Ch.2 Making Daytime Moves to Improve Health
Some notes left on the cutting room floor, along with some new material. A few days ago, I recommended that Channel 2 kill “The Healthy Zone.” Instead, the station has decided to try and save “Healthy”...
View ArticleWUTV Gets Christmas Bonus from Bills Game
This blog is an early Christmas present for those readers who miss the old Saturday feature Sports on the Air in the Buffalo News. WUTV owes local restaurateur Russell Salvatore a bigger thank you than...
View ArticleTop 10 Shows To Enjoy During December Break
We have hit the rerun season. Most series have wound down with so-called winter finales before they start up again after the New Year. As a friend told me recently, it is odd that they are called...
View ArticleFox’s Martz More Critical Than Sportswriters
I think Buffalo Bills Coach Chan Gailey should hire a sportswriter or sportscaster to stand next to him on the sideline at games. After all, sportswriters seem to know all the answers and have the...
View ArticleA Great Debate Over Grading the Bills
This seems to be the week that I wage debates with a couple of Buffalo News sportswriters who I greatly admire. On Sunday, I had a Twitter debate with Mike Harrington over whether the Buffalo Bills...
View ArticleLove of Technology, Leonard and The Newsroom
Some quick notes before I start grading college papers: I Love Technology almost as much as I Love New York. I don’t understand it, but I love it. I came home around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, went on...
View ArticleSome Deadly “Homeland” Speculation
I was talking to a local television executive recently about the season finale of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” when he practically stopped me in mid-sentence. He had to stop watching the finale about...
View ArticleAmerican Horror Story Is Uncomfortable to Watch
Unimaginable. Unspeakable. Unbelievable. Unbearable. To all those descriptions of the horror in Newtown, Conn. Friday that led to the shooting deaths of so many young children 11 days before Christmas,...
View ArticleCheers to WGR’s Simon and The Bucky and Sully Show
With the Bills not playing until 4:05 p.m. and time on my hands, I’ve decided to write a special Sunday edition of Sports on the Air. Cheers to WGR-AM morning co-host Howard Simon, who Friday earned...
View ArticleWhite House Comedy Gets Lukewarm Endorsement
Imagine if the late John Belushi were a member of the First Family. Then you have “1600 Penn,” the new cartoonish NBC comedy that is getting a special preview at 9:30 tonight on Channel 2 following the...
View ArticleBills Fans Losing Interest in TV Games
If Buffalo Bills Owner Ralph Wilson is going to fire Coach Chan Gailey after the season, it probably will be because so many fans have been turned off by his play-calling and game-day decisions that...
View ArticleAs Expected, “Daybreak” Is Permanent Home for Holmes
It is official. As expected here, Melissa Holmes will replace Jodi Johnston as the co-host of Channel 2’s ratings-dominant “Daybreak” in the morning alongside John Beard. Holmes, who had been the...
View ArticleWhy TV News Can Be Upsetting to Viewers
With apologies to Channel 4 for borrowing a slogan, nobody does apologies like Channel 2. On its 5 p.m. newscast Monday, anchor Maryalice Demler delivered what amounted to an apology for sending a...
View ArticleSpreading Some Holiday Cheer
It is time for some holiday cheers because even I have a soft spot at this time of year: Happy anniversary to Channel 2’s Ed Kilgore somewhat prematurely. The sports anchor, who now only anchors during...
View ArticleWGR Is Sticking with Rome After Move to CBS
It is time for a special pre-holiday edition of Sports on the Air: Jim Rome clones should be assured that the sports talk host will continue giving his takes on WGR 550 even after he changes networks....
View ArticleBills Lease Coverage Makes Me Want to Shout
On the day before Christmas, I think I’ve become the Pollyanna of the local media. Quite frankly, some of the negative media reaction to the new Buffalo Bills lease since it was announced Friday...
View ArticleCatching Up With What WNY Watches
With the New Year approaching, it is time to empty my notebook. I never got around to noting what network programs were the most popular in Western New York during the November sweeps. Some of the...
View Article“Les Miserables” Has Critical Differences
I tell my students in my media criticism class at Medaille College that the best thing about being a television or movie critic is you are never wrong. After all, you are just expressing an opinion...
View ArticleThe Best of Stilltalkintv: Weather Scares
I am taking some time off in New York City this week and unfortunately (or fortunately) missed the coverage of the snowstorm in Western New York. But I would guess I have seen and heard much of it...
View ArticleTop 10 List of Year’s Local Media Moves
It is the time of year for easy columns and blogs, listing the Top 10 of this or that. So here is a list of the Top 10 local media moves in 2012, as selected by stilltalkintv. It has been a busy year....
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