I’ve been chatting with some folks recently about HDTV and how soon local news in the Bluff City might be converting. Yah, the stations are broadcasting some programs in High Def but as I understand it, we shouldn’t expect to see local news in HD just yet. Those who have HDTV already tell [...]
Archive for February, 2006
H-D T-V spells bad news for A-N-C-H-O-R-S
February 27, 2006Non-competes: You either love em or hate em.
February 26, 2006(If you see extraneous symbols in this posting, please let me know. Thanks in advance)
I see in Shoptalk www.tvspy.com that an anchor in Rochester, NY is going to court to challenge her non-compete clause with her former employer. In a story in the Rochester City News, the former reporter who is a [...]
Hey, s**t happens and I think we’ve become desensitized!
February 23, 2006I got a call this week from a former co-worker residing in Nashville where he works as a religion reporter for the ABC affiliate. He asked me what I thought about saying the S-word on a piece he was planning to air as early as Sunday night at 10pm. I laughed at [...]
Black History Month revisited
February 23, 2006A while back I posted about Black History Month and whether it was really needed. I appreciate the folks who responded as they offered some interesting observations. I also posted about how I wished someone would do something different than listing the same old, same old on the obvious black leaders we all [...]
I actually watched some of the Olympics, alert the media!
February 23, 2006Wow, I finally saw some of the Winter Olympics. It was part of the curling competition. Why was I watching? Because I mis-punched the remote control trying to get to the Weather Channel. I will admit, curling ranks right up there with watching ice melt, but there’s something about seeing four grown people doing what [...]
The new ND down on the river gets a thumbs up from some of the troops!
February 20, 2006The guy at the helm of the news department down on the river gets some good reviews from some of the folks who work for him. Bruce Moore, formerly of WVEC in Norfolk has been at the helm of WREG since the last week of January. He’s described by his former [...]
The Weather folks are two for two and I didn’t win the Powerball lottery again.
February 19, 2006The luck of the Irish hasn’t been with me this weekend. First, I really wanted the weather folks to be wrong about the winter storm in Memphis and the MidSouth over the weekend. My reason was not so I could rag on them. I wished they hadn’t been right merely because it [...]
Weathergasm, weathergasm, weathergasm! Part Deux
February 17, 2006“Batten down the hatches, secure the jibs, throw things over the stern, shiver me timbers and now I’ve run out of nautical terms. But you get my drift. It’s weathergasm time. I’m not saying we’re going to die here, but I’m not saying we’re not either. “Do I sound like any weather [...]
An imagined conversation
February 16, 2006George: I guess I just don’t get it. A handful of folks hide behind their masks of anonymity and launch their attacks. Don’t they realize this involves freedoms they should feel lucky to have and yet they abuse them.
Dick:Yah, they don’t realize that when they carry out their attacks from wherever they’re [...]
Duck, it’s Dick!
February 15, 2006Okay, that’s a cheap shot. Ow, stop it. Budda-bang. Okay, enough of this.I knew it would happen somewhere and it did. Someone did a simulation of sorts concerning the quail hunting accident involving the Veep.Interestingly enough, it was a newspaper that did the video and not that a TV station that [...]
"I'm a former TV and radio newsman who decided he didn't want to keep getting up at 2:30 in the morning to anchor the news. So after a quarter of a century, I pulled the plug on myself. I'm still wondering what I will do when I grow up. So is my wife."