{"id":46,"date":"2005-04-09T10:18:58","date_gmt":"2005-04-09T14:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=46"},"modified":"2005-04-09T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2005-04-09T14:18:58","slug":"vooms-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/09\/vooms-doom\/","title":{"rendered":"Voom&#8217;s Doom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voom&#8211;the high-definition TV satellite service&#8211;is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voom.com\/\">shutting down as of April 30th<\/a>. It has only 40,000 customers, and has been on the verge of death for at least a couple of months now. But even with this news, Cablevision, the service&#8217;s parent company, says that it&#8217;s going to try to convince other TV systems to provide the Voom HDTV stations.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m bringing all this up because Voom&#8217;s Animania channel showed some rare Columbia cartoons, including Fox and Crows, early UPAs, and, best of all, the occasional Scrappy.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, April 30th is also the date of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/scrappyland_liv.html\">ASIFA-Hollywood&#8217;s Scrappyland<\/a> event. So if you&#8217;re a cartoon-loving Voom subscriber, get yourself to Hollywood on that day, and we&#8217;ll show you some Scrappy cartoons and commiserate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voom&#8211;the high-definition TV satellite service&#8211;is shutting down as of April 30th. It has only 40,000 customers, and has been on the verge of death for at least a couple of months now. But even with this news, Cablevision, the service&#8217;s parent company, says that it&#8217;s going to try to convince other TV systems to provide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/09\/vooms-doom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Voom&#8217;s Doom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}