WE ARE BACK!

The last two weeks have been more boring than "Sewing Night" on a PBS fund raiser. So we closed the offices, joined hands, and worked as a group to survive Thanksgiving.


Locally the November Nielson numbers kept piling up and the fingernails at the mansion on Broadway keep growing shorter. I wish I knew a quick answer to this viewer shift but the best I can figure is they (the station that used to be number two in local news) are missing the mark in providing the type of coverage viewers want and the other guys are hitting it.

Here are some OLD (like in a week or so back) numbers looking at the news hours only.
wbir wate wvlt

6-7a 6.9 4.2 3.5



6-630p 15.3 9.7 6.1



11-1130p 9.1 1.9 10.92%

Average News Share 49.60% 25.04% 25.36%


Absent from the head to head news numbers is the noon hour because the station that sent these numbers didn't win it. The race at noon is close but because WVLT wins more days than they lose write them in as number one at noon followed by WBIR and then WATE. Also factoring in that noon win for WVLT will change the Average News Share totals pushing WVLT above WATE.

Nationally CBS news is back in the privy but if you look at WVLT locally they are doing much better at 6 p.m. than other CBS stations that have to take the hand off from Katie. As they used to say at the Twin Air at intermission, this thing ain't over yet.


EZ 88.3 FM started their Christmas music before Cracker Barrel had put out their $50.00 black and orange velour sweat shirts with the raised pumpkins and green witches down the sleeves. Not one station in town can match their selection of Ho Ho tunes!

In keeping with the reason for the season let me invite you to check out my favorite link this time of year.

www.extremefunnypictures.com/funnypic291.htm


Nationally two stories caused a few noses to twitch. The way to tell if a story is close to being done is when the last of the "I NEED SOME OF THAT HEADLINE" fools jump into the game. One of the above mentioned stories hit the basement Sunday when the AP reported…..
" NEW YORK (AP) -- Comedian Michael Richards said Sunday he did not consider himself a racist, and that he was "shattered" by the comments he made to two young black men during a tirade at a Los Angeles comedy club.
Richards appeared on the Rev.JESSEE JACKSON'S nationally syndicated radio program, "Keep Hope Alive," as a part of a series of apologies for the incident. He said he knew his comments hurt the black community, and hoped to meet with the two men."

Jesse is always there to pull the last bit of flesh from the bone at the end of a story, just what he does. As for Kramer, Lord help son any of us who have tried to stand up and tell a joke have been heckled but you have to be the BIGGER man in those situations. If we knew the heckler and more times than not we did, we would do this. Find a paper White Store bag, empty the litter box in it, put in on their front porch, light it, ring the bell, and run. Or if you didn't have a cat just jump them on the way to their car with a tire iron.

The other story was O.J. The Simpson book saga took another twist when his former sister-in-law, Denise Brown, accused the media company behind the project of trying to buy her family's silence for "millions of dollars."
A spokesman for News Corp., owner of Fox Broadcasting and publisher HarperCollins, confirmed that the company had conversations with representatives of Nicole Brown Simpson's and Ron Goldman's families over the past week and that the families were offered all profits from the planned Simpson book and television show, but he denied that it was hush money.


Can I get a show of hands of those who are over anything that even mentions O.J. or his immediate or extended family? Personally I think he did it and Robert Blake drove the get away limo.