WEEK announced at last night’s 10 p.m. newscast that weekend anchor/producer Jenny Li was leaving the station to work in public relations for State Farm Insurance in Bloomington.
What’s good for Jenny — better pay and better hours, no doubt — is bed news for news consumers. I’ll miss seeing her around the press table [...]

Once again, HOINews came through for parents at District 150 schools. Last night, I caught their 10 p.m. newscast, and there were two — count ‘em, TWO — reports related to the quality of education at Peoria’s public schools. One was a follow-up to the station’s original report on how some school’s aren’t meeting state-mandated [...]

The New York Yankees are playing the Boston Red Sox in a nationally televised game, and I can’t decide who I want to lose more. It’s isn’t so much the teams I loathe, it’s their fans, are compete for the title for most obnoxious.
 

Broadway actress Paige Davis actress went and got herself rehired as host of ‘Trading Spaces.” No mention of the pictures that not only got her fired the first time, but also boosted my hit counts.

… when the most entertaining thing on broadcast television is a half-hour infomercial for the Dean Martin Celebrity Roast DVD.

Eyebrows McGee recaps her experience at WEEK’s studio and discovers — to her amusement but not surprise — that newscasters often don’t wear pants. I can expand on this: It includes when they are in the newsroom working on stories, and when they are sitting in the studio.
One day I’d like to have a job [...]

“I am out of the office from Thursday September 22 through Tuesday September 27th. Your message is important to me and I will return your e-mail when I get back to the office on Weds. September 28th. Thank you. Mark DeSantis”
Heh. He’s going to love his first day back.
week,peoria,television,mark desantis,medium,poor sound [...]

According to Jeff, some Springfield media people don’t don’t think very highly of Peoria televisions stations.
I used to live in Jacksonville and got a taste of Springfild media. What little I saw of them, most of the time, their signal didn’t get very far.
springfield,television,peoria

Via TV Week:
Granite Broadcasting said Thursday that it reached definitive agreements to sell its two large-market WB-affiliates to private-equity firm ACON Investments for $180 million, a move designed to allow Granite to focus on its Big 3-network-affiliated stations and to pare down debt.
As part of the sale, Granite will sell WDWB-TV in Detroit and KBWB-TV [...]