Imagine your business has some job openings and you’re not having much success filling them. The solution might be to place a ‘help wanted’ ad on TV, if you could afford it. Only TV stations have the ability to do that. They have the resources to create the ad and the air-time to show it. […]
A Tribute To The Late, Great Jon Quattlebaum
Twenty years ago, one of the most talented, inventive, well-liked TV feature reporters I’ve ever met passed away. He was only 26. With the unlikely TV name of Jon Quattlebaum, his Q Point of View reports on CBS affiliate WINK in Fort Myers, Fla., were required watching for viewers all over Southwest Florida. Even the […]
Christine Baron New CSD At WPTV West Palm Beach
Christine Baron is the new creative services director at WPTV and WFLX, the NBC and Fox affiliates owned by Scripps in West Palm Beach, Fla. Baron won’t have to get a new driver’s license since she’s just driving about four hours south from Jacksonville where, for the past 3 1/2 years, she was the promotions […]
All Arizona TV Stations To Air Student Report On Heroin
If you’re anywhere in the state of Arizona on Tuesday night, Jan. 13, at 6:30, and you’re near a TV or radio, you’ll see and hear a 30-minute investigative report on the perils of heroin. The state-wide simulcast of Hooked: Tracking Heroin’s Hold on Arizona is produced by Arizona State University journalism students and in […]
It’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ On Monday Morning
Maybe you were attending a holiday party and drank too much egg nog this past Saturday night and didn’t stay up late enough to catch Saturday Night Live on NBC. What is nog anyway? Whatever it was that kept you from watching this past weekend, fear not. Here are some highlights from the show.
Happy Holiday Promos From Atlanta, Dallas, Philly And Tulsa
It’s the season of sharing so why not share your station’s holiday promos FROM ANY YEAR. Send me your station holiday spots FROM ANY YEAR to share by emailing me the online link or a small file version I can post online. Got a question or want to brainstorm? I’m at 817-578-6324 or [email protected]. Thanks […]
Video Surfaces Showing Sarah Palin Hitchhiking
Would you stop and pick up Sarah Palin if you saw her hitchhiking? John McCain did. (I would, too. I’ve got some questions I’d like her to answer.) Since McCain picked her to ride shotgun as his running mate in his failed bid for the presidency in 2008, Palin has been a media darling, especially […]
Raycom Media Sponsors New College Bowl Game
On Dec. 20, this Saturday night, a new college bowl game will premiere on ESPN from Montgomery, Ala. The Raycom Media Camellia Bowl will pit a team from the Sun Belt Conference against one from the Mid-American Conference. In this year’s inaugural game, the team’s playing are South Alabama University from Mobile, Ala., representing the […]
Bounce TV Airing Martin Luther King III PSA
Martin Luther King III is asking the country to remember his father’s words about nonviolence in a new public service initiative. “Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals,” says King III, son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, […]
More Cool Yule Promos From Days Of Yore
Some TV stations still do their own holiday promos now and certainly have in the past. I found some creative and unique holiday spots from yesteryear that I thought I’d share. These are fun to look at even if you never worked at these stations. But if you did work there, these will bring back […]