“”This did happen but, when we found out at the leadership level, it was changed back,” explained Debra Koeppen, the YMCA’s chief development officer.”
Ah, so “leadership” quashed the will of the people (for the children?).
Like the NAACP, it’s far past time for the YMCA to change the name of their organization, or shut down.
My YMCA has the programming of every channel on our local expanded basic cable channel on each bike, elliptical, treadmill etc.
Nearly every health club with professional equipment built in the past 10 years has this individual choice. The exception is spinning bikes which are designed to be movable/portable and never had a screen to begin with. Oh and if you’ve been in a spinning class between the instructor’s choice of music and their usually overbearing miked voice... you don’t need a screen/TV.
The local car dealer had CNN on the TV in the waiting area. Two customers got up to ask the channel be changed.
I happen to have a cell phone with universal TV remote control app so I quietly took care of the problem.
Great start. Airport lounges, hotel lobbies and bars need to be next. Fifteen years ago, CNN could sort of claim to be the middle ground in between Fox and MSNBC, even though they never were. Now there’s not even a claim. Shut ‘em off!
Time to go after Airports...something's fishy about CNN on those screens. The fix is in and we need to take the fix OUT.