Chris Berman’s Ultimate Highlight
Are you sick and tired of those lame Chris Berman’s Ultimate Highlight segments on SportsCenter? Well, I got his Ultimate Highlight right here.
Malcolm is no longer in the middle at KTLA
Vinnie Malcolm is out as vice president and general manager of Tribune-owned KTLA in Los Angeles in the first series of changes expected under new Tribune station group head Ed Wilson. Like many other CW affiliates (with WGN in Chicago the notable exception),KTLA has struggled in the ratings, with its newscasts ranked behind Fox-owned rival KTTV, with some viewers moving […]
Jackson suspended at WVON
Santita Jackson is joining the ranks of radio’s growing list of radio personalities who have been “suspended”. She is expected back on WVON March 1. What’s her offense you ask? It wasn’t what she said on the air, but it was something she said to WVON management off the air, regarding a series of Black History Month vignettes . In […]
R.I.P. HD-DVD
Burial or cremated? It’s official: HD-DVD is dead. Toshiba has officially pulled the plug on HD-DVD, which competed with Blu-Ray to become the official format of the next generation of home video entertainment… This comes after Best Buy and Wal-Mart are recommending customers to go with Blu-Ray, which means the chains will phase out HD-DVDs. Netflix has also pledged its […]
WLS-AM slammed for coverage of NIU shootings
From the Sun-Times’ Robert Feder (and rightfully so.) But he also praised the coverage of WBBM-AM and WGN-AM – as well as NextMedia’s west suburban classic hits outlet WERV-FM (95.9 FM, a.k.a. “The River”) for their continuing coverage of the tragedy.
"Everybody" loves you in HD
CBS Television Distribution’s Everybody Loves Raymond will soon get an upgrade to high-definition. Beginning March 17, all 210 episodes of Raymond will be available to air in high-definition. The program started shooting in high definition in 1999, so the series first three seasons are being converted to HD, with series creator Phillip Rosenthal supervising the process. The move is timed […]
"In the Loop" closes
The NBC-owned stations and iVillage has canceled the hour-long embarrassment that was In the Loop With iVillage, a daytime talk show taped at NBC Tower at 454 North Columbus Drive – not in the Loop , but on the city’s Gold Coast. The program will continue until March 28. No word on what WMAQ-TV will air in the 11 a.m. […]
WWE Smackdown to… WGN ?
Yes, that’s one of two options the WWE under consideration with the other outlet being My Network TV. If the WWE goes with with WGN Superstation, most Chicagoans would not have access to the show, since the cable version of WGN is only carried on satellite (Direct TV and Dish Network) and not on any cable systems, unless the WWE […]
Get "Better" at night
WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee and several other stations are scheduled to air a live, one-hour syndicated special originating from Las Vegas on March 18 called Better at Night, celebrating Better TV’s first year on the air. Better TV airs at 3 p.m. weekdays on the NBC affiliate, and airs on stations primarily owned by Meredith (such as KCTV in Kansas City) […]
CBS greenlights eleven series for fall
The network greenlights eleven shows for the 2008-09 season, with Cold Case, Criminal Minds, all three CSIs, and Without A Trace among them, but not Moonlight, as the fanbois and fangirls whine in the comments section below in the posted link (hey, get in line like the rest of us… I’m still waiting for CBS to return Frank’s Place to […]
Jane Fonda swears on live TV
On NBC’s Today Show no less, while discussing her play. A deliberate stunt to piss off conservative groups?
CBS, NBC sets return dates
For CBS, new episodes of Two and a Half Men and CSI: Miami resume next month, while it will not bring back The Unit, Shark, or Cane for the rest of the season (and maybe not ever for the latter show), while NBC will have original episodes of My Name Is Earl, The Office, 30 Rock, Law & Order and […]
Will the viewers come back?
All right, the strike is finally over. Now comes the toughest task of all: trying to win the viewers back. When Major League Baseball went on strike in 1994 and when the NHL players were locked out twice in the last fifteen years, it hurt both sports tremendously, and some teams are still feeling the effects. Locally, the Chicago White […]