Image by Domain Barnyard via Flickr   Who is going to get the first interview with former Congressman Chris Lee? You might think that Channel 2 anchor Scott Levin would have the inside track since he and Lee were neighbors for seven years. A few days before the Craigslist scandal broke, Lee even stopped ...

Image via Wikipedia Just about everybody remotely connected to politics in Western New York has tossed his or her hat into the ring to replace Congressman Chris Lee. I have one more obvious candidate: Chris Lee. This thought came to mind even before reading today’s very positive Buffalo News story ...

Image via Wikipedia   The local media has congratulated itself so much for its coverage of the Hassan murder trial that several members probably need a visit to the chiropractor to deal with back problems. Even my former colleague Jeff Simon got in the act about 10 days ago, praising “especially” ...

Image via Wikipedia “Good Morning America” co-host Robin Roberts channeled Jay Leno (see right) after ABC’s morning program opened with the Craigslist scandal involving former Congressman Chris Lee. “That story definitely goes in the ‘what were you thinking’ column,” said Roberts. Of ...

Image via Wikipedia   Matthew Perry has always been my favorite “Friend.” That may only be partially because he once helped me with directions when I was lost in Pacific Palisades, Calif. I recall pulling over in my car years ago and looking for anybody to help guide me when Perry and his girlfriend ...

Fox affiliate WUTV-Channel 29 set a local Super Bowl ratings record Sunday. Green Bay’s 31-25 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers had a 52.7 local rating and a 71.7 share of the audience. That means 52.7 percent of area households were tuned in and 71.7 percent of all households with their ...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife   After all the crude, sexually-themed, supposedly funny Super Bowl commercials featuring Faith Hill, Kim Kardashian and others Sunday, the new Fox relationship comedy “Traffic Light” seems rather tame. And better yet it is occasionally even funny. Think CBS’ ...

Image via Wikipedia The funny thing about Super Bowl analysis isn’t that analysts like Fox’s Troy Aikman (see right) forget what they say in a few minutes but that they think viewers do. With Green Bay nursing a 21-17 lead over Pittsburgh Sunday early in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s Super ...

Image by gonycmagazine via Flickr Jennifer Beals as a tough leader of the Chicago police force? That sounds pretty ridiculous huh? It has been 27 years since “Flashdance” but it still is hard to get Beals’ sensual dancing out of one’s mind while watching her play the first female police superintendent ...

Image via Wikipedia   The battle for local TV news supremacy in February between news leader Channel 4 and hard-charging Channel 2 is going to be quite interesting and intense. That was illustrated by the ratings the day before the February sweeps – Wednesday — and on the first day of the ...