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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Mills James Production Coordinator, Chuck Mile Dies

Charles "Chuck" Edward Mile, 58, of Bellevue, passed away on June 17, 2010 at Hospice of the Bluegrass Care Center Fort Thomas, KY.

He was a Video Production Coordinator with Mills James Productions. He was a Member of the Loyal Booster Club; a former employee of Mac Productions in Covington. Chuck was also a Member and on Staff at Northern Kentucky University Audio/Visual Production.

Chuck was born February 13, 1952 in Cincinnati, OH to Charles Miles and Gloria McQueown Miles.

He is survived by his son,Shawn Mile, of Newport, KY; and daughter, Lacy Mile, of Dayton, KY.

Celebration of Life will be held on Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Dobbling, Muehlenkamp-Erschell Funeral Home, Bellevue.

Memorials are suggested to the Campbell County Animal Shelter P.O. Box 97 Melbourne, KY 41059, or to the Brighton Center Newport 741 Central Ave. Newport, KY 41071.

Online condolences can be given at www.dmefuneral.com .

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

WCMH Signs Up for Rentrak

Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), the leader in multi-screen media measurement serving the advertising and entertainment industries, today announced an agreement with WCMH, a Media General NBC affiliate, to utilize Rentrak's StationView Essentials system for the station in Columbus, Ohio.

Continuing the momentum Rentrak has established with local stations for its Station View Essentials service, WCMH joins Lin TV and Sinclair Broadcast Group for measurement and software services for the Columbus, Ohio, market from the largest commercially available database of digital set-top-devices. Rentrak will be providing WCMH with new metrics, including the company's unique "Stickiness Index," which measures viewer involvement, in order to illuminate the value proposition local broadcaster's have in terms of reach and hold with their television viewers.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rentrak-signs-agreement-with-nbc-affiliate-wcmh-to-provide-stationview-essentials-for-local-market-measurement-84002487.html

Traffic Reporter Wanted in Columbus

WSYX/WTTE-TV, in Columbus, Ohio is looking for our next great TV Traffic Reporter! We want a personality to perform traffic reports for our 4-hour morning newscasts. Our Traffic Reporter would be responsible for gathering traffic incident information and creating accurate, informative, visually interesting and well-presented traffic reports.

http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?job_did=J3F3PP660GGH2YJ10BZ&cbRecursionCnt=1&cbsid=78ddeed921dc449a9b559e8fb8f2e3f3-319155224-J8-5

Cincinnati Reporter Follows Bengals to Samoa

Did you stay up after the Super Bowl, and CBS’ “Undercover Boss,” to watch Local 12 news with Tara Pachmayer’s reports from Samoa with Bengals players Domata Peko, Rey Maualuga and Jonathan Fanene? (Many of you did. The Local 12 late news Sunday averaged a 18.5 ratings and 34% share of the available TV audience.) You can catch the rest of her stories from Samoa at 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. today through Thursday on WKRC-TV.

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2010/02/08/channel-12-reports-from-samoa-through-thursday/

Sunday, February 7, 2010

WBNS Kicks Off Year Long Project During Superbowl

Columbus' television news operations typically focus on what has happened in central Ohio in the preceding hours, minutes and, in some cases, seconds.

WBNS-TV (Channel 10) says it's going to look forward, too -- way forward.

The station, which is owned by The Dispatch's parent company, has announced that it will explore the region's future in a yearlong multimedia initiative dubbed Central Ohio 2015, A Community Visioning Project.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2010/02/07/Vision_2015.ART_ART_02-07-10_D1_8JGGJ5F.html?sid=101

Sales Job Opening at WSTR

Job Description
Make your mark in Broadcasting. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc is one of the largest and most diversified television broadcasting companies in the nation, programming 58 stations located in 36 geographically diverse markets, with 33 of those in the top 47 markets in the United States. Our success is the result of extraordinary employees and an exemplary management team who believes in a vision and is dedicated to making Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc a communications powerhouse. We are advancing the world of Broadcasting and we want YOU to join our winning team!



http://www.jobs.net/Job.asp?jid=J3H17H6LQN989290N9K

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

CET Kicks Off 43rd Action Auction

Yep, they’re shifting into home shopping mode at CET for the 43rd annual Action Auction coming April 14-17. The station’s biggest fund raiser again needs donations of antiques, collectibles, vacation packages, concert and sports tickets, jewelry and gift certificates.

Action Auction chair Dr. O’dell Owens will be in the CET studio 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday for a kick-off party. Donors, sponsors and potential buyers can preview some of the items already rounded up for the April telecast, and drop off donations.

More information on sponsorship, donating items or volunteering is available at CETconnect. Or call the CET Events Line at 513-345-6549. CET, the nation’s first licensed public TV station, is a valuable community asset that needs you help. Think about how you could offer a unique item or volunteer your time to help at the fund-raiser. And if you’ve helped at the Auction before, post a comment to tell others about the experience.

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Sports/News Reporter Job Opening at WSYX/WTTE

http://www.jobs.net/Job.asp?jid=J3H3QR6R7NSVHZLZZ4W

WCPO A.N.D. Gets Promoted to Palm Beach

WCPO Cincinnati Assistant News Director Jeff Brogan has been named news director at WPTV West Palm Beach. Both are Scripps stations.

Prior to his long stint at WCPO, Brogan worked at WXIX Cincinnati as a producer and assignment editor.

"Jeff has extraordinarily strong skills in both content and production," WPTV VP/General Manager Steve Wasserman said in a memo. "He is a hands-on manager who is anxious to join our team and work side-by-side with our newsroom staff and other department heads to make our newscasts even better than they are today."

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/446595-WPTV_Names_Brogan_News_Director.php

View WDTN.com Promo Here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWZssi7vzUI&feature=channel

CET Arts Channel Has Big Ambitions

Come Monday, Cincinnati’s CET will unveil what the Public Broadcasting System says is the first public television station to devote one of its new digital channels to 24/7 arts programming.
The immediate impact of CETarts — digital channel 48.3; Time Warner Cable Cincinnati channel 987 — will be to offer expanded broadcast of PBS shows CET already features on its primary channel. Those include Great Performances, American Masters, Masterpiece, Independent Lens, Austin City Limits and more. and it will allow room for some arts series CET now has no time slot for on channel 48, such as Sierra Center Stage, Jubilee, Classic Gospel, Theater Talk, Woodsongs (a Folk music show out of Lexington) and others.

http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-19851-new-cet-arts-channel-has-ambitious-goals.html

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

WLWT Settles "Sexting" Lawsuit

Joanna Argus was shocked when she heard her name was shown on a television news show's graphics accompanying a story about "sexting."

That's because Argus, 30, complained several times to WLWT-TV, Channel 5, about the graphic it was using on the air and its Web site and was told each time it would be removed.

The story was about sexting - sending sexually explicit photos or text messages - but had nothing to do with Argus.

Columbus Broadcasters Looking Forward to Political Battles

Mike Cash is ready to have a good 2010.

The director of revenue for television station WCMH, the Columbus region’s NBC affiliate, can look forward to selling ad time around the Winter Olympics in February, primary elections in May and high-profile political races in November.

http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2010/01/25/story4.html?b=1264395600%5E2769731

Photog Job at WKEF/WRGT in Dayton

http://www.jobs.net/Job.asp?jid=J3F2BT74BG5LKH1L1BW

WLWT Goes Widescreen But Not True HD

It’s not true HDTV — like Channels 9, 12 & 19 — but Channel 5 has started broadcasting news in a widescreen format, to fill up your HD screen like the other guys. Here’s how Richard Dyer, WLWT-TV president and general manager, explains it:

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2010/01/21/channel-5-goes-widescreen-but-not-true-hdtv/

Master Control Jobs Posted for WSYX/WTTE

http://aol.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?job_did=J3G1DR6R5D2P81JRN74

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Columbus Sports Reporters Having a Bad Week

It’s been a bad week for TV sports reporters in Columbus.



Last week it was announced that NBC 4’s Omar Ruiz had left the sports crew and returned to his native California.



The move seemed way too sudden to be amiable, as Ruiz’s presence was quickly removed from the station’s website (even the “Deep Thoughts” blog, for goodness sake.)

http://www.theotherpaper.com/articles/2010/01/20/front/doc4b57a8ddb3a0c857014994.txt

A Discussion of Social Media on WXIX

Dave Hatter from Libertas Technologies on Fox 19 (WXIX) discussing social networking / social media – 090522

http://socialmedia123.com/?p=75

Columbus Media Joins Hope for Haiti Event

The American Red Cross of Greater Columbus, the City of Columbus and local media representatives will host a day-long fundraiser to benefit Haiti on Thursday, Jan. 21 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Ohio Historical Society parking lot off I-71.

Attendees will be able to drive up and donate at the Columbus Hope for Haiti event. Local television, radio, and Print personalities, along with government officials and the American Red Cross, will be on hand to accept cash and check donations all day at the fundraiser.

http://www.examiner.com/x-33933-Columbus-Wellness-Examiner~y2010m1d19-Columbus-leaders-media-and-Red-Cross-unite-for-Haiti-disaster-relief

WBNS Extends HD Footprint

Since February 2007, WBNS-TV, the Dispatch Broadcast Group-owned CBS affiliate in Columbus, OH, has broadcast its local newscasts in HD. But lately, the HD footprint around the building has gotten a little bigger.

http://broadcastengineering.com/hdtv/wbns-tv-extends-infrastructure-0119/