Montgomery TV and Radio

Feature Article #1

WQLS is 107.5/1210 The Ticket

Montgomery (at this moment) has a new FM Sports Talk station owned by Stroh broadcasting. It’s basically set up in a similar fashion that the River is. 1210 AM WQLS is the main station and 107.5 is a translator rebroadcasting it’s signal as a “gap” filler to help with night time coverage mainly. Per the [...]

Brian Harris | March 8th, 2010 | Continued

Feature Article #2

Your Chance to Program Fox 20

Fox 20 is running a poll on their website as we speak that allows you to program the station. If you look on the bottom right of their page the question is being asked which MLB team do you want Fox 20 to air? There are a lot of choices and I went ahead and [...]

Brian Harris | March 7th, 2010 | Continued

Feature Article #3

Friday Poll

As reported here on MTR, Chris Bailey is leaving WAKA. What are your thoughts? Happy to see him go? Want him to stay?

Jason Trippe | March 5th, 2010 | Continued

Feature Article #4

Chris Bailey LEAVING WAKA

This ad was posted on WAKA.com very recently -
CHIEF METEOROLOGIST
WAKA-TV in Montgomery, Alabama has an opening in the News Department for a Chief Meteorologist. Person hired must have extensive knowledge of Weather Central System and be able to create computer-generated graphics. Person hired will be in charge of a three-person Meteorology Staff and must have [...]

Brian Harris | March 2nd, 2010 | Continued

Feature Article #5

Attention Dish Customers: Important News!

Dish Network is having problems with its 61.5 satellite. Therefore, they are moving a majority of the national HD on that satellite to 72.7. Most of us in the Montgomery area have a 110/119/129 setup. You will not be affected. However, some of you have a 61.5/110/119 setup. If you have 61.5 you didn’t get [...]

Jason Trippe | February 24th, 2010 | Continued

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Friday Poll

WSFA news is already in HD. ABC 32 is going HD in April and adding news to the CW. WCOV will air its 9:00 news in HD soon and WAKA will not go HD but will upgrade to 16:9 format. So it begs the question:

19Feb2010 | Jason Trippe | 7 comments | Continued

Abbey Road For Sale?

Abbey Road Studios in London, where the Beatles recorded most of their music, may be up for sale.
The Georgian townhouse has long been owned by music label EMI, which has faced financial problems since its 2007 buyout by private-equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners. Terra Firma needs to raise $156 million to avoid default on [...]

16Feb2010 | Michael Bird | 0 comments | Continued

TV Reception in the 36117

So I bought a new TV for my house. We had a nice but old Samsung HDTV set with a built in HD Tuner that we bought back in 2005. The set is about 3 feet deep and weighs about 80 lbs…yet only has a 26″ screen. It was nice in our living room, but [...]

16Feb2010 | Brian Harris | 5 comments | Continued

Good Morning Montgomery

While I was flipping around for a logo to include with another story I ran into this article from back in August 2009 that I had never read. I thought it was a great article that talks about a local TV program that we all love to love, or love to hate…Good Morning Montgomery, currently [...]

15Feb2010 | Brian Harris | 0 comments | Continued

Full Newscast Back at ABC 32 WNCF

WAKA received notice recently that they no longer will be producing the 9pm news cast for the CW. Why is this big? Because the CW will still have news and a big part of it will be produced at the Harrison Road facilities of WNCF ABC 32…the station that owns the local CW affiliate. The [...]

15Feb2010 | Brian Harris | 13 comments | Continued

Every Tuesday is Fat Tuesday

I got into some hot water several years ago for a column titled, “Fat is the New Thin”. At the time, the film HAIRSPRAY was in theaters and it seemed that every character in the film was overweight, with nothing ever being said about it.
Finally, I thought, we have moved into an enlightened era of [...]

15Feb2010 | Michael Bird | 0 comments | Continued

New WAKA Website

CBS 8 WAKA has recently redone their entire website. It definitely warrants you checking it out – www.WAKA.com.
The site looks very professional…very well organized. News stories at the top of the page, video options on the right hand side. The tabs at the top are very easy to navigate along with their drop down menus. [...]

15Feb2010 | Brian Harris | 0 comments | Continued

New Y102 PD – Jeff Andrews

Jeff Andrews is now the new Program Director of Y102. Jeff is taking the big step south, and down in markets to Montgomery from Indianapolis. Jeff was the afternoon guy at I-94.
Changes? Could be in the works…but way too early to tell.
Personal opinion…Rick and Bubba are rumored to be #1 in the mornings on Y102. [...]

14Feb2010 | Brian Harris | 1 comment | Continued

Dish Adds New HD

Today Dish Network activated Phase I of their mega HD roll out with 9 new HD channels. Here’s the list with channel and package assignments included:
TRUTV HD Channel 204 (AT200 and above)
FOX SOCCER CHANNEL HD Channel 149 (AT250 and above)
Retro Hd Channel 365 (all packages with HD and Platinum)
BBC America HD Channel 135 (AT200 and above)
E! [...]

10Feb2010 | Jason Trippe | 0 comments | Continued

Steve Smith Heading North

Got a message this morning that Y102’s Steve Smith (program director/afternoon drive) will be heading north to Huntsville for a new position with Cumulus. No other details were disclosed.
Steve has basically been a one man band for quite sometime supported by interns and a few part time employees. It will be interesting to see who [...]

10Feb2010 | Brian Harris | 2 comments | Continued