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by Feature/writer
Mon Feb 12, 2024 8:43 am
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: WWMT Anchor left the building
Replies: 19
Views: 12333

Re: WWMT Anchor left the building

Is Ms. JennerJohn WWMT's only dedicated field-assigned reporter at this point? Or does she also do some anchoring?
by Feature/writer
Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:38 am
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: Cumulus is whoring its FM signals
Replies: 13
Views: 7487

Re: Cumulus is whoring its FM signals

.....then I assume that the sponsors of GVSU football and basketball broadcasts, and their corresponding coach's shows during the week, are secured and billed by the university and not Cumulus? Or is there some revenue sharing arrangement there?
by Feature/writer
Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:30 am
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: George Lessens retiring
Replies: 21
Views: 10153

Re: George Lessens retiring

After Bill Steffens left TV-13 wx to move to crosstown WOOD-TV, I recall TV-13 often promoting George as a born and raised in West Michigan weathercaster, because Steffens wasn't!
by Feature/writer
Tue Feb 06, 2024 7:48 am
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: Where’s Michelle DeSelms?
Replies: 5
Views: 4325

Re: Where’s Michelle DeSelms?

Also have noticed that the weather folks on the WOOD-TV late afternoon/early evening newscasts have been doubling up by also doing traffic! Meghan Bunchman, for whom traffic reports were never a goal or perhaps even an interest, also does in-studio news reports; and recently has been seen anchoring ...
by Feature/writer
Thu Jan 25, 2024 3:43 pm
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: Jackie Green.... update
Replies: 14
Views: 8569

Jackie Green.... update

by Feature/writer
Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:07 am
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: New meteorologist at WOOD-TV
Replies: 10
Views: 7096

Re: New meteorologist at WOOD-TV

I kinda think Ellen B. wouldn't have been named chief without a commitment to stay there for a while,. especially given WOOD-TV's more recent tradition of long-term chief meteorologists... (Steffen, James, etc.)
by Feature/writer
Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:47 am
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: WOOD TV goes dark during middle of Lions game
Replies: 49
Views: 12182

Re: WOOD TV goes dark during middle of Lions game

This friend lives near Constantine, MI St. Jo County.... St. Jo County in Indiana is also on the border and within the South Bend media market...
by Feature/writer
Wed Jan 24, 2024 7:26 am
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: WOOD TV goes dark during middle of Lions game
Replies: 49
Views: 12182

Re: WOOD TV goes dark during middle of Lions game

re: WNDU South Bend outage of game: I heard that info second hand from a viewer down in St. Joseph County...there's a fairly large area down there where the South Bend, Ind. and Grand Rapids TV signals overlap..
by Feature/writer
Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:00 pm
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: WOOD TV goes dark during middle of Lions game
Replies: 49
Views: 12182

Re: WOOD TV goes dark during middle of Lions game

also happened to WNDU-TV in South Bend.... should they be taken to task as well? Or simply in the same boat as WOOD-TV and others in that Nextar hub.....
by Feature/writer
Mon Jan 22, 2024 7:29 am
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: New meteorologist at WOOD-TV
Replies: 10
Views: 7096

Re: New meteorologist at WOOD-TV

Mr. Larson was in the same college class with Ellen Bacca at Valparaiso U. in Indiana.
Scott came here from a TV station in northwest Iowa, which certainly experiences the full four seasons as we do in Michigan. Memo to Scott: two words: "Lake Effect."
by Feature/writer
Sun Jan 14, 2024 4:56 pm
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: CW7 changing on 1-1-24?
Replies: 34
Views: 14034

Re: CW7 changing on 1-1-24?

I have let WOOD-TV know and they have passed the info on to their engineering dept......
by Feature/writer
Fri Jan 12, 2024 8:24 am
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: CW7 changing on 1-1-24?
Replies: 34
Views: 14034

Re: CW7 changing on 1-1-24?

(this might be into the weeds too far, however, there are others in this boat....) As a Comcast/Xfinity cable customer, at the minimum package level, I have not been able to find the new CW channel since the changes. The cable channel numbers it is supposed be on now (286 and 1182) are both blank as...
by Feature/writer
Sun Jan 07, 2024 7:13 pm
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: TV meteorologists
Replies: 33
Views: 12590

Re: TV meteorologists

Harms' school closing predictor service is not an open or shut case: It's on a 1-5 scale of probability, so it's hard to say he's "wrong" if a district makes a particular decision on a delay or closing. So it's subjective depending on the district - it's not totally a weather thing. A school distric...
by Feature/writer
Fri Jan 05, 2024 6:56 pm
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: TV meteorologists
Replies: 33
Views: 12590

TV meteorologists

Is is just me or do West Mich. TV weather folks seem just a bit too eager to promote forecasts of a snow event or two?
by Feature/writer
Wed Jan 03, 2024 7:57 am
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: CW7 changing on 1-1-24?
Replies: 34
Views: 14034

Re: CW7 changing on 1-1-24?

...wonder if any one could link the changes re: actual channel numbers for Infinity/Comcast "basic" cable subscribers. It in available online via Infinity? I've notice the DABL transition, for example, but channel 286 (formerly a succession of NCIS reruns) is now blank and not on the channel roster....