Top 10 Suggestions for Local GMs
After looking at the results of the November ratings period, I have some advice for the local network affiliates. The general managers of the stations should feel free to ignore it, as I expect they will. But here is my Top 10 list of things to consider as I play general manager for the day. Channel [...]
Murphy Scores in Bills Booth on Rainy Sunday
John Murphy HAS ARRIVED!!! There was a Murphy SIGHTING on Sunday. OK, I exaggerate just a little. Because Western New Yorkers couldn’t see the Buffalo Bills defeat Jacksonville, 34-18, Sunday afternoon at the Ralph the voice of the Bills got his largest listening audience of the season on WGR radio. And as UNBELIEVABLE as [...]
Ch.4 Names New “Wake Up!” Anchor
Channel 4 has named Joe Arena’s replacement on “Wake Up!” A few days ago, I mentioned the station had interviewed an anchor from Texas for the job. Now word comes that Channel 4 News Director Joe Schlaerth has told the station’s staff that the anchor, Jordan Williams, will join the CBS affiliate in January as a [...]
Talkin “Men,” “Homeland” and Radford
This is what I’m thinking: Angus T. Jones – the Half in “Two and a Half Men” — may have overstated it slightly this week by setting off a media storm by calling the CBS series “filth.” I’d say sophomoric and crude is more like it. The 19-year-old Jones, who apparently has found religion, should [...]
Ch.2, DirecTV Problem Easily Solved
Here we go again. I awoke this morning in time to see a crawl running during NBC’s “Today” show warning Channel 2 viewers they could lose Sunday Night Football and other network programming if they have DirecTV and a deal isn’t reached to keep the station on by midnight Friday. So I Googled Gannett – [...]
Couric’s Show a Loser Here and Other Sweeps Takeaways
Katie Couric isn’t getting much love from Western New York. However, the low local rating for her syndicated national talk show was predictable. In fact, stilltalkintv predicted “Katie” wouldn’t be a hit here based on one simple fact: It is on Channel 7, which is the weakest network affiliate in the market. That’s a [...]
Ch.2 Is November News Leader
Channel 4 has been referring to itself as “Western New York’s news leader” for years, but that generic claim is debatable after the arrival of the November news ratings. Channel 2 News now has the right to call itself it that if you’re adding up all the ratings points for the nine half-hours of local [...]
Psssstt! Some Thanksgiving Leftovers
Some leftovers after the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend: I’m wondering how many things were thrown at TV sets across Western New York when CBS analyst Rich Gannon praised Buffalo Bills Coach Chan Gailey’s play-calling during the Bills’ 20-13 loss to Indianapolis Sunday afternoon. Gannon was often as infuriating as Gailey’s play-calling because of what he [...]
A Lazy Blog on a Lazy Day
I was going to be lazy today and not blog, but then I read the television column in The Buffalo News this morning and realized that apparently there is no shame in being lazy on the day after Thanksgiving. On the front page of the Home & Style section, the tease for Jeff Simon’s column read [...]
Kilgore’s Goodbye Tops Sweet Johnston Farewell
I got up at 5 this morning to watch a momentous local television event – the final day of Channel 2 co-anchor Jodi Johnston on the station’s popular “Daybreak.” OK, I lied. I didn’t get up at 5 a.m. I got up at a reasonable hour and watched the two-hour love fest from my [...]
Ch.2′s Long Report on Bills Future Is Old Story
You know it is a slow news day when a local TV station spends seven or eight minutes on the timeless story of whether the Buffalo Bills are going to stay in Western New York beyond Owner Ralph Wilson’s lifetime. Channel 2’s Scott Brown spent that amount of time at 6 p.m. Monday in [...]
Looking Back, Johnston Will Be Pretty Tough Act to Follow
By the time you start reading this, Channel 2 co-anchor Jodi Johnston will have finished the first day of her three-day goodbye tour on “Daybreak.” That’s right, the NBC affiliate is going to spend some time in the final three mornings of the November sweeps to say goodbye to Johnston before she leaves for a [...]
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