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<title>Back Channels</title><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/index.html</link><description>Uncle Barky&#x27;s Bytes</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2007 Ed Bark</dc:rights><dc:date>2008-09-03T15:09:36-05:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:05:32 -0500</lastBuildDate><item><title>O&#x27;Reilly vs. Bono -- but with velvet gloves and at least one ego in check</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-09-03T15:09:36-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/934b25e78c471b8d7c6cdefd340ed9fe-26.html#unique-entry-id-26</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/934b25e78c471b8d7c6cdefd340ed9fe-26.html#unique-entry-id-26</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA["He's not a bomb-thrower," O'Reilly said after he and Bono met for the first time on Wednesday's Republican convention edition of Fox News Channel's <i>The O'Reilly Factor</i>.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Michael Moore does a slow burn before blasting CNN anchor</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-08-22T07:38:21-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/1e61d9bd04b1eddf11d4405645e961cc-25.html#unique-entry-id-25</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/1e61d9bd04b1eddf11d4405645e961cc-25.html#unique-entry-id-25</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<center> </center> <center><b>Filmmaker Michael Moore and anchor Bill Hemmer were dead-on during Day 1 of the 2004 Democratic convention in Beantown.</b></center> <font size="2"><i>Note to readers: Day 1 of the 2008 Democratic convention dawns Monday, Aug. 25th in mountain-esque Denver.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Bernard Jeffrey McCullough -- Bernie Mac -- Oct. 5&#x2c; 1957 to Aug. 9&#x2c; 2008</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-08-11T05:44:17-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/23d4eeaef7616d4c0e073086f20f589f-24.html#unique-entry-id-24</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/23d4eeaef7616d4c0e073086f20f589f-24.html#unique-entry-id-24</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Pitting <i>Bernie Mac</i> against <i>Wife and Kids</i> is primarily a competitive move, but also "racist because they (Fox) don't have the same emotional investment in black shows that they do in <i>Malcolm in the Middle</i> or <i>The Simpsons</i>," Wayans said at a recent ABC party.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Ch. 5&#x27;s Bobbie Wygant kept seeing stars and knew what to do with them</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-06-26T11:13:22-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/9b63a1693ad763659555d33df32c9f00-23.html#unique-entry-id-23</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/9b63a1693ad763659555d33df32c9f00-23.html#unique-entry-id-23</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<center> </center> <center><b>Among her subjects: Dustin Hoffman, Jane Fonda, Charlton Heston</b></center> <font size="2">She had a memorable conversation with Hoffman after opening the interview with a simple, disarming, slightly naughty question.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>George Carlin: May 12&#x2c; 1937 to June 22&#x2c; 2008</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-06-23T06:44:40-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/12c9fa32330348bf3da68b88a1ee9317-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/12c9fa32330348bf3da68b88a1ee9317-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>It includes both a review of Carlin's performance and a still unforgettable interview with him backstage.</i> <b>Warning: the article contains some hard-core profanity that we somehow managed to get in the paper 33 years ago. It's all being left in because obviously Carlin would have wanted it that way.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Deliverance: The day Dale got dumped</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-05-11T20:44:16-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/012cf2a9163d3273636b4e85c76b23c9-21.html#unique-entry-id-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/012cf2a9163d3273636b4e85c76b23c9-21.html#unique-entry-id-21</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dale Hansen, Channel 4's colorful 6 and 10 p.m. sports anchor, has been told to fly his colors elsewhere.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>D-FW&#x27;s last true anchor/reporter (not necessarily in that order)</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-04-16T10:25:27-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/aefd72c8edfb2b8de9620c5f775d2a95-20.html#unique-entry-id-20</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/aefd72c8edfb2b8de9620c5f775d2a95-20.html#unique-entry-id-20</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Arbitron and Nielsen numbers for the latest ratings period, the February 1982 "sweeps," put Channel 5 last at both 6 and 10 p.m. The average rating for Channel 5 has dropped slightly from 12.75 in October 1980 (the first measurement of the new team's drawing power) to the present 12.5.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Nice guy finishes first -- no Harmon that</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-04-07T08:28:59-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/91be5364bfb13bd6c6d954147e2acf78-19.html#unique-entry-id-19</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/91be5364bfb13bd6c6d954147e2acf78-19.html#unique-entry-id-19</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Sturdy, trustworthy, enduring and once named <i>People</i> magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive," the resilient Harmon is returning to series TV this fall as the star of CBS' <i>Navy NCIS</i>.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Late bloomers: Suzanne Pleshette&#x2c; Tom Poston married late&#x2c; met their fates</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-01-22T13:25:44-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/4d899cb879a2b1f7670eee8fe082ed29-18.html#unique-entry-id-18</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/4d899cb879a2b1f7670eee8fe082ed29-18.html#unique-entry-id-18</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So much so that Pleshette didn't at all like the idea of Poston occasionally guest-starring as Bob Hartley's college roommate on the first Newhart series.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Tracy Rowlett: transition accomplished</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-01-15T17:50:41-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/854b25a9027b26d20b0b0216196fc020-17.html#unique-entry-id-17</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/854b25a9027b26d20b0b0216196fc020-17.html#unique-entry-id-17</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Channel 8 has such a long tradition and reputation that it's going to be very difficult for any station to surmount that in the long term. But I think CBS and Channel 11 have made a very smart and dramatic move.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Knievel and son: jump back </title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-12-03T14:00:17-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/17739451bec8d112cccf1073902bfa62-16.html#unique-entry-id-16</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/17739451bec8d112cccf1073902bfa62-16.html#unique-entry-id-16</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA["I had to convince them that I was the last guy in the world that wanted to pick up a bleeding, crumpled body off the asphalt at Caesar's Palace, especially if it was my kid."]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A flicker of Norman Mailer</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-11-13T21:44:45-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/86c0e20c06c52bc0cd42ebed606d9686-15.html#unique-entry-id-15</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/86c0e20c06c52bc0cd42ebed606d9686-15.html#unique-entry-id-15</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA["Their politics have nothing in common, but people always used to dislike Nixon because whenever an idea would come into his head, he'd run it through his mental sensor and it would come out the other end altered.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Joey Bishop: &#x22;Anybody tells you you&#x27;re a good audience&#x2c; you punch &#x27;em right in the mouth.&#x22;</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-10-23T11:47:57-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/f3c8829f9dc553b84f1a9cfcc7fe8ce8-14.html#unique-entry-id-14</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/f3c8829f9dc553b84f1a9cfcc7fe8ce8-14.html#unique-entry-id-14</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<center></center> <center><b>Wing man: That's Joey way in back, between Sammy and Peter.</b></center> <font size="2">The road to Joey's began two days earlier in Pasadena, where a reporter called him cold from an ongoing TV critics "press tour" co-starring networks and their new seasons.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Chip Moody: He lived to anchor -- and died too soon</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-10-11T18:18:19-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/7579e3b2b01fcb39dd57ac60e4b3aa25-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/7579e3b2b01fcb39dd57ac60e4b3aa25-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<center></center> <center><b>A vintage Chip Moody (left) at Ch. 5 with fellow anchors Ward Andews and Russ Bloxom in a timeless photo from the 1970s.</b></center> <font size="2"><i>Note to readers: This is one of my all-time favorite articles.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A yesteryear&#x27;s TV newscaster survey -- except that quite a few are still at their appointed anchor desks</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-10-01T16:34:36-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/aa273c880c4b3d5df78c12d79f4490a5-11.html#unique-entry-id-11</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/aa273c880c4b3d5df78c12d79f4490a5-11.html#unique-entry-id-11</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<font size="2"><b>Note to readers:</b> This September 1986 mail-in survey of readers' favorite D-FW news personalities and newscasts long pre-dated the Internet and for the most part, cable TV news.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Iola Johnson: leaving for parts unknown</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-08-28T15:34:07-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/76fe72f510466f97011f1fddd9e298f3-10.html#unique-entry-id-10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/76fe72f510466f97011f1fddd9e298f3-10.html#unique-entry-id-10</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Contract negotiations broke off on Jan. 16, with news director Marty Haag explaining, "I think Iola has come to a point in her career where she feels like she would like to see if she can go to one of the major markets, a market bigger than this one, and hit a home run."]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Michael Richards: A &#x22;press tour&#x22; premonition of sorts</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-07-05T17:57:14-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/7046d3d14939cdf29eae33cb42644fb4-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/7046d3d14939cdf29eae33cb42644fb4-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As the semi-annual network TV "press tour" prepares to start its engines on Monday (July 9th) in L.A., here's a look at my close encounter with Richards before his now infamous comedy club tirade cast him in an entirely new light.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Know whut I mean? Rechanneling Ernest as the ambassador for Ch. 4 news </title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-06-20T09:12:15-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/20d2673adccced977659c05066966680-8.html#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/20d2673adccced977659c05066966680-8.html#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Ernest, best known in these parts as the pitchman for Braum's ice cream (he was dropped by the company on Dec. 31)), is doing commercials for local newscasts in 30 TV markets, including Austin, Amarillo, Houston, Lubbock and Harlingen-Weslaco.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Tony the Tiger gets sheepish in public </title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-06-04T10:52:47-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/35fc55d61e785b6549af5eba9ce9cb96-7.html#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/35fc55d61e785b6549af5eba9ce9cb96-7.html#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Falco says she's comfortable, at least for now, with the thought that <i>The Sopranos</i> could go down as a classic, groundbreaking TV series in league with <i>Hill Street Blues</i> and <i>All In the Family</i>.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Clothes off their backs and onto the rack </title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-05-28T17:19:50-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/335f6130fd359f2530d84e6fa4af69fb-6.html#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/335f6130fd359f2530d84e6fa4af69fb-6.html#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Other eyecatchers include a slinky black gown worn by Cybill Shepherd on <i>Moonlighting</i> ("a steal at $2,000"); a sleevless, red cotton dress filed out by Catherine Bach on <i>The Dukes of Hazzard</i> ($145) and a Farrah wool tube skirt ($65).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Rosie to Roseanne? </title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-05-06T16:19:38-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/9303201cb9b934838e6c995d58d9413d-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/9303201cb9b934838e6c995d58d9413d-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- A handful of TV critics are Barr-hopping, hoping to flesh out a better story on an admittedly flabby, coarse comedian whose <i>Roseanne</i> sitcom is a good bet to be the highest-rated new series of the season.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Back when just about everybody watched -- Feb. &#x22;sweeps&#x2c;&#x22; 1981</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-04-24T17:32:40-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/3b2b706b2c368df0082e4eb1a8a69c43-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/3b2b706b2c368df0082e4eb1a8a69c43-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<center> </center> <center><b>In prehistoric TV times, weathermen Troy Dungan (WFAA) and the late Harold Taft (KXAS) were both very much on the 10 p.m. map.</b></center> <font size="2"><i>Note to readers: We're on the eve of the 2006-'07 season's final ratings sweeps period, with 10 p.m. newscast supremacy still the big prize when the competition kicks off on Thursday (April 26).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Hillary&#x2c; without &#x22;Tubby&#x22; in tow&#x2c; braves Dave for the first time</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-04-11T09:47:31-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/2dc85bccbd3db47275b5ef9b32869239-2.html#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/2dc85bccbd3db47275b5ef9b32869239-2.html#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<center></center> <center><b>The Dem Party's two big cheeses have laughed it up with Dave, too.</b></center> <font size="2"><i>Note to readers: Barack Obama's winning performance on Monday's</i> Late Show with David Letterman <i>probably means that his arch rival for the Democratic presidential nomination will have to show up again in the near future.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Mouth by mouth-western: O&#x27;Reilly vs. Matthews at SMU</title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-03-29T20:09:36-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/6e346d9042320d79e8b7d89395c5936e-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/6e346d9042320d79e8b7d89395c5936e-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The hosts of Fox News Channel's <i>The O'Reilly Factor</i> and MSNBC's <i>Hardball with Chris Matthews</i> otherwise are more accustomed to pummeling a hapless university professor or dominating a think-tank politico on their respective shows.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Boy&#x2c; that Bart&#x27;s really a mother </title><dc:creator>unclebarky@tx.rr.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Back Channels</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-03-18T23:46:46-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/a43bdd486466a35cfd91a0097d2794cc-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.unclebarky.com/back_files/a43bdd486466a35cfd91a0097d2794cc-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<center> </center> <center><b>Nancy Cartwright knows Bart Simpson better than any man alive.</b></center> <font size="2"><i>Note to readers: this story first appeared on July 12, 1990.</i> The Simpsons <i> was still in its infancy and few knew the secrets behind Bart's mouthpiece.</i>]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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