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The Feed for the Weekend of December 13th-14th

December 13th, 2008 joel

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  • Bayhawks open big: The Erie Bayhawks rocked the Tullio Arena in their franchise home opener in front of 3,706 fans Thursday night. GoErie.com reports that video appearances by NBA Commissioner David Stern and King Lebron James were featured on the center-court scoreboard during the opening ceremonies. The ‘Hawks stay home for a Saturday-Sunday matchup with Fort Wayne, then on Thursday, it will be their first locally televised contest on Image Sports Network (TWC city 20/suburbs 13) against Dakota.

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The Feed for Friday, December 5th

December 5th, 2008 joel

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  • Shannon exits WYNE/Mercyhurst North East: Several sources have confirmed that Erie radio veteran Bill Shannon (former K104 Program Director) is no longer employed at Mercyhurst North East. Shannon ends his long affiliation with the college, most recently starting up a radio broadcasting course of study and flipping the old WHYP 1530 signal to an oldies format. Captain Dan Geary expands his role from doing mornings to basically manning the ship. Personal reasons were cited for the departure.

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The Feed for Thanksgiving Weekend, 2008

November 29th, 2008 joel

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  • Country 98 takes hit for Citadel’s bigger market stations: In Dave Richard’s interview with Citadel/Erie GM Jim Riley published Friday on GoErie.com, Riley was quoted that although revenues are up in Erie over last year at the four-station cluster, they continue to have to cut staff. “We’re part of the company and had to participate in getting costs under control,” Riley said. Therein lays the inherent downside of corporate ownership: even though your division or market is making its nut, you have to suffer for the underperformance of other markets. In Citadel’s case, their larger markets are greatly behind targets, so they proportionately suck more money out of their thriving smaller markets. For Country 98 it means going with a syndicated morning show, Big D and Bubba, and Elly McVay wears the cowboy hat in middays and the biker do-rag for drive time on Z-102. Be watching for some background on Big D & Bubba next week on P&T.

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The Feed for Friday, November 21st

November 21st, 2008 joel

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  • It’s a Classy Christmas: WXKC/Classy 100 flipped the switch to all Christmas music today. That means that they’ll be playing the Santa Songs for five weeks, nearly 20% of the broadcast year. Not that there’s anything wrong with that! P&T heard a jazzy version of “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” by Tony Bennett driving in the snow this afternoon. WCTL is slated to go all Contemporary Christian Christmas on Black Friday.

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The Feed for Friday, November 14th

November 14th, 2008 joel

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The Feed for Friday, November 7th

November 7th, 2008 joel

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  • WJET-TV in HDTV: On Wednesday WJET announced that they are now broadcasting High Definition over the air on their 24.1 subchannel. Although currently in low-power, the station says they’ll be full power upon the digital switchover. A quick check of the HDTV tier on Time Warner Cable shows no channel designation for WJET-HD yet.
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The Feed for Friday, October 24th

October 24th, 2008 joel

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  • GoErie scores with Joyce trial posts: it may not be the OJ trial, but the mail fraud and money laundering case against former state Superior Court Judge Michael Joyce has many of the elements of an engaging trial. That plays right to the strengths of the new media, and GoErie.com is staying in the game with periodic posts as the trial unfolds. Erie Times News reporter Lisa Thompson is in Pittsburgh, giving the reader excellent coverage of the testimony in near real time on GoErie and a thorough retelling for the morning paper. (more…)
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