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KUSA Anchor Recovering After On-Air Dog Bite
KUSA Denver anchor Kyle Dyer is recovering in the hospital after she was bitten in the mouth by an 85-pound Argentine mastiff during a morning newscast Wednesday. The station says Dyer, who underwent reconstructive surgery, will be out of action for a while. The clip has gone viral, but KUSA is trying to stop that, reports the Yahoo News blog The Cutline: Video of the attack, as you might imagine, ...... Read More
Comments (0)'Plum' Assets For Sale
Want a place in Aspen or Sun Valley on the cheap? Then turn up at the public auction for Plum TV’s assets at U.S. Bankruptcy Court in lower Manhattan March 1 at 1 pm. For sale: “intellectual property, ‘Plum TV’ brand trademarks, domain names and web sites; two FCC broadcast licenses (Aspen, Colorado and Sun Valley, Idaho); audio/video tape/digital file content library, ...... Read More
Comments (0)Jeff Murri's Colleagues Remember 'Great Man and Great Broadcaster'
I got a nice note from Lyle Schulze, VP and general manager at WCTI in Greenville-New Bern-Washington, NC, about Jeff Murri this morning. Murri took his own life February 2. His colleagues and competitors recall him as a warm and energetic person and a gifted broadcaster; the WJBK Detroit GM was B&C’s General Manager of the Year in 2011. Schulze says we can share his remembrances ...... Read More
Comments (0)New York Stations' 'Giant' Offerings
The Super Bowl is over and done, but for the New York stations, the coverage continues for the next few days, including going live for tomorrow’s 11 a.m. parade throughout lower Manhattan celebrating the Giants’ win over the Patriots. The New York market registered a 49.7 rating/74 share for the game–just 18th out of metered markets, behind New Orleans, Norfolk and Columbus, a ...... Read More
Comments (0)GM Simone, News Chief Richardson Out at Revamped KMSB Tucson
Apparently Bob Simone and Bob Richardson didn’t fit into the new setup at KMSB Tucson, which is now being managed by Raycom’s KOLD in a shared services agreement that kicked in last week. The GM and the news director have departed, reports TVSpy. Simone took over KMSB, Belo’s lone Fox affiliate, in 2009. Richardson had been news manager at KMSB since 2003. TVSpy says he’ ...... Read More
Comments (1)Why I'll Miss Jeff Murri
The broadcast community is mourning the death of Jeff Murri, and so am I. The WJBK Detroit general manager was 50. No cause of death has been reported. B&C named Jeff our General Manager of the Year in December, for his tireless dedication to the Fox owned station, and to the Detroit community. As I’d said in his profile at the time, Detroit station chiefs are “fully immersed ch ...... Read More
Comments (2)Bashara Murder a 'Law & Order' Ep Come to Life
Detroit viewers, and the Detroit stations, remain riveted to the murder case involving Jane and Bob Bashara. WDIV reported last night on Bob’s “secret past”, which the report said includes S&M and a “secret dungeon.” Bob’s wife Jane was murdered January 25. The Basharas reside just east of Detroit in Grosse Pointe, which has emerged as a symbol of a s ...... Read More
Comments (0)Detroit Stations All Over Bashara Murder
Detroit is buzzing with an awful murder story, and the stations in DMA No. 11 are all over it in real time. Jane Bashara was murdered in Grosse Pointe Park, a wealthy suburb of Detroit that almost never sees homicides, last week. A little after 4 p.m. ET today, her widower, Bob Bashara, addressed the scrum of media outside his home for the first time. The teary husband, a suspect in the case (tho ...... Read More
Comments (1)Ed Ansin Still Stirring It Up
It was, perhaps, no surprise to anyone who follows this business that Ed Ansin, owner of Sunbeam Television, was in the middle of a high profile retrans spat until 6 p.m. yesterday, as DirecTV subscribers in Boston were making other plans to watch the Patriots in the Super Bowl on WHDH. (Sunbeam and DirecTV settled yesterday, and the Super Bowl will air on WHDH.) Ansin turns 76 in March, and has b ...... Read More
Comments (0)KNBC Gets Makeover Under Carlston
KNBC Los Angeles has a new logo and branding, reports LA Times, along with new gear and a fresh philosophy designed to bring the NBC owned station back to past glory. Steve Carlston, who came on board in October, is trying to change the mindset at KNBC after the station took some lumps during GE’s reign. New parent Comcast is investing big in the stations. Reports the LA Times: On Monday, ...... Read More
Comments (3)Pro-Colbert PAC Ads Run on WCSC
WCSC Charleston is the lucky recipient of an ad buy from The Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC, the political action committee promoting the Comedy Central funnyman in his would-be presidential campaign. Raycom owns WCSC, a CBS affiliate. Rita Littles Scott says the series of spots, poking fun at Mitt Romney (that 60 second ad is called Attack in B Minor For Strings) and ev ...... Read More
Comments (0)WVIT Hartford Gears Up
WVIT Hartford, or NBC Connecticut, as it’s known locally, announced a news expansion while I was actually visiting the station yesterday. As an NBC owned station, WVIT is benefiting from Comcast’s commitment to revivifying the stations with new vehicles, equipment, investigative teams, and news expansions. The station announced it was starting Saturday and Sunday morning news at 5:30 ...... Read More
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