Comments on: Boston TV anchor shifts to web anchoring for station’s site

By: thedetroitchannel

thedetroitchannel — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:18:43 +0000

sure.

that’s why they also named him a “Special Correspondent”, like they did Martha Raadatz. (gee, i hope i spelled her name right)

By: thewcvbchannel

thewcvbchannel — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 10:02:15 +0000

Isn’t making a veteran anchor online-only a virtual dog track? This may be WCVB’s way of running out his contract. Heresy in these parts, I know…

By: thedetroitchannel

thedetroitchannel — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:35:43 +0000

z, ok, that seems reasonable. but what about thenewmexicochannel? i think their numbers did almost the exact same thing.

and since you’re in the know, will wcvb make the death move monday or continue with what is working now?

By: Z

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:23:47 +0000

In fairness to WLKY.com, it’s spent much of the past year without an on-site editor. I suspect that has much more to do with any losses than the domain name.

By: thedetroitchannel

thedetroitchannel — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:16:28 +0000

steve,

did i missed it earlier, or did you just add the graphic?

from what little i know about you, it wouldn’t surprise me that you know thebostonchannel will simultaneously relaunch as wcvb along with this move by an icon of the station.

it would come as no great surprise anyways because time and again tv people think they know everything about the internet (which they do not).

take for instance when thelouisvillechannel reverted to wlky, their numbers spiked beautifully (for a day or two) and since have probed lows never seen back in the day. did someone say “write your headlines for search engines”? then why not write you domain name for search engines???

i guess we’ll see come monday morning… i’m all set for the razzing from boise too!

By: invitedmedia

invitedmedia — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:40:12 +0000

great story over there right now…

“judges worry over ‘rat’ website”

says it went subscription only, but was not my experience 2 minutes ago; whosarat(com)

By: thedetroitchannel

thedetroitchannel — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:22:50 +0000

ouch!

that had to really hurt typing t-h-e-b-o-s-t-o-n-c-h-a-n-n-e-l .

god, i hope that leaves a scar.