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Media Wrap Extra--June 17, 2005: Witness to an execution  "There was
a gasp, there was a
shudder, but that was it," said WVIT-30 anchor Gerry Brooks of the
high-profile execution
of Michael Ross in Connecticut this
morning. WTIC-61 reporter Shelly Sindland was another media
witness. Memphis
TV columnist Tom Walter is
retiring from the Commercial Appeal after two decades. In his
farewell column, Walter, 55, wrote he is being treated for lung cancer
and wants time to work on a book and read instead of watching TV.
Ex-sportscaster
Robert Goldman has
been convicted of soliciting someone who claimed to be an underage
girl online. Goldman, who worked for CLTV in Chicago, was actually
talking to a state investigator and could go to prison
for five years. A
Kansas station that dropped its newscasts three years
ago
is set to be acquired
by a newspaper subsidiary. KTKA-49, the ABC affiliate in Topeka,
still airs the weather and is going to staffers of the Lawrence
Journal-World for
$6.2 million.
Virginia
powerhouse WDBJ-7 is seeing its ratings slowly erode.
Where it once outdrew WSLS-10 and WSET-13 combined, the Roanoke Times
reports new household numbers as follows: 92,000 (Ch. 7); 67,000 (Ch.
10); 60,000 (Ch. 13). WCBS-2 anchor Roz
Abrams
has changed
her hairdo, and the Daily News is all over it. In an ever-chattier
"Tube Talk" column, Richard Huff reports she went from a short 'do to
some longer coifs this week. (Heads up, Pulitzer board.) |
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