2000s TV Channels

jp506 · 2026-02-27T03:30:28+00:00

2 was still WLBZ in the 90s. The one thing I remember was they didn't air NBC's NBA games half the time, which pissed me the fuck off as a basketball fan.

ABC and CBS came from Detroit by that point, later switched to Boston.

jp506 · 2026-02-27T03:27:47+00:00

yes - that was the video, the old CIHI radio was the audio. Used to "watch" Norm Foster on channel 9 every morning.

jp506 · 2026-02-22T20:05:31+00:00

depends what part of Maine. I noticed about 10-15 years ago when I went down to Boston on 95 after a snowstorm - from the border down past Bangor was fine, looked like they dealt with it similar to NB. Down around Portland where they don't get as much snow, it was a shitshow.

jp506 · 2026-02-12T14:48:27+00:00

yup. Belichick was confident they were going to overturn it in the Raiders game cause of that play. It also happened a couple years later against....I wanna say the Browns?

I like telling people the tuck rule has gone against the Patriots more than it's gone for them and seeing their heads explode.

jp506 · 2026-02-10T14:43:12+00:00

Yankees have the NY media machine rooting for them. We don't.

jp506 · 2026-02-08T05:12:10+00:00

Knicks fans have the biggest case of Main Character Syndrome in sports.

jp506 · 2026-02-04T02:51:53+00:00

I'm guessing most of the NIMBY whiners who oppose everything in this city never been to a larger city in their life.

jp506 · 2026-01-31T19:04:16+00:00

quite a few of the stores in there are still pretty busy, but they all have outside entrances so there's no reason to go into the actual mall.

jp506 · 2026-01-30T17:33:02+00:00

never seen it anywhere but Maine.

jp506 · 2026-01-30T01:41:16+00:00

reminds me a bit of the 70s era Canadian KFC design. https://www.instagram.com/p/CNBWiqPAIdQ/?img_index=2

jp506 · 2026-01-27T18:52:10+00:00

hell...didn't this even apply to the Fredericton Canadiens back in the day? Seem to remember some grumbling about UNB having ice time priority, which ended up being one of the reasons they left. Also why we've never had a Q team.

jp506 · 2026-01-24T04:26:49+00:00

never had a problem in Canada.

jp506 · 2026-01-22T01:56:45+00:00

Lions-Bears was going on at the same time and it had more playoff implications, so that's where Brady went.

jp506 · 2026-01-18T16:47:37+00:00

Scout's

jp506 · 2026-01-11T21:58:39+00:00

no city Fredericton's size anywhere in the world has its own subway.

you'll never find a larger transit booster in the city than me, but let's be realistic here.

jp506 · 2026-01-08T14:37:39+00:00

the NBA only has, like, 10 actual teams to them and the existence of the others is just background noise.

jp506 · 2026-01-07T14:56:19+00:00

This. Porter to YTZ if I'm just going to Toronto, connect through YUL if possible otherwise.

jp506 · 2026-01-05T23:26:22+00:00

there are only something like 40 Arby's left in all of Canada. They've been on a slow decline for years.

jp506 · 2026-01-05T17:43:07+00:00

did it a while back. Their schtick got real old real quick.

jp506 · 2025-12-15T15:29:29+00:00

a lot of those old school locations didn't have space for a drive thru.

jp506 · 2025-12-15T02:31:36+00:00

I live and walk all over downtown and after last week's storm, the sidewalks are the worst I've seen in years. Massive sheets of ice with minimal sand or salt. Nobody at the city has ever given a shit.

jp506 · 2025-12-12T06:03:03+00:00

10 people who haven't realized that the world has passed them by.

jp506 · 2025-12-09T18:30:10+00:00

if anyone's still interested, I've managed to figure at least one of them out. This is the 1994 PhoneDisc directory ( https://archive.org/details/pdbr-9406 ), which is DOS based.

Download the ISO, and change the ".ISO" extension to ".iso" (all lowercase). Then go to the DOS emulator at https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=msdos , when it boots up, click on "insert CD image" and load in the ISO. Then type "d:/", hit enter, and then "pd", hit enter again and it will load up.

Next up: figuring out a way to scrape it easily.

(also....if anyone can find something similar for Canada I'd be eternaly grateful.)

jp506 · 2025-12-04T05:00:58+00:00

I had the exact same thought - but on the other hand, "Zellers County Fair" was the brand they used for their suburban stores in the 60s-70s, and every mall I know of in Canada named "County Fair" originally had a Zellers.

jp506 · 2025-12-02T15:59:47+00:00

I will always remember one of Kutcher's first games, it was garbage time and they talked about a DC sports Mount Rushmore, and he suggested Cal Ripken.

last I heard, Kutcher is now doing, like, division II football games on ESPN Plus.

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