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Monthly Archive for November, 2005

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10′s Neki Mohan honored by Institute of Caribbean Studies

WPLG’s anchor gal Neki Mohan will be honored in Washington DC by the Institue of Caribbean Studies in their 12th Caribbean-American Heritage Awards.
T&T Journalist Among D.C. Center’s Honorees

Tropical storm coverage

Forecast it should be here by Monday, probably as a tropical storm, an anonymous tipster says the local stations are gearing up. WFOR is sending crews to the Keys with coverage to begin on Saturday. And I’ll make a wild guess other stations are doing the same

WFAA’s new digs

WFAA, ABC affiliate in Dallas/Ft. Worth got new digs, and have a video tour of them on their site. Check it out r

100 TV shows on AOL

Does it feel yet like those TV stations are slowly getting more irrelevant by the day? First it was ABC’s shows on iTunes, then we got CBS and NBC shows on demand right after they aired on TV. Now AOL and Warner Brothers are putting 100 TV shows on the web. For free! Ad supported of course. They’ll have four 15-second ads per 30 minutes of content and banner advertising.

If the advertising model works, and we manage to hook up our PCs to the TV this is bound to impact the TV stations, some of which rely heavily on syndicated content. I think it may not completely make them go away, but it will hit them in the pocket book as more advertising is moving online.

Washington Post – AOL to Have Reruns on Demand

South Florida Sweeps scrapped, officially

Thanks to the anonymous emailer for alerting me to these. As previously mentioned there was talk that November Sweeps for Broward and Miami-Dade will be canceled, and now it’s official.

Sun Sentinel- November’s ‘sweeps’ ratings cancelled for South Florida TV stations

Miami HeraldNielsen ratings clouded by dark screens