Just posted over at Netscape that ESPN has fired Harold Reynolds from his duties as analyst on Baseball Tonight. No word yet as to why he was let go, and it's definitely disconcerting as Reynolds was one of my favorite personalities not only on the show, but on the network as a whole. More details as they come forth - if they come forth.

Something I'm noticing this summer, about two years after getting a big big television and a year after getting high definition: I'm watching a lot less variety in channels and a lots less content that is standard definition. Additionally, this might be the slowest summer for television for me, ever. Now I'm a few years into my experience as a time-shifting television watcher, so perhaps that has a lot to do with it. I'm still convinced that you could get decent ratings for programs in the summertime if we counted DVR users overall, but whatever. That would require good television to be on regularly during the summer months.

So between summer, plus my absolute love for high definition programming, I'm in this wheelhouse of about 10-12 channels for the most part, and a whole lot of movies. Hell, I even have an upconverting DVD player so I can watch movies that way, too. It's hard to get away from it. Standard definition television looks fine on most TVs, including my own, but when you flip between the HD and the SD, you just want no part of the old way of doing things. Am I the only one having this problem?

Chris Thilk got me the hook up on some awesome movie posters for the upcoming Miami Vice flick that hits theatres next weekend.

Chris had been doing some digging about the marketing of the film, and had spoken with Universal earlier in the week about it. From working with me at AdJab and MWW Group, he had already heard of my adoration for this fascinatingly pastel and yet filled with cocaine television show from the 80s, so he asked if I wanted to ask anything when he was speaking with the rep from the studio. Of course, I asked for a couple of posters, because theatres aren't breaking any rules and giving them away.

After telling his contact about my predilection for posting like, everything I can on Flickr and the various blogs I'm a part of, it was locked in. Three days later, I've got a few posters here, suitable for framing in my office, and that'll come soon enough. The point here is that for a few bucks and a short phone conversation, you can help extend your marketing efforts a little bit. Does that mean you should take every interview and send everyone in the world movie posters? Well, probably not, but pick your spots just like you would when attempting to do interviews and other such things, and see where the value for your business lies. At the end of the day, most bloggers - including bloggers who have budgets and more resources than the person who is only doing it on his or her lunch hour - like having access. Even a tease of access is a good thing, and most of the time the repayment works out well for you.

Well, it was good that combining the coverage time of the four major networks regarding the space shuttle's latest launch totalled about eight minutes, and that if you subtracted the coverage time of three of those networks from the total still leaves you with eight minutes.

Sad, sad world we live in. I mean, I know those soap operas have their fans and all, but c'mon.