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I’m b-a-a-a-ck! Local update plus “Eli” returns
Yikes! Out of the office for a week, and Austin hires two news anchors!
Neither newbie is on the air yet, but the lonely male anchors that have been flying solo for a while will have partners soon.
Devoted TV guy and fabulous colleague Gary Dinges of austin360.com reported the hires last week, bless him, but just to recap:
KVUE has hired Terri Gruca from a station in Minneapolis. She is scheduled to make her Austin debut Dec. 8 with Tyler Sieswerda. She replaces Christine Haas, who also came to Austin from Minneapolis — but left in August for a plum job in Houston.
KXAN trumpets the return of Leslie Rhode, a popular partner to Robert Hadlock from 1995 until 2003 when she was single and known as Leslie Cook. You’ll recognize her because she hasn’t changed … at all. She’s been working as a reporter and weekend anchor for Washington, D.C.’s WJLA while her husband worked a job in the Bush administration.
Time Warner Cable subscribers, of course, will have to find another way to see the new KXAN anchor if the current standoff isn’t resolved before her scheduled debut on Oct. 27.
Yes, that nasty standoff continues. I was hoping it would be over by now, but it looks like it’s going to drag into the November sweeps. KXAN and it’s corporate owner LIN TV wants Time Warner to pay for retransmission of its signal. Time Warner maintains KXAN gets its broadcast signal free and therefore should be free to subscribers.
Figure it out, corporate folks! We’re missing “The Office,” “30 Rock” and the final season of “ER.” Not to mention KXAN’s local news. And, no, I don’t like watching TV on my computer.
‘Eli Stone’ launches second season
One of the most imaginative and amusing midseason series from last spring returns tonight for another romp between fantasy and reality.
“Eli Stone” (9 p.m. on ABC) returns after lawyer Eli (Jonny Lee Miller) has had brain surgery to remove his vision-causing aneurysm. He’s experienced no earthquakes or rock star performances in six months. But after a crane crashes into a building, Eli’s brother Nate suddenly has a vision.
Next week’s “Eli” features Katie Holmes in a guest starring role in which she gets to sing AND dance. Will Mr. Katie Holmes (Tom Cruise) come along for the hoofing?
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By snowed in
October 14, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this
What, no mention of the fact that tomorrow Time Warner will drop KLRU-2 from channel 20?
http://snowedin2006.blogspot.com/2008/10/time-warner-squanders-good-will.html