THE FIRE
and
THE OTHER STORY THAT WON'T GO AWAY!




There were multiple winners last week in the GUESS THE STAR contest. Yes it WAS Hal Hill and as we did last week the winners will get absolutely nothing.

This week our mystery media Dude or Dudetta is no longer of this earth. Here are your clues, play responsibly and the earlier you guess the faster you qualify for the grand prize given at the end of the year.
1. Yea they are dead
2. They did news and had a great face for radio
3. Their voice was not as low as POA’s but it was close
4. Heck yes it could still be a girl!
5. Their cigarette of choice was hawked by another dead local journalist
6. They did not own a lumber company
7. Their favorite expression was “I will throw him down the steps.”
8. They were the stations last news director before it went into the crapper

Last week one of my favorite local media blogs Jump the Shark jump the shark took a look at the story of the TV reporting on the fire in downtown Knoxville. I fired up the Philco around 8 a.m. and apparently missed the highlight of news battles between WBIR and another station. Jump the Shark said Abby Hambone kinda got physical with another reporter when she was trying to get an update on camera. It really sounded like a fun thing to have seen and I just hope someone TVOed the sucker and posts it on that Tube thing! The Shark also tossed out the question of which station had the best coverage. Borrowing a bit of the ABBY ATTITUDE, what say we rip off the same question and toss it out? Which station do you feel had the best fire coverage?

As for my invaluable opinion I would have to say WBIR came in last, WATE and WVLT were neck and neck for the top slot but WVLT won by a nose with their smooth style. WATE was close but they got just a little to pushy (no not HAM pushy) in trying to talk over each other with BREAKING NEWS. WVLT was the oil on the water and did very nice work for the full 8 or 9 hours of coverage. WBIR came in third because they just had to cut away so we could hear the TODAY SHOW. Excuse me? We have a fire with smoke we can see from Dude’s Grocery at Six Mile and you feel watching a mob of cold Yankees fawning over Albert Lincoln Roker is more important? Granted NBC gets their shorts in a wad if you bail on their programming, but lord help 10 YOU GUYS are reportedly the TOP local TV news operation in the valley right? The fire had everyone watching and even though you put the demolition on your web cast, by then the moment was toast.

Just my thoughts, yours are the ones that count so POST early and post often.

As for the story that won’t go away, the big paper ran some really fun letters to the editor this week cracking on the results of professional politicians playing on TV. It is a shame that the voters have a better grasp of the mess than those reporting on it. As someone asked last week, why won’t someone investigate this political train wreck rather than just spewing ideas from the passengers? To beat a dead horse one more time, the station that does get to the core of the mess is the one that will be remembered; this is a great story to build a new viewer foundation on.

No posts edited, no posters EVER BANNED!

ps more fire pictures @
http://southernlooks.blogspot.com


PSSSSS

WHATA THINK ABOUT THIS KIDS?
Jan Wade Joins Hearst-Argyle Television as President & General Manager of WISN-TV, Milwaukee
NEW YORK and MILWAUKEE, Feb 12, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Jan Wade, a television broadcaster whose experience includes senior positions within leading TV stations in six different markets, is joining Hearst-Argyle Television as President and General Manager of WISN-TV, the ABC affiliate in Milwaukee. She has served since 1994 as President and General Manager of WATE- TV, the Young Broadcasting-owned ABC affiliate in Knoxville, Tennessee. Milwaukee is the nation's 34th largest TV market; Knoxville is the 60th.
The appointment was announced today by David J. Barrett, president and chief executive officer of Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc.

Wade succeeds Frank Biancuzzo, who is returning to Hearst-Argyle's New York headquarters as a Senior Vice President/Group Head. Wade will report to Philip Stolz, also a Hearst-Argyle Senior Vice President/Group Head, with whom Biancuzzo will share management oversight of substantially all of the company's 29 television stations.

"Jan's rich experience in general management as well as in programming, operations, marketing and promotions make her an excellent choice to succeed Frank and to help carry on the success WISN-TV has enjoyed as one of America's top-rated ABC affiliate stations," Barrett said. "She understands the vitally important role a leading local TV station plays, on-air and online, as a provider of local news and information, and as an active citizen in the community."

Before joining WATE, Wade served with WKRN-TV, Young Broadcasting's ABC affiliate in Nashville, first as Marketing & Programming Director. After serving for two years as Marketing Director for WFLA-TV, the Media General NBC affiliate in Tampa, she returned to WRKN as Operations Manager and Programming Director. Before WKRN, she served in senior marketing roles at WLNE-TV, the Freedom Communications CBS affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island; and at WCCO- TV, the CBS owned station in Minneapolis and one of the country's most honored stations. She began her career as an assistant promotions manager at Louisville CBS affiliate WLKY-TV, at the time owned by Gannett Television and now a Hearst-Argyle station.

Wade holds a bachelor of science degree from Ball State University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude as a Journalism and Broadcast double major. She serves on the boards of the Knoxville chapter of United Way, which she currently chairs, as well as the Historic Tennessee Theater, St. Mary's Hospital Women's Health Advisory, Second Harvest Food Bank, Legacy Parks Foundation, the Leadership Knoxville Board and the Executive Women's Foundation, and she is a past chair of the Knoxville Opera Board.

Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. owns 26 television stations, and manages an additional three television and two radio stations, in geographically diverse U.S. markets. The Company's television stations reach approximately 18% of U.S. TV households, making it one of America's largest television station groups. Hearst-Argyle owns 12 ABC-affiliated stations, and manages an additional ABC station owned by Hearst Corporation, and is the largest ABC affiliate group. The Company also owns 10 NBC affiliates, and is the second- largest NBC affiliate owner, and owns two CBS affiliates. Hearst-Argyle also is a leader in the convergence of local broadcast television and the Internet through its partnership with Internet Broadcasting (http://www.ibsys.com), and in the application of digital broadcast spectrum for new local informational services through its Weather Plus partnership with NBC and various NBC affiliate groups. Hearst-Argyle Series A Common Stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "HTV." HTV debt is rated investment grade by Moody's (Baa3), Standard & Poor's (BBB-) and Fitch (BBB-), each with a stable outlook. The Company's Web address is www.hearstargyle.com



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