This week's TV Q&A answers questions about videographers driving reporters, "Justice League Unlimited" and the theme song from "Ricki and Copper."

As always, thanks for reading, and keep those questions coming.
Rob Owen, Post-Gazette TV editor

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Q: Are the remaining episodes of Cartoon Network's "Justice League Unlimited" going to air? New episodes of the cartoon series have not been shown for close to a month.

What is your opinion of the "Justice League" series? I grew up with "The Superfriends" and "Challenge of the Superfriends" and despite their simplicity and sometimes laughable mistakes, I enjoyed the characters and plots much more than today's version. The writers of the old "Superfriends'" series seemed to understand the origins of the superheroes and their villains much better. "Justice League's" story lines are often boring and always feel as if they are missing something.

- Tim, Pittsburgh

Haven't watched the new show, so I have no opinion to offer, but Cartoon Network says new episodes of "Justice League Unlimited" will air at 8:30 p.m. Saturday beginning Dec. 4.

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Q: It's that time of year again. The last couple of years Pittsburgh radio stations took turns broadcasting Christmas music. What FM radio station will broadcast Christmas songs all day long and when?

- Bill McKenzie, McCandless

According to PG radio writer Adrian McCoy, WWSW (94.5 FM) is the station you're looking for.

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Q: Is there a reason why a reporter must ride shotgun and a videographer must drive when covering a news story for the TV stations?

- Bill Stahnke, Wheeling, WV

My guess is it's simply a traditional role that's evolved over the years. I asked a KDKA videographer who said pretty much the same thing: It's just the way it's always been. Another rationale: Reporters can work on writing their stories during the drive so the videographer, who often also does the editing, can have something to work with when they arrive at their destination.

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Q: Who wrote that annoying "Tell 'em you're from Pittsburgh" song?

- Andrew, New Kensington

We wrote about that this summer. Here's a link to the column:

www.post-gazette.com/pg/04176/336547.stm

I can't tell you the name of the writer of the new lyrics, but the original theme song was produced by Frank Gari Productions.

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Q: Why did WTAE decide to show the Penn State game on a tape delay on Saturday and pre-empt the PGA Tour Championship? I can see televising the Pitt Game as it was the Big East game of the week but why bother showing Penn State? Penn St. had already lost before the telecast started.

WTAE should have picked up the PGA Tour Championship in process after the Pitt game instead of a taped viewing of the Penn St. game.

- Peter Moniodes, Canonsburg

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Q: Can you explain why Channel 4 sometimes replays Penn State football games on Saturday afternoon when there are other meaningful games that could determine if a team makes a BCS bowl game? Don't you think that TRUE football fans would rather see the LIVE game especially with the condition of the Penn State football program.

- Christian Steffine, Hopewell

Here's a response from WTAE general manager Rick Henry: While most of the college football matchups seen on Channel 4 are made by ABC, WTAE has entered into business relationships with other program suppliers enabling the station to broadcast ESPN regional games, including local Pitt and Penn State games, throughout the season. The local nature and high number of local grads from these schools make their football games extremely popular television events (even on a delay basis). WTAE-TV strives to select games of greatest local viewer interest.

With regard to viewer question #1, WTAE-TV did not make the programming decision that the viewer suggests. The Tour Championship was actually scheduled 12-3:30 p.m. on ABC, and ran concurrently with the Pitt Game, not following it. As a result, there was no opportunity to join it in progress following the Pitt game. What was preempted that Saturday in order to carry the Penn State game was the network feed of the Minnesota/Wisconsin game.

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Q: There was a popular TV show in the late '60s called "Run for Your Life" starring Ben Gazzara about a man with a year left to live. Are re-runs of this show available anywhere?

- Mike Gray, Pittsburgh

The series does not appear to be airing on any cable networks and is not currently available on home video.

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Q: What is the name of the song and what are the words of the closing theme song from the "Ricki and Copper" show from the early 1960's on WTAE.

- Syndi, South Park

According to host Ricki Wertz, the song was titled "Big Bells and Little Bells" and it had no lyrics.

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Q: I would like to know where I can find out about the music used on the CBS show "Cold Case. I would like to find the artists and the names of the songs for certain episodes. Can you help me?

- Susan, Bend, Ore.

Unfortunately, neither CBS, which airs the show, nor Warner Bros., which produces the show, includes that useful information on their respective Web sites. You'd think they would since they do it for some other shows and because music plays such an integral role in "Cold Case."

So instead, you should try looking at "Cold Case" fan-created sites, including http://coldcase.de