HOLD YOUR COMPUTER UP TO A MIRROR AND IT WILL LOOK RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Ben for the new shirt and the new Buyers Guide!
Anyone who sends me free stuff with
their calls or logo gets the prized BIG PICTURE
spot on this widely read and often
hated BLOG!










NEW MORNING SHOW ON CITADEL RADIO>>>>>>>>>NEW MORNING SHOW ON CITADEL RADIO


On Monday, June 4th, “Joe & Angie” will open the mics on WOKI 98.7 EARL-FM. WOKI Program Director Joe Stutler will join forces with Citadel Creative Director Angie Wilson weekday mornings from 6 to 10.

The morning show is the latest in a series of updates to WOKI’s Adult Hit format, which has recently been infused with a new mix of music.

Joe has been with Citadel Broadcasting since 2000 (owned by Dick Broadcasting at the time). Listeners will recognize Joe from his recent mid-day stint on WOKI 98.7 FM, as well as his history with “The River” and his on-camera work as “Mayor Joe” on WTNZ Fox 43.

Angie has been employed at Citadel Broadcasting for the past 11 ½ years as Creative Director for all four of Citadel’s radio companies. She’s spent the past 5+ years as Hallerin Hilton Hill’s Friday Sidekick and fill-in host on WNOX. A Knoxvillian and graduate of Halls High School and the University of Tennessee, Angie is looking forward to being part of the radio scene she grew up with.












Friends mark the 4th of July down as the "possible" day the republican party
starts to take back D.C.

Yep, the RED TRUCK could be heading north and
if those who predict things are correct it
just might have a load of cash in the back
to help FRED win the BIG ONE!

Ben has one GREAT media website dedicated to East Tennessee media mavins.
Here is his report on the sale of ABC radio to Citadel. Be sure to bookmark
his site!


The left side of the country is begging ALGORE to engage but daily
more cracks form in his GLOBAL WARMING PLATFORM.
Bless his heart if this keeps up the
SWIFT BOAT BOYS can stay at the dock!



WBIR is now showing Ellen, 10-11a and they are saying it is
Consistently winning the time slot.

10-11 am Household Ratings
WBIR/NBC Ellen 3.9
WVLT/CBS Montel Williams 2.3
WATE/ABC Rachael Ray 1.7


Quarter Hours Won Tuesday
WBIR...73
WATE...7
WVLT...15
WTNZ...0
WBXX...0

INSIDER TYPES at CBS are whispering in the dark halls about how to move
Katie out of news and back into morning TV on their network.
She just had a near record breaking LOW and with the TODAY SHOW
starting to wobble their thoughts are to use her
where she is most comfortable. Sounds like a good plan so
naturally it will NEVER happen!

COURIC HITS NEW ALL-TIME LOW FOR 'CBS EVENING NEWS'

VIEWERS, WEEK OF 5/21/07
ABC: 7,780,000
NBC: 7,190,000
CBS: 5,960,000








GREAT FUN AT TWO SHOWS WITH MOUNTAIN FOLK REUNION THIS WEEKEND!! NEW PICTURES HOT OFF
THE HARD DRIVE CHECK THEM OUT CLICK HERE!!!!!!!!!!!


Remember the DITCH WOMAN? You know the one that waved the flag in Crawford and
almost got to give HILLA a good cussing? Well she is LEAVING THE BUILDING, HER
15 MINUTES ARE UP! Check it out here.











BREAKING NEWS................BREAKING NEWS..................BREAKING NEWS..........



East Tennessee has just seen a new shift in Local TV news, THIS JUST IN FROM
WVLT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




WVLT Volunteer TV News

#2 Most Watched Local News AND GROWING!

In the Knoxville market

6:00 A.M. – Midnight



WVLT Volunteer TV News is the ONLY Knoxville TV News Operation to increase the cumulative number of households watching its daily newscasts from May 2006 – May 2007!



#1 WBIR 191,000 households – May 2007 *

243,000 households – May 2006

-52,000 household LOSS year to year



#2 WVLT 159,000 households – May 2007

152,000 households – May 2006

+7,000 household INCREASE year to year



#3 WATE 144,000 households – May 2007

145,000 households – May 2006

-1,000 household LOSS year to year



WBIR total does not include news capsule at the top of its LIVE @ 5:00 program. All information is based on final Nielsen metered household estimates measuring household totals for dayparts containing local news programming 6:00-7:00 A.M.; 12:00-12:30 P.M.; 4:00-4:30 P.M.; 5:00-5:30 P.M.; 5:30-6:00 P.M.; 6:00-6:30 P.M.; 7:00-7:30 P.M.; 11:00-11:30 P.M.





Note:



Special thanks from all of us in the WVLT Newsroom to Dan and Laura Greenberg of Norman Hecht Research and Larry Rickel of The Broadcast Image Group. Dan and Larry presented some very timely research information and recommendations prior to the May ratings period. We immediately started incorporating some of their key recommendations! Thanks Larry, Dan and Laura!



Most of all, on a personal note, I salute the management and staff of WVLT. May 2007 marked the 23rd consecutive ratings period demonstrating consistent and steady growth that has seen the WVLT news audience grow more than 300%. It has been a total station-wide team effort involving individuals from all departments within WVLT-TV. It has been an extraordinary experience for me to have been a part of this station’s explosive growth for the past 6-and-a-half years! Thank you!



Straight from the heart,

Steve



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Steve Crabtree

Vice President-News & Station Operations

WVLT-TV CBS/8

6450 Papermill Drive

Knoxville TN 37919

(865) 450-8888 Switchboard

(865) 766-8155 Direct Line

(865) 584-3412 Fax





DING DONG THE BI... IS DEAD THE WICKED BI... IS DEAD! SEE YA
R O S I E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Hey ALGORE...you SURE about that GLOBAL WARMING CRAP?


Anyone left who has NOT seen the tape of the Porn Star (sorry dirty movie actress) who gave a member of the THP an "ORAL FAVOR" yet? Check her out here!


HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY WEEKEND AND IF YOU CAN SAY HOWDEEEEEEE TO US AT THE DAM SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT 3!!!

FLASH THIS JUST IN!!!!!!!!

The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has
intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop
the illegal immigration.


The unflinching arrogance of the Bush Administration is prompting the
exodus among liberal citizens who fear they'll soon be required to hunt,
pray, and agree with Bill O'Reilly.


Canadian border farmers say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology
professors, animal-rights activists, and Unitarians crossing their fields
at night. "I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a
Hollywood producer huddled in the barn," said Manitoba farmer Red
Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota. The producer was cold,
exhausted and hungry. "He asked me if I could spare a latte and some
free-range chicken.


When I said I
didn't have any, he left. Didn't even get a chance to show him my
screenplay."


In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences,
but the liberals scaled them. So, he tried installing speakers that blare
Rush Limbaugh across the fields. "Not real effective," he said. "The
liberals still got through, and Rush annoyed the cows so much they wouldn't
give milk"


Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals near
the Canadian border, pack them into Volvo station wagons, drive them across
the border and leave them to fend for themselves. "A lot of these people
are not prepared for rugged conditions," an Ontario border patrolman said.
"I found one carload without a drop of drinking water. They did have a
pleasant little Napa Valley cabernet, though."


When liberals are caught, they're sent back across the border, often
wailing loudly that they fear retribution from conservatives. Rumours have
been
circulating about the Bush administration establishing re-education camps in
which liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer and watch NASCAR.


Liberals have turned to sometimes-ingenious ways of crossing the border.
Some have taken to posing as senior citizens on bus trips to buy cheap
Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half-dozen young vegans
disguised in powdered wigs, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping
buses and quizzing the supposed senior-citizen passengers. "If they can't
identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Walk Show, we get suspicious
about their age," an official said.


Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating
an organic-broccoli shortage and renting all the good Susan Sarandon
movies. "I feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just
can't support them," an Ottawa resident said. "How many art-history majors
does one country need?"


In an effort to ease tensions between the United States and Canada, Vice
President Dick Cheney met with the Canadian ambassador and pledged that the
administration would take steps to reassure liberals, a source close to
Cheney said. "We're going to have some Peter, Paul & Mary concerts. And, we
might put some endangered species on postage stamps. The president is
determined to reach out."

















TWO GIANT SHOWS! OK, they are free how is that?
THE NEW Walmart in Maryville
Brought to you by WJBZ
11 AM
Saturday (as in THIS SATURDAY)


THEN
ROCKEN THE DOCKS
Brought to you by Metro Pulse
THIS SATURDAY
At the dam
3 PM

Here is the skinny...come out and see us we are old, fun, odd, playful, sober,
and did I say old?







The winter book is out and the new country station over in Halls/Clinton
has gone from nothing to a 1.4! WIVK was down to a 20 and B 97 is still
under a 10. Check it out!





Did you kids take the time to go over to knoxnews.com and SEE the interview with the
BOOM BOOM who gave an "oral" thank you to the THP officer? THIS is the future of newspapers and "Andy it is BIG REALLY BIG!" First the gal isn't really all that bad looking in a cute sort of "I will NEVER take this one home to Momma but boy will I tell all the guys at work about her" way and she flat gives a good interview. Relaxed (guess it comes from being on camera so much) and really does make you believe her! CHECK IT OUT!







Stone Phillips is NBC's latest cost-cutting casualty...



Stone Phillips to Leave 'Dateline NBC'


Stone Phillips is leaving "Dateline NBC," the television news magazine he has co-anchored since it debuted in 1992, and NBC News at the end of June.
Ann Curry, the news anchor for "Today" as well as Mr. Phillips's co-anchor since May 2005, is not expected to get a new "Dateline" co-anchor due to the fact the show sucks like a Orick. There have been discussions about having correspondents that are heavily invested in certain projects, such as "Today Catch a Predator's" Chris Hansen, playing an anchor-like role when their reports air but several members of the inter circle are voting for either Cooking With David Hasselhoff or The Gerbil Whisperer with Richard Gear.

"Dateline NBC" executive producer David Corvo conveyed the news Tuesday morning to a meeting at which Mr. Phillips said management had informed him of the change a couple of months ago when they took his name off his door, steel brushed his parking sign and sprinkled salt around his desk.

Mr. Phillips's career twist, following closely on the recent exit of weekend "Nightly News" anchor John Siegenthaler, comes as NBC News tightens its belt and demands more of its on- and off-camera staffers.

"It's been a wonderful 15 years. I'm profoundly appreciative of the many friends and colleagues, past and present, who have been a part of the 'Dateline family, as for the executives who have to make the hard calls I hope you slide under a tanker truck and taste your own blood just before the dripping gas ignites." Mr. Phillips also said in a statement released by an NBC News spokesperson. "This is a great news division with a bright future at CBS. The people of NBC News should all apply over there they will hire anybody!"

The spokesperson also released statements from Mr. Corvo and from NBC News President Steve Capus, who credited Mr. Phillips with a long list of accomplishments.

"On behalf of 'Dateline,' and all of us at NBC News, I want to extend my thanks and appreciation to Stone for all he has contributed to NBC News during his tenure here," Mr. Capus said. "His work on 'Dateline' over the past 15 years has been remarkable, as evidenced by the unprecedented awards Stone and the program have won, including 39 Emmys and four Peabodys but as we all know awards don't sell the soap and frankly we are glad to get is ass out of here."

Mr. Phillips joined NBC News to co-anchor "Dateline" with Jane Pauley after 12 years at ABC News and is headed now to a new show on My Space.



OK many moons ago I used to play golf just about every dang day with young men who
carried an extra club in their bag. Canadian CLUB and often by the turn they were
higher than a Georgia Pine. Yep, not only did they loose golf balls but these guys lost CLUBS, HATS, GLOVES and at times their way home after the round. This one beats that all to heck, check it out!

GOOD LORD ANOTHER BREAKING THIS JUST IN STORY! DO YOU HATE GOING TO MOVIES THAT
DON'T INSPIRE YOU? HERE IS ONE THAT FILLS THE BILL! DELTA FARCE DESTINED TO BE THE
MEGA BLOCK BUSTER OF THE DECADE!! READ ABOUT IT AND THEN GET A CO-SIGNER AND GO SEE THE THING! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY THE ASPCA AND GIVEN NINE STARS BY RALPH EMERY!


FLASH THIS JUST IN TO THE CHANNEL 6 NEWS ROOM BREAKING NEWS!!! England has announced
if Chuck's kid goes to the sandbox he will git his royal butt shot off..SO they are keeping him at HOME! CHECK IT OUT



FLASH BREAKING NEWS GOOD ONE HOT DANG FLASH BREAKING NEWS GO FRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MIKE MORE WANTS TO GO NOSE TO NOSE WITH FRED THOMPSON AND HERE IS WHAT
FRED SAID TO THE LEFTWINGPINKOLARDASS!


CHUCK'S KID BETTER KEEP HIS HEAD DOWN

KATIE STILL SUCKS

IF BRIAN IS SO GOOD HOW COME PEOPLE DON'T WATCH HIM?

YOUNG FOLKS DON'T WANT TO HANG OUT WITH NAKED OLD PEOPLE

RUN FRED RUN






Looks like Chuck’s youngest is going to have a TV crew in his tent when he heads out to the sandbox. Lights! Camera! KBOOOM!

OK, here is the deal. You are in dang line to be the King of England and you are creeping around at night in Iraq trying to sneak up on the enemy. Just about the time you get set to John Wayne the bad guys a big TV light comes on and a thick cockney accent yells, “Over here mates, hurry PRINCE HARRY is over here get a shot of him SURPRISING those guys with the AK47s sucking on the hookah!”

Again there is no way we can make this stuff up..check it out here!


Two half way famous writers are reminding us that more people are watching the Golf Channel than CBS Evening News. Katie Couric is stinking worse than the UT Chicken Farm AND 3rd Creek at flood, her numbers are out and it ain’t pretty. Sorry Katie, no matter how hard you try you until you start actually MAKING UP NEWS you will never be another Dan Rather.

NBC Nightly has given Brian Williams a big old attaboy! Now if they could just
figure out a plan to get people to come BACK to their network
they might be on to something.


BREAKING NEWS!!! Nudists Camps are NOT attracting younger members! Yep, the numbers of folks under 40 going naked is sagging right along with…fill in your punch line here. If the trend continues running naked will have to be modified to rolling naked. Again no way to make this one up either, check it out

RUN FRED RUN! Looks like the Conservative Christians are going to back Fred Thompson if he runs. Naturally the Liberal Atheists will stick with Hilla! RUN FRED RUN!



Thanks to those who came to Southland Books Saturday evening it was great FUN! We playing again on the last Saturday of this month..come see The Mountain Folk Reunion Band, it will change your life...sort of.

MOUNTAIN FOLK REUNION IS DOING A DOUBLE HEADER AT THE END OF THE MONTH! CHECK IT OUT

COME HEAR THE MOUNTAIN FOLK REUNION BAND



WHEN? This Saturday


WHAT TIME? Six p.m.


WHERE? Southland Books in Maryville.


AND THAT IS WHERE? In the old T.C. Drake Building


WHICH IS WHERE? Coming from Knoxville go left past the Hilton into Alcoa. At the first major intersection past
Kroger turn left on Broadway and less than a block on your left is Southland Books! FREE PARKING in front and beside the store.


Southland Books has been a jewel in good old Blount County’s crown for years and now they have moved into a building big enough for all their books, records, stain glass shop, gourmet coffee area and stage for live concerts.


The music area in Southland Books is reminiscent of some of the finer listening rooms in Nashville. You are almost on stage and if you get there early you can nail a coveted place on one of the couches!

This is your chance to see the Mountain Folk Reunion band so close you can smell their Jade East and Old Spice! Come on it is free…fun…and in a heck of a cool bookstore! See you THIS Saturday at 6 p.m.

COUPLE OF EAST TENNESSEE MEDIA KIDS ARE IN THE NEWS!

Scott Sams, former "helper" on the CP AND WALKER show in the mid 1970s is back on the air in Texas!


Former Mid-day queen on the old WRJZ and later weather babe on WTVK, Adele Arakawa
has picked up a side gig in Denver.


Since Imus was told to hit the road MSNBC has been pulling
fewer viewers than Shop At Home.

One reasons could be the lack of ethics in their anchor pool.
Never take my word for any dang thing, check out Keith Olbermann and then post your thoughts, this guy is a real slice of work!




GREAT fun with Mr. Smith and his crew on AM 850 Sunday afternoon. The radio bunker
has been greatly improved over the years and there is great potential for radio to break out of the new studios!

COUPLE OF EAST TENNESSEE MEDIA KIDS ARE IN THE NEWS!

Scott Sams, former "helper" on the CP AND WALKER show in the mid 1970s is back on the air in Texas!


Former Mid-day queen on the old WRJZ and later weather babe on WTVK, Adele Arakawa
has picked up a side gig in Denver.


Since Imus was told to hit the road MSNBC has been pulling
fewer viewers than Shop At Home.

One reasons could be the lack of ethics in their anchor pool.
Never take my word for any dang thing, check out Keith Olbermann and then post your thoughts, this guy is a real slice of work!




GREAT fun with Mr. Smith and his crew on AM 850 Sunday afternoon. The radio bunker
has been greatly improved over the years and there is great potential for radio to break out of the new studios!


WHO is more crazy..ALGORE or Sheryl Crow?


ALGORE's myth takes another shot between the legs!

THIS SUNDAY AT 4 ON AM 850 LETS TALK! I WILL BE A GUEST ON THE "The Hubert Smith Radio Show" THIS SUNDAY AT 4 PM. CALL IN AND LETS TALK! SAY IT WITH ME..THIS SUNDAY 4 PM 850 ON THE AM DIAL THE HUBERT SMITH SHOW! SEE YOU ON THE RADIO SUNDAY!!


"The Hubert Smith Radio Show" plays the best music, and offers the best political analysis and discussions. Call-in during the show 865.675.8255 (local), or toll free 1.877.958.5850, Sunday afternoons at 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.. WKVL-AM 850 is the flagship radio station of Horne Radio Network.

THIS IS OUTSTANDING! GO GET UM DON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Imus won't go quietly
The talk show host has hired a top First Amendment lawyer, and an unusual clause in his contract could give him a $40 million payday, writes Fortune's Tim Arango.




WVLT continues to close the LOCAL NEWS VIEWER GAP

ROSIE may already have a deal

ALGORE’S global warming myth takes another hit

Obambomber eases past Hilla

The BAND had a fun weekend in Townsend



I am blessed to still see the over nights for Knoxville television and the numbers that keep spilling out of Nielson have to give the children who play in the mansion on Broadway pause. The journalists at WVLT are drawing viewers to their local news despite the fact that Katie is running them away. If you look at the numbers you might draw the conclusion the new viewers are moving from WATE to WVLT. At 6 p.m. WVLT is right at the door of WATE and often at 11 they are beating them. Considering the fact that they (WVLT) own the noon local news in the market you have to wonder what in the name of instant ratings happened to the first TV station to go on the air in Knoxville.

Hey, don’t look at me that way. I think WATE has strong reporters now, a sports guy that rocks and faces on the anchor desk that are both known and respected. All of us moan about their reporting style, you know the breaking news that really isn’t breaking and the just in garbage that was in yesterday but even that can grow on you. With their network news (ABC) coming up and WVLT network news (CBS) anchored by a scary woman who couldn’t get a beagle to watch her if she had a ham around her neck you would have to think 6 should be kicking 10 rather than having 8 chew then a new hole in their slacks. Anyway, here is a look at one of the overnights this week, just so WATE won’t get the vapors. Read them, talk among yourselves, and post your thoughts on just what IS going on in the local TV news race?
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Primary News Time Periods:



WBIR/NBC News Share WATE/ABC WVLT/CBS HH Total


6-7a 6.9 56.56% 3.3 27.05% 2.0 16.39% 12.2
6-630p 13.7 49.46% 8.3 29.96% 5.7 20.58% 27.7
11-1130p 10.1 45.70% 5.3 23.98% 6.7 30.32% 22.1



Just when you thought the new Queen of Mean was headed back to Miami NBC and CBS are hinting they want to give her a job! I kid you not; the Large Marge member of the View may be headed for bigger and better things since her dust up (make that continuous dust ups) on the Ba Ba chat show. Never take my word for anything, check it out here for yourself.

Bless his heart, Tennessee’s almost favorite son; ALGORE is catching it again over his global warming myth. Hang on, before you go all left wing on me I TRIED to watch his movie on HBO the other night and when he started mumbling about how the creek he played in as a kid has changed now I had to give it up.

Heavens Mr. Gore I played in Pistol Creek as a kid and it also has changed. Back then it was so polluted you could toss a roll of film in behind the Down Yonder Saloon and it would be developed before it got to the back of the J&K Feed store! Man between the outhouses that dumped directly into it across from the cemetery to the pigs and cows that took their daily constitutional in it out at the Pearson Farm that creek stunk worse than a commission meeting in Knoxville. Yep my creek has changed also Al, like yours mine is CLEANER, smells BETTER, and has become a major asset to our downtown. His creek story made me bail and today there is a new report on his grand plan of warming that just might make him think twice about crawling up on that rickety platform if he wants to try again for the White House. Check out what Science Daily is reporting and make up your own mind!

A really fun read is coming out on Hillary, kinda shows you some new and exciting sides about the woman who would be Queen. The scary thing is even before the excerpts are leaked to FOX News Obambomber is starting to dash by her in the polls! After these two bleed each other out we need to all talk Fred into the game, then we can show the DemoRats the real meaning of a Slam Dunk!

Brothers and sisters the Mountain Folk Reunion Band is now the sweetheart of Townsend Tennessee! Last week end we had two shows in the Quiet Side Of the Park and made a bunch of new friends! Click right here AND right here for pictures of the day and a revised schedule of where you can catch us next! Thanks to all who came out, we are really having way too much fun!!