This photo, taken in the Dulles airport last weekend, is inspired by Anna McCarthy's book Ambient Television. I like this one because it was shot during a news clip about New York Islander Chris Simon's attempted beheading of a New York Ranger player with his stick. The other person in the room with me wasn't too impressed. Maybe it was the camera.In both the departure area and in the baggage claim section of the Ottawa airport, there are large screens showing episodes of "CBC News Express," a narrowcast television network which at one point looked a little like this:
Upon returning home, I learned that Ottawa was the first airport in Canada to offer CBC News Express. It's now in airports across Canada. I have also learned that the service is a joint venture between CBC and the outdoor division of the Canadian arm of Clear Channel. By the way, each 60-minute loop of programming features twenty minutes of commercials.
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I often get a kick out of seeing TVs in public places like H&M stores and supermarkets. But other places creep me out, e.g., the CNN loop playing in elevators of the Hilton Chicago (no ads that I noticed in the few dozen times I was in an elevator this wknd) with the horizontal fat-face distortion you get from playing 4X3 content on a 16X9 monitor using the wrong settings. No one I talked to thought these TVs were the least bit cool, and I was among media scholars.
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