Who’s in your four, Edition 4 (plus a tribute to Bill Melendez)

This is in my four for edition four of Who’s in Your Four this week. Fore! – 90210. Scored the highest ratings in the history of the two-year old network. – Raising the Bar, indeed. Now Turner’s cable networks can actually air a promo with a claim that’s actually true: Despite lukewarm reviews, TNT’s new legal drama Raising the Bar […]

Seacrest comes to KISS-FM

In a move local radio insiders saw coming, Ryan Seacrest’s syndicated radio show is joining WKSC-FM (Kiss FM’s) lineup starting Monday. As a result of this move, Billy Hammond was fired, and in an unrelated move, JoAnn Genette from the DreX morning show was also let go. WKSC will air Seacrest’s morning radio show from KIIS-FM in Los Angeles from […]

T Dog’s Think Tank: Good riddance, loser

The first word and the last laugh: Au revoir, patsy… If Jay Mariotti was a TV character, he would rank up there with J.R. Ewing, Alexis Carrington, Johnny Fairplay, “Q” from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Vince McMahon – as the most loathsome people to ever grace the tube. So it comes as no surprise when he resigned as […]

"Top Model", "Shield" take it on the chin

The good news for The CW lasted just one day. America’s Next Top Model’s season-premiere last night set a personal ratings low with just 3.5 million viewers – down 32 percent from last year’s premiere (Sept. 19, 2007) in adults 18-49 and managed only a 1.9/6 among adults 18-34, also down from last year. Top Model was even beaten by […]

CW scores an upset with "90210" premiere

The CW scored its highest ratings ever with the two-hour premiere of 90210 Tuesday night, the anticipated sequel to Beverly Hills 90210, which ran on Fox for ten seasons (1990-2000.) Courtesy of PIFeedback.com, here are the results: – Households (3.9/6, #3); Adults 18-34 (3.0/9, #1); Women 18-34 (4.3/12, #1); Adults 18-49 (2.6/7, #1); Women 18-49 (3.6/9, #1); persons 12-34 (2.7/8, […]

R.I.P. Don LaFontaine

In a world without the king of voiceovers… it’s not going to be the same. Don LaFontaine, whose work covered everything from thousands of movie trailers to Rick Dees’ Weekly Top 40 countdown show died Monday after being hospitalized for a week due to a blood clot in one of his lungs. He was 68. LaFontaine recently appeared on a […]

Tribune scrubs CW logos off its stations

Tribune has scrubbed The CW monkier off almost all of its’ affiliates websites, and its sending a message to the beleaguered network – improve your ratings. Tribune has even changed the branding of many of its CW stations. For example, WDCW-TV in Washington, D.C. goes by the name “DC 50” instead of “CW 50”. For KWGN-TV in Denver, it’s now […]