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by JackAttack FM
Fri Mar 29, 2019 11:00 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: I would like to commend all broadcast meteorologists in the Detroit market..
Replies: 8
Views: 2589

Re: I would like to commend all broadcast meteorologists in the Detroit market..

Its that GFS model.
Its a total fuck-up.

Your data comes in from whatever model your weather supplier is using.
by JackAttack FM
Wed Mar 27, 2019 10:08 am
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: Comcast and NBC in Detroit
Replies: 48
Views: 10594

Re: Comcast and NBC in Detroit

I'm sorry your premice doesn't make sense. Fox is shrinking its presense in Detroit. It sold Fox Sports Detroit to Disney who is in the process of divesting FSD and its sister RSNs I don’t think Graham is doing well financially. Where do you get this from??? Graham Holdings NYSE stock went way up si...
by JackAttack FM
Mon Mar 25, 2019 9:24 am
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: Channel 7 weather
Replies: 3
Views: 1833

Re: Channel 7 weather

Someting about living in glass houses and such.
Ample and amble are options for each word in auto correct.

It doesn't add necessary verbs though.
by JackAttack FM
Sat Mar 23, 2019 9:57 pm
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: Breaking: Nexstar reaches agreement to purchase Tribune
Replies: 62
Views: 29735

Re: Breaking: Nexstar reaches agreement to purchase Tribune

E.W. Scripps to acquire WXMI, the Fox affiliate in Grand Rapids as part of Nexstar divestiture . I think the bigger get from that article is Scripps is getting WPIX New York. That's a big deal. It would be interesting if Scripps could use its leverage as the largest ABC affiliate owner and change 1...
by JackAttack FM
Wed Mar 20, 2019 10:53 am
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: Breaking: Nexstar reaches agreement to purchase Tribune
Replies: 62
Views: 29735

Re: Breaking: Nexstar reaches agreement to purchase Tribune

E.W. Scripps to acquire WXMI, the Fox affiliate in Grand Rapids as part of Nexstar divestiture . I think the bigger get from that article is Scripps is getting WPIX New York. That's a big deal. It would be interesting if Scripps could use its leverage as the largest ABC affiliate owner and change 1...
by JackAttack FM
Wed Mar 20, 2019 10:23 am
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: Channel 4 in the pre-WDIV days
Replies: 34
Views: 9557

Re: Channel 4 in the pre-WDIV days

Anyone remember Wes Sarginson? Sarginson was only in Detroit for a couple of years and was gone by the time The Washington Post bought channel 4. He was a traveling anchor... Montgomery,  Pittsburgh, Philly, Detroit, Atlanta, Washington, Tampa and stayed in Atlanta for the second time at WXIA. He r...
by JackAttack FM
Sat Mar 16, 2019 12:11 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: With Disney buying Fox...
Replies: 14
Views: 4662

Re: With Disney buying Fox...

Disney isn't getting the Fox television network, the Fox O&O stations, the Fox News Channel nor the national Fox Sports Networks. The part of 21st Century Fox that Disney bought was mainly the Fox movie studio, its film rights, part of Hulu and the regional sports networks. And it has to divest the ...
by JackAttack FM
Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:18 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: Channel 4 in the pre-WDIV days
Replies: 34
Views: 9557

Re: Channel 4 in the pre-WDIV days

There's literally dozens of videos of Bozo shows from around the country on Youtube. I know WGN and WZZM had their Bozo shows on through the 90s. The guy who played him in Grand Rapids, Dick Richards, did a nice show. Art Cervi who played Bozo here at Channel 9 and then at TV2 still does interviews ...
by JackAttack FM
Fri Mar 15, 2019 4:13 pm
Forum: Broadcasting - General
Topic: FCC wants to lower or drop ownership rules
Replies: 5
Views: 2777

FCC wants to lower or drop ownership rules

It looks like the FCC is ready to drop a lot of the ownership limits for broadcasters. When it meets in November is going to vote to discontinue media cross-ownership with same market outlets, remove ownership caps and allow duopolies of top 4 stations in markets. This is a major shift from ownershi...
by JackAttack FM
Fri Mar 15, 2019 3:35 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: Channel 4 in the pre-WDIV days
Replies: 34
Views: 9557

Re: Channel 4 in the pre-WDIV days

One of the most endearing personalities at channel 4 that everyone seemed to love was Milky the Clown. He was played by Clare Cummings, a master magician. His show was sponsored by Twin Pines Dairy, thus the name Milky and his all white costume. He was a bit before my time but, if you mention Milky ...
by JackAttack FM
Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:27 am
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: Channel 4 in the pre-WDIV days
Replies: 34
Views: 9557

Re: Channel 4 in the pre-WDIV days

Betty Carrier was gone by the early 70's. She was a news anchor but, it didn't seem that long. I think there was some kind of stir in town that she came and went form anchoring so quick. Joe Pellegrino was a sports guy at channel 4 in the 70's and was on the Tigers' broadcasts. I'm pretty sure he wa...
by JackAttack FM
Fri Mar 15, 2019 8:40 am
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: Channel 4 in the pre-WDIV days
Replies: 34
Views: 9557

Re: Channel 4 in the pre-WDIV days

Channel 4 became WDIV-TV in the summer of '77,around my 24th birthday,just before I went to St. Clair College here in Windsor and a month before Elvis died. It was 1978. Kay Graham paid cash and traded WTOP-TV in Washington, DC for WWJ-TV. The News got WTOP straight-up. The only thing channel 4 had...
by JackAttack FM
Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:30 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: Channel 4 in the pre-WDIV days
Replies: 34
Views: 9557

Re: Channel 4 in the pre-WDIV days

In the late 60's and most of the 70's it was crap. Its newscasts were being eaten alive by channel 2 and channel 7.  Channel 4's news was adequate but, behind whatever ABC and Storer were doing. The only thing it had going for it was Sonny Eliot and Carol Duvall. At least those are the two I remembe...
by JackAttack FM
Wed Mar 13, 2019 1:48 am
Forum: Political Potpourri - U.S. and World
Topic: Gretcholm wants to raise fuel taxes by 45 cents/gallon by 2020
Replies: 105
Views: 27686

Re: Gretcholm wants to raise fuel taxes by 45 cents/gallon by 2020

Has any one of the "media outlets" in Michigan actually published or aired the actual amount of state taxes we pay per gallon? Its not just 18 cents per gallon with sales tax. According to the the American Petrolium Institute in January the total with state taxes and fees is 38.41 cents per gallon. ...
by JackAttack FM
Sat Mar 09, 2019 11:36 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: 7 Action News at 4pm... Buh bye to The Now
Replies: 21
Views: 7781

7 Action News at 4pm... Buh bye to The Now

Channel 7 is running promos for " 7 Action News at 4pm " with pics of Dave Rexroth and Carolyn Clifford. I can only guess that someone in the Scripps higher offices finally woke up before 4:59pm turned on the TV and caught the worse than cable access production of "The Now" and canned that POS show....