I love this. Columnist and editor Jeff Jarvis who also happens to be a Sunday school teacher ripped a new hole into Brent Bozell, president of Parents Television Council, for trying to censor the media in America. Very long and worthy read
(via lostremote) King Prig
The BBC got punked on Friday when they thought they were interviewing a representative of Dow Chemicals over the Bhopal disaster in which 18,000 people died. The impostor claimed Dow Chemicals was accepting responcibility for the incident. By the time the network ran the interview on it’s domestic stations the error was discovered and the BBC had to admit to the mistake which caused the Dow stock to go down 4.25% in 23 minutes wiping $2 billion dollars from its value.
In Europe at least. With overall growth in broadband over the past one year, 64% to be exact, less and less Europeans turn to TV in favor the Internet. Of the homes that had broadband 40% reported they are spending less time infront of the tube.
Will be replaced by a Black Television News in July of 2005 and in the meantime it will continue with their production services. 8 out of the 10 FNC employees will be losing their jobs.
The channel is officially going off the air on December 31st
WFOR has launched a full page ad in the Sun Sentinel and probably the Miami Herald touting they are the #1 station in all newscasts. Here are some numbers to ponder over
6pm newscast
WFOR – 4.5
WPLG – 4.3
WSVN – 4.0
WTVJ – 3.3
Late news – 11pm
WFOR – 5.8
WTVJ – 4.9
WPLG – 4.7
WSVN – 4.1
Sign on to sign off
WFOR – 3.9
WSVN – 3.1
WPLG – 2.9
WTVJ – 2.6
One ratings point equals 15,000 homes
Thanks to the unmentionable insider for giving me the numbers 
Beatriz Canals will be anchoring UPN33 News At 10 just saw a promo of it while watching Star Trek. Trying to tape it and will post the video asap
Update: Here’s the promo that runs on UPN33 – video – XviD codec needed
The lights behind them are a nice touch, I’m trying hard to remember which local station they “borrowed” them from!
November sweeps are over and the winner has been declared to be WFOR. They finished first at noon, 5pm, 5;30pm, 6pm and 11pm, prime-time, and sign-on-to-sign off.
UPN33 on the other hand won 3rd place by having a strong prime-time programming.
In the Monday to Sunday 6pm newscast WFOR was number one, followed by WPLG, WSVN at third and WTVJ a distant 4th place. The 11pm news were led by WFOR, WTVJ, WPLG, and WSVN. WSVN won the 10pm – 11pm newscast.
WSVN is number one in the mornings.
If anyone has the sweeps numbers please email them.
West Palm Beach market remains the same – WPTV is the leader locally even though CBS was the leader in prime-time programing nationwide, proving that lead-ins don’t always work. WPEC ranked second, and WPBF in third place. WPEC and WPBF saw a 4% ratings growth at 11pm, while WPTV lost 10% compared with a year ago.
WPTV-Ch. 5 extends Nielsen ratings reign in Palm Beach County
Spanish-language TV station first in ratings for Miami-Fort Lauderdale
Well not exactly but almost. It has over 1800 lights and it’s tall 300ft – should look like a pretty impressive decoration in person
But they decided not to hire him, and we know how that turned out
Thursday, December 2nd ratings
These are the ratings from last Thrusday, in the normal non-sweeps news cycle. Stations are ordered by channel number
5pm
WFOR – 4.2
WTVJ – 1.6
WSVN – 5.3
WPLG – 1.9
5:30pm
WFOR – 3.9
WTVJ – 1.4
WSVN – 5.8
WPLG – 2.4
6pm
WFOR – 3.7
WTVJ – 2.1
WSVN – 4.8
WPLG – 2.4
10pm
WSVN – 4.1
UPN33 – 1.8
WB39 – 2.2
11pm
WFOR – 6.2
WTVJ – 5.1
WSVN – 3.3
WPLG – 4.0
One ratings point for the Miami/Ft.Lauderdale market is equal to 14,968 households