In the future, everybody will be the star in their own TV reality show. My life will then be one continuous selfie, where friends and family can tune into my reality every day. Want to know what Paul’s doing, turn on The Paul Greeley Show. In that scenario, my life will be richer, fuller and […]
Car Hacking: WNBC February Sweeps
Makes sense that someone with the knowledge, the ability and bad intentions could hack into the functions of my car. Almost everything in cars these days is controlled by a computer. At the very least, they could unlock the doors to it when I leave it in a shopping center. How hard or easy is […]
Dangerous Roads: KHOU February Sweeps
Statistics and data tell stories, in the right hands. This is exactly the kind of story that only local TV news can tell. And should tell. Dangerous roads and intersections. Dirtiest, and cleanest, restaurants. Safest, and un-safest, neighborhoods. These stories all start with information readily available within city government. Talk about viewer benefit. If I […]
Selling Station Snow Coverage Via Social Media
For all the readers living in Florida, Texas, Louisiana, California, Arizona and anywhere else it’s warm, this is your chance to feel sorry for all of us up here in the frigid tundra of single digit temps and falling snow. Or not. Snow is falling on the East Coast, and places where you wouldn’t expect […]
Independent TV, The Rarest Of The Rare
There’s no highly-rated, primetime entertainment programming leading into your late news. There’s no national news in the morning or evening. No latenight comedy talk shows. No soaps. It’s just syndicated programs and your news. Sounds scary, huh? Welcome to independent television as practiced by KUSI San Diego, standing all alone competing with nine network affiliates […]
WROC February Sweeps Story Disturbing
As a parent with a degree in secondary education, I tried to imagine what must have been going through the minds of news viewers watching a special report called, The Rubber Room, last night on WROC’s 11p.m. news in Rochester. Let’s start with disbelief. No, this can’t be happening. I’ve heard of disciplining students by […]
Bounce TV Continues Black History Month
Bounce TV, the nation’s first broadcast network for African-Americans, is celebrating Black History Month in February by showing some of what it calls “the greatest African-American stories, motion pictures and performances of all-time.” This Sunday night, February 15 at 9p.m., Bounce TV will air Sounder, the 1972 movie starring Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield. Adapted […]
Pete Barrett Named WCIA Production Manager
Long-time TV production pro Pete Barrett is headed about 5 hours east from Kansas City to Champaign, Illinois to head up production at the Nexstar-owned CBS affiliate there, WCIA. I’ve known Pete since our days serving as members on the CBS Affiliate Advisory Caucus, where Pete was president, way back in the early 90s, […]
Olympic Legend Surprises Retiring News Anchor
Bill Griffith is retiring from KGTV, the Scripps-owned ABC affiliate in San Diego, at the end of February. But he has 20 stops to make before that. Griffith and the new KGTV morning and noon news anchor, Jason Martinez, are tooling all over town in the 36’ RV christened Bill’s Excellent Adventure to revisit Griffith’s […]
If It’s Monday, It Must Be Snowing In Boston
Snow is expected again in Boston. Some tonight and then more again over the weekend going into Monday. This will make the fourth Monday in a row the city has experienced a dumping of the white stuff. The National Weather Service says Boston has received 76.5 inches of snow so far this winter. New Englanders, […]