The Oracle did a good job getting information out yesterday as threats were reported and how police and students responded over at USF yesterday. Coverage included 28 twitter updates and nine blog entries, keeping their readers informed in real time. Meanwhile, the professionals did things the way they always do.
Local NBC affiliate WFLA-TV used to broadcast NBC Weather Plus on an additional digital channel, 8.2. But last summer, NBC Universal purchased the Weather Channel, and with no need for NBC Weather Plus, even killing the website (which now forwards to the Weather Channel website). So now WFLA has decided to run old TV shows on [...]
I got mail! At 11:23pm Tuesday, I got an email with an interesting subject line: “Tell Tampa Bay What You Think.” “I do that at Sticks of Fire,” I thought to myself. But I opened the email, anyway, and learned that I was going to be invited to be on an exclusive panel! Join the Tampa Bay Media Advisory [...]
HTV is Hillsborough County’s cable TV channel that provides programming about County government and the services it provides. For the Black Heritage Celebration, HTV planned a half hour show about blacks in politics. As part of the show, producers wanted an interview with a black politician, and asked Joyce Russell, Hillsborough [...]
You may have heard this somewhere before. Super Bowl XLIII will be played in Tampa this Sunday. Between the local SuperHost committee inundating us with the XLIII logo all over town, and local media drowning us with SB info, I’m sure you must be getting sick of it. Bay News 9 tells us of the Bowl By The [...]
Do you have a battery-operated television in your hurricane kit? It will soon be nothing but a paperweight. You may as well drag it out of your attic now, and just use it for the next month. By the way, Richard Mullins says the new portable TVs that will get a digital signal are also junk. [...]
Used to be that you could just look out the window. We’ve come a long way since then. I guess. In the 1950’s, stations around the world set up reflectivity RADAR systems. By the 1980’s, Doppler radar was all the rage, and in 1988, NEXRAD was invented to look for incoming precipitation. Local news stations were busy [...]
What a heartbreaking tale. Local media loves this kind of story, especially in December. It gets the emotions going, and presumably sells papers and gets viewers. Unfortunately, it seems that this is all they are interested in. Sorry – I’m way too far ahead. Let me start at the start. The JMS Hotel won’t be confused with [...]
Would you believe that Warren Sapp could actually win this thing? He’s made it to the top three. You do realize that if he wins, he will never shut up about it.
