Many local Time Warner Cable subscribers may not care whether New York Knicks games are carried here on MSG, but Carmelo Anthony’s team may be the key to how long the verbal battle between TWC and the sports network that carries Buffalo Sabres games continues as a Jan. 1 contract deadline nears. Tuesday’s New York Times [...]
Sometimes I read local stories about the media and think of Sofia Vergara of ABC’s “Modern Family.” Who doesn’t think of Sofia, the Colombian actress who plays Gloria Delgado-Pritchett on the Emmy award winning comedy? Gloria’s English is so difficult to understand at times that she needs an interpreter. One also was needed to understand a [...]
Channel 2 anchor-reporter Marissa Bailey is headed to Chicago in a month even though she feels Buffalo will always be her kind of town. “Buffalo is just a great city,” said the Syracuse native in a telephone interview Tuesday shortly after stilltalkintv reported she was leaving Channel 2 after five years to look for a [...]
Channel 2 anchor-reporter Marissa Bailey will be leaving the station in a month to seek employment in the Chicago market. In an email to staffers today, News Director Jeff Woodard said Bailey’s last day at the station will be Jan. 18. The station tried to keep Bailey, who has become increasingly valuable as an anchor [...]
The new classic TV station WBBZ is going to get more local competition on Jan. 1. That’s the date that Channel 2 will begin carrying Antenna TV on the digital channel that is currently carrying NBC’s Universal Sports on Time Warner Cable’s Channel 114. Universal Sports dissolves on Jan. 2 when its programming becomes part [...]
If I had Mitt Romney’s money, I’d bet $10,000 that half of the viewers to NBC’s new game show, “Who’s Still Standing?” wouldn’t last past the second commercial. It took me 15 minutes to bail out of the series, which will have a pre-Christmas run of four straight nights starting at 8 tonight. If I [...]
Melanie Amaro, Chris Rene and Josh Kracjik have hardly become household names in Western New York. They are the three finalists in Simon Cowell’s “The X Factor,” which has a two-night finale next Wednesday and Thursday. The 90-minute semifinals Wednesday night only earned a 5.2 rating on local Fox affiliate WUTV, meaning 5.2 percent of [...]
This is what I’m thinking: It was slightly surprising that WBBZ, the independent station that carries classic TV shows, had an audience during the November sweeps that almost equaled that of WNYO and WNLO. After all, WNYO and WNLO have advantages. WNYO is owned by the same company that owns Fox affiliate WUTV and carries [...]
It looks like News 4 Buffalo is going to enter the 21stCentury in 2012. According to sources, WIVB-TV is expected to carry its newscasts in high definition in late January in time for the February news ratings. Channel 4 is presently the only local station that doesn’t carry its news in some form of high [...]
This is what I‘m thinking: What a difference a few minutes makes on local TV news. Channel 2’s Scott Brown did a 6 p.m. news report Monday on the appointment of Richard Tobe as deputy county executive by County Executive Mark Poloncarz after Channel 2′s introduction by anchor Marissa Bailey deemed it a “controversial” choice. Switch to [...]