Ch-ch-ch-changes in Memphis?

Wow. I hear changes are being made or considered in the local TV news business in Memphis. First, I had heard there’s a change in the ND post at WPTY but haven’t been able to get anything more on that. Don’t know what the reason for that would be since it seems [...]

The Future of Television has Arrived and You Get to Help!

My lovely and talented bride and I were watching a movie on the FX Network on satellite when the future of TV presented itself. I thought it was a joke at first, then realized the second time we saw the spot that it was not.A man who identified as John Landgraf, president and general manager [...]

The Numbers are IN from the May Book in the Bluff City

This blog thing is great, kind of like being at a bar. You ask for something and suddenly, there it is, right in front of you. Earlier this week, I asked for numbers from the May book here in the Bluff City and suddenly, there they are. I thank the person who provided them to [...]

So, Any Word on the TV News Ratings Game in Memphis?

It’s time again to play Spin the Ratings. The folks down on the river won bragging rights back in February and some said it was a fluke because of the Winter Olympics carried by the station on Union. While some said it was no big deal, it reportedly had some folks sweating bullets [...]

Kudos to Fed Ex Marketing and Yet Another Sign of the Apocalypse

Somebody at Memphis based Fed Ex’s marketing department should be getting a huge bonus. Once again the shipping giant manages to put itself right smack dab in the middle of the news in a positive light and I found myself applauding the effort. It seems that some penguins that had been evacuated from [...]

Good Night and Good Luck Mike Wallace

As cliched as it might sound, an era ended Sunday night with the swan song of Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes. I missed about the first four or five minutes of the retrospective of the guy who created what some say was the most feared phrase in America ” Hello, I’m Mike Wallace”. As arguably [...]

I can find more than I would ever want to know about the Da Vinci Code on TV but I sure can’t find anything about weather!

First, let me say I liked the Da Vinci Code book. It was entertaining and I personally thought a better read than Angels and Demons, also by Dan Brown. I think both are thought provoking fiction. It hasn’t swayed me to go find a secret society or expect any more foul play from the [...]

Okay, just who is in charge of this goat-roping?

A recent post from former co-worker and now religion reporter in Nashville Jamey Tucker about a bizarre moment in broadcasting in Memphis. His post, for those who haven’t seen it, was in regards to an interview with a woman who was NOT the person he was led to believe she was. [...]

Are We Reaping What We have Sown?

I ran across an interesting post on the Watercolor section of TVSpyconcerning a bad encounter by a live crew from WPTY in downtown Memphis with an irate restaurant owner. You can check out the action at www.myeyewitnessnews.com/mediacenter/?videoId=160092. In a nutshell, the news crew was fronting a story there about a restaurant owner who [...]

What were they thinking on this weather promo and this traffic report!

Occasionally you will see on television reasons why oversight is needed in some departments. I credit my good friend and former co-worker Jack with pointing out this rather bizarre weather promo last weekend when I visited him in Knoxville. Jack is a certified meterologist and knows plenty about what makes weather work. [...]