Archive for August, 2008
Hearst Sends Crews to Gustav
Saturday, August 30th, 2008Hurricane Gustav is now in the Gulf and has its sights set on Louisiana. As this major news story develops just three years after Katrina (almost to the day), Hearst-Argyle is bringing extra reporters into the region. WDSU-TV, the Hearst station in New Orleans, has been in continuous coverage all day. As I was watching [...]
2008-2009 DMAs
Thursday, August 28th, 2008Nielsen has announced the list of 2008-2009 DMAs. As you probably know, Boston is market 7 out of 210 markets nationwide (Boston was number 5 in 2005-2006 but slid to market 7 beginning in the 2006-2007 year). For the first time in 10 years, the list of top 20 markets remained unchanged from 2007-2008 to [...]
Rebrand for TV 38
Monday, August 25th, 2008Beginning tonight, the TV 38 News at 9 PM is going by WBZ News. In introducing the switch this evening, Kate Merrill said the rebrand reflects the fact that those who put together the TV 38 News also create the WBZ shows and thus makes sense to treat them as the same thing. The graphics [...]
Convention Plans
Thursday, August 21st, 2008As you probably know, the much anticipated Democratic National Convention begins next week in Denver. The Republican National Convention begins the following week in St. Paul. The media circus surrounding both conventions will be impressive to say the least, especially with all of the hype around this political season. Most of our local Boston media [...]
BZers Hit Big Screen
Saturday, August 16th, 2008A few ‘BZers are hitting the big screen! Kathy Curran, Lisa Hughes, and Paula Ebben will be part of the new movie, “Edge of Darkness”, which is being filmed in Roslindale. WBZtv.com reports that they will “act” as TV News personalities. The movie includes big names such as Mel Gibson and Robert DeNiro.
FOX 25 Dropped in Westport
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008SouthCoastToday.com reports that Charter Communications will be dropping WFXT-TV from their TV line-up in Westport, Massachusetts on September 23. Westport, located in Bristol County on the South Coast, is actually part of the Providence/New Bedford DMA, leaving the FOX Providence station WNAC-TV the right to exclusively show FOX programming in the area. For several months Charter [...]