Captain Midnight (later rebranded on television as Jet Jackson, Flying Commando) is a U.S. adventure franchise first broadcast as a radio serial from 1938 to 1949.
Radio origins
Sponsored by the Skelly Oil Company, the Captain Midnight radio program was the creation of radio scripters Wilfred G. Moore and Robert M. Burtt, who had previously scored a success for Skelly with their boy pilot adventure serial The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen.
Developed at the Blackett, Sample and Hummert advertising agency in Chicago, Captain Midnight began as a syndicated show in 1938, airing through the spring of 1940 on a few Midwest stations, including Chicago's WGN. In 1940, Ovaltine, a product of The Wander Company, took over sponsorship. With Pierre Andre as announcer, the series was then heard nationally on the Mutual Radio Network where it remained until 1942. It moved to the Merchandise Mart and the NBC Blue Network in September 1942. When the U.S. Government broke up the NBC Red and Blue Networks, Ovaltine moved the series back to Mutual, beginning September 1945, where it remained until December 1949.
On April 27, 1986, American electrical engineer and business owner John R. MacDougall, using the pseudonym Captain Midnight, jammedHBO's satellite signal to broadcast a message protesting their rates for satellite dish owners.
Background
In the mid-1980s, controversy erupted in the cable programming world as United States media companies that owned pay television channels began scrambling their programming and charging fees to home satellite dish owners who accessed the same satellite signals that cable operators received. Many satellite dish owners faced purchasing descrambling equipment at a cost of hundreds of dollars, in addition to paying monthly or annual subscription fees to cable programming providers. Programming costs for home dish owners were often higher than fees paid by cable subscribers, despite dish owners being responsible for acquiring and servicing their own equipment.
When HBO scrambled its signal in January 1986, it offered subscriptions to home dish owners for $12.95 per month ($28.16 in 2015 dollars), which was either equal to or slightly higher than what cable subscribers paid. HBO advised viewers that purchasing a descrambler for $395 ($859 in 2015 dollars) would allow them to continue watching their service. Satellite dish owners began protests over scrambling, saying that clear signals from cable channels would become difficult to receive.
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How Community Changed
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NBC's Community had a lot of interesting shifts through the years, and the biggest one can be found in the original version of the show found in Dan Harmon's pilot. Jeff Winger, Abed, Troy and especially Britta are different in some big and small ways here, which is what I want to talk about this week.
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The Huge Problem With Black Widow
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is back on the big screen, but its issues remain the same. There is a lot to like in this movie, thanks to great actors like Florence Pugh, David Harbour and of course, Scarlett Johansson, but it is completely letdown by the MCU's obsession with big third act battles made by a team of effects artists.
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The Death of the Men in Black Franchise
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NBC's Community had a lot of interesting shifts through the years, and the biggest one can be found in the original version of the show found in Dan Harmon's pilot. Jeff Winger, Abed, Troy and especially Britta are different in some big and small ways here, which is what I want to talk about this week.
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is back on the big screen, but its issues remain the same. There is a lot to like in this movie, thanks to great actors like Florence Pugh, David Harbour and of course, Scarlett Johansson, but it is completely letdown by the MCU's obsession with big third act battles made by a team of effects artists.
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is back on the big screen, but its issues remain the same. There is a lot to like in this movie, thanks to great actors like Florence Pugh, David Harbour and of course, Scarlett Johansson, but it is completely letdown by the MCU's obsession with big third act battles made by a team of effects artists.
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Men in Black was built on the chemistry of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, but as the films have gone on, movies like MiB: International have tried something di...
Men in Black was built on the chemistry of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, but as the films have gone on, movies like MiB: International have tried something different to...very mixed results. In this video I try to go over what works and what doesn't in the world of Men in Black.
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Men in Black was built on the chemistry of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, but as the films have gone on, movies like MiB: International have tried something different to...very mixed results. In this video I try to go over what works and what doesn't in the world of Men in Black.
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NBC's Community had a lot of interesting shifts through the years, and the biggest one can be found in the original version of the show found in Dan Harmon's pilot. Jeff Winger, Abed, Troy and especially Britta are different in some big and small ways here, which is what I want to talk about this week.
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is back on the big screen, but its issues remain the same. There is a lot to like in this movie, thanks to great actors like Florence Pugh, David Harbour and of course, Scarlett Johansson, but it is completely letdown by the MCU's obsession with big third act battles made by a team of effects artists.
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Men in Black was built on the chemistry of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, but as the films have gone on, movies like MiB: International have tried something different to...very mixed results. In this video I try to go over what works and what doesn't in the world of Men in Black.
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Captain Midnight (later rebranded on television as Jet Jackson, Flying Commando) is a U.S. adventure franchise first broadcast as a radio serial from 1938 to 1949.
Radio origins
Sponsored by the Skelly Oil Company, the Captain Midnight radio program was the creation of radio scripters Wilfred G. Moore and Robert M. Burtt, who had previously scored a success for Skelly with their boy pilot adventure serial The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen.
Developed at the Blackett, Sample and Hummert advertising agency in Chicago, Captain Midnight began as a syndicated show in 1938, airing through the spring of 1940 on a few Midwest stations, including Chicago's WGN. In 1940, Ovaltine, a product of The Wander Company, took over sponsorship. With Pierre Andre as announcer, the series was then heard nationally on the Mutual Radio Network where it remained until 1942. It moved to the Merchandise Mart and the NBC Blue Network in September 1942. When the U.S. Government broke up the NBC Red and Blue Networks, Ovaltine moved the series back to Mutual, beginning September 1945, where it remained until December 1949.
Wake up, our past stops right now I see light, must be you Watch and learn, burning it blue Blood boiling in slow motion Only shines distortion Don't be afraid What? Are you surprised? I'm stayin' alive, I spit in your eye Drive a stake in you Take me away, take me away I gave you the world, it was all for you But I'm sick and tired of wasting time, I want mine Take me away, take me away I gave you the world, it was all for you Stinkin' lies, stinkin' lies, stinkin' lies We'll die, tryin' to live so long I can't wait and I should Leave the phone of the hook Don't be afraid Don't be afraid