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Poll: what will 2011 bring in Erie media?

January 3rd, 2011 joel

When we asked P&T readers where they get  their TV, 46% said that they subscribe to digital cable, while 31% used a satellite dish. Nearly one-fifth said they get their TV off-the-air.

With this poll, we want you to put your Carnac turban on. What will be the headlines we read this year in local media. Some of these are sure things, some seem to be long shots. What do you think?

Choose the top two most likely media headlines in 2011

  • Local TV news in High Definition will still not be a reality by year end (42%, 23 Votes)
  • WICU, WSEE and the CW will further merge their news operations to a single branded newscast seen on the three channels (24%, 13 Votes)
  • One of the two Erie corporate radio groups will be bought and sold this year (16%, 9 Votes)
  • GoErie.com will drop their paid comments initiative and offer comments free with registration (7%, 4 Votes)
  • A new independent online player will emerge to challenge the established Erie news operations (4%, 2 Votes)
  • Erie radio will see it's first FM talker (4%, 2 Votes)
  • Non-political Erie advertising dollars will resurge to pre-2008 levels (2%, 1 Votes)
  • A new wave of hyper-local newspaper publishing will sweep the region, with multiple neighborhood startups (2%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 55

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Deep Background for January 2011

January 1st, 2011 joel

Our open forum here continues to exist to foster communication and to talk shop in a civil and constructive manner between the producers and consumers of our media landscape. Feel free to weigh in with questions, ideas, news, and comments about anything in Erie or national print, broadcast or online.

Leave a comment below, send me an e-mail at joel@nataliemedia.com, or tweet @pressandtower.

Embrace the chaos!

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Erie media rings in New Year

December 31st, 2010 joel

This is the week of “The Year In Review.” We need to be reminded, considering some of our lives are so hurried we just might forget major events that happened in our community or world in the past 365 days.

The Erie Times-News has run an excellent and exhaustive week-long series looking back and at trends ahead. The entire series can be found at GoErie.com/yearend2010. My favorite was the story on the people of the year, those who answered a call for leadership…never an easy thing to do.

Meanwhile the TV stations and networks are running their packages, all leading up to the singing of Auld Lang Syne tonight at midnight.

New Year’s Eve specials include:

  • Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2011 on ABC
  • New Year’s Eve Live on Fox
  • NBC New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly on NBC & CNBC
  • New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin on CNN
  • along with various cable channel marathons; my favorite being the Back To The Future movie franchise marathon on AMC

Finally, a flashback to you Erie TV old-timers. I wish there was a picture of this somewhere on the web, but my favorite New Year’s Eve memory growing up in Erie was watching the 11:00 news on WICU-12 right before Guy Lombardo came on for the ball drop.  At the end of the newscast, Vance McBride, or Shirley Ramsey, Bill Knupp, Ned McGrath, Hyle Richmond, Frank Rizzone, or whoever would be at the anchor desk would pop a cork of champagne and fill their glasses, toasting in the new year. I don’t ever remember anyone taking a drink (on camera), but it is one of those memories seared into our media landscape.

And so I raise a glass to you, wishing you a happy and prosperous 2011!

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Deep Background for November 2010

November 1st, 2010 joel

We’re doing a little tweaking here on Press and Tower, as we attempt to keep generating interesting content in a sustainable manner.

This Deep Background post will for now be a monthly post. Place all of your comments about Erie and the national media not related to a particular post in this free-wheeling conversation. Remember civility and good cheer are a must.

If you wish, you can also connect via email or by tweeting us here @pressandtower.

Embrace the chaos!

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Deep Background for October 17-23, 2010

October 17th, 2010 joel

The line dividing national and local media has gotten fuzzy in recent days, with local personalities and events getting national media attention. We’ll talk about that later in the week, but meanwhile you can talk about what you want to on this open forum. And here is a challenge: try not to be contrary for contrarian’s sake. If you have criticism, voice it in a constructive and civil manner.

Leave a comment below, send out an e-mail, or tweet @pressandtower.

Embrace the chaos!

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Deep Background for October 3 – 9, 2010

October 3rd, 2010 joel

If you think nobody watches local TV, you could have fooled me!

By the chatter on the P&T comments on the whereabouts of 12 News Today’s Kara Coleman and Mark Soliday, you would have sworn that the PSP had an all-points bulletin out for the anchors. Instead Kara and Mark were on a pre-November sweeps junket to 30 Rock for a promo shoot with the TODAY show stars. Glad we found them!

Share news about other lost and found items or people in Erie media on this open forum through your comments below, dropping me an e-mail, or by tweeting @pressandtower.

Embrace the chaos!

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Deep Background for September 12-18, 2010

September 12th, 2010 joel

Why do people love to hate their newspapers?

I mean seriously…give some thought to what is contained in even the thinnest Monday edition of the Erie Times-News: local breaking news from the last 24 hours, couple dozen comic strips, listings of lost and founds and homes and cars for sale, opinion pieces from some of the greatest minds  on the planet (George Will for one), updates from around the world, promotion of upcoming local events, well-designed advertising from local and national businesses.

There is still no other comprehensive place for everything about our community than the ink on paper Erie Times-News. Now I’m a big advocate for new media, and exciting ways to access information, but even with 15 years of the World Wide Web under our belt, no one has gotten close to the total coverage that’s found in the paper.

The newspaper is written and directed by flawed humans for sure, and being human they have biases and blind spots. But to say that the paper, as one commenter on P&T tried to say, “is not fit to line the bottom of my bird cage” shows a total lack of understanding what what’s inside each edition, and it’s not constructive or civil.

And that’s what we are all about in this open forum; constructive feedback for our media producers in a context of civility. So push back with your comments below, through e-mail or Twitter.

Embrace the chaos!

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