The bad news for viewers looking for laughs in Seattle is that the locally-produced comedy and variety show, The [206], has concluded its third season on KING, the NBC affiliate owned by Tegna. The good news is that not only will it return for its fourth season on KING after Saturday Night Live on Sept. […]
Hurricane Katrina Diary, Part 2
Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. At the time, I was the VP of marketing for Nexstar Broadcasting, headquartered in Irving, Texas. A few days after the hurricane hit, I went to the Nexstar NBC affiliate in Shreveport, La., KTAL, to help with its coverage. Thousands of […]
WJXT Spends All Week Covering 450-Year-Old Story
America’s oldest city, St. Augustine, Fla., is turning 450 years old, and Graham Media’s independent, WJXT, in Jacksonville is helping the city celebrate in style. Tonight, WJXT presents 450 Years: St. Augustine Birthday, a music festival live from the heart of the city. Sunday night at 7, WJXT airs special programming as part of the St. Augustine’s […]
WRTV Anchors Take The Field To Promote NFL Game
Your NFL team is playing on Monday Night Football. It’s a home game. And your station is airing the game. Most likely, viewership will be high. But to heighten awareness about the game being on your channel, (MNF games usually air on ESPN), and to show your news team’s support of the game, you create […]
KRON Leads Bay Area TV Websites In July
Usually, it follows that if you’re No. 1 in on-air news ratings, you’re No. 1 on the Web. But not always. KRON4.com had the most unique visitors, 2.9 million, for television websites during July. But KRON, Media General’s MyNetwork TV affiliate in San Francisco, is usually No. 3 or No. 4 in the television news […]
WDTN Gives Coats To Kids, 500,000 So Far
For 32 years, less fortunate children and adults in the Ohio Valley area around Dayton, Ohio, have been kept just a little warmer during the winter thanks to WDTN and its sponsors. When WDTN, Media General’s NBC affiliate, started its annual Coats for Kids campaign, Ronald Reagan was president, the average annual income was $20,000, […]
Need A Weather Department? Call WeatherVision
Staffing and equipping a weather department for a local TV news operation is expensive. Meteorologists’ salaries, a Doppler radar, on-air graphics, etc., all this is a serious and on-going investment. But for some local TV stations, there is another option: WeatherVision. “WeatherVision is an out-sourcing mechanism,” says Edward St. Pé, WeatherVision’s president, “where a television station […]
Hurricane Katrina Diary, Part 1
Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. At the time, I was the VP of Marketing for Nexstar Broadcasting, headquartered in Irving, Texas. I had worked at two stations in New Orleans in my career, WDSU and WWL, so I was keenly interested in watching the hurricane coverage. […]
WDSU To Chronicle Five Children Of Katrina
Hearst-owned NBC affiliate WDSU New Orleans will air an hour-long documentary, Chronicle: Children Of Katrina, Saturday at 6 p.m., 10 years to the day that Hurricane Katrina struck. Chronicle: Children Of Katrina tells the stories of five young people who lived through the storm and examines how that experience shaped their lives. Each story provides […]
WGN To Air Special About Alzheimer’s
WGN, the CW affiliate in Chicago owned by Tribune, will air a half-hour special report, Unforgettable: Living with Alzheimer’s, Saturday at 7 p.m. The special examines the growing elder population and how Alzheimer’s disease is becoming a bigger factor in peoples’ lives. The program includes discussions with doctors, patients, caregivers and support staff, including interviews […]