Katharine McPhee This is what I’m thinking: Before she even started on the air on Channel 4, Diana Fairbanks had a fan in Western New York. Michele McClintick Mehaffy, a former Channel 4 anchor and reporter, briefly worked with Channel 4’s newest anchor hire in Traverse City, Mich. more than a decade ...

Sam Neill: Looking for Inmates   The story of Alcatraz is timeless and tonight viewers learn that some of its federal prisoners beat Father Time. Of course, time goes slowly when you’re in a maximum security prison so perhaps that’s the reason the escaped prisoners in the mysterious Fox series ...

Terry Pegula It is time for The Interpreter again. I can’t get spokespersons for MSG and TWC to chat with readers as the Buffalo News did Friday. But the spin from TWC’s Joli-Plucknette-Farmen and MSG’s Daniel Ronayne and some of the comments from questioners cried out for some interpretation ...

Geoff Stults   Walter Sherman (Geoff Stults) is a former military hero with brain damage and incredible instincts who collects damaged people, finds prized guitars and military heroes and has an amusing view of those who live with him in Florida. His spirit in Fox’s “The Finder,” the ...

This is what I’m thinking: Image via Wikipedia If Time Warner Cable and MSG aren’t going to make a deal to get the channel that carries Buffalo Sabres games back, then cable subscribers should get the money TWC is saving by dropping the channel. A rebate certainly is preferable to substituting ...

Image via Wikipedia   I have an answer to the question in the new NBC sitcom “Are You There, Chelsea?” Let’s hope that it won’t be there for long. It is one thing to read and enjoy the raunchy attitude of comedian Chelsea Handler in her best-selling books and late-night cable talk show. But ...

Image via Wikipedia   Channel 4 News needs A Few Good Women. The hiring of veteran Traverse City, Mich. anchor Diana Fairbanks for the 5:30 p.m. on Channel 4 and the 10 p.m. newscast on WNLO-TV (CW 23) in a few weeks is a start but more quality women are needed. It should be noted that Fairbanks ...

Josh Lucas via Wikipedia   By the law of averages, you might think that NBC would get a new legal drama right. Think again when it comes to “The Firm,” a laughable update of the John Grisham best seller and subsequent movie that premieres at 9 p.m. Sunday on Channel 2. I wanted to love it. But ...

It’s time to catch up on the news that quickly hit after being out of town for a week. Melissa Holmes The big local media news includes the Buffalo Bills switching radio stations, 103.3 talkers Ted Shredd and Tom Ragan switching time slots, anchor-reporter Melissa Holmes switching TV stations and MSG ...

Melissa Holmes It is Melissa for Marissa at Channel 2. Anchor Melissa Holmes is leaving Channel 4 to become the 10 p.m. weekday anchor and a reporter at Channel 2, industry sources confirmed today. Holmes (see left) will be replacing Marissa Bailey, who stilltalkintv reported last month is leaving ...