7 News: Getting Increasingly More Unwatchable

Welcome to The Chronicles of Trevor, where no news is good news.

Anyway, WHDH 7 News. A station whose owners, the Ansin family's Sunbeam Television Corporation, pioneered the "if it bleeds it leads" approach, YET THEY FEEL THE NEED TO PUT CONTENT WARNINGS ON EVERY SINGLE STORY, all because of one reporter that works there being super sensitive. 

So there was a story about road rage in Attleboro, Massachusetts yesterday afternoon, and after Olivia Michael (the anchor this morning) told us who was reporting, she said the dreaded "we must warn you" nonsense. I GUESS KEKE VENCILL WAS IN VERY EARLY AND TOLD OLIVIA TO PREFACE SAID STORY WITH A WARNING! 

In the words of Patrick Star, 'That's not disturbing, THIS is disturbing!'

Like I said, Keke Vencill is the reason why a station group known for leading newscasts with crime-driven stories, delivered by pounding techno music and growly voiceovers, is now becoming hinky-dinky by using content warnings for just a single missed punch.

But you really couldn't see in detail the wounds of the woman who got badly injured.

Also, if it is a story like that, it shouldn't really being aired on TODAY IN NEW ENGLAND of all newscasts. That is what WHDH calls their MORNING shows.

I'd rather see Keke Vencill fall live on TV, Grape Lady style. *I don't mean it literally, like I don't actually want that to happen*

But anyway, that is just my opinion.

WRGMG: TikTok Part IV: An Extremely Sour Lemon

Welcome to The Chronicles of Trevor, where when life gives you lemons, you secretly delete TikTok from your friend's phone.

TikTok. You've seen PLENTY of videos with its intrusive watermarks, and have heard many of its overused songs.

But the owner of the app, Beijing-based ByteDance Technology Co., Ltd. (NOT TikTok Pte. Ltd, as shown on the app info page), have unloaded another spy operation onto the app store.

Lemon8 is an Instagram knockoff developed by the company responsible for TikTok and the video editor CapCut. My mom is on TikTok (unfortunately) and she recently downloaded Lemon8. I guess she now has 2 times the Chinese spies on her phone. 

Well, they've been pushing that extremely sour bootleg of Meta's popular image sharing app ever since the various ban attempts against TikTok. 

But I remember my Aunt is also on there too (sadly) and she recorded me sleeping and scaring me. I told her to delete it because I don't want my likeness on there. 2 months after that, I got a phone call from a number with +68 in front of it. It was a number from BEIJING! I am sure it was one of ByteDance's spies.

I would rather watch a clock all day than use TikTok; I'd rather eat a rotten lemon than install Lemon8. As for CapCut, I already have a competent video editor on my phone: YouCut. It lets you make videos without watermarks. I use a cracked version that allows you to use Pro features for free. So yeah, I don't need CapCut. But I could just use some scissors and a bottle cap. (LOL)

The T.A.T. Logo: The Logo Community's Biggest Search

Welcome to The Chronicles of Trevor, the only blog that's always Movin' On Up, and takes things one day at a time.

But as 2024 comes to a close, I just want to say that this year has been an excellent year for lost media.

Three of the most baffling lostwave songs have been found:

The original photo sources of The Backrooms were found on the 2003-era site for 

THE NEW "REVOLUTION RACEWAY".

And just 1 day ago, the 22-year-long search for a late 70's logo that followed such hits as The Jeffersons, The Facts of Life, and One Day at a Time, has finally concluded. This is the story of the search for the T.A.T. Communications Company production logo.

T.A.T. was founded in 1974 by the late, great famed TV sitcom producer Norman Lear, alongside comedian Jerry Perenchio. Their general partnership later acquired Embassy Films Associates from Avco Corporation, an aviation services provider, in 1982. They then decided to rename T.A.T. to Embassy Communications, and they merged their new film studio into T.A.T., which means that they had to issue updated prints of their shows with the Embassy logo, which looks like this:

Later on in 1986, Embassy became a unit of The Coca-Cola Company, who owned Columbia Pictures at the time. After Coke bought Embassy, a byline reading "a unit of The Coca-Cola Company" was added into the logo.

Later on, Columbia Pictures was spun off under its former corporate name of "Columbia Pictures Industries Inc.", and Col. decided to just release all their shows under the "Columbia Pictures Television" banner for the next years, until the Columbia-Tristar merger happened. Then in 2002, Sony decided to rename CTTV into Sony Pictures Television, and remove any and all references to Screen Gems Television, Columbia Pictures Television, or TriStar Television. Heck, not even Embassy was safe.

But back to T.A.T. Communications. The name of the company is reference to a saying Norman Lear used to refer to the struggles of working in the TV industry, which is an abbreviation of the Yiddish phrase "Tuchus Affen Tisch", which means "to put one's butt on the line".

This company's logo has been a topic of discussion for various production logo enthusiasts, in what is known as the "logo community". Ever since the height of the Closing Logos Group on Yahoo! Groups, about 2002-2003, this rare logo was discussed of many people on the forum. People thought the logo looked somewhat like this:

A white computer-animated star was said to rise to the top right of the rounded rectangle in the logo.

Later on, in 2018, YouTube user "pannoni 4" uploaded an aircheck of CBS commercials during an episode of One Day at a Time, where a T.A.T. logo was partially found. The logo was cut off by a CBS network ID.

We found i-

Get CBS'd LOL >:]

Also, someone found another instance of a logo getting CBS'd.

Here, the 1981-1993 20th Century Fox Television "20th TELEVISION Fox III" logo is getting cut off by the CBS Eye.

But I digress. Finally, 22 years after the search for the T.A.T logo finally concluded on December 28th of this year, when YouTube user "Bored's VHS Pile" uploaded the closing to a rerun of a 1980 reprint of a 1975 episode of The Jeffersons, recorded from a Betamax tape. Prior to about 1979, T.A.T. would only be credited inside the end credits of the shows they produced. They introduced an on-screen logo later that year, with a 12-note monophonic synthesizer jingle composed by a producer at T.A.T., John Maxwell Anderson, which is
officially titled "T A T Logo", both according to the ASCAP Repertory.

Here is the logo itself:

The still image of the final product

And here's the logo in motion.

Well, I just wanted to share this find, because I thought that it was the greatest lost media find, besides the ones listed above.

Just saying...

Christmas

Merry Christmas from The Chronicles of Trevor!

I'm sure you want to see my gifts. Well, it's Christmas, so my gift for you is a showcase of my gifts! First off, here's a look at what I got in my sock!

I got socks in my sock!

SpongeBob and Patrick figurines. Sorry for the sideways photos. 

A lollypop that is shaped like a Christmas light. "LIGHT BULB LOLLY"

A thin flashlight. It even works!

I got my fair share of candy. I'm eating some peanut butter cups as I'm writing this.

I got a gummy Krabby Patty stick and some marshmallow Santas.

And finally, I got some aftershave.

Next comes the actual gifts. First, I got a Ramen bowl set with chopsticks and spoon.

Next is a mug with Mario and friends on it.

And finally, my BIG present is a MIDI keyboard that hooks up to my MacBook via Bluetooth.

 It works with GarageBand, and came with a code for the full version of Steinberg Cubase LE, a professional music production software.

Merry Christmas!