Early ratings from the all-important May sweeps suggest WTHR-TV Channel 13’s 15-year reign as king of local television news
is secure for now. But the big test will come this fall when NBC’s weakening prime-time lineup is expected to put the ratings
crown in play.
WTHR’s reign faces new test Slumping NBC could drag down Channel 13 Early ratings from the allimportant May sweeps suggest WTHR-TV Channel 13’s 15-year reign as king of local television news is secure for now. But the big test will come this fall when NBC’s weakening prime-time lineup is expected to put the ratings crown […]
Early ratings from the all-important May sweeps suggest WTHR-TV Channel 13’s 15-year reign as king of local television news is secure for now. But the big test will come this fall when NBC’s weakening prime-time lineup is expected to put the ratings crown in play. The threat to the local affiliate will worsen in September […]
A $33-million apartment and retail project along the canal downtown caught fire early this morning. The Cosmopolitan on the Canal project, by Flaherty & Collins Properties, had been nearing completion on a site bordered by the canal, Senate Avenue, Michigan…
Recipe for a cheap date tonight:
Start off at FringeFriday, held in the new Fringe Building at 719 E. St. Clair. Complementary hors d’oeuvres start at 5:30 followed by a 6:15 showcase including sketch comedy group Three Dollar Bill Comedy Co….
A judge sided with Indiana regulators today and placed the financial assets of the estranged wife of indicted, parachuting money manager Marcus Schrenker into receivership, where bilked clients might recover some of their losses. The judge in suburban Hamilton County ordered the assets of Michelle Schrenker frozen and controlled by a court-appointed receiver. He issued […]
Jim Tellus has been promoted to president and general manager of WTHR-TV Channel 13.
Fitness-minded partners collaborate to open a Broad Ripple nutritional supplement store.
Indy Racing League team owner and driver Sarah Fisher will step away from her office at her race shop to guest co-host the Smiley Morning Radio Show on WZPL-FM 99.5 along with Dave…
Today, I’m just going to serve as your GPS, guiding you to some interesting arts writing from my blog roll. Happy clicking.
–Recent Indy visitor Tyler Green (of IMOCA/IMCPL/IO’s “10 Things I Hate About Contemporary Art”) comments on his recent trek…
NBC has sold almost 90 percent of its advertising inventory for Super Bowl XLIII, which leaves only about 7 of 67 in-game spots remaining, according to network officials. That leaves an astoundingly low number…
With the economic swoon and no political ad campaigns in 2009, TV ad revenue could hit a 10-year low next year.
If someone slips and falls in a parking lot, was it the fault of the property owner because he didn’t plow, or was the snow not deep enough in that area to prove a duty to plow? If a child darts in front of a car at dusk, were the conditions at that moment in the day enough for the driver to be able to see the child? Should the driver legally have had his or her headlights on, and…
Officials with Rhode Island-based Lin TV Corp., the parent company of WISH-TV Channel 8, and Bright House Networks were still huddled together as of 11 a.m. trying to iron out an agreement that would put the local channel back on the cable dial.Officials for Bright House-which has 125,000 central Indiana subscribers-have refused to pay what […]
The Anderson money manager known as “Big Joe” got his start as an independent insurance agent in Lafayette. He had been on the job just two weeks before Black Monday struck Wall Street in October 1987. The market shed more than 22 percent of its value, the largest one-day decline in U.S. history. With no clients and no money, the 20-year-old temporarily left the insurance industry and landed a job at AT&T’s old Western Electric division, helping rewire Ball State…
A brief review I posted here on Friday of the IndyFringe show “Peace on Terror” has generated some intense reaction. See the post and ongoing comments here. The conversation, led by someone involved in the show, has spilled over…
The big stories in the world of motorsports have been coming at such a high rate of speed, it’s been difficult to keep up.
The long weekend kicked off with Tony Stewart getting into an altercation with a U.S. Auto Club…
New Hampshire teen-ager Anna Grant, treated like a villain in the RCA Dome four months ago, is being treated like a queen today at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Grant, 14, made news when she…
Rich Pegram, who suddenly left as general manager of WTHR-TV Channel 13 in November, has joined a Tampa, Fla., television station as vice president and general manager. The Tampa station, WFTS-TV Channel 28, is owned by Cincinnati-based The E.W. Scripps Co. WTHR is owned by the Wolfe family of Columbus, Ohio. “His trophy case is […]
Indianapolis Star sports reporter Mark Montieth has covered his last Indiana Pacers game for the paper he dreamed about working for since he was a young child.
Effective at the end of today, Montieth,…
