The Friday Week in Review: You Lie! Edition

It’s Friday, and time for another long look back at a brutal week in politics, sports and the Web. We’re going to try for a reasoned, respectful debate here, so no shouting! But feel free to call us out in comments if we start going on about death panels. Remember: There remains some significant details [...]

The Long Goodbye: BJ Sams Says Farewell on Friday

After more than 50 years in broadcasting (“Fifty-six,” he’ll remind you), BJ Sams is signing off tomorrow. His final broadcast of “Today’s THV This Morning” happens Friday.
This morning, before tomorrow’s busy farewell, he spent some final moments with his long-time “This Morning” co-host and sparring partner Tom Brannon, who commissioned a special “long-distance dedication” for [...]

Jerry’s Place

Where We’ve Been
The new digs – Today’s THV gets a tour
100,000 people at Ballpark, Stadium on Sunday
A Rangers win in 12 innings
Recap: Texas vs. Minnesota
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Charles Crowson to Anchor ‘Today’s THV This Morning’

Congratulations to Charles Crowson, who’ll take over BJ Sams‘ spot on the couch after Sams retires on July 31. The “Today’s THV This Morning” crew made the announcement Thursday morning.
Crowson, a former Stone Ward public relations account executive, has been with THV since January 2007 and, most recently, has been working as a reporter for [...]

Arkansas Nonprofits During Recession And a Mid-year Economic Outlook in This Week’s Arkansas Business

This week’s Arkansas Business is available now. Among the highlights:
The effects of the recession are only now starting to show up on the book’s the state’s largest nonprofit organizations, with four of Arkansas’ 30 largest charities seeing a decline in assets and four treading water. One, however, saw a $19 million gain from the previous [...]

Salary Cuts at Gannett Hit KTHV

Ugh. It’s another challenging day for Gannett Co.-owned CBS affiliate KTHV-TV, Channel 11.
Arkansas Business’ Mark Hengel has the local angle on Gannett’s latest cost-cutting measures, which you might have noted brewing for several days now on the Gannett Blog:
The company that owns Little Rock’s CBS affiliate is imposing permanent wage cuts of up to 6 [...]

Local TV Ratings, Million-dollar Homes in This Week’s Arkansas Business

Arkansas Business’ new edition is available now in newsstands and online. Here’s a sample of this week’s stories and opinion:
Who pays $1 million (plus) for a home? We’ve got a list of Pulaski County homes that sold for more than $1 million right here.
Meanwhile, condo sales at 300 Third in Little Rock surpass $41 million. [...]

Today, the Switch to DTV

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Everything’s Gone Green in This Week’s Arkansas Business

We’re back! And so’s this week’s Arkansas Business, available online now. Among our stories and columns:
KTHV-TV, Channel 11, will begin its search in about a week for someone to fill retiring morning show host B.J. Sams‘ slot. Meanwhile, KARK-TV, Channel 4, is getting along without a general manager just fine, thank you very much.
You know [...]

THVideo: Ghidotti on Moms and Social Networking

Natalie Ghidotti, a Little Rock PR pro who used to work with me at Arkansas Business and was a guest blogger here recently, was on “Today’s THV This Morning” today talking about social networking and how mothers are using it to share information and experiences.
In her post for this site, Ghidotti talked about how corporations [...]