easttxtv 7 Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 In what just might be a first anywhere, WTTW 11 Chicago (PBS) has sold the naming rights to...their anchorman. Phil Ponce, host of 'Chicago Tonight' will now be known as The Alexandra and John Nichols Chief Correspondent and Host. The Nichols have been longtime trustees of WTTW and parent company Window to the World Communications, Inc. No word, though, on how much this lousy money grab will bring in for the station. (Behind Paywall) http://www.robertfeder.com/2015/01/12/wttw-sells-naming-rights-to-phil-ponces-job/ This is worse than the radio stations that announce "Live!! from the (favorite sponsor here) News Center!" or "Here's (whoever sports anchor) from the (even more favorite sponsor here) Sports Desk!" I'm sorry, but this is just TOO MUCH product placement..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3458 Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 WOUB-TV in Athens, Ohio, tries to make sense of their conundrum with Nielsen and the satellite companies... (Athens County is currently in the Charleston-Huntington DMA, and WOUB, licensed to ATHENS, is now going to be carried in the COLUMBUS DMA) http://woub.org/2015/01/12/why-woub%E2%80%99s-satellite-distribution-moved-columbus Because Athens County has bounced back and forth between both markets in the last decade (since it's on the fringes of either market), viewers who actually LIVE in Athens County are denied the right to view their hometown station, which actually has a student-run newscast put on by university students at Ohio University. :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: In addition, WOUB's coverage area includes large portions of Washington County (part of Parkersburg) and Muskingum County (the Zanesville DMA), as well as satellite station WOUC based out of Cambridge (Guernsey County; part of Columbus) whose coverage makes it the only full-powered PBS station for the Steubenville-Wheeling market. Are there actually cases of satellite companies putting significantly viewed out-of-market stations on their systems? Up until DirecTV uplinked the Charleston-Huntington stations (the first time), Athens County actually qualified as a NRTC area, which was eligible to receive feeds from New York and Los Angeles stations. Cable has always carried both sets of the Big 3 stations from Columbus and Charleston/Huntington, with the FOX and CW stations being swapped out depending on what market Athens County is assigned to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swillh2k2 203 Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Whenever I think of WOUB, I think of this... [yt]wzb_CDJ6U-s[/yt] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3458 Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Whenever I think of WOUB, I think of this... [yt]wzb_CDJ6U-s[/yt] The video you post was of the OTHER student-run news program "Athens Midday", which used to run weekdays at noon on WOUB II (the local CABLE educational access channel for Athens, Ohio). The channel itself was run by the WOUB Center for Public Media, but the show was an entirely student-run production of E.W. Scripps School of Journalism students in one of their 4th year Broadcast News classes. It used to show PBSYou and PBSKids programmimng between student shows, but since both of these channels no longer exist, i'm not sure what fills the schedule anymore. "Midday" ran during the school season, but went away after Ohio University switched from quarters to semesters. It used to be based in the basement of Scripps Hall (the Journalism building), but later moved to the same studio that WOUB's newscast came from in the Radio-TV Building (where WOUB is based) WOUB (and WOUC) are full-powered PBS member stations serving Southeast Ohio and parts of West Virginia. They have their own news department (along with a network of NPR stations) staffed by paid members and volunteers, mostly students in Journalism and Telecommunications. They put on a half-hour "Newswatch" which airs weekdays at 5:30. As a result, it was like a virtual duopoly as students could be doing coursework for Athens Midday (being on that show) AND working for WOUB at the same time. If someone was a writer for the Ohio University newspaper "The Post", they were forbidden from participating in other writing or journalism activities, except if coursework required it. And yes, this Louis guy is for real. I had several classes with him, and personally witnessed his other times going on the air. Luckily, he was never on WOUB itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennTV1983 743 Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 A couple of stories from the Memphis market: - WMC-TV weekend meteorologist Tim Van Horn has left the station to become a full-time real estate agent for Crye-Leike. His final day on the job was this past Sunday (http://blog.memphisdailynews.com/?p=33694). - Cox Media Group has appointed former WOOD-TV news director Patti McGettigan to the same position at WHBQ-TV (http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/82144/patti-mcgettigan-new-whbq-news-director). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1366 Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 Well, I didn't see this coming. Long-time KTVT CBS 11 Sports Director/Anchor Babe Laufenberg is parting ways with the CBS O&O, Laufenberg has been with KTVT for 17 years, his last day will be this Wednesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRob 920 Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 KSHB/Kansas City investigative reporter Ryan Kath is leaving for an investigative reporting job with WBZ-TV in Boston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidwestTV 1173 Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 KSHB/Kansas City investigative reporter Ryan Kath is leaving for an investigative reporting job with WBZ-TV in Boston. Wow! And to think, a few months ago we were pondering him being a possible replacement anchor for Mark Clegg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
who?cares 253 Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 - Cox Media Group has appointed former WOOD-TV news director Patti McGettigan to the same position at WHBQ-TV (http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/82144/patti-mcgettigan-new-whbq-news-director). Nice things were not said about McGettigan at WISH. Best of luck to WHBQ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaking News 802 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Nice things were not said about McGettigan at WISH. Best of luck to WHBQ. Was she as bad as some of the postings said about her? There are times where Cox bring in some shrew executives, and a few moments down the road they get tossed out on their backside. Let see how this one will play out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
news89 467 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Long time Pittsburgh meteorologist Dennis Bowman at CBS Owned KDKA-TV is retiring on Friday April 17, 2015, no word on replacement. Dennis Bowman started at KDKA 10 years ago on the weekends and then moved to weekday mornings. http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/tv-radio/2015/01/13/KDKA-TV-meteorologist-Dennis-Bowman-to-retire-in-April-Pittsburgh/stories/201501130155 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Just when it seems like things are looking up for KNXV... news director Pat Costello decides it's time to return to Seattle, at KOMO. If they want someone in the market they do have Cameryn Beck on corporate payroll... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
who?cares 253 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Was she as bad as some of the postings said about her? There are times where Cox bring in some shrew executives, and a few moments down the road they get tossed out on their backside. Let see how this one will play out. From what I heard about her, yes. I'm not sure how she lasted so long at WOOD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVIntheDesert 183 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Just when it seems like things are looking up for KNXV... news director Pat Costello decides it's time to return to Seattle, at KOMO. If they want someone in the market they do have Cameryn Beck on corporate payroll... He must like Seattle so much that he doesn't mind working for Sinclair. In other Phoenix market news, according to KAET's Facebook page, the nightly newscast produced by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism which has been in the works since last summer premieres on Monday, January 26th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d247 43 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 OKC-based Griffin Communications (owners of KOTV and KQCW in Tulsa, and KWTV and now KSBI in OKC) is in a retrans dispute with Dish. http://keepnewson6.com/ http://keepnews9.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvcg66b3r 97 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 OKC-based Griffin Communications (owners of KOTV and KQCW in Tulsa, and KWTV and now KSBI in OKC) has settled a retrans dispute with Dish. http://www.newson6.com/story/13796834/attention-dish-network-subscribers Isn't that article from 2011? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d247 43 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Isn't that article from 2011? Whoops, just noticed that. Sorry about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAVY 10 Fan 232 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Saw this retweeted on VARTV's Twitter feed (originally by one of the newer WAVY reporters, Brandi Cummings) but weekend morning meteorologist Jeff Edmondson is out at WAVY https://twitter.com/BrandiWAVY/status/555825365449732096/photo/1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 This is a ludicrous story from Argentina. In 2001, the public broadcaster ATC was replaced by TV Pública. Yet here we are, 14 years later (!), and ATC still is on the books, with one employee and a budget of about $96,000 USD. The employee is a lawyer who has been handling ATC's liquidation. Most of the budget is for the liquidator's salary, but 35% of it was earmarked for "goods and services". He also was paid for travel to and from his home city of Santa Fe, yet for tax purposes his home is in Buenos Aires. He also works as an insurance agent, even though he affirmed in 2012 and 2013 that he spent at least 160 hours a month working on the liquidation of the long-dead public broadcaster. The original investigation here explains that ATC might likely still on the books for legal reasons to face various court cases, but otherwise it looks like some plush corruption. This is the definition of a sinecure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriangleTriadMediaNews 267 Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 More anchor shuffling at WNCN. This time weekend evening anchor Mike Gonzalez switches places with morning/11am anchor Phil Sanchez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewsMaster 226 Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 The Heartland stations may be getting new websites. WKTV just got a new one and KEZI / KDRV and WTVA may be next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3458 Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 Weigel and FOX's MOVIES! is launching on new stations.... http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/82337/movies-network-adds-six-new-affiliates It's a hodgepodge of stations...and it looks as if ThisTV is going to be bounced from WBNX 55.3. I highly doubt 55.2 is going away since it's the "All Ernest Angley all the Time" subchannel....(since they own the station). That's the second place ThisTV has been kicked off of ever since WUAB sent them packing for "Bounce" a few years back. They've since added Grit to 43.3 in addition to Bounce on 43.2. For WXTX, it looks like it will replace the soon-to-be gone LiveWell on 54.2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrabbleship 427 Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 The Heartland stations may be getting new websites. WKTV just got a new one and KEZI / KDRV and WTVA may be next. Begin the countdown for WKTV going HD in 5, 4, 3... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PelicanGuy 117 Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 WDSU has hired Adrianna Hopkins to co-anchor the 5 pm and 10 pm newscasts starting later this month with Camille Whitworth and Scott Walker, respectively. Her most recent stint was at WSVN Miami. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaking News 802 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 WDSU has hired Adrianna Hopkins to co-anchor the 5 pm and 10 pm newscasts starting later this month with Camille Whitworth and Scott Walker, respectively. Her most recent stint was at WSVN Miami. Also in the Big Easy; Juan Kincaid jumps from WWL to WVUE to replace former sports director Fred Hickman who left FOX 8 last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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