WHBQ Fox 13 Earns Some Serious Bragging Rights And Comcast Cable Is “On My Side”!

There’s an old saying that I’m quite fond of that states “It Ain’t Bragging If You Can Do It“. WHBQ Fox 13 has proven that they can do it and they have the Emmy hardware to prove it. Fox 13 walked away over the weekend with 10, count’em 10 Emmys including the [...]

I Love Me Some Women in Red and Why Is My Comcast Cable Starting to Look Like My Satellite Reception

I was driving down Union Avenue just west of East Parkway when I saw two lovely ladies wearing red and showing more teeth than is humanly possible. It was a good thing I was wearing my sunglasses because I would have been blinded by the dazzling smiles of WHBQ Fox 13 Valerie Calhoun and [...]

So Long to a Person Who Made a Difference in Local TV News, & How Is It Again You Judge If a Person Was Our First Black President

So long and good luck to Doug Viar. I received a note from Tommy Stafford who worked with several Memphis television stations that Doug Viar finally said “enough”. Some of you newbies to the market don’t know Doug but DV was the go-to guy when it came to covering the outlying areas [...]

You Say Po-TAY-to, I Say Po-TAT-o, You say Nu-VAH-duh, I Say Nu-VAD-uh

Nothing like someone mispronouncing a name on the air to get the phones ringing off the wall in a newsroom.   According to an article in Shoptalk, the pronunciation of the name of the state where one would find the cities of Las Vegas, Carson City and Reno has been a bone of contention for [...]

Congrats to a Former WMCer and Thanks for the Link on Fox 13’s Weather Siren

We can all start talking about how we knew Jovita Moore back in her days at WMC.  Thanks to DG for the tip from the NewsBlues posting,  Jovita Moore will replace Monica (Kaufman) Pearson on the 5 p.m. news at WSB-2-ABC in Atlanta , beginning Jan. 31.  Pearson will continue to anchor the 6 [...]

Wacky Videos about People on TV and Sometimes the Technology Just Doesn’t Work

With apologies to the film Forrest Gump “television news is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get”. Don’t believe me? Check out this live interview on Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer chatting with Diane Keaton. I will have to say it was a nice recovery by [...]

Guess Who Is Apparently Eyeballing Landmark’s Stations in Nashville and Las Vegas

I’ve said for some time now that Landmark’s stations in Nashville and Las Vegas are some pretty sweet properties.  They are powerhouse stations with strong news operations.  I’m sure that has some folks salivating at the prospects of having these properties in their stable.  According to a source, one interested party said to have  made [...]

So, Just Who is Filling the Shoes Vacated by Andy Wise at WREG?

Okay, by now the holiday break/vacation glow has pretty much worn off and it’s back to business at the TV stations in Memphis.   No doubt people are feverously working on compelling special reports for the upcoming ratings period.  Some still refer to these as “series” pieces which doesn’t make much sense anymore since the word [...]

Did We Have Any “Vertically Integrated Liquid” During the Big Storm in Memphis?

 A notice to weather people in Memphis:  If I EVER hear you use the term “vertically integrated liquid” while describing a storm be aware that I will track you down, tear off your arm and beat the hell out of you with that arm!  More on that in just a moment. 
I actually meant to post [...]

Odds & Ends during the First Full Week of January

I guess one might consider this to be the “in your face” shoutdown/smackdown or some sort of equivalent by one TV station to its arch-rival in Memphis. I’m talking about WREG’s billboard on Union right up the street from WMC. That billboard basically promotes WREG’s morning crew which has been [...]