Image by Getty Images via @daylife This is what I’m thinking: * Buffalo News critic Jeff Simon and I rarely agreed on much of anything when I was the newspaper’s main television critic, which I always thought was a a good thing. But I‘m with him when it comes to praising the HBO special, ...

Image via Wikipedia   Another winter weekend, another exaggerated and misleading weather alert. “The snow they are predicting hasn’t hit yet,” said Channel 2 traffic anchor Christie Witt this morning. I’ll say. The forecast for the weekend assuredly frightened away some Buffalo Bills ...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife   You don’t have to be a mentalist to know what the top-rated television program is in Western New York. The winner during the November sweeps was “NCIS,” which also is the nation’s top-rated program. ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” actually had ...

Image via Wikipedia Nobody asked me, but: * It’s a case for Judge Judy (see right). I’m talking about the war between Time Warner Cable and Sinclair Broadcasting, which owns WUTV and WNYO in this market. Now that TWC claims it can bring in Fox programs anyway, Sinclair has lost its leverage. It ...

Image via Wikipedia    Time Warner Cable is telling local subscribers that it has a way to carry Fox prime time programs even if the owner of local affiliate WUTV prevents the cable giant from carrying them Jan. 1 in a money dispute. The war between TWC and Sinclair Broadcasting, which owns ...

Image by HeatherWeaver via Flickr A few days after Channel 7’s latest staff cuts, anchors Keith Radford, Joanna Pasceri, Patrick Taney and Ginger Geoffery were telling the Eyewitness News viewers who are left that a new set is on the way. Of course, the joke around TV stations for decades is ...

Image via Wikipedia It isn’t easy being a “Certain” Man. After all, life can throw them some curve balls. Make that mid-life. I’m talking, of course, about the TNT series, “Men of a Certain Age,” which stars three men who have experienced great success in network TV — Ray Romano ...

About a week after the November sweeps ended and three weeks before Christmas, Channel 7 management gave six employees their walking papers Friday as tears flowed. I have the names but won’t run them because they aren’t on-air personnel that viewers will recognize. Gone are three photographers, an ...

Image by elycefeliz via Flickr   I watched the NBC Nightly News in horror Thursday night as it aired a lengthy report by Ron Allen about the Thruway snow disaster here. Of course, it was horrifying to think about those poor WNY souls who spent 15 hours stuck on the road. The only things worse ...

Image via Wikipedia This is what I’m thinking: * Glad to hear that his infamous tweet to God taught Buffalo Bills receiver Stevie Johnson some lessons. It also gave some textbook lessons about the new journalism, the changing world of public relations and the inanity of talk shows. The Buffalo ...