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NASHVILLE: WZTV offers $10,000 reward in reporter's shooting

5:05 AM | Labels: Erika Lathon, Fox 17, Nashville, reporter, shooting, WZTV

Nashville Fox affiliate WZTV-Fox 17 is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for last Thursday’s robbery and shooting of Fox 17 reporter Erika Lathon.

Lathon was shot after she withdrew cash from a Bank of America ATM at 1634 Church Street in Nashville.

The robber, who was dressed in all black and wore a mask, fired one time into Lathon’s car and fled on foot. Fortunately, she was able to drive herself to a nearby hospital where she was treated and released for a gunshot wound to the arm.

Anyone with information that can assist detectives in identifying the suspect is urged to contact Nashville Crime Stoppers at (615) 74-CRIME. Citizens can also send an electronic tip to Crime Stoppers by texting the word “CASH” along with their message to 274637 (CRIMES) or online at www.nashvillecrimestoppers.com. Persons who contact Crime Stoppers by phone, text or Internet can remain anonymous and qualify for a cash reward.

The $10,000 reward is in addition to the reward of up to $1,000 offered by Crime Stoppers.

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LOUISVILLE: U of L/Bellarmine exhibition game to shift ABC programming tonight

1:50 PM | Labels: ABC, Bellarmine, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Louisville, Louisville Cardinals, Modern Family, Nashville, schedule changes, Suburgatory, The Middle, The Neighbors, University of Louisville, WHAS11

WHAS11 will be airing the University of Louisville/Bellarmine exhibition game live at 7 p.m. ET tonight, and that means tonight's ABC primetime programs will air later tonight following the game.

Episodes of The Middle and The Neighbors will be moved to air overnight after Jimmy Kimmel Live. The Middle will air at 1:05 a.m. ET and The Neighbors will air at 1:35.

Modern Family, Suburgatory and Nashville will air in their entirety immediately after the game.

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NASHVILLE BRIEF: Journal purchase of NewsChannel 5 gets FCC approval

10:24 AM | Labels: Journal Broadcast Group, Journal Communications, Landmark Communications, Landmark Media Enterprises, Nashville, NewsChannel 5, WTVF

$215m sale of CBS affiliate was announced in early Sept.

Journal Broadcast Group has received the all-clear from the FCC to go ahead with its purchase of Nashville CBS affiliate WTVF (NewsChannel 5) from Landmark Media Enterprises.

The deal, which is worth a whopping $215 million in cash, was announced Sept. 4.

It's not yet known if Journal plans to make any significant changes at the station, which has been owned by Landmark since 1994.

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Nielsen releases 2012-13 TV market rankings

2:20 PM | Labels: Bowling Green, DMA rank, Evansville, Indianapolis, Louisville, Nashville, Nielsen, Paducah-Cape Girardeau-Harrisburg, St. Louis, Terre Haute

Despite small drop in the number of TV households, rankings for our region remain the same

Nielsen released the list of television market rankings for 2012-13 today, and the big story is that, while the overall estimated number of TV homes across the country dropped again, the drop didn't make enough difference to change the rankings for any of the markets in our part of the country.

Nationwide, the number of TV households stands at 114,173,690. That's down nearly a half of million - or less than 1% - from last year's 114,649,310.

So how did the markets in our neck o' the woods fare? Let's look at them from largest to smallest:

In this region, St. Louis is the largest TV market, and remains so this year at #21, based on its 1,243,490 TV households, down from 1,253,920 last year.
Indianapolis bounced back to #26 last year and remains there for 2012-13. Indiana's largest TV market now has 1,089,700 TV homes, compared to 1,109,970 last year.
Since 2008, Nashville has been #29, and that hasn't changed this year. The market has 1,014,910 homes, down a fairly sizable sum from the 1,024,560 one year ago.
Louisville holds the #48 spot for the second consecutive year. The Kentuckiana market now has 670,880 households (compared to 674,050 in 2012).
Paducah-Cape Girardeau-Harrisburg holds tight to the #81 spot with 388,340 TV households (down from 393,330).
Evansville remains #104 on Nielsen's list with 284,040 TV households (compared to 287,880 last year).
Terre Haute is still #154 with 139,600 households (down from 142,780).
Bowling Green stays at #182 with 78,880 households (down from 79,990 last year).

Despite not losing position, all of the stations, as you can see above, lost TV households - some more than others. Among the three larger markets in the region, Indianapolis was the biggest loser, shedding 20,270 households in just the past year. St. Louis lost the next highest number, at 10,430. Nashville was third with a decline of 9,650. Louisville's loss was least at 3,170.

Among the mid-sized markets, Paducah-Cape Girardeau-Harrisburg shed the most at 4,990; Evansville lost 3,840.

The smaller markets lost even less: Terre Haute lost 3,180 households, with Bowling Green losing 1,110.

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Good news: No Sinclair blackout for Dish customers

7:11 AM | Labels: ABC30, Cape Girardeau, CW58, Dish Network, Fox 17, Fox 23, KBSI, KDNL, My30, My49, Nashville, Paducah, retransmission, Sinclair Broadcast Group, St. Louis, WDKA, WNAB, WUXP, WZTV

Companies agree to new deal in principle and will work under old contract until final details are worked out

Dish Network and Sinclair Broadcast Group announced this morning that they have reached an agreement in principle for Dish to continue carrying Sinclair's television stations, including KBSI-Fox 23 (Cape Girardeau, Mo.), WDKA-My49 (Paducah, Ky.), KDNL-ABC30 (St. Louis), and the Nashville Fox-MyNetwork TV-CW trio of WZTV, WUXP and WNAB.

There will be no station blackout for Dish's subscribers.

While the details of that new agreement are hammered out, an extension has been put in place and the old deal will carry forward.

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Dish/Sinclair dispute gets ugly as deadline approaches

1:30 PM | Labels: ABC30, Cape Girardeau, CW58, Dish Network, Fox 17, Fox 23, KBSI, KDNL, My30, My49, Nashville, Paducah, retransmission, Sinclair Broadcast Group, St. Louis, WDKA, WNAB, WUXP, WZTV

Dish's programming VP uses tough language against station group

As the deadline for Dish Network and Sinclair Broadcast Group to reach a new carriage deal looms ever closer, tempers are beginning to flare.

On Monday, Sinclair warned viewers that they could lose its stations, including several in Paducah, Cape Girardeau, St. Louis and Nashville - the opening salvo in what could be a prolonged battle.

Then Dish fired a volley of its own, claiming that Sinclair's demands for its channels simply aren't reasonable. "We carry more than 1,800 local broadcast stations nationwide. Sinclair is asking for more than any other station anywhere in the country," said Dave Shull, Dish's senior VP of programming. "This goes beyond pure corporate greed - it's profoundly insensitive to the needs of the public."

That was enough for Sinclair, and the company this afternoon replied that Dish isn't telling the whole truth. Here's part of the company's rather lengthy statement:

"Sinclair notes that the prices it is requesting for its extremely popular stations are substantially lower than the amounts Dish is paying for other far less popular channels it carries as a result of Dish’s flawed economic model that on a relative basis compensates channels with little to no audience share more than the broadcast channels. In addition, Sinclair notes that its negotiations with Dish ... involve matters other than pricing."

The prospects of a new deal look pretty dim at this point.

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Sinclair Broadcast Group says it can't reach a deal with Dish

3:32 PM | Labels: ABC30, Cape Girardeau, CW58, Dish Network, Fox 17, Fox 23, KBSI, KDNL, My30, My49, Nashville, Paducah, retransmission, Sinclair Broadcast Group, St. Louis, WDKA, WNAB, WUXP, WZTV

KBSI, WDKA, KDNL and others could be removed from satellite lineup on Wednesday

UPDATE, 6:25 p.m.: Customers of Wabash Independent Networks (WIN) in part of Southeastern Illinois would lose St. Louis ABC affiliate KDNL if Sinclair pulls its stations from Dish Network. This is because WIN gets its local channels from the satellite provider. WIN's subscribers in Clay and Marion counties as well as the cities of Flora and Xenia will be affected if no new agreement is reached. Customers in the other WIN service areas receive ABC affiliates from either Terre Haute or Evansville.

PREVIOUSLY: Sinclair Broadcast Group has begun informing its viewers that it does not expect Dish Network to continue to carry any of its stations - including those in Paducah/Cape Girardeau, St. Louis and Nashville - after Sinclair's existing carriage agreement with Dish ends on Wednesday.

Although Dish and Sinclair have been negotiating for quite some time in an effort to reach a new agreement, at this time it does not appear that these efforts will be successful.

"We are very sorry that we have not been able to reach agreement with Dish and regret the inconvenience this will cause to Dish subscribers who want to continue to watch the extremely popular programming that airs on our stations," Sinclair said in a statement Monday afternoon. "We wish to remind these subscribers that numerous other means exist for receiving our stations, including your local cable provider, DirecTV, and in some markets either Verizon FiOS or AT&T U-verse, as well as over-the air."

Sinclair owns and operates several stations in this part of the country, including two in the Paducah/Cape Girardeau area (KBSI-Fox 23 and WDKA-My49), one in St. Louis (KDNL-ABC30) and three in Nashville (WZTV-Fox 17, WUXP-My30 and WNAB-CW58).

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As a beloved music icon begins to leave the stage for good, due to Alzheimer's, we stop and wonder if a more beautiful song could possibly be sung about two such incongruous words? "Wichita Lineman," et al - Glen Campbell's Long Goodbye makes us so very sad and wistful; see him while you can...

11:27 PM | Labels: Alzheimer's, Brad Paisley, Country Music, Country Music Awards, Galveston, Gentle On My Mind, Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb, Keith Urban, Memphis, Nashville, South Florida, Vietnam War, Vince Gill, Wichita Lineman

Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman (LIVE, 2006)

http://youtu.be/E80727OUUDI

As a beloved music icon begins to leave the stage for good, due to Alzheimer's, we stop and wonder if a more beautiful song could possibly be sung about two such incongruous words? "Wichita Lineman," et al - Glen Campbell's Long Goodbye makes us so very sad and wistful; see him while you can...

kmttmn video:

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Taylor Swift shows why she's so beloved by her fans in profile/interview on CBS News' "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl; Amazing times ten!

12:22 AM | Labels: CBS News, Country Music, Lesley Stahl, Nashville, pop culture, Sixty Minutes, Taylor Swift, taylorswift13, Twitter

CBS News 60 Minutes: Taylor Swift: A young singer's meteoric rise. November 20, 2011. Correspondent Lesley Stahl profiles and interviews the dynamic 21-year old singer who keeps her feet firmly on the ground while entertaining and charming her millions of fans all over the world. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7389010n&tag=mg;mostpopvideoWhat can I say about Taylor Swift here that I

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