report: NBC to sell Hartford, Miami TVs

[Doug Drown]

Chuck:  We don't get the Portland Press Herald up in this neck of the woods, 
but I am under the impression that WMTW had moved up into second place in 
the news ratings while WGME had fallen to third. Am I wrong?

-Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <chuckigo@maine.rr.com>
To: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
Cc: "Boston Radio Interest" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 7:06 AM
Subject: Re: report: NBC to sell Hartford, Miami TVs


>
> ---- Kevin Vahey <kvahey@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Has H-A been able to make any kind of a dent in the Portland market?
>> I think they moved everything to Portland when they bought WMTW 4
>> years ago.
>
> I can't say that the status quo has changed on local TV here with the 
> pecking order pretty much along the lines of WCSH, WGME and WMTW.  But 
> it's not for a lack of trying, as the channel 8 crew is full of folks who 
> know their way around a newsroom, including longtime TV vet Dick Gosselin. 
> But Dick has always been adept at many aspects of his craft, especially 
> videography and editing, as well as being very much at ease on camera. 
> He's even talented when it comes to getting the stupid microwave boom to 
> get back into its recessed holder in the mobile news machine when it 
> stubbornly doesn't want to work as promised (he lives next door to me and 
> we've spent an evening or two with flashlights and hammers)
>
> WCSH has the advantage of a state-wide presence with the WLBZ operation 
> working in tandem.  WGME has the legacy (still extremely surprising how 
> many "viewers" still call them WGAN-TV).  and both WGME & WCSH do a 
> 5p-630p evening block, and both produce 10pm newscasts that air on local 
> UHF stations (WPFO and WPXT, respectively).
>
> WMTW has Oprah at 4pm, but then most likely looses out to the 5pm news 
> things when they roll out Doctor Phil at 5.
>
> - -Chuck Igo