My Little TiVo Goes a Long Way
posted at 11:45 pm
on Oct. 27, 2005
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Turns out that me and my TiVo are going to be on Global National this Friday night (tonight) at 5:30. Already, because of an on-the-air promo, an acquaintance has written me saying, essentially, “hey, wuz that you?” Yes, it wuz.
A reporter contacted me after finding my blog post about TiVo. He’s doing a story about TiVo coming to Canada.
Now, one thing you should know about me is that, in front of a television camera, I’m like a leaky refrigerator—stiff, cold and damp. I have a good friend who majored in broadcast journalism. He asked me to help him on a class assignment once. Once.
For my friend, I was supposed to interview a local university official while he produced the show. He later told he that, though he received a decent grade, his professor had advised him to destroy the tape for my sake, which he did, which is why we’re such good friends.
Anyway, tune in tomorrow. It should be more amusing for you than it was for me. I will give you one outtake. At one point, the reporter asked me, “Are you in love with TiVo?” and I said, “No, not really.” Susie poked her head out of her office and said, “But Travis, you’ve said that you love TiVo before,” and I said, “I do love TiVo, just not on national television.”
If you do decide to get a TiVo, please let them know you heard it from me by giving them my email address. I get TiVo points. Tell them my email address is TIVO-AT_HOPSTUDIOS.COM instead of my regular address. I use that address to track spam.
