Posts Tagged ‘Weigel’

Packers Ratings Beat Olympics. Also, Sky Is Blue

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rick

Milwaukee area TV households like their sports to be green and gold if Friday nights ratings are any indication. Also there is gambling in Casablanca.

The meaningless Green Bay Packer  pre-season victory against the Cleveland Browns on WMLW-TV beat NBC’s coverage of the Summer Olympics by a full 4 rating points or about 35,200 TV homes.

Weigel-owned WMLW won the night – the first time I’ve ever written that – with a 16.3 rating, or about 143,800 viewers.

NBC affiliate WTMJ earned a 12.2 or about 107,000 TV homes. A local rating point is the equivalent of about 8,822 TV homes.

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WDJT-TV news director Garner reportedly fired

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agg

WDJT-TV (Channel 58) news director Genie Garner has reportedly been fired. Her departure was announced to staffers Monday. She had just returned from vacation last week.

Garner joined the station in August of 2012 from KITV-TV, in Honolulu.

Prior to that she worked at WHAS-TV in Louisville.

Her firing came after the station’s 10 p.m. newscast moved up to third place during the February sweeps, after having been in fourth place 22 times since February of 2010.

The station underwent a certain amount of turmoil during Garner’s tenure.

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