NY Times Says Television Should Not Air National Anthem

[Truckman]

Yea ease up on the dogs there ya heathen!

Especially with a national hero in the news......Ben

[2ndthyme]

odd, the article doesn't seem to say what Fox framed it as

[wacojoe]

... Hilton H. Howell Jr., Gray’s chief executive, said that he wanted to bring the anthem back to local television after decades of it being a mostly abandoned tradition. Mr. Howell, 57, grew up in a broadcasting family in Waco, Texas and remembered the station that his grandfather founded, KWTX, signing off with the anthem around midnight and then going snowy...

Curiously, being reared in Waco, I heard and saw that sign-off too many times to remember. I never knew the Howell’s, but certainly knew of them, and clearly remember the senior Howell owning a P-51 Mustang we saw him flying over the town on occasion. His station was right next door to the bowling alley myself and my buddies spent much of our misspent youth working and playing there. More than once each of us were challenged to climb the broadcast tower and throw a bowling ball off through the roof of the studio just for meanness. No one took up the challenge.

[UTAH]

No one took up the challenge.

Which is a good thing. For, we'd rather have you here with us.

Hunter

[wacojoe]

It was a big climb, especially with a bowling ball.