Image by r9M via Flickr It is 10 o’clock. Do you know where the viewers are? Probably in bed, recording their favorite network shows on their DVRs. The 10 p.m. weekday time slot has become troublesome for the networks nationally as potential viewers  apparently are going to bed earlier. I previously ...

Say that headline three times fast. Time Warner Cable just announced that truTV will be carried in HD on Channel 859 in time for tonight’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament games. Texas-SanAntonio plays Alabama State at 6:30 p.m., followed by USC-VCU at around 9 p.m. Tuesday night’s ...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife This is what I’m thinking: * Nothing says there is no real news than when Channel 2 has trouble filling its Top 3 stories segment in the morning with three newsworthy items. On Tuesday morning, the No. 3 story concerned Matt Granite’s ability to find viewers a ...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife   Channel 2’s Ed Kilgore is the dean of local sportscasters who was working for the NBC affiliate when the French Connection (see right with owner Terry Pegula) was a high-scoring machine in the National Hockey League in the 1970s. So it was nice to see Kilgore ...

Image via Wikipedia This is what I’m thinking. * Chris Musial, the general manager of WIVB-Channel 4 and WNLO-Channel 23, threw out a minor surprise during some brief taped comments to viewers that aired over the weekend and today. Musial was addressing the deal the channels’ owner made with ...

Image via Wikipedia And the most popular prime time television show in Western New York is… “NCIS” with Mark Harmon (pictured here), which is carried locally on CBS affiliate Channel 4.  Yup, it isn’t Fox’s “American Idol.” In fact, “Idol” — which used to go head-to-head ...

Image via Wikipedia  I picked up the sports section of the Buffalo News today and saw the three-column headline in the center of the page: “Bulls get the heave-ho.” My immediate thought was that the University at Buffalo basketball team lost Wednesday in the Mid-American Conference Tournament? I ...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife This is what I’m thinking: * It was interesting to read in the Buffalo News Tuesday that the national ratings for “American Idol” are “only” down about 7 percent from a year ago despite the departure of judge Simon Cowell. That was a surprisingly low defection ...

Image by pennstatelive via Flickr   Local TV News is still very popular in Western New York. In fact, it was more popular here in February of 2011 than in February of 2010. This is quite an achievement when you consider that the local stations are hiring younger staffers and asking their veterans ...

Image by TMWeddle - the rusty mailbox guy via Flickr The truck parked near Channel 7 with the sign that says “Turn Off Channel 7” finally can be moved. After almost two years working with a contract imposed by management, about 40 technicians and on-air personnel at the station approved a new ...