Watch Some Top-Rated Ho, Ho, Holiday Spots From 2021
December 23rd, 2021 by Paul GreeleyGoogle the “best holiday TV commercials for 2021” and you’ll get quite a few links to sites that have singled out the best from their point of view, both from here in the U.S. and overseas. Here are some that made most of the lists.
WCMH Columbus Raises $3 Million For Ohio Food Bank
December 22nd, 2021 by Paul GreeleyThis is the ninth year in a row NBC4 partnered with the Mid-Ohio Food Collective for Double Your Donation Day.
Happy Holidays From KSTU, Fox13, Salt Lake
December 21st, 2021 by Paul GreeleyHere’s a spot from Darcy Stapleford, senior news promotion producer for KSTU, the Scripps Fox affiliate in Salt Lake City. “Our anchor, Kelly Chapman, suggested we shoot our holiday promo at a light display this year,” Stapleford says. “I began to think how colorful lights on long, dark, winter nights is a good comparison to finding love, hope and inspiration during the dark days of the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
WFSB Tops November Ratings In Every Newscast
December 20th, 2021 by Paul GreeleyWFSB in Hartford-New Haven, Conn., is a legacy station with a history of ratings dominance in the market over many decades. How does a TV station get there? And once there, what’s the secret to remaining on top?
WLKY Tops $1 Million In Aid For Kentucky Tornado Victims
December 17th, 2021 by Paul GreeleyMajor contributions included a $100,000 donation from WLKY and a gift of $250,000 from the KFC Yum! Center and Louisville recording artist Jack Harlow.
WCTI’s 5-Day, 5-Cities Food Drive Yields 209,000 Meals
December 17th, 2021 by Paul GreeleyWCTI, Sinclair’s ABC affiliate in New Bern, North Carolina, continued its 30-year tradition of the Share Your Christmas Food Drive to help food insecure families in eastern North Carolina.
WLBT’s New Set Includes 41 Video Monitors
December 16th, 2021 by Paul GreeleyThe studio, designed by FX Design Group, is equipped with three unique story telling video walls to provide viewers with easy-to-read graphics which are made up of over 41 individual video monitors.
KELO Sioux Falls To Donate $200K Of Airtime To 15 Nonprofits
December 15th, 2021 by Paul GreeleyThe Avera Tradition of Caring in KELOLAND grant program will award grants to local nonprofit organizations to provide a television and digital advertising campaign for education and awareness of their organization.
WESH Food Drive To Provide 2.5 Million Meals In Orlando
December 15th, 2021 by Paul GreeleyThe 2021 WESH 2 Share Your Christmas campaign saw an increase in food donated as well as monetary donations, as the Central Florida community recognizes many families are still struggling to recover from the pandemic and economic toll it took on our tourism-based economy.
Tomorrow’s NewsTECHForum Conference An ‘Unprecedented Event’
December 13th, 2021 by Paul GreeleyTVNewsCheck‘s eighth annual NewsTECHForum takes place tomorrow both in person and via live stream from the New York Hilton. Broadcast executives representing “a wide cross-section of representation will lead discussions about how the news product and technology intersect,” says Michael Depp, TVNewsCheck editor, and executive producer of this year’s NewsTECHForum.