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NewsMcNabb Investigates
Which News Medium Really Does Investigative Journalism?KXAN TV (NBC) proclaims in its promotional spots that it has the only investigative team in town. Anchor/reporter Chris Willis Monday (November...
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Longhorns Online`
Inferred in my last Longhorn Network Post (LHN) was the possibility that the programming would soon be available on the Internet. In a Wednesday, November 30, 2011 news release, that inference is now...
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Catenya McHenry Gone
What are They Thinking?According to Catenya McHenry’s Facebook page, she’s gone as the weekend morning anchor and everything else at KXAN TV (NBC). “Well, everyone, I'm no longer at KXAN. My contract...
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What Are They Thinking?
Shawn Rutherford Gone From KXAN TV“Shawn Rutherford is a team member of the 2010 Winner for Best Morning Newscast as voted by the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters”—The headline on his KXAN-TV page....
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Two Suggestions
UT Journalism Embraces ChangeYou must love words. You must love words and the power of well-chosen and carefully-crafted words, if you aspire to be a professional journalist. So, it was pleasing to see...
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New Magazine
American-Statesman Gets REALHidden between the folds of the Austin American-Statesman Friday, March 30, 2012 you may have noticed something new, not seen before. “REAL” is the newspaper’s newest...
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The Home Team
Rangers or Astros on TV, But Where?Are you at home with the Texas Rangers, or are you at home with the Houston Astros. According to Fox Sports or Major League Baseball, in Austin and Central Texas we...
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KEYE Comes to Play
Morning Show WarsThe battle for Austin eye balls in the AM is getting hotter as KEYE-TV (CBS) rolls out much more than a token morning show with a full staff.New owner Sinclair Broadcasting Group seems...
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LA LA Land
Michelle Valles hits the "Big Time"Find my story posted to Austin Culture Map: http://austin.culturemap.com/newsdetail/04-04-12-17-28-michelle-valles-in-la-tv/
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New Faces
Austin TV Turnover [For a while this post was deleted from Austin Culture Map, apparently because I made a correction (I referred to Leslie Rhode as Leslie Cook, her name when we worked together years...
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KUT FM 90.5 CampaignAward-winning public radio station KUT-FM already sounds like Austin, more than any of the other mostly homogeneous stations on the air. KUT is about to embark on a project...
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Austin Broadcast Journalism Has a Doctor
Dr. KateKate Weidaw, KXAN TV (NBC) morning reporter can claim something separating herself from all other working broadcast journalists in the Austin market. As of May 19th she will hold the official...
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Going ... Going ...
Gale Soon to be GoneThe “face” of KVUE-TV’s (ABC) “Daybreak” and midday news for some 14-years is about to change. Anchor Melissa Gale today emailed the morning crew that she is leaving. Details posted...
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Michael Fabac On the Beach
KXAN’s News Director FiredWith several days left in the May Sweeps, KXAN TV (NBC) news director Michael Fabac is gone. Word is that he was shown the door Friday, May 18th, but the staff was not...
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Something for Everyone and Something New
MAY TV SWEEPS RESULTS –Updated*Something for Everyone and Something NewKEYE TV (CBS) came close in February. In the May TV sweeps, the 10 p.m. news went to the top. KEYE is the new #1, followed by KVUE...
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A Screed ...
I Want My “Harry’s Law”Sunday night, May 27th at 7 p.m. will be final episode of NBC’s “Harry's Law.” “Harry’s Law” starring Kathy Bates was/is a well-conceived, well-written, well-acted, and...
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Gotta Blame Somebody ...
That Darned Media!Blame it on the media. When in doubt, blame it on the media. When there is a political campaign crisis, of course, blame it on the media.If one is a conservative, then it is the fault...
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Kate and KUT-FM
Two Quick Tidbits …Two quick newsworthy items:Austin’s public radio station KUT-FM (NPR) raked in another news award today, June 12, 2012. This time is the national Edward R. Murrow award for...
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Will America Be The Death of English?
Heard, Read, Gagged“Strictly Speaking/Will America be the Death of English” is a former #1 best seller by former NBC correspondent Edwin Newman. What we do to the language now is as abominable as it...
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Cross—KXAN TV’s New News DirectorA new news director is headed to KXAN TV (NBC) from an award-winning station in Wichita, Kansas, and he has ties to Austin.He replaces Michael Fabac who was quickly...
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She's Be Missed ...
ND Suzanne Black Leaving KEYE TVThere is one constant in broadcast journalism. This constant remains in place during the decades of this relatively young profession. That one constant? Change. It was...
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Really?
Media: Texas is a One-Party StateAn incredible feeling of freedom swept over me when I walked out of a newsroom for the last time. For the first time in decades, I could openly express a political...
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I'm Not Kidding...
The EndThis is possibly the last newsmcnabb post. I’m hanging it up. I say “possibly the last post.” Something may be so juicy or troublesome that I could feel compelled to write, but I think four...
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Ch-Ch-Ch Changes!!!
I hate change, but change is inevitable in the news business, it seems. I saw this latest change coming. New AustinAmerican-Statesman owner GateHouse Media has something of a reputation for buy-outs...
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You Know?You know? Apparently, a lot of people don’t. As one who teaches public speaking at the university level, I shutter when I started hearing things over and over and over. Vocalized pauses have...
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