To borrow a phrase from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in “The Social Network,” the Oscars had “part of my attention Sunday night. The minimum amount.” That’s all it deserved. After it became obvious in the first painful 30 minutes that the distracted James Franco and an overly enthusiastic Anne Hathaway (see right) were painfully [...]
It is Sunday and I’m lazy and have to grade college papers. So I think I’m going to borrow a page from The Buffalo News opinion page and remind readers of this blog what I wrote about all week. It is a great idea because it means I don’t have to do anything original. [...]
Channel 4 anchor-reporter Mylous Hairston said this afternoon that the decision to leave the station abruptly Thursday was his and he plans on moving on to the next chapter in his life. In a telephone interview, the 46-year-old Hairston said he decided to leave Channel 4 after 20 years because changes in the industry made him [...]
While Channel 4 heavily-promoted a Mylous Hairston story about solving hair loss that ran this morning on “Wake Up,” friends, former colleagues and fans headed to Facebook Thursday night to lament the fact that the top-rated local news station is losing his talents. And questioning whether the anchor-reporter’s sudden departure in the final week of the sweeps indicates that [...]
WIVB-TV anchor-reporter Mylous Hairston resigned today, six months after celebrating his 20th anniversary at the CBS affiliate. Hairston, who was president of the local chapter of AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) and a negotiator in contract talks with the station’s owner, LIN Media, couldn’t be immediately reached for comment. The timing of Hairston’s resignation – [...]
It has been quite a few weeks for veteran Channel 2 reporter Scott Brown. He recently received five New York State Emmys nominations as the NBC affiliate broke its own record and earned 16 nominations. And according to sources, Brown was one of three people at the station suspended for a story in which the [...]
If anyone should know about the danger of making inappropriate statements on a social media site, it should be Channel 4 anchor-reporter Melissa Holmes. After all, she is the online expert for the CBS affiliate. On Tuesday, Holmes even did the story on the reaction on social sites Facebook and Twitter to the press conference [...]
In one of the semi-annual trips I took to Los Angeles years ago when the Buffalo News covered national television differently, I sat in an airplane seat next to a 6-foot 8-inch man who looked like a professional athlete. We struck up a conversation about sports, which led me to ask a question I [...]
You don’t have to be as smart as a computer to know that the three “Jeopardy” programs that pitted IBM’s Watson against two of the show’s best all-time contestants would get higher ratings than usual locally on WKBW-TV. The three programs this week averaged a 12.3 rating, hitting a high of 13.9 for Tuesday’s boring [...]
This is what I’m thinking: *After the Hassan trial, we knew the local TV news departments would need something to fill their 30 minutes of time besides telling us about the weather. So Channel 2 trotted out an old standby Tuesday – whether the area is in jeopardy of losing the Buffalo Bills. The so-called [...]