Al Jazeera America’s primetime news magazine, America Tonight, will air two special shows from New Orleans about Hurricane Katrina on Friday and Saturday at 10 p.m. ET. The programs, hosted by anchor Joie Chen, will feature AJAM contributor, Soledad O’Brien, reporting on several stories. Some of the topics the program will examine include how two […]
KIRO Delivers Tears Of Joy To Struggling Firefighters
Thousands of firefighters, right now, are battling the largest wildfire in Washington State’s history. And the last thing they need is to run low on water. And food. So when a call went out to KIRO’s consumer reporter, Jesse Jones, asking for help, Jones responded. KIRO is the Cox-owned CBS affiliate in Seattle. Jones called […]
AccuWeather Remembers Katrina Online With Videos, News
AccuWeather traces Hurricane Katrina and the recovery by launching a news and video center on its website featuring news stories and videos that provide unique meteorological perspective and personal insights into the storm. AccuWeather’s Remembering Hurricane Katrina center at AccuWeather.com includes exclusive photo essays, graphics, timelines, articles and videos covering the natural disaster, as well […]
WWL-TV’s Katrina Coverage: Past, Present And Future
WWL, the Tegna-owned CBS affiliate in New Orleans, devotes a significant amount of news time to covering Hurricane Katrina all this week online and on-air. As mentioned in yesterday’s column, WWL posted the hour-long documentary, Katrina: 10 Days, 10 Years, to its website for the world to see. This Thursday night at 7, that special, […]
WWL Posts Hurricane Katrina Documentary Online
It’s been 10 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast of the United States. Over the next week, national networks and local stations will be airing special programs and news coverage about the disastrous storm. So look at Market Share all week for more information, clips and marketing examples of special coverage […]
20,000 Animals Tell NBC/Telemundo, ‘Thank You’
We know animals communicate. Dogs wag their tails. Cats purr. YouTube videos show whales acknowledging divers who cut away fishing nets that have entangled them. So I’m sure that if the thousands of dogs and cats, and a few pigs, rabbits, hamsters, hedgehogs, turtles, ferrets, monkeys, donkeys, lizards and cows that were adopted last week […]
Women Who Love To Compete For Pro Sports Stars
My wife says I watch way too much professional sports on TV. So we came up with a compromise, which I’ll reveal later. I watch professional sports because I want to see my favorite professional sports athletes compete. Catch touchdowns, hit homeruns, score goals or sink baskets. But there’s another competition involving these pro sports […]
Hurricane Katrina’s Overlooked Story: Mississippi
When people think of Hurricane Katrina, the images that come to mind are mostly from New Orleans. Houses flooded to the roof, Coast Guard helicopter baskets filled with people, and evacuees clutching their few possessions outside the Superdome. But there is another story about Hurricane Katrina that’s mostly overlooked: What Hurricane Katrina did to Mississippi. […]
Viewer Video Stars In New AM News Spot From KTVT
I know I’m going to sound like a grumpy old man, but when I was a kid, we never went back to school until Labor Day was over. Not today. In many of the southern locales I lived, school is likely to start in the beginning of August. Like Dallas. When the kids go back […]
Before Katrina, Camille Was The Lady Scorned
Before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Louisiana, it was a lady named Camille that roared ashore on this date back in 1969 that was considered by many as the worst hurricane to hit the area. The Category 5 hurricane killed more than 250 people, mostly along the Mississippi Gulf Coast cities […]