BREAKING NEWS: BOB BARKER TO RETIRE
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15501096/ (Snif.) :-(
No Cable Required
Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Coming soon every night to a broadcast television station near you. For the first time in a long time, an off-network hour-long drama is being sold in broadcast syndication for airing in daily (strip) syndication. (That’s right! You heard me!) NBC Universal announced it was selling Law & Order: Criminal Intent to Fox-owned stations […]
Don’t feed the morons
This guy would be better qualified to run a radio station than some of the “professionals” on these radio message boards. Or to become governor of Illinois. Click on this link here: http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,52168.0.html#top Yep. A Story that’s not true. (yet, anyway.) A post that’s on the front page of this website. Considering the poster is probably some in-bred redneck idiot […]
More Changes
Change No. 1: NBC resurrects Thursday Must see lineup From 7 to 9 (Central) Thursdays beginning next month, all the network’s comedies will be on one night. Except “Twenty Good Years”. This shitcom, which hasn’t had one good episode, is on indefinite hiatus:http://nbcumv.com/release_detail.nbc/entertainment-20061025000000-nbcre45makestwo.htmlChange No. 2: New Syndicated talk shows shift slots The Greg Behrendt Show and Dr. Keith Albow have […]
Megan Mulually downgraded in N.Y., L.A.
I’m back…. Syndication Watch: In what qualifies to be the kiss of death of any new show, NBC Universal’s new Megan Mulually talk show has been downgraded at NBC-owned KNBC-TV in Los Angeles yesterday. The program, which features the former Will & Grace star, lost its key 4pm time slot and has been moved to noon. A local newscast which […]
Finally! A network that the NHL can beat in the ratings
Remember MyNetworkTV? That groovy new network that all the square cats are watching? No? Neither does anybody else! With Maureen Ryan of the Trib is busy slamming the CW for their moves, and Marc Berman of Mediaweek ignoring it all together, Advertising Age apparently remembers there’s a MNT: http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=112543 [subscription required] I have also found that here in Chicago (and […]
TBS wins League Championship series
With declining audiences for sporting events (particularly baseball) on broadcast TV, a move to cable was bound to happen: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6382167.html?display=Breaking+News This is on top of a deal that gives Turner exclusive rights to the divisional playoff series beginning next year and Sunday afternoon games in 2008.
Steve Lyons, meet Lamar Thomas. Lamar Thomas, meet Steve Lyons.
It was not a good weekend for sports analysts: http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman/publish/cat_index_31.asp http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2628184 Fox fired Steve Lyons for insensitive comments regarding fellow analyst (now Cubs manager) Lou Pinella and his use of Spanish during Game 3 of the ALCS Friday night, while Comcast SportsSouth (not related to Comcast SportsNet) canned former Cane Lamar Thomas for thoughtless comments during that big brawl in […]
"Shark" jumps one
Ripped from the headlines: http://www.nypost.com/seven/10122006/tv/duke_and_cover_tv_adam_buckman.htm
Biggest waste of space since Skip Bayless’ column
Just wondering… Does the Chicago Tribune really need an Internet critic? Given the fact that the guy writing the column is a complete, utter moron: http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/technology_internetcritic/ Another waste of space in the Tribune’s Tempo section.
It’s October 13th. Time to get out the Christmas Decorations.
I guess it snowed here in Chicago yesterday for a reason: http://www.wlit.com/main.html Look at this way… Soon, we won’t have to put up with any more of those f****n’ Flashback Weekends for awhile.
Google Buys YouTube
There are 1.6 billion reasons why Google’s buying YouTube (and none of them involve T.O.): Chicago Tribune:http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-google-youtube,1,1720320.story?coll=chi-news-hed Broadcasting & Cablehttp://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6379481.html Television Week:http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=10873 Mediaweek:http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003223465
Deplorable!
If you read Robert Feder’s column yesterday, or logged on to radio-related message boards on the Internet, you probably know by now that Cara Carriveau was fired from WLUP-FM (97.9), “The Loop” — all because she wrote a letter to Mr. Feder decrying the state of radio in Chicago. (The story actually broke last night in the Chicago Tribune courtesy […]