After the ZDF (the “Second German Television”) which started to broadcast their news shows and more in 16:9 format at the beginning of this week, the ARD (“The First”) wants to follow suit on Sunday – even though just with the “Tagesschau” (the main news show), the “Tagesthemen” (late news magazine) shall follow one by one. Nice 
(Let me mention the poll on the right sidebar in this blog again…) (This poll has been closed in the mean time.)
…that’d be a German translation of “Black Label Society”, the opening band for Ozzy Osbourne yesterday. And also this hard of hearing guy – “I can’t fucking hear you!” 
– in his late fifties can do a great concert! It was just relatively short – he seemed to have had a comparatively bad day, an “Ozzy expert” next to me said. Others, however, have a different opinion about his mood… Which doesn’t change anything about how good it was!
Apropos opening band: There’s something strange about the starting time. At Meat Loaf Sunday before last, the official start was at 20:00 (8 p.m.), but at 19:30 entered Marion Raven as “opening duo” (i.e. with one other musician) with guitars and keyboard for about 25 minutes, and since there was no reconstruction necessary, everyone thought Meat would start punctually at 8 – wrong, he waited until 20:30 (and stayed until 23:02).
Yesterday, however – official start was also 20:00 – the openers came at 19:50 and rocked until 20:40, and after reconstruction and sound check, Ozzy entered the stage after a lament of Beuern intro at exactly 21:00. (And, as indicated, just until ca. 22:35.)
Now what does that tell us about the meaning of starting times…?
The galleries now use the myGallery plugin which is much better integrated in the blog system instead of the older, rather separate gallery software.
So the ZDF is broadcasting (almost) everything in 16:9 since today – I like it
They just shouldn’t – even in the news – stretch old 4:3 archive footage to full width as they seemed to have done with African pictures in the main “heute” (=“today”) news show.
On the right hand side (belowabove the Search field), there‘s was a little poll.
I’ve added a » gallery with a handful of (mostly older) photos and screenshots to this site. It’s up to you readers to tell if they are really funny to you – some are rather “capostrophical”.
Let’s see what else I’ll find; this gallery is intended to be expanded in the future.
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