{"id":69,"date":"2007-02-09T16:31:22","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T16:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/npt08.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/09\/when-people-in-television-watch-television-or-what-happens-when-we-change-the-channel\/"},"modified":"2019-10-07T10:29:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T15:29:38","slug":"when-people-in-television-watch-television-or-what-happens-when-we-change-the-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/2007\/02\/09\/when-people-in-television-watch-television-or-what-happens-when-we-change-the-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN PEOPLE IN TELEVISION WATCH TELEVISION, or what happens when we change the channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Today, we start the first in a series of postings by guest bloggers that I corner in the hallway or break room and ask to share with our readers &amp; viewers what&#8217;s on their mind. Our first post is from some guy I caught eyeing my lunch in the refrigerator.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the great things about working at a television station, and one of the things that usually flabbergasts those outside the fold, is easy access to cable TV during the workday. It\u2019s a nice perk of the job, especially if you only have broadcast reception at home. Almost every work space at NPT is equipped with a television\u2014out of necessity\u2014for viewing tapes of DVD\u2019s of upcoming programming, viewing what\u2019s on our air or watching a taping in one of the studios. But on rare occasions, monitors at NPT find themselves tuned to other programming &#8212; for background noise in most cases &#8212; and in this writer\u2019s case it often ends up on one of the cable country music video channels which shall remain nameless. The endless stream of country music videos running the gamut from the inane to the moderately entertaining are almost like an ethnographic study providing insight into traditional values and beliefs that are widely held throughout the heartland but foreign to many in centers like New York of Los Angeles. For example Craig Morgan\u2019s recent video \u201cLittle Bit of Life\u201d trumpets rural values through a rapidly delivered string of phrases evoking farm life and the singer\u2019s significant other that he\u2019s \u201cdoin\u2019 alright with\u201d. If listened to with a critical ear the lyrics are almost embarrassingly hokey, but when delivered with Morgan\u2019s earnest country boy aplomb the entire thing actually works\u2014evoking shared values and a valorization of small town agricultural lifestyle. For this writer returning to Nashville from New York and watching country music on television has been a real learning experience\u2014it\u2019s bred an appreciation for the music which I never had prior. As a result, I\u2019ll be sure to be tuned in for tonight\u2019s <strong>\u201c<\/strong><em>Soundstage<\/em><strong>\u201d<\/strong> featuring <strong>Lee Ann Womack<\/strong> and <strong>Julie Roberts<\/strong>\u2014one of our town\u2019s finest country singers paired with one of its rising stars.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta go. Womack\u2019s video \u201cFinding My Way Back Home\u201d just came on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we start the first in a series of postings by guest bloggers that I corner in the hallway or break room and ask to share with our&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[36,181],"tags":[4085,2162,2318],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-music","tag-julie-roberts","tag-lee-ann-womack","tag-television"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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