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NBC NETWORK NEWS FLUSHED!

ACADEMY AWARD MESS
ANNA AND COUNCIL
LOST LOCAL NEWS DEPARTMENTS
PAPER OF RECORD
FOOLISH FOLLIES
NO EASTER, THEY FOUND THE BODY!
ANOTHER MEGA EXAMPLE OF GLOBAL WARMING!







Sunday’s Top 5 programs in the Knoxville DMA:

WATE/ABC Academy Awards (830p) 15.1 (average to 1215p)
WTNZ/FOX NASCAR (330p) 14.0 (average to 745p)
WATE/ABC RD-Oscar (8p) 12.3
WBIR/NBC 10 News (6p) 10.6
WBIR/NBC Sunday Today (8a) 10.0




The difference in this years Academy Awards and a fifty
gallon bucket of horse droppings is THE BUCKET!

No kidding, we started early this afternoon with the E channel (everyone voted against Joan Rivers and her child on TV Guide) and hung in until 10:00 EST. Bless your hearts if you continued with this boring insider driven concrete filled balloon, you are better than we are!

Remember the days when they said “Earlier the Academy gave the award to the best teaser of nose hairs to Skullman Smoot for his work in Late Last Night The Fog Felt Like Dripping Snot? Not tonight kids, every T tiny category was given the full treatment eating time and more importantly quarter hour ratings. It was like watching The Price Is Right without the big breasted contestants running down the aisle and Bob Barker off the Prozac. So at 10:05 PM I have no idea what the best pictures was, who won best actor, or if ALGORE came back to mug yet a second time to his Hollywierd minions and the truth is I just don’t care! E mail or post your thought if you fought the good fight and managed to stay up. I really did feel sorry for Peter O’Tool even after all his face lifts his eyes were still drooping.

Locally who thinks the media coverage of the Knox County Commission abortion has major similarities to the Anna Nicole story? Both involve characters who would not know the truth if it flew out their shorts and poo pooed on their flip flops, and both stories are harder to turn away from than a train hitting a midget Corvette filled with Rotarians crashing the Mummer's Parade.

This weekend it really looked like the paper of record (yea that one) had sided up with Rags although they didn’t have the hanger downs to admit that their boss… NOT the paper is the one lawing the county. Anyone find it kinda cool to see the county bow their back and threaten to pull their advertising? Let’s face it, when you are driven NOT by ethics but by dollars, such a threat can make you forget what your Grandfather said about “never assume it is only a fart unless you are willing to personally scrub the brown lines out of your skivvies.” I don’t have a clue if the county can pull all those legal notices they file out of the paper or not, but if they could I bet The Journal would flat give them a much better rate!

As Anna starts to rot and stink, so goes the world of the coverage of Knox County politics. Also just like Anna, nothing is what it seems. If that baby was not worth millions do you think all of those gutter snipes would be popping up to declare “Daddyship” of the thing? Same here in River City, why would people with pasts as jaded as the Guess Your Weight dude at the fair be willing to let the media shine its light on them? Simple, follow the money! Lots to be made if that kid is really the fruit of your loins and even more to be made if you are about a third crooked and a newly appointed member of Knox County Government. The big question is where are our electronic and print journalist during this low water make of integrity? I kinda thought I would give Gene Patterson one more chance this morning but then I noticed it was noon and I still had not read the Maryville Daily Times, I fired up some new age channel on XM and rocked back to see if any of my classmates had assumed room temperature. After marking out the noon hour for Gene last week and taking a sucker kick between the legs, I felt my time this week would be better served by perusing the Times.

Anyway, that is the rant for the weekend, thanks for all the comments last week and I will continue posting ratings as they come it. Do you think it really is FOX exposing NBC’s left wing agenda that is causing the Peacock to drop like Chubby Checker through a skylight, or is it just the fact that ABC is giving us more news and less paid experts? Discuss and post.

Also check out my other blog for info on the Foolish Follies, an annual party in Maryville that raises money for children by presenting ugly men in drag and singing groups called Buford’s Atomic Outhouse. Party on Wayne!

ACADEMY AWARD ACCIDENT
ANNA NICOLE OR KNOX COUNTY
FOOLISH FOLLIES
AND MUCH MUCH MORE!





The difference in this years Academy Awards and a fifty
Gallon bucket of horse droppings is THE BUCKET!

No kidding, we started early this afternoon with the E channel (everyone voted against Joan Rivers and her child on TV Guide) and hung in until 10:00 EST. Bless your hearts if you continued with this boring insider driven concrete filled balloon, you are better than we are!

Remember the days when they said “Earlier the Academy gave the award to the best teaser of nose hairs to Skullman Smoot for his work in Late Last Night The Fog Felt Like Dripping Snot? Not tonight kids, every T tiny category was given the full treatment eating time and more importantly quarter hour ratings. It was like watching The Price Is Right without the big breasted contestants running down the aisle and Bob Barker off the Prozac. So at 10:05 PM I have no idea what the best pictures was, who won best actor, or if ALGORE came back to mug yet a second time to his Hollywierd minions and the truth is I just don’t care! E mail or post your thought if you fought the good fight and managed to stay up, I really did feel sorry for Peter O’Tool even after all his face lifts even HIS eyes were drooping.

Locally who thinks the media coverage of the Knox County Commission abortion has major similarities to the Anna Nicole story? Both involve characters who would not know the truth if it flew out their shorts and poo pooed on their flip flops, and both stories are harder to turn away from than a train hitting midget Corvette filled with dwarf Rotarians.

This weekend it really looked like the paper of record (yea that one) had sided up with Rags although they didn’t have the hanger downs to admit that their boss… NOT the paper is the one lawing the county. Anyone find it kinda cool to see county bow their back and threaten to pull their advertising? Let’s face it, when you are driven NOT by ethics but by dollars, such a threat can make forget what your Grandfather said about “never assume it is only a fart unless you are willing to personally scrub the brown lines out of your skivvies.” I don’t have a clue if the county can pull all those legal notices they file out of the paper or not, but if they could I bet The Journal would flat give them a much better rate!

As Anna starts to rot and stink, so goes the world of the coverage of Knox County politics. Also just like Anna, nothing is what it seems. If that baby was not worth millions do you think all of those gutter snipes would be popping up to declare “Daddyship” of the thing? Same here in River City, why would people with pasts as jaded as the Guess Your Weight dude at the fair be willing to let the media light shine on them? Simple, follow the money! Lots to be made if that kid is really the fruit of your loins and even more to be made if you are about a third crooked and a newly appointed member of Knox County Government. The big question is where are our electronic and print journalist during this low water make of integrity? I kinda thought I would give Gene Patterson one more chance this morning but then I noticed it was noon and I still had not read the Maryville Daily Times, so I fired up some new age channel on XM and rocked back to see if any of my classmates had assumed room temperature. After marking out the noon hour for Gene last week and taking it between the legs, I felt time this week would be better served by perusing the Times.

Anyway, that is the rant for the weekend, thanks for all the comments last week and I will continue posting ratings as they come it. Do you think it really is FOX exposing NBC’s left wing agenda that is causing the Peacock to drop like Chubby Checker through a skylight, or is it just the fact that ABC is giving us more news and less paid experts? Discuss and post.

Also check out my other blog for info on the Foolish Follies, an annual party in Maryville that raises money for children by presenting ugly men in drag and singing groups called Buford’s Atomic Outhouse. Party on Wayne!

SUNDAY!
Gene blew it
Posts from last week
Abby is not a Ham BONE
Ratings



Last week the media star was the late great JOE ANDERSON.
This week I want you to tell me where the above picture was taken!
Clue... The street rhymes with what costs a buck at the golden arches.



ABBY has SPOKEN at Knoxtrivia do you believe her?




I was hoodwinked, snookered, suckered, and taken by all the blog hype concerning the giant blow up set for Sunday on the WATE political talk show! Although it was my mom’s 91st birthday I canned the Birthday Lunch at the Hilton and made her bail early out of the Knoxville First Baptist service so I could have WATE warmed up and ready to go at noon.

So??? So WHAT! The first half was Gene and Rags playing nice. Only spicy question was when Patterson asked the county mayor if his recommended ethics committee could have members other than elected officials? Rags said no and then after he explained it dropped in something like if one of the people he asked to be on said no which he said was highly unlikely then he could ask a citizen to be a member. Lord help, first no and then yes? Patterson was tossed a nice slow pitch down the middle and just watched it go into the catcher’s glove for a called strike? Anyway, I blew it off thinking Gene was going to nail him in the next segment and he didn’t wanta tip his hand early!

Then the last segment! Here come the fireworks! Normandy, Boomsday, Hiroshima AND Nagasaki set to blow right there in my bunker!!!

Here is the way it went down. Gene said the report issued the last days of the former High Sheriff concerning Tyler Harber called the Rags a teller of tall tales, a prevaricator, a well you know the L word. Rags wanted to know who made the claims and where were they in the report.

Gene stammered a bit.

Gene kinda looked at his notes.

Gene then said he had not really looked at the report as much as he should have but that it said it. Rags implied that Gene had best have his facts in line before he made such a call about someone and Gene kept saying it was in the report although he couldn’t produce the page, the paragraph, or who said it.

Brothers and sisters if we watch any of the NATIONAL political Sunday shows we know the way to play GOTCHA is to HAVE the quote or the source on the screen when you ask the question. Lord help at least have it on the table with the parts high lighted so you can shove it in the victim's face when he tries to bob and weave! As for Rags getting agitated, well yes, but from what I was told on Gene’s blog, I thought we would see the veins in his teeth and fists flying. The second Gene could NOT produce the source Rags had him nailed and just pushed him around a little to make him squirm a bit. It was not worth missing a birthday lunch (actually moved it to an early birthday dinner) or cutting out of Knoxville First Baptist early!

Upside was the last of the show had Lloyd on and it was good to hear him back on the air. Bless his heart despite all his good words and ideas all I could think of was he needed to put a hit out on whoever styled his hair for the show.




New ratings for the networks and the LOCAL ABC STATION (WATE) is watching their network ROCK NBC out of first place! Part of it is FOX letting people know that NBC is NOT releasing their list of P A I D experts (CNN and ABC did) and also pointing out NBC network news is on a major swing to the left. Last week ABC won and guess what, they are beating NBC again THIS WEEK!

I hope by the 08 elections the entire nation realizes most of the over the air (and CNN) network news programs are built around their agendas and flash, and little to no news reporting. If that happens voters will make up their own minds rather than letting a paid talking head do it for them.

Here is the latest ratings from the BIG DOGS.

ABC World News With Charles Gibson got more viewers in the key 25-54 demo. Last week it was No. 1 across all the demos.
Overall, World News averaged 10,060,000 total viewers, with a 2.6 rating/10 share in adults 25-54 (3,240,000 viewers). This marks nine straight weeks of growth for Gibson's World News and an 11% increase year-to-year in total viewers.
Nightly News averaged 10,170,000 total viewers and had a 2.6/9 in adults 25-54. It had a 2.6 rating/9 share in the demo, with 3,150.000 viewers.
CBS Evening News With Katie Couric averaged 7,776,000 viewers and held a 2.2 rating/8 share among the key demo, finishing third in both categories.








Some of the posts this week are being talked about at knoxviews.com. One comment on that site is asking if being a D.J. qualifies someone to be a Journalist. I was midday and then later afternoon drive NEWS anchor at WKGN in 1973 (when radio news was both respected and HARD to get into in Knoxville) and also the weekend stringer for the AP broadcast desk. As for the D.J. part, I eased back into that area for one reason MONEY! I would love to post my answer to the "shot at Knoxviews.com but they have banned me for life, bless their hearts. Anyway, feel free to dash over and see what is living under the rock. I thought folks like that all grew up after 1965 and became republicans...lord was I wrong! LOL





As always THANK YOU for reading and passing the Media Report along. If you are bored the other blog has some new pictures posted.
1:41 PM

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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THE ANSWER FOR LAST WEEK WAS frank Irwin (WKGN 1973-?) Winners will be notified by the prize patrol girl with the usual phone call, as always if a woman answers the phone at the winner’s home the PPG will hang up immediately.


This week’s media mystery member is anything but a “past” talent, but due to the wonderful exercise in democracy experienced by the taxpayers/voters of Knox County last week he has to be in the featured picture.


Clues
1. Wears hankies in his suit coat that always match his tie.
2. Weighs hundreds of pounds less than Dave
3. Has never been wrong.
4. Asked the question..WHY ARE THE CAMERAS NOT FOLLOWING THEM IN THESE RECESSES? THAT IS WHERE THE REAL STORY IS!
If you think you know who it is post your guess. Remember to read the rules on the box top carefully and if snail mailing in your guess do not sniff your Sharpie.



LOTS going on last week but the most fun media event of not only the week but the new year and I bet the decade had to be the web cast on WBIR covering the appointments of characters to the term limited Knox County Commission seats. Due to the fact the GPS coordinates of my bunker are south of the Knox county line, I am allowed to smell but not step in the political world of the home of Cas Walker. I still have to confess watching the WBIR web cast was right up there with first light Katrina coverage and viewing one of the regular UT bowl debacles.

As great, great, great, grandmother used to say, “That thing had more moves that a case of X Lax and was slicker than hot snot on a pickle.” From a media standpoint the mother of all questions has to be, WHICH TV STATION WILL RUN WITH THIS STORY? No joke kids, the station that pops a tire iron under the rock and keeps their lights shinning on all that slithers beneath it could come away smelling like a rose.


This story has all the elements that East Tennessee viewers love!

First there is mystery. Do these people always run the government like this or was it just an anomaly caused by the charter mess and the compacted time situation? Oh and what about the question of how deep does this nepotistic maneuvering go? Is it in all areas of local government? How hard is it to get a list of who is kin to whom and see if they are drawing government checks because of their linage.

Next the story has the solid good and evil foundation. Most residents of the Tennessee Valley feel in their heart of hearts that few if any elected officials are honest children who color inside the lines and play by the rules. So the verification of said thought that took place at the “I will put this one in if you will do this for me” meeting makes it a wonderfully secure, if not down right warm and fuzzy launch pad for an extensive media investigation.

Last, this story will make the station that really gets into it a new family member, you know like WBIR. Ten has always been the wise Uncle at the reunion who enlightens us with the latest news. If 10 were to really get into this wild ride they could further solidify that family membership, BUT if one of the other kids wants to ease them away from the table the door is now wide open!

SO, which station will keep the light shining under the rock? Which station will look at the story and not take a side, and trust me when the smoke clears certain media outlets will turn this into a giant “Who Shot John” faster than you can say political power struggle. Send your thoughts; will it be WBIR, WATE, or WVLT? Oh and don’t forget the Big Talker, unlike the TV coverage they injected questions during the circus that most of us were thinking. Personally I think it would be outstanding to see the last radio news operation in town kick some TV donkey. Big question is WHO do you think will take this story and find out how deep this iceberg is? The floor and the e mail and the post area are wide open. EXPOUND!


Last week radio AM 1180 took the bottle of Jack Daniel and the .38 and went to the woods. This morning the station is all sports. Listening to the last Lloyd gathering I got the impression they would be coming back and a few e mails from inside their former command center backed the thought. Although their show allowed a few left wing, odd ball, types on the air in general they were never worried about rattling a cage or losing an advertiser. It is so hard to find that kind of radio today and we all are pulling for them to find a new nest in the near future.




BREAKING NEWS NREAKING BNEWS

ANYONE NOTICE THE LACK OF GLOBAL WARMING STORIES NOW THAT THE WEATHER HAS TURNED COLDER THAN A WELL DIGGER'S SHORTS?

HERE IS ONE REASON!
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm


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