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post #151 of 178
12/17/09 at 12:15pm
Don't have any connections in those fields. Finance/accounting here. Which is kind dry right now (been shopping around myself).
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post #152 of 178
12/22/09 at 2:08am
Thread Starter 
I just saw a commercial saying they're taking FOX off Bright House. Is that true?
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post #153 of 178
12/22/09 at 9:50am
It's the same staring contest BrightHouse had with Viacom last year. They came to a last-minute deal and none of the channels ever went dark. Probably the same thing will happen here.

I'd also read that it wasn't the FOX network or FOX News that were being pulled, but FX, Speed, the FOX movie channel, and FOX's soccer channels.
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post #154 of 178
12/22/09 at 11:50am
Richard, my parents are buying a house in about a month near Kissimmee for the express purpose of complying with that law Canadian seniors have to obey whereupon at a certain age, they must migrate. The upside? We get to come to Florida for x-mas break in 2010!!!

I know, try to contain yourself at the possibility of meeting me in person. But also, NO WINNIPEG WINTER FOR X-MAS!!
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post #155 of 178
12/22/09 at 11:53am
If they're buying in a month (which by the way, kudos for your parents in buying property down here - the market is definitely perfect for buying) then you should still be able to enjoy some winter down here this season. I hear winter doesn't end until May up there.
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post #156 of 178
12/22/09 at 11:55am
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Richard, my parents are buying a house in about a month near Kissimmee for the express purpose of complying with that law Canadian seniors have to obey whereupon at a certain age, they must migrate.
Whereupon they become terrible drivers. I can't tell you how many Canadian plates I've yelled at over the years down here.
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post #157 of 178
12/22/09 at 11:59am
Hah, my dad is an awful driver already, I can't imagine how bad he'll be once he's tasted the heady freedom of sunshine.
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post #158 of 178
12/22/09 at 12:01pm
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If they're buying in a month (which by the way, kudos for your parents in buying property down here - the market is definitely perfect for buying) then you should still be able to enjoy some winter down here this season. I hear winter doesn't end until May up there.
Yeah that is what I am thinking too, we'll see what can be swung this year. The big hold-up is my wife's vacation time at her non-government job. She is still locked at 2 weeks, which would mean if I went earlier than x-mas she would have to take unpaid leave.
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post #159 of 178
12/23/09 at 12:40am
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
It's the same staring contest BrightHouse had with Viacom last year. They came to a last-minute deal and none of the channels ever went dark. Probably the same thing will happen here.

I'd also read that it wasn't the FOX network or FOX News that were being pulled, but FX, Speed, the FOX movie channel, and FOX's soccer channels.
I stand corrected, it is in fact ALL FOX channels.
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post #160 of 178
12/23/09 at 6:02am
Just wanted to give a shout-out to my favorite annoying local commercials:
http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...rch_type=&aq=f
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post #161 of 178
12/23/09 at 7:49am
I'm sorry, nothing is more annoying than that little girl in the Bob Dance commercials which seem to air every ten minutes. She's got lifeless black eyes, like a doll's eyes...
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post #162 of 178
12/23/09 at 12:51pm
This BrightHouse/FOX brouhaha has me looking at U-Verse again. Well that and the almost daily promotional flyers they send me in the mail. And while it's great that they want to throw $350 in gift cards at me, and being able to record up to 4 programs at a time is nice, I'd have to pay for a second box for our bedroom (not so with BrightHouse), have to pay extra for HD channels (also not so with BrightHouse), and have to pay extra to get up to the internet connection speed I have now. So it boils down to whether FOX programming is worth an extra $20 a month, balanced with $350 in reward cards. Still not sure.
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post #163 of 178
12/23/09 at 1:01pm
You guys have Verizon Fios as an option over there in Orlando?
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post #164 of 178
12/23/09 at 1:28pm
It's not available in my area. We've got Comcast, but they want to shove a home phone line on us that we don't want. And DirecTV is out because our apartment doesn't face the right direction.
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post #165 of 178
12/23/09 at 5:12pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
This BrightHouse/FOX brouhaha has me looking at U-Verse again. Well that and the almost daily promotional flyers they send me in the mail. And while it's great that they want to throw $350 in gift cards at me, and being able to record up to 4 programs at a time is nice, I'd have to pay for a second box for our bedroom (not so with BrightHouse), have to pay extra for HD channels (also not so with BrightHouse), and have to pay extra to get up to the internet connection speed I have now. So it boils down to whether FOX programming is worth an extra $20 a month, balanced with $350 in reward cards. Still not sure.
Are the FOX programs you catch available online? If so...
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post #166 of 178
12/26/09 at 5:23pm
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It wouldn't be such a hard decision if FOX didn't have so many sports contracts. Cutting out FOX means losing NFC NFL games and the World Series.
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post #167 of 178
12/26/09 at 5:47pm
That's the thing, those events aren't available online. I still have a digital TV antenna, so I can just plug that it and get the local FOX affiliate, but it's sort of the principle -- BrightHouse went through this last year with Viacom, and they still won't budge on the NFL Network.
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post #168 of 178
12/31/09 at 1:52pm
Well, looks like it may be time to break out that digital antenna -- FOX and BrightHouse don't look close to any kind of deal, and FOX seems almost eager to yank their programming.
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post #169 of 178
12/31/09 at 11:42pm
Didn't we run into this same problem a few years ago? I want to say it was with the NBC family.
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post #170 of 178
1/2/10 at 1:49am
As should be obvious by now, FOX and BrightHouse have come to an as yet undisclosed agreement. This after numerous deadline extensions throughout the day.

See you all again next December with whatever network decides to try this then.
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post #171 of 178
1/7/10 at 2:12pm
Holy crap, Universal just rolled out one of the better Mardi Gras band lineups we've had in years:

- Sat., Feb. 6: KC and The Sunshine Band
- Sat., Feb. 13: Heart
- Sun., Feb. 14: Kool & the Gang
- Sat., Feb. 20: Blondie
- Sat., Feb. 27: Dierks Bentley
- Sat., March 6: Akon
- Sat., March 13: Aretha Franklin
- Sat., March 20: Miranda Lambert
- Sat., March 27: 3 Doors Down
- Sat., April 3: Beach Boys
- Fri., April 9: Sheryl Crow
- Sat., April 10: Flo Rida
- Sat., April 17: Chicago

Not all my cup of tea, but I'll be there for Heart and Blondie. And getting Flo Rida is pretty big, the place is going to be a madhouse that day.

KC and the Sunshine Band may as well be the USF house band at this point.
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post #172 of 178
1/7/10 at 2:20pm
Are these at the parks or at the Hard Rock?
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post #173 of 178
2/17/10 at 12:29am
Holy movie props and costumes Batman, there’s a cool new exhibit at the Orange County Regional History Center in downtown Orlando.
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post #174 of 178
2/19/10 at 1:46am
I grew up in Miami and got my undergrad degree at FIU. I left Florida in 2008 to go to law school.
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post #175 of 178
3/1/10 at 2:26pm
Some of you Central Florida folks might be just a bit interested in this:

Lebowski Fest is coming to Orlando.
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post #176 of 178
3/1/10 at 2:31pm
At 15 bucks that might be worth just to see the spectacle, or maybe I'll just hang out in the shadow of the Cirque du Soleil and count the Sobchaks.
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post #177 of 178
3/1/10 at 2:56pm
Howdy fellow Florida chewers, I myself hail from the fair panhandle (Pensacola) and travel frequently to Sarasota (Where I was raised, though not born - see Pensacola, for that-)

When will it stop being so damned cold?
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post #178 of 178
3/8/10 at 4:38pm
Central Florida/ Space Coaster here... seems that the warmth has begun! Hoping there's no more cold fronts *fingers crossed*
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