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Some Scary Holiday Leftovers

Leftovers before the long holiday: * Have no fear. The Fox New Year’s Eve special at 11 tonight shouldn’t be cut off on Time Warner Cable as host Nancy O’Dell wishes us all a Happy New Year at midnight.. Since it is a network show, Time Warner can carry it locally because of a national [...]

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TWC Rate Hike Confusion

Image via Wikipedia I apologize for not advising stilltalkintv regulars that I was going to take a few days off to visit friends and relatives in the New York City area because I just hadn’t seen enough snow this winter. I rarely worked the final week of the year when I was the regular Buffalo News [...]

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Sports Talk Foolishness Hits Season High

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Remember when people were calling talk shows and saying they weren’t going to watch the Buffalo Bills games on television anymore this season? Well, the Bills’ 17-14 victory over the Miami Dolphins had a 33.1 local rating on Channel 4 and 56 percent of people with their televisions on [...]

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Ch.2 Plans Healthy Show

Image via Wikipedia Leftovers before the Christmas holiday: * You’re probably going to eat badly over the holidays, but then you can turn to TV to find ways to recover. Channel 2 is premiering a new daily local program, “The Healthy Zone,” at 11:30 a.m. Monday in partnership with Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Jim [...]

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Updating TV News Moves

  The hits keep on coming. I’ve been at this for about seven months now, primarily building stilltalkintv through word-of-mouth, Facebook and periodic radio appearances. The page loads, unique and first time visitors have been gradually building each week and month. One of the attractions is the fact that my former employer, the Buffalo News, [...]

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My Holiday TV Advice: Time Shift

Image by startinghere71 via Flickr It’s the time of year that holiday specials like tonight’s from “Saturday Night Live” and repeats like tonight’s wonderful “Glee” Christmas episode fill the airwaves. In other words, it’s time to look for alternatives. My best advice is to consult On Demand, the DVR and all the other secondary ways viewers can now time [...]

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Don’t Bet Against Fox’s “Money Drop”

Image via Wikipedia See me. Feel me. Touch me. In the spirit of the holidays, I’m talking money here. Specifically, I’m talking about the amount in the title of the new Fox game show, “Million Dollar Money Drop,” that premieres at 8 tonight on WUTV and runs every night this week except Friday (Christmas Eve) in [...]

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Showtime Free Preview Is No-See TV Locally

Image via Wikipedia This is what I’m thinking: *Time Warner Cable has done it again. A local TWC spokesman said it doesn’t plan to make the Showtime Free Preview weekend in January available to local digital subscribers. My memory is TWC wasn’t able to offer one preview this year because it didn’t do the paperwork in [...]

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Prepare a Toast to Larry King

Image via Wikipedia I joked this morning in a WBEN-AM radio interview about the legacy of broadcasting giant Larry King that I prepared for the questions in the King Way. In other words, I didn’t prepare by doing any research at all before Susan Rose and John Zach asked me about King’s 50-year broadcasting career, which [...]

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WNY’s Smith to Anchor iPad News

Image via CrunchBase She wanted to return home to work  in TV news in her native Western New York, but former CBS News overnight anchor Emily Smith has returned to New York City to work for a start-up web news operation created by Rupert Murdoch and Steve Job (see right). On Monday, Smith flew from WNY to NYC [...]

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