Lost minutes? How about a whole lost hour?

If you'll kindly flip your 2010 calendar back to February and March, you might remember that the last 15 minutes of several select TCGS installments got interrupted for Notre Dame basketball. We as a public service brought you the audio from those "lost minutes" once it was replayed during the overnight broadcast.

Okay, now flip back to July and today's "live" broadcast from Vatican Radio… or make that yesterday's, as Tuesday's first hour was played due to technical difficulties back in New York. The powers that be managed to solve the problem in time to play the last two hours of Wednesday's show in their normal time slot, so logic would assume that they'd broadcast that lost first hour during the overnight replay. And we were going to be good little Lino Watchers and write a summary of that hour for those of you who couldn't listen overnight.

No such luck. They replayed today's third hour, followed by the second hour, then the third hour again in its normal time slot. Which begs the question… what happened to that elusive first hour of Wednesday's broadcast? Did the technical folks in NYC get their signals crossed, or is that whole hour of TCGS… <gulp> just plain gone? Forever?!

If the latter is the case, that would explain why Lino got steamed on Twitter earlier today. We would be, too, if we spent a whole hour recording a show for nothing.

Catholic News Service has a slow day today

Why, you ask? They picked up the pilgrimage and ran it as a front-page feature story today. Will wonders never cease. What's next... a five part series in L'Osservatore Romano about TCGS' broadcasts from Vatican Radio?

Is it "Live", or is it Memorex?

As the crew broadcasts from Vatican Radio this week, Lino no doubt will be promoting the "Live" broadcasts of TCGS from the microphone that Pope John Paul II once used. From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, comes this definition of "live" when used as an adjective:

8b: broadcast directly at the time of production (a live radio program)

So when you listen to Lino's "Live" pre-recorded shows this week, you can rest easy knowing that Lino is once again stretching the boundaries of the English language in order to make TCGS look good. Happy listening!

It's the big 5-0 for one Gus Lloyd

While Lino continues counting down to 40 in the beautiful city of Florence, we at Lino Watch are changing the subject a bit and would like to turn our attention to a milestone for another Catholic Channel host. That's right: our man Gus Lloyd of Seize the Day turns 50-years-old today. From all of us at Lino Watch, we hope you have a fantastic day with your family and friends, and we thank you for all the memorable moments between you and Lino over the years... from Spring Break Broke 2008 to The Catholic Guy Who Stole Christmas to the Little Drummer Boy Duet, and everything in between.

Wanna send Gus some birthday well-wishes? Drop him a note on his Facebook page! And don't forget, Lino's countdown to 40 is still ticking... only 466 days to go!