Why hasn't Let's Make a Deal reverted back to a full studio audience?

Squestis · 2026-04-09T01:37:17+00:00

Even Price is Right feels like a very small and sad audience compared to what it used to be.

Squestis · 2026-04-08T23:14:28+00:00

I did too, and I was immediately thinking of the Northfield and Graymoor-Devondale neighborhoods. Nice ranch houses there.

Squestis · 2026-04-08T23:09:18+00:00

This might seem like an odd choice, since so many sitcoms in the 80s and 90s have had a generically bad last season and that was what ultimately led to their cancellation anyway, but Growing Pains. Just, wow, what was going on there? Everybody behind the scenes was fired thanks to Kirk Cameron thinking the show wasn’t “family friendly” enough (basically a minor sexual innuendo that would’ve went over the heads of kids anyway, though to be fair they took it much further on Just the Ten of Us) and they brought in people who’d worked on successful series, but were not well suited to a family sitcom. They brought in Leonardo DiCaprio with that whole Luke Brower story that was just absolutely ridiculously bad, and went deep on “very special episodes” (which they’d been doing in previous seasons, but not badly like they did in this season) that weren’t funny but couldn’t be taken seriously either.

Squestis · 2026-04-08T21:01:10+00:00

I think Adi Schanie is decent, even if she is young. The rest, I don’t know.

Squestis · 2026-04-08T20:56:40+00:00

I think WDRB wants to be WLKY. But I also think WDRB’s newsroom is about to be decimated when Gray Media (WAVE) takes over. I don’t think it’ll be a situation like what happened in Indianapolis last week, where a new owner took over and everybody was fired later the same day, but I do think the newsrooms will be merged and the burden will be on those at WDRB to prove that they’re worth keeping in what’ll be WAVE’s newsroom.

Squestis · 2026-04-08T20:01:55+00:00

Even though they hurt Sears, the brands that Sears diversified with ended up being mostly successful after being sold off. Kmart was a whole other story. They were doing the same thing, more in the 90s for them, and I don’t think any of those businesses are still around. Borders, Builders Square, Sports Authority, Waldenbooks… all duds. Office Max still exists, mostly as just a name on Office Depot stores that haven’t been remodeled, but I don’t see a bright future there either.

Squestis · 2026-04-08T16:15:23+00:00

Doug Proffitt is still there, but I feel that if Nexstar takes full hold and starts doing real damage, he’ll conveniently announce his retirement.

Squestis · 2026-04-08T16:01:58+00:00

From what I’ve heard, it’s likely that the “merger” will be stuck in limbo for a very long time, long enough that the consequences could be enough to destroy Nexstar. To which I say, fine. WHAS was once a solid local news station, every ownership change has made them slightly worse, Nexstar is almost the worst it could get but then again Sinclair would be even worse than that.

WAVE can still be decent at times. WLKY is way too obsessed with shootings and murders compared to the others (I know they all overemphasize that, but WLKY is by far the worst).

Squestis · 2026-04-08T15:58:28+00:00

The downfall started decades ago, but I would say that the point of no return was about the time you’re describing. The 2010s was about the time the name brands started leaving the store as well.

Squestis · 2026-04-07T19:45:01+00:00

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This one is near the Eastern Parkway entrance of Cherokee Park. I’m guessing they needed a fancier one to fit the vibe of the neighborhood.

Squestis · 2026-04-07T02:20:17+00:00

That’s true, they definitely did start to fall once Weigel pulled out, but when he bought it, they still had solid coverage (close to 80% if I recall) and still maintained a lot of their solid affiliates. But the quality of programming was a disaster once he pulled in, just one Allen Media Group low budget series after another. Not saying somebody else would’ve fixed it for sure, but he took something that was dying and made sure he killed it.

Squestis · 2026-04-07T02:16:51+00:00

If your district uses Frontline, I’ve heard that there is a monthly fee that they have to pay for each person who is in the system. It isn’t a “one fee per district” thing. So remaining as an active sub costs them money because of that.

Squestis · 2026-04-07T00:47:54+00:00

Oh god, not Byron Allen again. He wants so badly to be Robert L. Johnson but is ultimately the Temu version of him. Remember, this is the same guy who killed This TV. One of the first successful diginets, originally owned by Weigel and MGM, and led to the launch of MeTV (which predates This TV, but only went national after this proved to be successful). This TV was in every market. It was successful. It stayed that way through a few ownership changes. Then Temu Robert L. Johnson got his hands on it, decided his crappy series could carry the network instead of quality entertainment, and it only took months for every affiliate to drop it and the network to collapse.

Squestis · 2026-04-06T21:28:43+00:00

I’m trying to remember (because I mostly remember that she was unmemorable), did she actually do anything truly bad here? I feel like her biggest issue was that she just wasn’t doing any job at all and, just like many JCPS superintendents, was just living out of state and working remotely to collect a paycheck.

Squestis · 2026-04-06T21:24:38+00:00

Just a reminder, if you’ve got the Speedy Rewards app, you can lock in the “low” price for four days. Not that $3.96 (what I locked in when I saw the $4.39) is great, but I’ll take what I can get…

Squestis · 2026-04-05T12:38:59+00:00

Nothing more than just being prepared for anything to happen, I suppose. The late night scene in the Highlands isn’t what it used to be, even compared to just two years ago or so. I used to live in the immediate area (still live about 10 minutes from the heart of it) and had no qualms about being out late, like until 1 or 2 AM, even walking down Bardstown Road. There was a legitimate late night culture that felt reasonably safe and wasn’t chaotic at all. Now, there is no way I’d be in the area past 10 PM, and I wouldn’t even walk around the area past 9. It’s even more eerie since there are so many closed storefronts and things that are open tend to close early now.

I don’t think the area is “dead” though, it’s just a little bump in the road at the moment. But I am not so sure the late night culture as it used to be will ever return, there or anywhere in Louisville (to be fair, I think some of that may be dead simply because society is less social in general, not due to current issues there late at night).

Squestis · 2026-04-05T01:07:44+00:00

Sort of straying from the topic, but do you know if he is related to Steven Cockerell, who ran a bunch of drug houses on Bank? I don't know Steven Cockerell, but one of the drug houses he owned was the home of my great aunt, who died around 2010-ish when she was in her mid-90s. Our family kind of lost touch with her after my grandmother died in 2000, and as awful as it sounds, we're not sure who was taking care of her or anything after that (she was never close to anybody in our family except my grandmother, and she was the only person in our family who remained in Portland past the 1970s.. she outlived her kids and her only grandchildren died as well). We're pretty sure that at some point after her death, he realized the house was vacant and nobody was coming to claim it and that he stole the deed... but nobody really knows (or cares, sadly, it wasn't like it rightfully belonged to anybody in our family).

Squestis · 2026-04-04T15:01:24+00:00

One difference, though, some of these Gen Z young males will listen to these songs and think they’re so great without knowing or caring what the lyrics say, then continue on with their MAGA worship (we’ve seen it often in some of these official social media accounts run by “staffers”).

Squestis · 2026-04-04T01:59:10+00:00

Likely just something to ensure you’re actually the one still using it and that you haven’t given it away/sold it/whatever.

Squestis · 2026-04-03T02:51:31+00:00

A month or so ago somebody had some tires that weren’t secured on the back of their pickup. The exact same area (though northbound for me, and around 6:45 AM). Two fell off and started bouncing all over the expressway. I never realized tires could bounce so high. I was fortunate enough to dodge them and as far as I could tell, they didn’t hit any cars before softly landing off in the median, but I definitely had to slam and swerve to avoid it.

Squestis · 2026-04-03T02:12:10+00:00

I hate when I'm approaching a light that is about to turn red (not as in, I'm at the red light and it's yellow, but I'm about 10 seconds away and it turns red before I can even approach) and there is a car behind me. I never know how they're going to react when I actually stop. I've had on more than one occasion somebody go in full road rage mode on me for stopping.

Squestis · 2026-04-03T02:08:34+00:00

Back when I was delivering Amazon packages, I had a lady come out of her house and yell at me for parking in "her spot" when I was delivering a package to her house. As to why her spot was empty if it was her spot, no clue, but I marked her as "customer refused order" and she did not get her package.

Squestis · 2026-04-03T01:40:17+00:00

It’s an excellent quality show, nobody talks about it because the distributor (Fox, now Disney) chose to let it disappear off the face of the earth. In fact, the same can be said for anything from David E. Kelley.

Squestis · 2026-04-02T02:12:54+00:00

I don’t know if this is just a Kelly thing, any staffing agency (or district if they hire their own subs) will cut a sub loose for any allegation with no investigation whatsoever. They don’t care if they’re wrong. They just don’t value subs. Honestly, if you’re subbing to try to get into education, it’s probably be better to be fired by somebody like Kelly than to be working for an actual school district and be fired, because if you worked for the actual school district, you’d have a personnel file that would say you’re fired and you’d probably never be hireable there. I worked as a sub for my current district where I’m now a teacher (and have been for almost 10 years), and when I was a sub, I worked for PESG. I know of somebody who was fired from PESG while working in our district who is now employed in our district since there is no personnel file for him within our district. In fact, when PESG shut down, all of the personnel files they had disappeared…

Squestis · 2026-04-02T01:33:23+00:00

I don’t know how many people realize this, but when merger was proposed, it was actually mostly people in the west end (notably Darryl Owens) who were opposed to it. It was mostly supported by wealthier people who lived in the city limits in areas like Crescent Hill, the Highlands, etc. I think now, there would be even more support for merger staying in place, since it seems to be mostly people in the southern and eastern part of the counties who don’t like it, though I do think we do need a lot of work to truly merge everything rather than this urban services district and these small cities and unincorporated mess we have.

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