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Sunday, June 22, 2008
6/22: WSB-TV wins top Southeast Emmy prize
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
WSB-TV, the highest-rated station in town, won the “Station Excellence” award at the Southeast Emmy awards, held Saturday night at the Grand Hyatt in Buckhead. The last time the station took home the prize was 2006.
The well-respected Russ Spencer of WAGA-TV took home the Emmy for best news anchor, beating out Ted Hall at WXIA-TV. This is the third time he has won the prize. Spencer, who has been in the news business for 25 years, has a blog on the TV Web site but it hasn’t been updated in two months.
And in a mild surprise, the 11 p.m. newscast of WGCL-TV won for best daily newscast. This is the station’s strongest performer in ratings (much better than its 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.), often finishing second only behind WSB-TV in the ratings. Ironically, the station just dumped its news director Rich Erbach, bringing in a new man Steve Schwaid.
Blair Meeks won best on-camera reporter for the third year in a row. Too bad he recently left WXIA-TV to enter public relations.
(I normally try to attend the event but it landed on my birthday so I opted not to work so I’m merely culling from the winners’ list.)
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6/22: Jonas Brothers hot, but not HSM2 hot
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jonas Brothers’ big debut film “Camp Rock” debuted Friday on Disney Channel with a very big 8.9 million viewers (most under the age of 18 with 3.9 million between the ages of 9 to 14). That beat the original “High School Musical” of 7.8 million a couple years back but far smaller than last year’s 17.2 million for “High School Musical 2.”
But don’t think that will stop the onslaught of Jonas Brothers mania. Oh, no! And it was the highest-rated show during that time slot, beating all the major networks by a wide margin.
I’ll update with ratings from a telecast on ABC Saturday night and ABC Family Sunday night.
