Posts Tagged ‘NFL’

Poll: do you Web 2.0?

The football fans who read The Press and Tower have their allegiances, and not only for a particular NFL team. The have a preference for NFL commentators as well. CBS’s Jim Nantz and Phil Simms narrowly won the “A-team” favorites poll with 33% of the picks, followed by NBC’s Al Michaels and John Madden, and Fox’s Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.

With all of the recent talk about Twitter, and the proliferation of social networking tools in the new media, we want to know about which Web 2.0 networks do you actually have accounts in. Do you blog, YouTube, or Facebook? Just commenting on a blog or bulletin board without signing up doesn’t count. We want to know about how you’ve actually put energy into establishing a MySpace or Twitter account. Multiple answers for this poll are accepted, so totals will exceed 100%. There are hundreds of apps, so if I missed your favorite, drop it in the comments and I’ll add it to the poll if we get at least two requests for it.

Which Web 2.0 applications do you have accounts in (choose all that apply)?

  • Facebook (77%, 27 Votes)
  • YouTube (69%, 24 Votes)
  • MySpace (60%, 21 Votes)
  • eBay (57%, 20 Votes)
  • Blog (Blogger/WordPress/Movable Type, etc.) (49%, 17 Votes)
  • Twitter (46%, 16 Votes)
  • Flickr (26%, 9 Votes)
  • Wikipedia (26%, 9 Votes)
  • Craigslist (20%, 7 Votes)

Total Voters: 35

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Poll: favorite NFL TV commentator team

We have a bit of a diverse crowd here at The Press and Tower. When we asked about how necessary a home-delivered newspaper was to our readers, 38% said that they totally depended on the actual paper on their stoop. However, even more said that they could either deal with partial delivery on weekends or just read it online. Good for the newspaper folks: 82% of our readers consumed the news from the newspaper either in print or online.

We are now in playoff season for the NFL. For the past 18 weeks we have seen the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to pro football play-by-play coverage. So, out of all of the “A Teams” at the networks, who is your favorite?

Which is your favorite NFL commentator "A-team" pairing?

  • CBS: Jim Nantz/Phil Simms (33%, 10 Votes)
  • NBC: Al Michaels/John Madden (27%, 8 Votes)
  • FOX: Joe Buck/Troy Aikman (20%, 6 Votes)
  • ESPN: Mike Tirico/Ron Jaworski/Tony Kornheiser (17%, 5 Votes)
  • NFL: Bob Papa/Cris Collinsworth (3%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 30

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The Feed for the Weekend of December 20th & 21st

  • Ms. Mengine goes to Washington: former broadcaster, marketing consultant, and Erie mayoral assistant Tina Mengine has been tapped as Chief of Staff for new Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper. I first met Tina some 20 years ago when she managed an area radio combo and I was selling TV campaigns for Film House. She has had a very strong career ever since, including performing duties as acting mayor in the waning months of the Fllippi administration, and setting Mrs. Dahlkemper on a course for victory in the 3rd Congressional District this fall. Tina will head Dahlkemper’s Washington office.
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The Feed for the Weekend of December 13th-14th

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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

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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

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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

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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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