NFL Network Still Not Reaching a Wide Audience on Cable

It seems there is no need for more NFL broadcast content than a need for more political advertising.

On the other hand, how many shows did you watch on Versus (a Comcast network also carried by Time Warner) last week?

Which brings us to the Denver-Cleveland game on Thursday night, Nov. 6, seen on the NFL Network somewhere, but not around here on TW Cable.

http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/s/content/oh/story/sports/pro/browns/2008/11/07/ddn110708spinside.html

Scripps Names New TV, Internet and Digital Boss

The E.W. Scripps Co. has promoted a former sales manager of WCPO-TV Channel 9 to run the company’s television segment, which includes 10 local TV stations plus Internet and digital businesses in nine U.S. markets.

Brian Lawlor will take the job Jan. 1, following the retirement of Bill Peterson.

Lawlor is a former general manager of Scripps’ NBC affiliate in West Palm Beach, Fla. During his tenure, he launched multiple news and weather Web sites, a 24-hour digital weather channel and South Florida’s first high-definition local newscasts.

Lawlor holds an MBA from Miami University and started his Scripps career as a television sales rep in the early 1990s. He is married with three children and is a marathon runner and Ironman tri-athlete.

http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2008/11/03/daily54.html

Paper Calls Out NBC 4 and 10TV Anchors For Talking Over History

Late Tuesday night, John McCain finished one of the most gracious and eloquent concessions in American political history. About an hour later, Barack Obama followed that with a stirring address to a nodding, weeping, hugging audience.


After each of those speeches, here’s something absolutely nobody was thinking:



“I wonder what’s going through Cabot Rea’s mind right now.”

http://www.theotherpaper.com/articles/2008/11/06/front/doc49122f5b4488c912938145.txt

Who Won Election Night in Kentucky?

The proverb, they say, is that the news is the first draft of history.


Last night we made some history: The first African-American president of the United States was elected. It was on the 11 o'clock news, the projection simultaneously on most networks when polls on the West Coast closed and California put Democratic nominee Barack Obama over the top.


With so many voices weighing in, the challenge for journalists and pundits was to distinguish themselves.


But first, said history had to happen, and it took longer than initially anticipated.


Predictions of an electoral landslide had networks openly discussing how long they would hold off in projecting the 44th president, if, say, it was obvious Obama was running away with it.


But close races in key states such as Virginia and Florida had the networks doing a lot of reporting, putting their tools to work. And there were much ballyhooed new tools, such as NBC and MSNBC's Greek-columned virtual set that put the stage for Obama's convention speech to shame, and CNN's use of holograms of correspondents in the studio.


http://www.kentucky.com/702/story/581163.html

Legendary WDTN Anchor Fights Leukemia for the Fourth Time

Carl Day, the veteran news anchor at WDTN-TV, Channel 2, has confirmed that the leukemia he has fought, off and on since 1997, has returned for a fourth time.

When speaking of his leukemia, Day, who is 70, said "I have been there, done that three times, and I will beat it this time as well."

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/11/04/ddn110408daleweb.html

WCPO Makes History Election Night

WCPO-TV will make news - and history - tonight.

For the first time, a Cincinnati TV station will broadcast live local wall-to-wall election coverage on a digital channel, while simultaneously providing network news coverage on its main channel.

Channel 9's "Weather Tracker" weather channel will be pre-empted for Clyde Gray and Carol Williams to anchor election coverage from 6:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. It will appear on over-the-air digital Channel 9.2; on Time Warner Channels 12 (basic) or Channels 22 and 910 (digital cable); Insight Channel 71; and on the station's Web site.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081104/NEWS0106/811040362

WDTN Videographer a Hero

WDTN photographer Don Hatcher was recently awarded the Urbana Citizen Life Saving Award. He had arrived on the scene of a serious car crash on January 18, 2008. When he arrived, he had the opportunity to catch all the action as it unfolded. However, he realized that a man was in very serious danger. He put down his camera and entered the vehicle to attempt to do everything that he could for the man. Urbana firefighters say that his actions and that of a UPS driver helped to save the life of Denny Howell.

http://richpalmer.com/blog/2008/11/03/videographer-a-hero/

WKRC Launches New Studio Broadcasting With JVC Pro HD Cameras

Cincinnati, Ohio-based WKRC-TV, a Newport Television station, goes live today with its new studio broadcasting in 16x9 with JVC's ProHD, making the GY-HD250 cameras the station's primary studio cameras. WKRC-TV is one of many Newport stations upgrading to HD with JVC ProHD cameras for studio and ENG production.

http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/105/860878

Former WCPO Anchor Going to WCCO

Mike Binkley will join WCCO 4 News This Morning as co-anchor beginning after next week's election, it was announced today by Scott Libin, WCCO TV News Director. Binkley, most recently KSTP's morning show anchor, will reunite with his friend and former colleague Angela Davis, and join meteorologist Mike Augustyniak on the
Monday-through-Friday morning anchor team.

http://wcco.com/press/mike.binkley.anchor.2.853765.html

ThinkTV to Merge With CET

The public television networks of Dayton and Cincinnati will come together as ThinkTV and CET will merge operations, officials announced Friday.

Both public television networks, Dayton’s ThinkTV (WPTD-TV and WPTO-TV) and Cincinnati’s CET (WCET-TV) will form a new regional public television and media corporation. However, each will retain its separate identity.

http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2008/10/27/daily39.html

WHAS Introduces Friday Flashbacks

Every Friday night for this entire month, WHAS11 and WHAS11.com are kicking off a special project that we call Friday Flashbacks.


We’re taking you back into the rich archives of the TV station to show the news, the personalities and the shows that you grew up with that have made WHAS what it is for over 59 years.

http://www.whas11.com/news/local/stories/whas11-topstory-081031-friday-flashbacks.16963e4ad.html

WXIX Gears Up for HD News

Cincinnati's Fox 19 has come a long way over the years, but it's still lagging behind in one huge area: HD newscasts. Thankfully for residents of the Ohio city, all that's about to change... at least, according to news director Steve Ackermann. Reportedly, WXIX will move this week into its high-def-ready news set, and if all goes as planned, it could become the second station in the area to broadcast local news in HDTV within "a couple of weeks." We'll be watching.

http://thelivecentral.in/forum/showthread.php?t=4237

Updates on Cincinnati HD Progress

Get ready for a couple new sets in Cincinnati. WKRC and WXIX are ready to launch their sets Thursday morning for November sweeps.

WKRC has been conducting practice runs on their set for a week. The new set is HD ready, but the station still has to upgrade equipment in order to flip to HD newscasts. Don't expect that to happen for at least a month. The new news and weather set should air Thursday morning for Good Morning Tri-State. The biggest change will be the weather office which will also be used for traffic reports. Also, expect to see roughly three dozen plasma screens on the set.

WXIX completed their set this past Sunday. The station has been running rehearsals on the set since then. FOX19 will also be switching to HD within the next week, but it could happen as early as Thursday as well (with the launch of the set).

-WLWT is sending out the pink slips to a couple workers due to the poor economic conditions. WLWT GM Richard Dyer told employees today that a production supervisor and an assignment editor were let go.

Time Warner Cable Brings Back The CW in Columbus

Time Warner Cable and a tv station owner have made a deal ending a monthlong standoff that blacked out local channels in Ohio and across the country.


The nation's second-largest cable operator has agreed to pay undisclosed retransmission fees to LIN TV, which operates local stations affiliated with NBC, CBS, FOX and CW.


The 14 stations covered by the nationwide agreement include three in Ohio: WDTN, the NBC station in Dayton; Toledo FOX station WUPW; and WWHO, the CW network affiliate in Columbus.


Retransmission fees have long been a sore spot for cable companies.


TV station operators recently have been asking for fees per subscriber instead of, for example, agreements to buy advertising.

http://www.610wtvn.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=&article=4498793

PBS Producer Finds Inspiration on the Road, Airs on WOSU

Producer Rick Sebak hits the road for his latest PBS program, A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway, premiering tonight.

Fans of Sebak's love letters to Americana won't be disappointed as he visits both ends of the highway -- Times Square in New York and a bus stop in San Francisco -- and many places in between.

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2008/10/29/2_TV_LINCOLN_HIGHWAY.ART_ART_10-29-08_E5_HCBNS0S.html?sid=101

WDTN Back on Time Warner

Local Time Warner Cable customers woke up to find the local NBC affiliate back on after a nearly-month long disagreement between the station’s parent company and the cable company.

WDTN-TV Channel 2 returned Wednesday to its normal channel on the cable network, and customers will soon see a high-definition broadcast as a result of negotiations.


http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2008/10/27/daily18.html

News at 10 in Louisville Returns

After being taken off the air Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the WHAS-TV News at 10 aired again on WBKI-TV, the CW, last night. Neither station returned my calls for comment, but I should have more details on the situation later today. The CW has aired the program since 2005.

In October, the WHAS news airing on the CW earned a 2.3 rating. Its primary competitor, Fox41, earned a 5.8 on nights that it wasn’t pre-empted by the World Series or debate coverage. The station typically airs its news on sister station WMYO when that happens, where it has earned a 4.0 rating this month.

http://thevillevoice.com/2008/10/28/news-at-10-returns/

New WTVQ Anchor Team on the Air October 30th

WTVQ-TV/DT, Channel 36, in Lexington, KY announced today it will debut its new prime anchor team on Thursday, October 30th. That’s the same day the station unveils a new news set, a new graphics look, and begins HD (high definition) news broadcasts.

Emmy award winning central Kentucky anchor and reporter Tom Kenny will anchor the station’s 5:30PM, 6:00PM and 11:00PM newscasts Monday-Friday. Tom has been with WTVQ-36 News for seven years. The veteran newsman has been reporting and anchoring newscasts in the Lexington television market for more than 22 years. Most recently, Tom was the co-anchor on Good Morning Kentucky which airs Monday-Friday from 5:00AM-7:00AM. Tom also works for consumers with his “Don’t Fall For It” reports in partnership with the Better Business Bureau. Tom and his wife Nancy Cox have two children. The family lives in Lexington.

http://www.wtvq.com/news/1-latest/2193-new-prime-anchor-team-for-wtvq-tv-announced-.html

The Little Newscast That Could

A lot of things have changed since Jack Atherton arrived at WXIX-TV 15 years ago.

The station, in a Woodlawn office park, had no newsroom in August 1993, two months before the "10 O'clock News" debuted. It would be another year before Channel 19's young Fox network acquired NFL broadcasts, legitimizing its place as America's fourth network.


http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081026/ENT/810260327

Louisville Pioneer Dies at 81

Phyllis Knight Gifford, the popular Louisville radio and television personality known to her audience as Phyllis Knight, died this morning after a brief illness.

She was 81.

One of the first female broadcasters in Louisville, Knight started as a radio show

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20081027/NEWS01/81027009