Image by Luck the Lady via Flickr Now that Don Draper (Jon Hamm) has announced he is planning to marry his secretary on the season finale of “Mad Men,” AMC is premiering a new 10 p.m. Sunday series that couldn’t be further in taste and style than the Emmy-winning drama. It is called “The [...]
Image by New England Secession via Flickr This is what I’m thinking: * It isn’t going to be easy for Patrick Taney and Ginger Geoffery to grow an audience for Channel 7’s newly-named “Eyewitness News This Morning.” That’s apparent from the ratings for the first two mornings of the 6 a.m. program that is [...]
Image via Wikipedia It is time to get sentimental about “Friday Night Lights.” And with “Friday Night Lights.” The series about life in a small Texas town where high school football is king is entering its final season at 9 tonight on DirecTV’s The 101 Network before it gets a larger audience in 2011 [...]
Image by PandamicPhoto.com via Flickr This is what I’m thinking: * As far as I’m concerned, it is too bad that play-by-play man Don Criqui and analyst Steve Beuerlein can’t work every Buffalo Bills game on CBS. The entertainment value of the Bills’ 37-34 Sunday loss to Baltimore was heightened by the work of [...]
Image via Wikipedia What do Channel 7 news and the Sony Walkman cassette recorder (see right) have in common? They were both popular in 1979. I bring this up because one of the stories mentioned in today’s first edition of “Eyewitness News This Morning” with new co-anchors Patrick Taney and Ginger Geoffery was the end of [...]
Image via Wikipedia With a 0-5 start to the Buffalo Bills season going into Sunday’s game in Baltimore and more home TV blackouts on the way, fans unquestionably will be hearing more of radio play-by-play man John Murphy and analyst Mark Kelso throughout the rest of the season. That’s one reason why I checked [...]
Image by Fairfax County Public Library via Flickr In one of the communications classes that I teach in college, I predicted Thursday that there would be a backlash against National Public Radio for firing news analyst Juan Williams (see right) for comments he made about Muslims on Fox News on Monday. Sure enough, I [...]
Image via Wikipedia This is what I’m thinking: * Channel 7 executives never have listened to me, so why should they start now. I wouldn’t have blamed Bridget Blythe for the ratings disaster that is “Good Morning Western New York.” I would blame the limited resources it puts in the lifeless show compared to [...]
Image by Getty Images via @daylife The sponsors of Monday’s gubernatorial debate did a lousy job explaining to local viewers where they could find Carl Paladino, Andrew Cuomo and the five people tossing out one-liners against them on television. And the local media wasn’t much help in promoting where to go, either. To paraphrase [...]
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Bridget Blythe is out at Channel 7, which is revising its low-rated morning program lineup once again. Starting next Monday, the new “Good Morning Western New York” team will consist of co-anchors Ginger Geoffery and Patrick Taney with Mike Randall on weather. Blythe and Randall had been doing the [...]