If the Red Sox can win the World Series …
Can you tell I’m pining for romance? … yet another treatise on the day I like to bash the most (but apparently love despite my bashing!). —————————————— I’m not a big fan of Valentine’s Day. At least that’s what I’ve been telling myself since my divorce. Before my marriage, I was lucky enough to have […]
Valentine’s Day — real romance costs nothing!
It’s not because I’m divorced that Valentine’s Day fills me with a kind of internal cringing normally reserved for the sound of nails dragging down a chalk board. It’s not sour grapes or cynicism gone amuck. It’s simply that Valentine’s Day has, over the years, evolved into a competition, one that devalues spontaneity, simplicity, romance, […]
Florida This Week — MC’s television debut!
I’m flabbergasted, honored, and a bit humbled to have been invited to appear on Florida This Week — the weekly news television program, hosted by Rob Lorei. It’s a “Meet the Press” kind of format — but for West Central Florida issues, of course.
Everything but the girl …
I was in Paris the first time I heard everything but the girl … Killer songs about love, separation, Bob Dylan. How could you not love this quirky two-man (well, one girl) Brit band? Then, I moved to Boston, took a swing through Phoenix, back to Beantown, and ended up in Florida … where, guess […]
MC at USF Campus to Discuss “Media in Our Modern World”
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I visited the USF/Sarasota campus the other day (Tuesday, February 3) to speak to a class on “Media in Our Modern World.” The class is taught by Jim Brown, a former mayor of Sarasota and longtime journalist whose work appears, I believe, every other week in the Sarasota […]
Will Sarasota’s SNN 6 be back on the airwaves?
Will Sarasota’s SNN 6 be back on the airwaves soon? Would be a sweet Valentine’s Day present if it is. I just got off the phone with Linda DesMarais, erstwhile General Manager for the station and while she wouldn’t confirm the stories I’ve been hearing last night and this morning (that the station is looking […]
At least I know you’re reading …
Jiminy Cricket. Enough with the emails. Okay — a phoenix is a mythological bird. Essentially a bird that rises from the ashes after, typically, being thought dead as a doornail. I’m NOT suggesting SNN 6 is moving to Phoenix! Sheesh!
Will SNN 6 pull a Phoenix move?
Hearing rumblings last night and today that SNN 6 may not be down for the count after all. Sure all the employees were officially terminated and sure people around town have been saying SNN was done for. But there might be life yet in this local favorite — meaning SNN 6. I put in a […]
Death of a news station — a mini timeline
November 13, 2008: The Pelican Press reports on a “rumor” that the Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s 24-hour cable news station – SNN 6 – is on the sale block for $2 million. PP reports that Sarasota H-T Publisher Diane McFarlin answered their inquiry with the following statement “‘SNN 6 is not for sale.’” Though in the news […]
SNN severance clarification … and a bit more about our man Bruce
Bruce Asbury contacted me this morning to correct one of his statements from our conversation of yesterday. “I made a slight error in the severance,” Asbury told me today. The 26-week severance payout mentioned in yesterday’s post was only for employees who’d been with SNN 6 for more than 13 years, Asbury said today, — […]