And a Happy Fourth to You Too, KTAB!

By Sarah Carlson
July 4, 2007

fireworks.jpgI grew up watching the Boston Pops Fireworks show on TV. My family not being one to go to the effort to break the law by purchasing and setting off fireworks in our city's limits, each Fourth we sat back, relaxed and let the city of Boston entertain us. Two years ago when I interned in Washington, D.C., I spent the holiday on the National Mall near the Capitol and watched fireworks light up the sky over the Washington Monument. It's hard for anything remotely near Abilene to compare to that, so I haven't made the trip out to Nelson Park these past two summers for our fireworks display.

So, as I turned the TV channel to watch the Boston Pops do its thing, I was greeted to a KTAB-TV newscaster who informed me that I'd only find local coverage of Nelson Park's festivities on that station. But, he said, I was in luck: The Boston Pops show would air at 1:07 a.m., so I'd better set my DVR. Then I could watch a July Fourth fireworks show on July 5th!

Now the TV is on mute. All I can hear are the illegal fireworks being set off in/near my apartment complex (we're all doomed!), but occasional glances at the TV tell me that KTAB is killing its hour with flair, its news anchors interviewing whoever wants to be on camera to talk about their impromptu softball games and how many Old Navy July Fourth T-shirts they own.

Oh wait -- the show is starting. For the first two minutes or so, all that could be seen were a few sparks here and there, and nothing could be heard. Well, aside from the static. Somewhere, an intern is being fired.

OK, now the recorded music is playing -- off and on. I bet it's a CD of some fancy orchestra playing. Maybe one that's in Boston ...

And now I've just passed the point of cynical. Maybe if I'd had my Pops. That's all I wanted, KTAB. That's all I wanted.

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