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Thursday, October 23, 2008
10/23: Frank Ski Foundation tries to lift Clayton students, WSB-TV cutback rumors
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Frank Ski Foundation is hosting a “Local Legend” luncheon Nov. 2 to help Clayton County students, highlighting six who have transcended the problems the school system has been facing and given $500 each.
T-Boz from TLC (currently taping “The Celebrity Apprentice”) and Judge Penny Reynolds Brown (“Family Court With Judge Penny”) are both scheduled to be guests of honor..
Here are the six students:
Meghan Jackson, Senior, Morrow High School
Songsarae Harley, Senior, Forest Park High
Kelita Almond, Senior, Riverdale High
Jamesha Foote, Senior, Riverdale High
Tyler Jones, Senior, Mount Zion High
Maritza Morales, Senior, Mount Zion High
-Cox Radio, including folks from WSB-AM, 97.1/The River and Kiss 104.1, suffered cutbacks earlier this week. I hear from inside that building that WSB-TV will have to let go a few folks as well, with an announcement coming today or tomorrow. Who and how big I will try to glean as soon as I hear anything.
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10/23: Real Housewives of Atlanta ratings double over two weeks, former Atlantan Alyson Hannigan is pregnant
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“The Real Housewives of Atlanta” is becoming a hot commodity for Bravo.
Tuesday night’s episode drew 1.32 million and more than 1 million of them were in the key 18 to 49 year old demographic. That is up from 1.184 million last week and 656,000 in its debut. In other words, the show has seen its ratings double in two weeks!
Compared to anything on broadcast TV, 1.32 million is modest. But last week, from October 13 to October 19, the show aired 16 times and nearly 7.2 million people saw the show. That’s not half bad.
The show so far is doing better than “Real Housewives of New York,” which averaged 864K viewers through three episodes vs. 1.05 million for “Atlanta.” Season three of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” averaged 1.3 million viewer, concluding with 2.018 million in January.
The top overall show nationally was “CSI,” with 19.3 million. (The show ranked 14th locally with 278,000 viewers.)
In other ratings, the top cable show last week was the thrilling game 7 Sunday between the Red Sox and the Rays (who won.) The TBS telecast drew more than 13.35 million viewers. Locally, the game drew 209,000 viewers in Atlanta, ranking 28th for the week.
In Atlanta, the top show was the presidential debate, with 415,000 catching it on CNN and 297,000 more watching it on Fox News. WSB-TV had the most viewers among the broadcast networks with 287,000 viewers.
-Former Atlantan and “How I Met Your Mother” star Alyson Hannigan is pregnant.
She’s married to “Buffy” alum Alexis Denisof.
TV Guide speculates whether the show will incorporate her pregnancy into her character’s story.
Asked to comment on Hannigan’s news and what it might mean for the Eriksens, series cocreator Carter Bays tells TVGuide.com, “We are thrilled for Alyson and Alexis, and we know that they are going to be amazing parents. It’s too early to say how this will impact the show going forward, although we may have to push the ‘Lily wins a gold medal in gymnastics’ storyline to next season.”
-Another former Atlantan David Hasselhoff is on a videogame in which people can “hassle The Hoff.” More details here.
In the irreverently comedic game, a player can take a virtual Hasselhoff - replete with a Knight Rider jump suit emblazoned with “The Hoff” on the back - though a series of collisions and pratfalls and score points for how much pain they can make the onetime German pop star endure.
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