> bit (okay, I still haven't figured why he's on television), the sound was fine. 
> I'm going to check it at midnight on the Seattle channel and see if the same 
> problem appears.
> 
> dl
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