The New York Times highlighted a Pew media study today on the American news diet. Below are two noteworthy bites from the article: Television is the most common medium for local news, with 71 percent of people watching for local information at least once a week, according to a survey of 2,251 adults. The survey [...]
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FOX CT is cancelling its 11 am newcast but expanding its morning news programming. The station will now be the first in the market to offer 5-1/2 straight hours of news in the morning. Beginning this Monday the newscast will extend through 10 am. Logan Byrnes will anchor the 4:30 a.m. half hour with meteorologist [...]
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Face the State WFSB 11 a.m Host: Dennis House Race for Senate Greg Hladky, Hartford Advocate Christine Stuart, CTNewsJunkie.com New Driver’s Licenses Melody Currey, DMV Commissioner Flashback The arrest of Waterbury Mayor Joseph Santopietro The Real StoryFoxCT 6:30 am Host: Laurie Perez Hurricane Irene Response Mark Glassman, President of Connecticut Conference of Municipalities Big East [...]
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Kim Fettig hasn’t reported in this market since 2004 when she left WFSB for the CBS station in Atlanta. But she still has many friends here, and one sent us this very personal report that she filed for her current station about her struggle with infertility.
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Neill Ostrout Our friend Joe D’Ambrosio, the voice of the UConn Huskies, reports the following: “Very sad day in the sportswriting/sportscasting community yesterday. Neill Ostrout who had covered UConn for the Connecticut Post for several years was fired yesterday. It sucks!”
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A few readers have asked about John Chandler, who they’ve seen anchoring weekend sports on NBC CT. We’re told John works for NESN but is freelancing at WVIT to cover weekends and vacations.
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