Jackie Robinson Day
In this week’s edition of “The Showplace,” guest blogger Artie Freeman focuses on the man whose courage and inspiration sparked a day now named in his honor – Jackie Robinson. **** Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919. He’s most famous for breaking baseball’s color line, which excluded Black players from Major League Baseball. MLB…
Read MoreSports Recaps – April 12, 2022
Before we continue our look back at the best plays of our recently completed high school sports season on ATVN, here’s a quick look at some of the teams and spring sports games that we’ll feature on upcoming editions of our “SportsTalk” show, seen live on ATVN every Thursday evening at 7pm: Wilson vs Saucon…
Read More“Jump The Shark” #2
Last week, we here at the Showplace began our countdown of the five best examples of a “shark jumping” ploy created by a television series’ creative brain team. Look back to last week’s entry to find out more about this oft-used TV term and for the first two entries. This week, we continue our countdown:…
Read MoreSports Recaps – April 5, 2022
Before we continue our look back at the best plays of our recently completed high school sports season on ATVN, here’s a forward look at our scheduled guests and topics on this week’s “SportsTalk” show, seen live on ATVN every Thursday evening at 7pm: The Liberty swim team brought home individual and team gold medals…
Read More“Jump The Shark” Part 1
The ATVN Programming Department is busy putting the final touches on our new spring broadcasting lineup–set to debut in a few weeks. In the meantime and in honor of the 45th anniversary of television’s first official “Jump the Shark” moment, we here at the Showplace are going to do something a little different this week…
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