Posts Tagged ‘Republican National Convention’

Poll: Who had the best convention coverage?

September 8th, 2008 joel

Last week we asked about your Olympic viewing habits. Two-thirds of respondents said that they watched at least the same amount of coverage as the Athens Olympics, with almost 25% admitting that they were totally-addicted to the Beijing Games.

This week, let’s go from the quantitative to the qualitative:

Which cable news channel had the best coverage of the national party conventions?

  • Fox News Channel (40%, 14 Votes)
  • CNN (29%, 10 Votes)
  • C-SPAN (20%, 7 Votes)
  • MSNBC (11%, 4 Votes)

Total Voters: 35

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The Feed for Friday, September 5th

September 5th, 2008 joel

Editor’s note: Coming up on Sunday is our first edition of “Deep Background,” our totally-random open discussion of all things Erie media. Embrace the chaos!

  1. Voiceover Master Don LaFontaine dies at 68: ETOnline.com reports that the “King of Voiceovers,” Don LaFontaine died Monday afternoon at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The million-dollar mouth was the most famous movie trailer voice in the world, and is estimated to have voiced hundreds of thousands of radio and TV spots in his career. (more…)
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WSEE’s Jacqueline Policastro brings the convention home live

September 4th, 2008 joel

WSEE Newswatch’s Jacqueline Policastro is not letting her new anchor chair get warm. Since her arrival in Erie from Lilly Broadcasting’s Washington bureau on July 1st, she’s been all over the country, participating in a Washington reporting fellowship, and over the past two weeks bringing live reports from the national party conventions, the only Erie reporter to do so. In addition to reporting for Channel 35, Policastro is also feeding Lilly’s WENY/Elmira. Despite 20-hour days reporting and editing, Wednesday night, right after her 6:00 PM live shot from the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, she made time to call The Press and Tower. (more…)

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