Channel surfing, for instance, sounds like it would be a nightmare.
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If you think about it, I still like TV. I like channel surfing.
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This is what channel-surfing used to be, what it ought to be.
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There's no channel-surfing in VR. Falling asleep in it is hard to imagine.
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The learning experience for Burns began with some channel surfing and binge watching HGTV.
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At BRIC House, Public Access/Open Networks will feed your nostalgia for channel-surfing.
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Cormican sees it as the proper evolution to channel-surfing, made for the internet age.
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This shuffle feature is basically Netflix's way of bringing back channel surfing, how '90s of them.
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Which is another issue, Chapo says he has no control when it comes to channel surfing.
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On the home front, she realized that whole evenings and weekend afternoons disappeared into channel surfing.
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Channel surfing became superfluous once you could just DVR and stockpile your shows or stream them instantly.
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But if you don't have cable anymore, it's kind of fun to indulge in idle channel surfing.
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Press the right arrow to change to "Hidden" But maybe it's worth doing some channel surfing before deciding.
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The iOS app will support HDMI output, and Chromecast supports the new portrait player and channel surfing mode.
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I'm used to flipping through channels to see what's on, and there's no channel surfing ability on Sling.
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After some channel surfing, she decided to lean into the night's nostalgia theme and enjoy some Disney Channel.
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Made for TV, a 15-minute film by Tom Running featuring Ann Magnuson, simulates the act of channel surfing.
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They are not concerned with trying to win over casual, channel-surfing viewers (not that anybody channel surfs anymore).
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It's currently showing its second season, which was likely what Teigen stumbled across when channel surfing in her hotel room.
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And his laser not only promotes faster checkouts, channel surfing and pointers; it also enables fiber optics to carry data.
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When patriotism becomes dangerous I was channel surfing one day when I stumbled upon a PBS documentary on the Freedom Riders.
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Scrolling through Snapchat could soon be the "digital equivalent of channel surfing," analyst James Cakmak told CNBC's "Power Lunch " on Monday.
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Not everyone likes the streaming experience, which turns the semi-passive act of channel surfing into more of an active hunt.
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It might have worked right after "The King of Queens" went off the air and his bereft fans were channel surfing.
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Fun fact: Burton owns Channel Surfing, so they actually crafted part of this bag with super durable and pliable wetsuit material.
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There is lots of great TV, but if you're ever in doubt that there's even more bad TV, just go channel surfing.
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I didn't have the patience to wait until the next nude scene, so I started channel surfing to find some more material.
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AVDIYIVKA, Ukraine/KIEV (Reuters) - For Ukrainian pensioner Olga Shazhkova, channel-surfing in the front line town of Avdiyivka is a monotonous business.
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It's because each video is so short, she said, that she can end up spending hours on what amounts to channel-surfing.
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She eats alone in front of the TV, channel-surfing until she stumbles on a rerun of her own 1932 movie Grand Hotel.
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Some entertainment executives have criticized the company as being a relic of the channel-surfing era while more viewers take to streaming content.
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Ultimately, though, the streaming experience is more like channel surfing: You choose to watch whatever's on, from a selection determined by someone else.
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And if you're used to watching cable, there may be a bit of a learning curve here — there's no more channel surfing, for instance.
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"After a brief moment of channel surfing, Amelia lands on the a news story concerning the impending heat wave in New York," they said.
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He started collecting in 2011 after he was transfixed by a show he chanced upon while channel-surfing: "Meteorite Men," on the Science Channel.
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The result feels a bit like browsing an analog Internet, where memes mutate into free-verse poetry, while simultaneously channel-surfing noise radio stations.
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No more switching between confusing apps and learning proprietary systems – SelectTV makes flipping between ABC, YouTube, and Netflix as easy as old-school channel surfing.
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At the time, it wrote that there's "much more at stake" than streamlined channel surfing when it come to reinventing top-set boxes and CableCard.
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It's the easiest way to find out if there's something you really want to watch, or if it's time to do a little digital channel surfing.
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The remote control revolutionized how we watched TV—making channel surfing possible, allowing us to avoid commercials and forcing brands to work harder for our attention.
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Geostorm could just as well have originated with someone channel-surfing through news channels and family melodramas, getting half-glimpses of reports on terrorist attacks and political commentary.
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Cable is built around channel surfing, this theory that subscribers, exhausted from a day's work, toss themselves onto a couch and click the remote to find serviceable entertainment.
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For so many of us, it simply meant sleeping in, channel-surfing with a family-sized bag of Flaming Hot Cheetos within reach, and loving every second of it.
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Buzzfeed will produce a dating series called RelationShipped on Facebook Watch, a new venue for internet channel-surfing (because we need more places to watch reality programming), on November 9th.
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Live TV is great for watching your favorite network shows as soon as they&aposre available, watching live sports, or simply channel surfing if you don&apost quite know what to watch.
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The goal with Rheo is to bring back the channel surfing experience that existed in the pre-cord cutting days, but with the types of content people consume now: videos on the web.
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You can just start watching – which is akin to channel surfing – or you can go to various "channels" which include "laugh" (humor), "spark" (art) "learn" (think TED talks), "inform" (news) and "chill" (music).
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OttoPlay: A very handy (and free) Chrome extension that lets you watch Netflix like it's running on an old-school cable (essentially adding the illusion of channel-surfing capabilities on top of the platform).
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Speaking from my own recent experience, scrolling through Netflix's home screen has started to feel more like channel surfing in the 90s than selecting from a carefully curated list of shows tailored to my tastes.
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It's one reason I keep compulsively clicking through the same sites over and over, like channel surfing: this tip-of-the-tongue feeling that there's some major news source I'm forgetting about, reporting on an adjacent reality.
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It's an ambitious way of separating the two foils, by implying they literally inhabit different worlds, but it feels too conscious and mannered, and the transitions are as jarring as channel-surfing between two movies at once.
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Reporters excitedly lined up to FaceTime with the French-Swiss filmmaker - one greeting him as a "living legend" - seeking clues to the meaning of the film described by Variety as a "color-saturated semiotic channel-surfing kaleidoscope".
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Recently, while channel-surfing late one night, I stumbled upon the 1964 comedy "Kisses for My President" in which a hapless Fred MacMurray struggles to cope with being married to the first female president, played by Polly Bergen.
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Maybe it's the modern-day equivalent of endless channel-surfing — turning on Netflix or some other streaming video service, then going through page after page of movies and TV shows, never quite settling on what to watch next.
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As an fMRI device tracked blood flow in their brains, the students watched a series of video clips of varying lengths, an experience that Dr. Parkinson likened to channel surfing with somebody else in control of the remote.
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Yet for every erotic episode he witnesses he is also privy to hundreds of mundane moments representing the ordinary daily human routine—people channel-surfing, snoring, urinating, primping, and doing other things too tediously real for reality television.
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Before a cameo appearance on "The Simpsons" on Sunday, the New York City mayor spoke about his love for the show, his channel-surfing habits and why he is not bothered when shows he likes air on Fox.
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Today is the debut of ESPN+, a $4.99 direct-to-consumer subscription video service that offers a little bit of MLB and NHL action with a lot of stuff that you don't typically see on ESPN when channel surfing.
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So when Sam's daughter Frankie continues channel-surfing after stumbling on one of her mother's TV appearances (to be fair, RuPaul's Drag Race is awesome) later in the episode, Sam isn't the only one stung; the audience is too.
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I will spare everyone the hellhole whipped up by my hormonal grandmother furies — the snatches of disaster that light across the ceaselessly channel-surfing screen at the front of my brain as I ponder that frail neck, that pulsing vein.
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Unfolding as a series of fragmented sketches apparently strung together at random, the movie forces us to watch as 12-year-old Ralph (Mason McNulty) uses his new camcorder — and his parents' wedding video — to tape his late-night channel surfing.
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Trump has the same media diet: heavy on Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity and "Fox & Friends" (with a sprinkling of hate-watch channel-surfing to CNN and MSNBC), and the same core diet of print newspapers, led by his hometown New York Times and New York Post.
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"She thought if you didn't stay on one radio channel but you kept hopping between channels, then the Nazis wouldn't be able to hack into the signal and be able to take over your torpedo," Dean explained, equating it to channel-surfing on the radio and switching stations.
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"She thought if you didn't stay on one radio channel but you kept hopping between channels, then the Nazis wouldn't be able to hack into the signal and be able to take over your torpedo," Dean explains, equating it to channel-surfing on the radio and switching among stations.
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That's what a federal judge basically said in a new order after the drug lord bitched about his prison conditions -- from no free access to channel surfing and a stationary bike that faces away from the TV to the size of his cell inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
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It took me back to a time when channel surfing felt like an archeological dig performed from the comfort of my couch, even though I spent half the time asking my parents why the TV screen was full of "snow," the jumbled black-and-white pixels of terrible reception.
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I'd watched part of The Silence of the Lambs while channel surfing earlier that week, and Buffalo Bill's attempts to create a bodysuit of female skin inspired a brief, less gruesome mental scenario in which I somehow wore Billy's body like an exoskeleton, moving through the world in his impervious chassis.
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In a strange way, loading up these escapist apps and watching friends and strangers act the fool feels wonderfully carefree, like a throwback to another old-fashioned pastime that has been outmoded by technology: channel-surfing on TV. There's a constant reality show on your phone, but an honest one, starring your friends.
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At the end of the exhibition, Vezzoli's tribute to Italian TV sublimates channel-surfing in a surreal crafted video collage featuring, among others, Mina, Raffaella Carrà and Mother Teresa, French singer and onetime Salvador Dalí muse Amanda Lear, actress Gina Lollobrigida, and the late theatre actor Paolo Poli, famous for his witty performances in En travesti.
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But in "George Washington" (whose title gives you an early hint, á la "Hamilton," that it will apply a fresh coat of paint to what we think of as American history), you're right in the middle of the overload, channel-surfing from "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" to "Thomas the Tank Engine" to LL Cool J to Bill Nye the Science Guy.
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Streaming was supposed to help us cut the cord, but all it's done is create new problems for folks who want to catch live TV. Most available options are either too expensive or can't fully recreate the experience of sitting on a couch, aiming your remote at your TV, and settling in for a couple of hours of lazy channel surfing.
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" In the meantime, channel surfing carries the risk of glimpsing at least one more Gotti family nemesis: Rudolph Giuliani, so effective at flipping mobsters during his time as United States Attorney for the Southern District that his office was nicknamed the "House of Pancakes," is now a regular combatant on cable news, where he says things like "Even if he did do it, it wouldn't be a crime.
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You've Got Mail is the kind of movie that you watch while channel surfing at your parents' house, or while you're at a friend's house for a sleepover and she fell asleep long before you and you're too afraid to sleep because her house sounds weird, or perhaps you watch it at a hotel in Fort Worth, Texas, while you're away on business, and you think, well, it's this or NCIS, and no one wants to watch NCIS.
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His poem, "Rolling into Red Square" appears in Signs of Life: Channel-surfing Through '90s Culture.Signs of Life: Channel-surfing Through '90s Culture, ed. by Jennifer Joseph and Lisa Taplin, Manic D Press, San Francisco, 1994, pp. 96-99. He has also lived in Michoacan, Mexico, moved to Las Vegas in 1995, and was active in many Las Vegas poetry communities, including readings at the Café Espresso Roma and Enigma Garden Cafe.
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"Channel surfing". Waterloo Region Record, February 27, 2004. It was created by Steven Barwin and Gabriel David Tick, who were also executive producers along with Don Ferguson and Roger Abbott.
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"For Lenny Kravitz, 'Black And White' is a mixed blessing". USA Today. Retrieved March 6, 2012. "I was channel- surfing in the Bahamas one night and came across this documentary," he recalled.
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Items Clark and Baird have found inside the homes include thousands of bees, wedding dresses, vehicles and television sets, as well as a house that was formerly a meth lab.Neil Genzlinger, “Channel Surfing: ‘Flip Men’ vs. Ratholes,” New York Times, October 25, 2011.
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After the interview, the last scene is a shot of a television. As the camera slowly zooms in on the television, it appears as if someone is channel surfing. At the end the channel stops on a shot from Godard's film, Contempt. We see a cameraman panning across the screen finally stopping as if he were shooting at the audience.
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Sean Connery was originally contacted to star in the role but was busy with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. William Shatner discovered Luckinbill by chance by channel-surfing late one night and seeing him perform as Johnson. When Shatner called to offer him the role, Luckinbill accepted immediately. Other film appearances include Such Good Friends (1971), The Promise (1979), and Cocktail (1988).
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During the homeless man's tour through the crowd, the pre-show music stops and the sounds of channel surfing can be heard. When the homeless man reaches the stage, the climax of the movie Spartacus is played. A spotlight shines on him and his cart as the sounds of the slaves each claiming to be Spartacus are heard. After which, the man throws "Pink" onto the stage.
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She is astonished at how addicted he is to channel surfing and coffee shop fare. "one espresso addict in the family is expensive enough," she warns Clayton. ;Clayton and Katy Newman: Clayton and Katy are Adam and Laura's elementary school children; Clayton is eight years old and Katy is six years old. Clayton, mischievous and energetic, takes great joy out of tormenting his little sister (and sometimes vice versa).
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The stage featured large video screens that showed visual effects, random video clips from pop culture, and flashing text phrases. Live satellite link-ups, channel surfing, crank calls, and video confessionals were incorporated into the shows. The Zooropa album was released in July 1993, halfway through the Zooropa leg of the tour. Of the 157 shows the band played during the Zoo TV Tour, approximately 30 of them were after the release of Zooropa.
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Emmett Milbarge specifically commented on her dress by calling it a "whore skirt", in a dressing-down before his efficiency review. Several episodes have suggested that Anna is bisexual."Chuck Versus the Best Friend""Chuck Versus the Tango" Anna is one of the more mature employees of the store, but still enjoys the antics of her coworkers. She joined the crowd of onlookers during Morgan's "Mystery Crisper" challenge, and ran the store's channel-surfing game.
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Interview with Steven Spielberg, Mark Kermode, BBC Culture Show, broadcast 2006-11-04 He pointed out the film's train crash scene as a major influence, and this influence was later reflected in the science fiction film Super 8 (2011), which he produced. In Steven Spielberg's version of War of the Worlds (2005), an early scene shows two kids channel-surfing on their television, and the train-wreck scene from The Greatest Show on Earth is being broadcast.
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The Adventures of Chico and Guapo is an American animated television series that originally aired on MTV2. Set in New York City, the show is about two interns trying to get ahead in the music business. Chico and Guapo work at Mr. Angelo's recording studio. The series follows their misadventures, and also features Chico and Guapo's commentary on real TV shows while channel surfing in Mr. Angelo's office (similar to Beavis and Butthead's commentary on music videos).
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The series began screening shortly after the similar sketch comedy program Fast Forward (from which Full Frontal derived) ended. Full Frontal retained the same general format of Fast Forward. It was formatted in a way such as to create the effect of someone continuously channel surfing; after the punchline of each sketch, it would abruptly switch to the next as if the viewer had switched channels. However, the new show had an all-new regular cast.
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Robert Christgau asserted that, without its predecessor's reliance on samples, "Ocean resists making a show of himself—resists the dope hook, the smart tempo, the transcendent falsetto itself." Ocean, a baritone, sings with casually expressive vocals, free-form flow, conversational crooning, and alternating falsetto and tenor registers. Similar to Nostalgia, Ultra, Channel Orange has interludes that feature sounds of organs, waves, tape decks, car doors, channel surfing, white noise, and dialogue. They exhibit an analog sound quality, and some end abruptly.
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The zap time is the total duration of time from which the viewer changes the channel using a remote control to the point that the picture of the new channel is displayed. This includes the corresponding audio. These delays exist in all television systems, but they are more pronounced in digital television and systems that use the internet such as IPTV. Human interaction with the system is completely ignored in these measurements, so zap time is not the same as channel surfing.
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In terms of practice, interaction was conceptually defined as what is actually happening at the moment adolescent use the media (Steele & Brown, 1995). As noted in the definition, adolescents can interact with the media on different levels such as cognitive (processing information), affective (arousal), or behavioral (dancing, channel surfing, etc.). However, researchers in communication have been more concerned with the cognitive and affective interactions, and adolescents’ evaluation and interpretation of media content are clearly more closely related to those two types of interactions.
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It was originally called Fort Lauderdale before being renamed Pier 66.CHANNEL SURFING FOR THE RIGHT TITLE: Sun Sentinel 22 Mar 1995: 12. "This will probably be the final thing we need to dispel the area's reputation as a tacky spring break place," said Elizabeth Wentworth, head of the film office at the Broward Economic Development Council. "It will show us as a beautiful, upscale area, the yachting capital of the world."BROWARD WRAPS UP BOOM IN ENTERTAINMENT BIZ Sun Sentinel 21 Mar 1995: 1.
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Collins has said that the inspiration for The Hunger Games came from channel surfing on television. On one channel she observed people competing on a reality show and on another she saw footage of the invasion of Iraq. The two "began to blur in this very unsettling way" and the idea for the book was formed. The Greek myth of Theseus served as a major basis for the story, with Collins describing Katniss as a futuristic Theseus, and Roman gladiatorial games provided the framework.
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The web browser then initiates a series of background communication messages to fetch and display the requested page. In the 1990s, using a browser to view web pages—and to move from one web page to another through hyperlinks—came to be known as 'browsing,' 'web surfing' (after channel surfing), or 'navigating the Web'. Early studies of this new behaviour investigated user patterns in using web browsers. One study, for example, found five user patterns: exploratory surfing, window surfing, evolved surfing, bounded navigation and targeted navigation.
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Herbert Hinkley frequently occupies the television in the family living room: he sits in his armchair all day, eating crisps and channel surfing, and never left the television's side. One night, his parents allow him to sleep downstairs and a delighted Herbert celebrates with salt and vinegar-flavoured crisps instead of his usual cheese and onion. As he sleeps, lightning strikes the TV aerial connected to Herbert's television, turning it on. A tiny white dot on the screen grows until it made the room glow and sucked the sleeping Herbert inside.
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It satirised television and the viewing public's over-stimulation by attempting to instill "sensory overload" in its audience. The stage featured large video screens that showed visual effects, random video clips from pop culture, and flashing text phrases. Live satellite link-ups, channel surfing, crank calls, and video confessionals were incorporated into the shows. Whereas the group were known for their earnest live act in the 1980s, their Zoo TV performances were intentionally ironic and self-deprecating; on stage, Bono portrayed several characters he conceived, including "The Fly", "Mirror Ball Man", and "MacPhisto".
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The infomercials targeted a late-night channel-surfing demographic that Joe Francis had identified in the late 1990s. According to TNS Media Intelligence, Girls Gone Wild spent more than $21 million in advertising in 2003, becoming the largest advertiser for programs on the E! channel. In 2008, Francis' net worth was approximately $150 million. Instances of Girls Gone Wild in popular culture include the appearance of Eminem and Snoop Dogg in the company's videos, as well as various references and parodies of the show in popular television series and movies.
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The episode was generally well reviewed by critics. The Stage commented that the episode was "a tense contest, full of drama, tears, adversity and two powerful forces coming face to face in the ultimate battle" while mockingly downplaying the England football team's defeat earlier that evening. The author of the review then stated that the cliffhanger increased his affection of the show. The Guardian commented that the episode was "Who back at its best" while The People complimented the humour of the scene of the Doctor channel surfing.
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The shows incorporated channel surfing, prank calls, video confessionals, a belly dancer, and live satellite transmissions with war-torn Sarajevo. On stage, Bono portrayed several characters he conceived, including the leather-clad egomaniac "The Fly", the greedy televangelist "Mirror Ball Man", and the devilish "MacPhisto". In contrast to other U2 tours, each of the Zoo TV shows opened with six to eight consecutive new songs before older material was played. Comprising five legs and 157 shows, the tour began in Lakeland, Florida, on 29 February 1992 and ended in Tokyo, Japan, on 10 December 1993.
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When advertisers intentionally use annoyance stimuli, they strive to know annoyance _thresholds_ (compare to anxiety _thresholds_ ) and carefully monitor them. Crossing thresholds can adversely affect brands and consumer behavior. For example, TV channel surfing – especially in eras following the emergence of remote controls, is a concern for advertisers and program producers. To mitigate viewer drift from surfing, programmers strategically place ads just moments in front of the apex of a plot device or rising action or climax or conclusion or in the midst of suspense – leaving viewers hanging.
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It doesn't significantly deter channel surfing, but it does lure surfers back. Strategic timing, however, is not commonly deployed in internet broadcasts. For example, a YouTube re-broadcast of CNN news might simply insert ad interruptions in random spots. Another way that major TV networks attempt to mitigate viewer drift from surfing is to synchronize ad-breaks with those of other networks so that their respective ads run at the same time; when a viewer switches to another channel during a commercial break, they will be switching to another advertisement.
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Ephron supplied the structure of the film with much of the dialogue based on the real-life friendship between Reiner and Crystal. For example, in the scene where Sally and Harry appear on a split-screen, talking on the telephone while watching their respective television sets, channel surfing, was something that Crystal and Reiner did every night. Originally, Ephron wanted to call the film How They Met and went through several different titles. Reiner even started a contest with the crew during principal photography: whoever came up with the title won a case of champagne.
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The series starred Gary Beadle, Phil Cornwell, Doon Mackichan (playing most of the female roles), Sara Stockbridge, George Yiasoumi, and Mark Caven. The scripts were written by the cast, director Peter Richardson, and Lloyd Stanton. The show was designed to appear as if the viewer was channel surfing through a multi- channel wasteland, happening upon spoof adverts, short sketches, and recurring show elements. Like other BBC content of the mid-1990s (such as KYTV), it often lampooned the low-budget quality of satellite television available in the UK at the time.
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He runs out of the hospital in a panic, hoping to look for a shower room—his fingers had already changed but showering in his clothes might slow the process down. In his living room, Herbert's parents had given up searching for their son and had been channel surfing all morning. Herbert went from rushing into a burning building to running past Batman and Robin to featuring on a cooking show, where the TV chef stuffed him into the oven. Herbert's parents laughed so hard, they did not notice the television smoking, burning and then disintegrating into a pile of ash.
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Several artists, among Roy Villevoy, Jan Dietvorst and Adam Curtis, were invited to contribute to this exhibition. A prominent aspect in Grimonprez's work is the sky: "a canvas on which man has always projected his mystical aspirations, his political and economic struggles, and his poetic imaginings. They abstract spaces into which the very real histories of contemporary societies are woven". According to Artforum, the critical dimension of Grimonprez's work follows close behind the "aesthetic of disaster and terror and the virtues of channel surfing in order to plunge the viewer into a state of genuine fascination".
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She feels three key elements create a good game: an all powerful and ruthless government, people forced to fight to the death, and the game's role as a source of popular entertainment. A contemporary source of inspiration was Collins' recent fascination with reality television programs. She says they are like The Hunger Games because the Games are not just entertainment but also a reminder to the districts of their rebellion. On a tired night, Collins says that while she was channel- surfing the television, she saw people competing for some prize and then saw footage of the Iraq War.
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In 1994, Time claimed Dookie as the third best album of the year, and the best rock album of 1994. Jon Pareles from The New York Times, in early 1995, described the sound of Dookie as, "Punk turns into pop in fast, funny, catchy, high-powered songs about whining and channel-surfing; apathy has rarely sounded so passionate." Rolling Stone's Paul Evans described Green Day as "convincing mainly because they've got punk's snotty anti-values down cold: blame, self-pity, arrogant self-hatred, humor, narcissism, fun". Neil Strauss of The New York Times, while complimentary of the album's overall quality, noted that Dookies pop sound only remotely resembled punk music.
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The warning film was also changed in 1994 for updated footage and to also feature FedEx Sponsorship. In the queue, while guests waited for their rockets, monitors above them played the futuristic but funny "SMTV" video, which featured Space Mountain mission control notifying them on the status of the vehicles and channel surfing to find a newscast to keep them up to date on what's happening around the galaxy. The loop also features commercials for Crazy Larry's Used Spaceships, which featured Charles Fleischer, the voice of Roger Rabbit, as the titular dealership owner, and several sci-fi themed ads promoting FedEx's delivery service. The warning film has so far changed only three times.
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History Bites is a television series on the History Television network that ran from 1998 to 2004. Created by Rick Green, History Bites explored what would be on television if the medium had been around for the last 5,000 years of human history. Typically, a significant historical event was chosen and mock news, sports and entertainment programming was created around it. Each episode included several segments of Green offering historical background of the episode's chosen era and otherwise showed frequent shifts from one comedy sketch to another (as well as returning to certain sketches repeatedly) representing a channel-surfing viewer who never watched any one sketch for more than a few minutes at a time.
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The music video was directed by Frank W. Ockenfels and depicts a man, played by game show host Ken Ober, channel surfing through late-night television. He first watches a beauty pageant whose contestants lip-synch the song as the host interviews them, then a Charles Foster Kane-type politician doing the same at a campaign rally. The band appears in each of these segments, then plays the bridge of the song in the man's apartment, with John Popper taking his place on the couch. During the final portion of the song, the man starts changing channels quickly, often returning to see Paul Shaffer lip-synch the lyrics and play keyboard with the band.
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The simplest, Interactivity with a TV set is already very common, starting with the use of the remote control to enable channel surfing behaviors, and evolving to include video-on-demand, VCR-like pause, rewind, and fast forward, and DVRs, commercial skipping and the like. It does not change any content or its inherent linearity, only how users control the viewing of that content. DVRs allow users to time shift content in a way that is impractical with VHS. Though this form of interactive TV is not insignificant, critics claim that saying that using a remote control to turn TV sets on and off makes television interactive is like saying turning the pages of a book makes the book interactive.
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Matthew Michael Carnahan was inspired to write the script when, while channel surfing trying to find a USC Trojans football game, he saw a news report about a Humvee that had flipped into an Iraqi river, drowning about five U.S. soldiers. Carnahan considered it an awful way to die, and "couldn't get past it fast enough", considering he was too indifferent, "talking so much and not doing a damn thing", and "the same hypocrite that I so can't stand in our country, the kind of people that will flip right past the news to get to Access Hollywood". He first considered turning it into a stage play, but the military scenes, in particular the helicopter ones, made him turn it into a film screenplay. The character of Todd Hayes was inspired by Carnahan himself during college.
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The channel-surfing device became a distinctive hallmark of the show that helped move quickly from sketch to sketch. The television and multimedia subject matter of the sketches, pace, style and devices were real points of difference from predecessor sketch comedy shows of the time, particularly earlier shows such as The Mavis Bramston Show, The Naked Vicar Show, Australia You're Standing In It, The D-Generation and The Comedy Company, Fast Forward was more media-focused and parody-focused; a real difference, and the binding force for the whole show, was the now-famous channel-changing device. The white noise and on-screen static that represented the channel change became the modern television equivalent of a curtain being drawn at an old-fashioned vaudeville show. Fast Forward was also well known for its musical parodies, particularly of current music video clips.
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Royal has tended to campaign on family and other socially- oriented issues, rather than on economic or foreign policy issues. For instance, she has mounted campaigns against the exposure of children to violent television shows, including cartoons (see her 1989 book, listed below, Le Ras-le-bol des bébés zappeurs, roughly translated as "The Channel-Surfing Kids Are Fed Up"), and more generally has taken a stand on several issues regarding family values and the protection of children. Royal stated as part of her 100-point platform that if elected, she would raise the lowest state pensions by five percent, increase the monthly minimum wage to €1,500, raise benefits of handicapped citizens, implement state-paid rental deposits for the poorest citizens, and guarantee a job or job training to every student within six months of graduation. She pledged to abolish a flexible work contract for small companies.
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New programs introduced in 2005 led to a ratings increase, following a relatively poor 2004. From 2010, the Seven Network began to implement the tactic of creating a 5 to 20-minute delay in the scheduled start time of non-live programming after 7:30 pm in an attempt to minimise viewer channel surfing between prime-time shows. This is done by increasing the duration of the commercial breaks and then decreasing them once the prime-time period is over. This tactic not only disrupts viewer recordings of the shows, but has a dramatic effect on their regional affiliates such as Prime and Southern Cross who must adapt their inserted commercials breaks as the live play-out from Seven's Melbourne facility occurs which can cause either both the regional station identification and the Seven identification being displayed with a possible black screen between them or the start of a program being missed entirely by the regional break overlapping.
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Fast Forward was noted for its fast-paced satirical comedy which particularly lampooned the media, in particular film and TV, with its parodies of well-known television shows (such as Kung Fu, Lost In Space, The Munsters, and A Current Affair), personalities (such as Clive James, Jana Wendt, Derryn Hinch and Geoffrey Robertson) and commercials (such as for American Express and Nescafé). Its subjects were also Australian politics, which it attacked through various political impersonations (including John Howard and Paul Keating), and also using the political puppets, Rubbery Figures, previously seen in small segments on the ABC, based on Peter Nicholson's political cartoons. Another key distinguishing feature was the use of simulated channel surfing to switch from sketch to sketch, often in the middle of a sketch, sometimes after the punchline. Particularly a sketch would abruptly switch to a momentary segment of static, followed by another sketch, simulating the effect of the viewer repeatedly switching channels.
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Each episode is constructed to simulate the effect of "channel surfing" across a range of reality TV shows on cable TV. An exception to the prevailing style of the series is the recurring sketch "Wheels, Ontario", which parodies earnest issues-based teen dramas such as Degrassi Junior High. Most sketches in the series feature Nick Kroll, who plays multiple characters including dysfunctional teenage dad C-Czar, aspiring entrepreneur and "ghost-bouncer" Bobby Bottleservice, inept publicity agent Liz G. (co-founder of Hollywood PR firm "PubLIZity Public Relations"), California’s premier animal plastic surgeon Dr. Armond, aging prankster Gil Faizon ("Too Much Tuna", "Oh, Hello"), nouveau riche party boy Aspen Bruckenheimer ("Rich Dicks"), Philadelphia-based pawn shop owner Murph ("Pawnsylvania"), and Canadian teen actor/musician Bryan La Croix ("Wheels, Ontario"). Kroll Show completed its third and final season in 2015. Kroll has remarked that the decision to end the show was his, and that the show's stories and characters were naturally wrapping up in the third season.
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