[Premium-Rx] As seen on TV

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

Has anyone seen the TV trailers for an upcoming SF/supernatural series called “Frequency”? A woman communicates with her long-dead Ham father across time using his old transceiver after lightning strikes the antenna (of course! Who hasn’t had THAT happen?) and will apparently try to warn him of his impending murder.

The closeup of the rig doesn’t look like any that I’ve seen. Looks Hallicrafters-oid, but too narrow, too few controls, a panadaptor screen lit by an incandescent source (!) but no trace, no nomenclature. Front panel, no cabinet. It looks like something cobbled together for the show. If so, I have no idea why they didn’t just use an actual period rig. It’s not like they’d be doing product placement for a company that refused to pay for same! (Which I think is the explanation for the supremely irritating habit of “reality” shows where every incidental corporate logo on vehicles, T-shirts, buildings, etc., is blurred out – no payola, no publicity!)

Anyone seen it? Thoughts?

—howard n7exn