This site debuted on the web in October of 2000. The following are excerpts from various
site visitors and reviewers.
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Delphos Herald - May 19, 2005
"Revisit Favorite TV Offerings on the Net" by
Becky Hirn (excerpt)
Take a walk down television memory lane. With
information dating back to 1940's television, it’s (TV Acres) chock-full links
to TV listings, character biographies, episode guides and much more.
It’s best to use the site search engine to navigate the site. Just
think; you can finally settle the bet about the name of the Arnold’s
beagle on the “Wonder Years.”
Pet Sit USA
"Ask the Hound" Column - May-June, 2005
Dear Cynthia,
An avid TV and movie buff, are you? Well, I had to sniff around on
the Internet for a while, but I came across a site you'll have fun
getting lost in, TV Acres. I even spent so much time there that I
almost forgot I had to write about it! This a great place to learn
more about famous, and some not so famous, animals who've appeared
in movies, on TV, as advertising mascots, and cartoon characters.
Test your memory on some of these TV Acres notables, and see if you
know where they got their claim to fame: Clarence the cross-eyed
lion, Itchy the mouse, Mr. Diefenthaler and Mr. Henderson, and Buddy
the Wonder Dog. Oh, and do you know what young singer sang to a
basset hound named Sherlock? If you simply don't have a clue, you'll
just have to check it out at TV Acres. And, if you're like me,
you'll have fun learning the behind-the-scenes stories about many of
the famous animals actors you know and love. OK, now that you know
what site to check out…get those overalls on and get on down to the
farm!
Postcards from the Web
- April 21, 2003
Radio review about TV Acres
from public radio station
KCVR, FM in southern California.
Sound file - narrated
by host Dan Angelo. Click hyperlink above to hear story.
Editor & Publisher - December 10, 2002
Reporter's Digital How-To by Charles Bowen
DECEMBER 10, 2002
TV Acres Covers the Cultural Landscape Of Our
Time
Get the Facts On the Last 40 Years Of Television
If there is a cozy communal campfire for the
people of the Information Age, it's
got to be our television sets. Even in a time when our society
is ever-more fragmented and segmented, TV continues to be the
something that we have
in common. Love it or hate it, praise it or ridicule it,
television is one of the ties
that binds the people of the 21st century.
And in terms of pop cultural literacy? Well, while an alarming number of our
fellow citizens might not know who wrote Moby Dick, how
the American Civil
War ended, or when Jimmy Carter was president, ask them who
Ginger and
Mary Ann were. Call it televised immortality: A show that left
the air almost 40
years ago still has characters living on in the collective
psyche. In fact, in our
lifetime, television has evolved from a mere after-work
diversion to life itself
for some people, or at least a most insistent imitator of life.
For the working journalist, that means TV has become more than
the listings
of what's on tonight. Smart reporters and editors should have a
fast-access database of broadcast history, trivia, and culture
for use in those stories that
cry out for a TV-oriented hook.
And where better to look for such a resource than on the Web? My
favorite new TV culture site is TV Acres, a site created and
maintained by Jerone A. Holst, a
distance education librarian with Saint Francis University in
Loretto, Pa. It is a
guide to characters, places, and things that appeared on
television programs broadcast from the 1940s to the present
during prime time and Saturday mornings.
To check it out, visit the site at
http://www.tvacres.com, where the introductory
page provides links to these key departments:
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Phreaky Phriday Phun Linx for November
15, 2002
"Even if you might be a TV trivia expert, this site could have some
info you didn't know. Search the index for show details regarding
everything from aardvarks to worms. You might be surprised to learn
how many TV shows have garden gnomes as main characters. "
USA Today - Hot Site for November 8th, 2002
"Get yourself a library card and you pretty
much have access to all the info you need for the real world. Ditto
TVAcres.com
when it comes to all things televised. An easy-to-use index helps
you answer every TV question, from 'Who was the narrator on
Batman' to 'What were the sea gulls' names on The Red Skelton
Show?'"
The Houston Chronicle
(Oct. 7, 2002, 9:15PM)
What's online by Cay Dickson (Seen on TV)
"Prime time television sure isn't what it
used to be when television was first born. If you're not eating
worms, fretting about your next illicit love connection or winning a
million dollars, then you're not being watched. TV Acres, at
www.tvacres.com,
is the place to be for an outstanding overview of what viewers have
watched. An alphabetical index that is heavy with topics offers you
the opportunity to explore everything from Secret Identities of
characters to the Words of Wisdom that endeared them to the
audience. There's even a section on Props that became as famous as
some of the stars in the programs, such as Archie Bunker's chair.
The creator, who is the distance education librarian at St. Francis
University in Loretto, Pa., has done an enormous amount of research
in putting this site together. Not only does he cover just about
every subject imaginable, he also goes to great lengths to give
additional detailed information to substantiate his findings."
Yahoo Picks - Editors Choice
September 24th, 2002
"TV Acres is the place to be / For all your questions about TV" -- so
goes this site's
theme song. Boasting an
index that stretches from
aardvarks to
worms, the site presents a calvacade of TV trivia. Sure, you'll
find information about the obvious
islands such as Fantasy and Gilligan's, but you'll also find
facts about Hope Island, home to a little-known PAX TV soap opera,
and Paradise Island, Wonder Woman's female-only home. You might
identify with some of the
TV fans such as Trekkies, MSTies, X-Philes, and even Arsenio
Hall's Dogpound. The depth and detail of this site are especially
impressive in the
beginning and ending narrations section, which lists the opening
words for everything from
The Fall Guy ("one of America's great unsung heroes") to
Tom Hanks' pre-Oscar days of
Bosom Buddies. Don't miss the
dates area -- discover when
Joanie and Chachi tied the knot on Happy Days or the
birthdays of your favorite TV characters. You'll never look at
the boob tube the same way again. (in
Television)."
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Ezine Writer - Web Excellence Award -
9/06/2002
"We found your website from: Lynn Lynn's Links. It would be our
pleasure if you would accept it and display it on your
site. To win means to be better than the best. On behalf of the
staff of The
EZINE WRITER emagazines I would like to congratulate you once
again. Keep up the great work!"
ezinewriter@juno.com
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The Tuscaloosa News - Wednesday August 28, 2002
"Edible Icons: Popular food mascots live on despite expense to create
new ones in food marketing industry" (Excerpted from Section D -
cover article)
by Meredith Cummings, Staff Writer.
"...Jerome Holst, who runs an Internet site dedicated to television
mascots, has spent more than 25 years cataloging mascots and
spokespeople for various products. His site lists hundreds of food
mascots, some still going strong and others hat have faded from
view.
(http://www.tvacres.com/advertising_mascots.htm)
A librarian by day, Holst's site lists everyone and everything from
the Hubba Bubba Gum Fighter to Orville Reddenbacher. The information
on his site was intended to be a book, but got so large (1,500
pages and five volumes) so he turned to the Internet.
"I decided to take all of the information in the book and dump it
into the Web site,: the Pennsylvania-based Holst, said. "I offer
everything on my site free to the world, and hopefully everybody
will enjoy it."
A self proclaimed expert on the histories of these spokespeople and
mascots, Holst said his favorite food mascot is Mr. Potato
Head...."
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