We have visiting kin from the west in and spent a few days in the hills with them.
The old Media Report will return by the end of the week, until them here are some pictures we took in the park. For more pictures click here!

MORE NEW MOUNTAIN PICTURES HERE!

TUESDAY
3020-07
A BUSY DAY AT THE BUNKER, so I thought I would post some "just found" old
pictures of the U 102 gang.

Remember to double click for a better look and
post your guess of the names.

U102 was the number TWO radio station in
Knoxville and moved from the hills down to Kingston Pike in the late 1980s.




VOLS WIN AND SO DOES CBS!





Big Weekend for TV, CBS has the NCAA and it paid off for them big time! The EYE network won nationally and later today when we get the local numbers a good bet would be WVLT won also. VOLS are back in the SWEET SIXTEEN at the end of the week and CBS will again have the coverage. I know the LADY VOLS played also and I caught some of the coverage on WIVK, but they always win so who cares!




The first trend of winter is out and WIVK is sucking the LIFE out of the ratings!





NO KIDDING, in the past WIVK would be in the 20s,
a HOST of stations would be in the mid to upper teens and the rest would be hanging between 0 and 9.

Now the LOCAL RADIO RATINGS have
WIVK RUNNING all the other stations way
under the front porch!

Trends are not books but if you look at the
past numbers here you can see WIVK keeps getting
stronger while the others just evaporate!


BimBamBomer accused of a heck of a great SHOT at the HILLA!
He SAYS he DIDN'T DO IT!


If you are flying over the big pond you might as well get drunk, lord knows
your PILOT IS!



ALGORE is catching fire on both ends and it is NOT his doing! Friends
this Global Warming stuff is heating the former VP's
credibility to the boiling point. Check this out,
Lord Monckton has thrown down the gauntlet to challenge Gore to what he terms "the Second Great Debate," an internationally televised, head-to-head, nation-unto-nation confrontation on the question, "That our effect on climate is not dangerous."
Lord M. added.. "May the Truth win! Magna est veritas, et praevalet. God Bless America! God Save the Queen!"

Friday’s top 10 programs in the Knoxville DMA:

WBIR/NBC 10 News (6p) 16.4
WBIR/NBC Nightly News (630p) 15.6
WBIR/NBC Wheel of Fortune (7p) 14.3
WVLT/CBS UT & LNGBC (230p) 14.1
WVLT/CBS Andy Griffith (5p) 11.9
WBIR/NBC Jeopardy (730p) 11.7
WVLT/CBS News (530p) 10.4
WBIR/NBC 10 News Nightbeat (11p) 9.7
WATE/ABC Judge Judy (7p) 8.8
WBIR/NBC 1 vs. 100 (8p) 8.7
(Latter ratings are based on Nielsen’s preliminary overnights, sports often run late.)






MORE as the day goes along...also a giant congrats to
Maryville High for their win in the state this
weekend!

FRIDAY

CAN syndicated TV sink any lower? SURE IT CAN!

False reports circulated late yesterday that Sinbad had died. Truth is only his
CAREER is dead!


Bill Clinton is still doing what he does best! A new
book slated to come out shortly outlines his
swordsmanship!





Thursday



Yesterday the Sentinel (Knoxville's only paper of record) ran a great story from Bobby Wilson about a little dog trapped on a foot wide ledge one hundred feet above a mountain road. Today there is a great follow up on the fate of that special beagle from Bobby, check it out!





What does Barbra WA WA and Jimmy Carter have in common? Neither ever met
a left wing, commie, pinko, dictator they didn't like! Granted she loves Rosie and the old red head on her show, but now she has gone SOUTH to talk to a real
SCARY DUDE! As always, CHECK I T OUT!



Hey KATIE, YOU SUCK! Or so says AOL viewers..check it out!



I had NO idea Regis was even sick did you?


Locally (East Tennessee) certain outlaw groups of DemoRATS are still mad
Ford Jr. got his clock cleaned in the election. Well now those mouth foaming, left
wing, liberal, pinko, wingdangnuts can rejoice. FORD Jr. has a job and you
will NEVER guess who this liberal Memphis mob family member is working FOR!
Put down your coffee or beer and click here!








WEDNESDAY

KIDS, there is a story in the big paper today that suggests the yellow lights (you know the ones the TICKET CAMERAS catch you just slipping under) are set FASTER than they should be! A fun story would be for one of our TV news fellows to dash out with a camera and a stop watch and show all of us if this is true. If it is then lets light the pine knots and start to boil the tar, I have a rail out here in Rockford that still has a few chicken feathers on it and will be glad to bring it!


GET THIS, when you kill your baby a certain left wing group wants to help you verify the murder!

TUESDAY
3-13-0

If you wanta see where the local radio stations rank in the current ratings
it is so easy, just dash over here.

You Tube could cost Google out the behind if Viacom's legal eagles pull off what they JUST FILED!

One of the favorites in the WHERE ARE THEY NOW stack of e mail is Sir Bernard J. Quayle.

This bird rolled into WNOX in 1969 hung around for a few months and headed north. Today he is back across the pond doing The Late Show on Manx Radio, Isle of Man, British Isles. Bernie says, "...The incredible figures in the audience surveys are the result of giving the listeners what they want to hear - more than 50% of the songs we play are telephone requests." (The Late Show receives calls from as far afield as Northern Scotland, Devon & Cornwell, Cumbria, Northern & Southern Ireland.)


If you would like to send him a note his e mail is berniequayle@manxradio.com
As always if you are wondering where they are, e mail us or post your question on the blog and we will hunt them down like yeller dawgs.

When the liberal and we are taking THE MAC-DADDY of all liberal print media cracks on Al Gore you know large cracks are about to form in the earth and the sky is
set to fall!


CBS is working like a cat in a litter box to be the leader of the pack to elect Hilla.

The words blatant and obvious roll off their back like Monika coming up from under a desk.

Covering TV news in OHIO beats the living snot out of reporting on crooked Knoxville
politicians. Check this out!


AND even more proof the national TV News Kids are fibbing to us!



This test only has one question, but it's a very important one. By giving an honest answer, you will discover where you stand morally. The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation in which you will have to make a decision. Remember that your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous.
Please scroll down slowly and give due consideration to each line .

THE SITUATION:
You are in Florida , Miami to be specific. There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severe flooding. This is a flood of Biblical proportions. You are photojournalist working for a major newspaper, and you're caught in the middle of this epic disaster. The situation is nearly hopeless. You're trying to shoot career-making photos. There are houses and people swirling around you, some disappearing under the water. Nature is unleashing all of its destructive fury.
THE TEST:
Suddenly you see a woman in the water. She is fighting for her life, trying not to be taken down with the debris. You move closer. Somehow the woman looks familiar. You suddenly realize who it is. It's Hillary Clinton! At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take her under forever. You have two options: You can save the life of Hillary Clinton or you can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photo, documenting the death of one of the world's most powerful women (in her mind, at least).

Here's the question, and please give an honest answer.......
Would you select high contrast color film, or would you go with the classic simplicity of black and white?

APRIL FOOLIES
Wilson Auditorium
Maryville College
March 31
Tickets at the Capitol Theater in Maryville
and the United Way Office
More pictures of the TV shoot on Tennessee Writer












MONDAY
3-12-07

DID YOU TURN YOU’RE CLOCK FORWARD…NO HOLD ON..DID YOU TURN IT BACK..NO I THINK IT WAS FORWARD, OR WAS IT BACK?? OH FORGET IT


There are some good thoughts about WATE on Jump The Shark this week. Your Media Maven took a hard right to the crotch from one of their anonymous posters last week when he tossed in his two cents worth on the fate of the station. Naturally the reply to the vituperative shot was so good it drove the poster underground. Shark is talking about who knows what inside the walls of 6 and it is more than worth a click over to his site to read his thoughts.

Some children think I have a problem with WATE because three of their kids called up the Shopper when I posted their ratings in my column. While they had the ear of the former owner of the paper they also cried over me posting on Gene’s blog. I was told by said former owner to stop because I represented the paper (I had NO idea at that time other Shopper “writers” were posting on radical left wing blogs or I sure would have continued on Gene’s) and I agreed to stop. So far I have not visited it (Gene’s) since due to the pure work it takes to find the thing. Later the former owner of the Shopper said they were going to drop my column in the fall and they sure did.

Truth is if I didn’t have GMs calling a paper now and then to howl about me I would feel very unloved. Even though the trio from Six has bragged openly they are the reason I am no longer making that seven figure salary at the Shopper I have zero animosity toward them. Granted I had to pull my dawgs out of Doggie Day Care and the Golden (see THE BOSS) will no longer be attending an Ivy League University next fall,but the good news is the financial set back has been erased by my paper route (The Grit) and my new Amway distributorship.

The cloud is not hanging over the Rockford Bunker. The real storm is just out Broadway. WATE has to change their news operation if they want to justify their advertising rates.

Breaking NEWS, Shaky Cams, This Just In, More at 11 and STORM TEAM REPORTS (on clear beautiful days) have proven to be just the ticket to drive viewers on up the street. WBIR is killing 6 in the news casts of record (sorry but 5 p.m. isn’t one of them) and even WVLT has eased up and past them in certain time periods. IF the station is for sale, and about the only ones who say it isn’t are those who could very well be given the gate when the new owners arrive, it needs to have a plan to fix their local news. IF it is already sold then that new plan may or may not include those who produce the product that so far has floundered at best and run viewers away at the worst.

As always your thoughts and posts are welcome, we never edit or out posters and we just don’t care enough to try to hunt you down to see who you really are. I would suggest you visit Jump The Shark for their thoughts before you touch one off across our bow, they seem to have some insight into the station, and it is more than worth a read.

As we did last week, when new things happen we will post. Sorry we are late getting out today and thank you so much for passing the blog on! Now whata think??



· Friday’s top 10 programs in the Knoxville DMA:

WBIR/NBC 10 News (6p) 15.1
WBIR/NBC Nightly News (630p) 13.2
WBIR/NBC Wheel of Fortune (7p) 12.8
WBIR/NBC 10 News Nightbeat (11p) 10.0
WBIR/NBC Jeopardy (730p) 9.9
WBIR/NBC Live at Five (5p) 8.9
WBIR/NBC 10 News Today (6a) 8.3
WBIR/NBC Today Show (7a) 8.0
WBIR/NBC 1 vs. 100 (8p) 7.5
WATE/ABC 6 News (5p) 7.4




Just got this and had to share it!

"Calling an illegal alien an
"undocumented immigrant"
is like calling a drug dealer an
"unlicensed pharmacist".

FLASH
Check out Tennessee Writer for more photo's like the above. A
big ol Thank Ya goes to Charter for working all afternoon shooting two
PSAs for April Foolies. The show is March 31 at Wilson Auditorium, Maryville College to support ChildNet, New Hope and United Way Success By 6
programs. The spots are going to start running on Charter in the next week and trust me they will be ODD!





NEW STUFF DAILY!



FRIDAY!!!!!

FOX News says if you are trying to be the new leader of the free world you best engage and debate, even if you are worried about those who are paying your way into the White House pulling their money. John Edwards, listen up.



CBS and Katie sitting in a tree....fill in the rest.
The NEWEST first mate on the sinking ship actually thinks
sinking wreck can be turned around and headed for the out island. Plleeeeeesssssee
Dan(that horse won't hunt no matter how many memos we fabricate) Rather
blew a how in CBS news bigger than a pumpkin ball hitting a grilled cheese sandwich.
Even the holy bible of the let coast (The New York Times) hints in their softball
love banquet for Katie that careers are now on the line in the CBS news division.

(We skipped Wednesday, staff was at Prayer Meeting)



THURSDAY

With all the talk about WATE being for sale and the hiring of a "reported" GM/StaffExecutioner the parent company, Young has put some dollars in their hip pocket 4th quarter.

CBS news thinks they have found a way to contain the stink coming from their news studio. A former CNN dude is coming over with a case of Glade and a helping hand for
Katie, good luck!






An old WOKI favorite has left a Florida radio station after 17 years on
the job.


Remember back before Rosie came on The View and we were limiting our disgust
to the ugly unknown red head and Star Jones? Well Star formally known as "BIGGUN" is back!




Date: Wednesday 3/7/07
Wednesday Highlights:
10-11 am Household Ratings
WBIR/NBC Martha Stewart 4.0
WVLT/CBS Montel Williams 3.7
WATE/ABC Rachael Ray 3.5
4-5 pm Household Ratings
WBIR/NBC Style 7.1
WATE/ABC Oprah 6.2
WVLT/CBS News/Gomer 3.7
Wednesday’s top 10 programs in the Knoxville DMA:
1. WBIR/NBC 10 News (6p) 17.3
2. WBIR/NBC Nightly News (630p) 13.5
3. WBIR/NBC Wheel of Fortune (7p) 12.1
4. WTNZ/FOX American Idol (9p) 12.0
5. WBIR/NBC Live at Five (5p) 11.3
6. WBIR/NBC 10 News (11p) 10.3
7. WBIR/NBC Today Show (7a) 10.1
8. WBIR/NBC Jeopardy (730p) 9.9
9. WBIR/NBC 10 News Today (6a) 9.4
10. WATE/ABC Lost (10p) 9.1




TUESDAY (3-6-07)

WATE has a new boss!
The first word out of the home office was they were going to run Knoxville's first TV
station from Nashville, and it still looks like the new GM will do double duty with 6 and her other station. The move went right along with the whispers that Young was trying to sell their stations and move 6 into the black.

The buzzzz this morning is about how FAST the suits moved to get a new Top Dawg in Jan's chair. Some say the fix was in before Wade had her U Haul loaded, who knows?
The February book was not very kind to the local news department at 6, but none of the moles are saying if the new leader came with marching orders for news or not? GOOD TUESDAY MORNING KIDS!


Under the heading RADIO GONE WILD a morning show in Austin, Texas may have stepped
deeper into it than the time THE GREASE MAN gave his now famous thought on how to get six days off after Martin Luther King Day. These two boys
in Austin used the "D" WORD when talking about about a democrat's thoughts on Hilla's new thorn, oBOMBER.
Check this out!




Daily Meter Household Ratings
Daily Meter Household Ratings
Date: Monday 3-5-07


Primary News Time Periods:

HH Rating WBIR/NBC News Share WATE/ABC News Share WVLT/CBS News Share HH Total
6-7a 9.3 58.49% 4.2 26.42% 2.4 15.09% 15.9
6-630p 16.3 51.91% 10.1 32.17% 5.0 15.92% 31.4
11-1130p 8.0 44.94% 3.9 21.91% 5.9 33.15% 17.8
Average News Share 51.61% 27.96% 20.43% 65.1


CHECK IT OUT...NBC canned the Nightly News Producer because they are on a very fast slide into the ratings dumper. To start the climb back they hired..hold on...get a grip..are you ready??? One of DAN RATHER'S former producers. I kid you NOT!





WATE is pleased with their news numbers at 5 in the afternoon, quote from 6

"WATE also won the 5pm time slot once again showing that more East Tennessee viewers are turning to The News Station, 6 News.

Here are the figures they are sending out from the just released February book.
5-6am Feb. 06 Feb. 07
WATE (News) 3.0 rating / 12.7 share 3.1 rating / 13.3 share
WBIR (News) 4.6 rating / 19.6 share 4.1 rating / 17.6 share
WVLT (News) 1.2 rating / 5.3 share 1.1 rating / 4.9 share










NEW STUFF ALL WEEK!

MONDAY

Local TV ratings are out and CHANNEL 10 says: The February 2007 Nielsen rating sweep concluded with WBIR-TV delivering the #1 news and most of the top 40 programs in the Knoxville DMA. WBIR-TV also delivers 23 of the top 40 shows in first two weeks of Feb’07 sweeps.

National TV ratings are rocking some worlds!
NBC is still the puppy to beat but it sure is getting easier!

THE TODAY SHOW is cracking but their cracks are nothing like the ones forming under their Nightly News.


The CBS investment is going south faster than you can say..put another filter on Katie I can still see the lines in her eyes. Yep, the left wing voice and potential answer to the Dan (AS LONG AS IT NAILS BUSH WHO CARES IF IT IS TRUE OR NOT) Rather problem is not having a celebration over today's numbers.

HILLA tries to be SOUTHERN, you have to HEAR IT to believe it!

John Edwards replies to Ann using the French word for Butt Boy to describe the candidate.


We want to get BEHIND our troops, but Dutch citizens want to get some BEHIND for theirs!





SUNDAY
Because you get so sick of the blog being a one trick pony we are going to be adding fun things every dang day of the dang week. Most will be linked so you can read the rest of the story at your leisure, and naturally more than a few will have a right wing tilt just to jack with the left!.

Biggest media SNAFU had to be Jeff Jarnigan’s woops at the UT/Florida game. Lofton was shooting a foul shot and Jeff shot off his MOUTH causing a miss. No kidding… me and 24,000 of my best friends were all watching him shoot (sure would have been nice if Jeff had been) and heard the chatter that caused Lofton to miss the shot. SOME moles inside the bunker at B97 were whispering that Jarnigan was having his calls screened rather heavily the first of the week. Bless his heart, if Pearl was really pissed he wouldn’t call he would just drop by and kick him off the side of Sharps Ridge. Upside is UT home games and Jarnigan have many months to recover, downside is Pearl knocking on Jarnigan’s door with an 8 iron in his hand!


More than a few local TV blogs are running polls asking for your vote on your favorite weather person. Last one I saw had Julya Johnson WAY out front with Opie coming in second. Sorry but none of the tribe today can hold a pointer (yea they used to use them back in the days when Margie did the 11 after singing with Big Jim Hess at the Bimbo Inn lounge) to my man Johnny Mountain. He had more fun doing the weather than Cas Walker did when someone handed him by mistake one of those big flash cards that said KOTEX. Another story for another day. Julya has come along way but for my money you can’t beat the gal on WVLT. I have yet to really listen when she does the weather but by golly the dogs and I never miss her doing it!


Fun stuff starting with Sunday (we will up dang date daily)

Ann Coulter had the BEST come back to those who were mad at her accusing Edwards of being a butt monkey! When she said she would never insult Gay Folks by saying Edwards was a memeber of their tribe!

Bill Maher may have stepped on his incredibly short pal on HBO when he said lives could be saved if the VP of the United states had been killed.


Gallup poll says most of the left wingers think Al Gore couldn’t win if he got in the race. I personally want Al in the thing so we can kick his donkey again and get his movie moved out of the documentary category and on to the contrived fiction shelf. Come on Al engage!

Latest rage at the Blind School, musical condoms!

I used to like sunroofs.

Give a fool a gun and the fun just happens.

More as the week rolls along keep dem posts a coming and a big Blount County Thank You for sending the blog on to others!

Also if you are bored don’t forget to check out the other blogs in the FAV area just above Denver’s head, some are fun, some scary, all are worth the click!