December 24th, 2009 
joel Editor’s note: I was in the checkout line at Tops Tuesday and the cashier and the fellow in front of me were reminiscing about what they were doing on Christmas Eve…not last year or even recently, but in 1983, the year the Christmas blizzard came to town.
That’s how indelible that particular Christmas is in the memories of the people of Erie. So I bring you my classic remembrance, original posted on my Radio Free JoJo blog in 2007.
WJET 1400 Stereo
During Tom Atkins weather forecast last night on Jet TV, he had a trivia question about which Christmas had 20″ of snow and wind chills of 40-50 below. “Of course,” I told my wife, “it was the Christmas of 1983.”
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Deep Background for December 2010
Wow…it’s December already?!?
That means we made it through sweeps, through “Bristol-gate” on Dancing With The Stars, while the networks are hoping for a royal wedding smack dab in the middle of May 2011 Nielsens. The overloaded Thanksgiving newspaper is already in the recycling bin, and Classy 100 and WCTL are “bells-to-the-walls” all Christmas.
If you want to talk about what’s under the tree in Erie media, leave a comment below, send along an e-mail, or shout out on Twitter @pressandtower.
Embrace the ho-ho-ho chaos!