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Now for Something Weird: Yello, "Waba Duba"

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))6/27/2020 6:24:37 am PDT

re: #158 Barefoot Grin

I’d like to watch at least one Premier League game without the crowd sounds piped in. It would be fun to hear the players and coaches calling to each other.

A long time ago, I caught the Super Bowl on German TV. This was before the private broadcasters picked it up and started running fillers and commercials.

But back then, it was on public-financed TV, which is only allowed to air commercials from 8am to 8pm.

So during the commercial breaks, all we got was slow pan shots of the stadium and lot of entirely un-self-conscious players stretching, scratching their butts and spitting out Gatorade, as they knew that everyone was busy watching the Diamondvision screen…

And I was amused because this broadcast time was being sold in the USA for something like $5 million per minute…