Congrats to a Former Memphis Newsperson and Don’t Try This at Home

I’ve been working on a couple of video projects this week and while waiting for the computer to digest the video I was surfing the net and ran across an item about a new News Director from Baltimore heading to Kansas City.  After checking a little bit I discovered that the person was none other [...]

Be Careful What You Wish For

I’ve said it before and I will say it again:  I know enough about most technology to be dangerous.  The really scary part is that in our household and in our home office I’m the tech guy.  That’s why I do a lot of head scratching sometimes when a piece of computer related equipment starts [...]

Latest Ratings for Memphis TV, TV Relationships with the Local Newspaper & Other Odds and Ends

I received a “heads-up” that the latest numbers were about to come out late last week and the next thing I knew I had received a news release from WMC-TV.  I have to admit when I receive a news release from Action News 5, I have to “decode” it on another computer since the version [...]

Local TV LLC Kicking Young Broadcasting’s Tires and A Possible Scenario Where WREG Produces News for Someone Else in Memphis

For the second time this week someone has shared with me that Local TV LLC is interested in properties owned by Young Broadcasting.  The two accounts differ so, I figured I would post on what has been shared.
I’m told that Local TV LLC has paid a visit to some of the properties, looking them over, [...]

Memphis Will Soon Only Have Only One “Eye In the Sky”, The Commercial Appeal Fights Back, I Discover “Me” On Animal Planet, and A Former Co-worker has passed

I leave town for a week for work in Baltimore and I discover that I really am out of the loop.  I see that News Chopper 3 aka The Red Chopper won’t be gracing the skies of Memphis much longer.  According to a blurb in the Commercial Appeal, NC3 won’t be re-upping on the lease [...]