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July 25, 2005
WBZ-TV Ousts ND Ellis
*As Boston's WBZ-TV (Channel 4) fights to
regain the ratings dominance it once held in eastern MASSACHUSETTS,
it will do so under a new news director.
Last week, the station sent ND Matt Ellis packing, two years
after Ellis replaced longtime news director Peter Brown. For
the moment, newsroom veteran Jen Street is running things until
a permanent replacement for Ellis is named. (There are also credible
rumors being floated of changes in the anchor lineup at "CBS
4."
In the meantime, we can show you what the station's new Worcester
news bureau looks like, thanks to reader (and Web guru) Mike
Roberts, who stopped by an open house there a week ago. (It's
in the "Glass Building" on Main Street, in a seventh-floor
suite with a nice view of downtown.)
Speaking of WBZ, former general manager Ed Goldman has landed
a new gig: he's been named president/CEO of Natick-based Pro
Media.
 Out
west, the folks at WHMP (1400 Northampton) are mourning Andy
Wiernasz, known as one of the first polka DJs in the Pioneer
Valley. Wiernasz began doing a Sunday polka show on WHMP in 1953,
and he remained with the "White Eagle Music Hour" even
after illness left him unable to speak. Andy Wiernasz was 79
years old when he died Wednesday (July 20).
*There are some spinning
doors in the TV news world in CONNECTICUT and RHODE
ISLAND this week, too: Gary Brown is headed from LIN's WPRI/WNAC
in Providence to Meredith's WFSB in Hartford, where he replaces
Lyn Tolan.
*NEW YORK may soon have one fewer
analog TV signal, as the owners of WLNY-TV (Channel 55) in Patchogue
apply to turn off their analog signal and go digital-only (on
channel 57 for now, though they'll have to move from that interim
channel in a few years.)
 Here's the back
story - the spectrum that's now UHF channels 52-59 is being reallocated
out of broadcast use, and the FCC has already auctioned several
of those channels to new users, even though they won't be able
to occupy them right away. A subsidiary of Qualcomm landed what's
now channels 55 and 56, and they're now making offers to stations
on those channels to speed up the transition and abandon analog
TV earlier than scheduled.
It's a pretty good bet, we think, that very few of WLNY's
viewers are watching the over-the-air analog signal, and for
everyone else watching on cable or satellite, the station will
remain available as usual.
By our count, this would be the third analog TV station in
NERW-land to go digital-only, following the leads of WRNN in
Kingston and WMCN in Atlantic City, N.J. Both of those stations
abandoned analog transmitters in favor of DTV signals that were
substantially closer to their target markets of New York and
Philadelphia, and thus gained more cable must-carry than they
would have enjoyed otherwise. (That won't be the case for WLNY,
which is already available on cable as far afield as Rockland
County and parts of northern New Jersey.)
Heading upstate, Albany's WAMC completed its takeover of WRUN
(1150 Utica) last week, returning the signal to the air after
a few days of silence. It's now the westernmost link in the WAMC
public radio network, which stretches north to Plattsburgh, south
to Middletown and east to central Connecticut and Massachusetts.
In Binghamton, they're getting ready for a big reunion of
that market's radio and television veterans. It's planned for
September 24, and all the details are at the most excellent binghamtonradio.com
history site, along with a list of "missing" Binghamton
radio folk.
 *There's
a TV call change on the way in PENNSYLVANIA, where Penn
State is trying to streamline the identity of its public radio
and television services. This fall, WPSX (Channel 3) in Clearfield
will become WPSU-TV, sharing the calls of public radio WPSU (91.5
State College).
*And we wrap up this short week in CANADA,
where the CRTC is getting increasingly antsy about the delays
in construction on Aboriginal Voices Radio's new stations in
Ottawa and several other cities. The CRTC just issued AVR a fifth
extension of time to build the Ottawa station, but it warned
that the broadcaster will have to do some explaining if it still
hasn't built the station after that.
In Toronto, CFMX-FM-1 (96.3) was granted a power increase,
from 13.3 kW to 24.5 kW average ERP.
Down the street at CKFM (Mix 99.9), PD Blair Bartrem is out
the door; he's headed down Yonge Street to take over PD duties
at CILQ (Q107).
 And
there are some changes coming on the TV dial for Ontario viewers
in the next week or so; on August 2, CHUM will retire the "NewNet"
identities ("The New VR," etc.) for CKVR in Barrie,
CHRO in Pembroke/Ottawa, CFPL-TV in London, CHWI in Wheatley/Windsor
and CKNX-TV in Wingham, flipping those stations to "A Channel,"
the branding it bought along with Craig Media's stations in Alberta
and Manitoba. (Ironically, those stations become "Citytv"
this fall.)
*That's it from the West Coast; we'll be back home next week,
with much more. See you then!
*We're just weeks away from the debut
of the Tower Site Calendar 2006, and we think you'll like
the many images and dates that we've collected in the fifth annual
offering in the series.
 In the meantime,
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price, we'll throw in a third for free - $16 for THREE calendars,
with nine exciting months of 2005 yet to go. (That's $17.28 in
NYS.)
Maybe you've already hung your original 2005 calendar on the
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to stick away in pristine condition. Maybe you really want to
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