I often write about the lack of end-user experiences in local TV news marketing. We don’t often see how the news product makes any difference in the lives of the people who watch. It’s not that it doesn’t happen, it’s just hard to find those people and then go out and talk to them, put […]
PromaxBDA Announces Top Finalists For Awards At Station Summit
PromaxBDA announced the top finalists for this year’s awards to be given at the annual PromaxBDA Station Summit coming up in June in Las Vegas. Tribune Creative; KSL Salt Lake City; Comcast SportsNet Chicago; WPIX New York; Ontario’s TVO; Quebec’s Groupe TVA; KNBC Los Angeles; WTNH New Haven, Conn.; and WISH Indianapolis are among the […]
Stepping Away From The Weather Map After 50 Years
Dick Goddard, the 85-year old meteorologist who has been a fixture on the Cleveland weather scene for 50 years, announced yesterday at 6 p.m. on WJW, Tribune’s Fox affiliate, that he was stepping away from the weather map. Click here to read an article about Goddard’s local legendary status in Cleveland. Here’s the video:
WJZY Lives Up To New Slogan, ‘Gets Results’
Close your eyes, and imagine living in a broken down car with your mother for 207 days. “You spend your nights sitting straight up. You’ve lived through fall, winter with snow and ice, and the car has no heat,” said Barbara Gregory, who was forced to live in her car with her daughter, Teresa Kramer. […]
WGCL Facebook Fans Support Anchor’s Alcoholism Admission
Alcoholism is a disease that doesn’t discriminate. And local TV news personalities are not immune from its clutches. And when that drinking causes a run-in with police, that news often becomes reported in the press. Usually, the story is covered by the competing TV news operations and local newspapers in town, and sometimes, the station […]
Major Weather Event Hits Cleveland Tonight At 6
A 50-year Cleveland weather phenomenon is expected to end its reign over the television airwaves tonight at 6 on Tribune’s Fox affiliate WJW. Dick Goddard, the 85-year-old meteorologist who has been a fixture on the Cleveland weather scene for 50 years, is expected to announce his retirement during the 6 p.m. news on WJW, according to […]
Pint-Size Viral Sensation Wows In WAVE Story
She has more than a million Facebook followers and is all over both TV and the internet because of her karaoke singing. Audrey Nethery may have a bone marrow disorder, but the pint-size 7-year-old doesn’t let that stop her from singing and dancing her heart out. Shannon Hori Cogan, an anchor at Raycom’s NBC affiliate […]
Hands On Buzzers! WTVO’s Quiz Show Is A Hit
The Stateline Quiz Bowl by Bergstrom, a locally-produced weekly teen quiz show airing exclusively on WTVO-WQRF, held its second season finale this past Friday night, concluding another successful year. WTVO is Mission Broadcasting’s ABC affiliate in Rockford, Ill., while WQRF is Nexstar’s Fox affiliate. The stations share studios. The Stateline Quiz Bowl pits local high […]
Investigation Into Toxic Mines Wins Murrow For KPHO
It’s estimated there are more than a 100,000 abandoned mines in Arizona, but no state or federal agency knows how many are leaking toxic heavy metals into the environment. So KPHO, Meredith’s CBS affiliate in Phoenix, sent its investigative unit to collect samples from six old uranium, lead, silver and copper mines. KPHO’s investigation, Abandoned […]
Drake All Over ‘Saturday Night Live’
Drake — his full name is Aubrey Drake Graham — the Canadian rapper/singer/actor was both the guest host and musical guest on this past weekend’s episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. According to the A.V. Club, an entertainment website, Drake appeared in almost every sketch, and “as personable and game as Drake was, his wire-to-wire […]