So some folks didn’t love the helicopter…
Wow. Some folks were very unhappy with WBIR’s decision to use a helicopter as part of our SmartFIX 40 coverage.
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Discover some new bloggers
Folks are signing up to use our new WBIR Online Community blogging platform.
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Join the WBIR Online Community
I’d like to invite all of you Knoxville Talks readers - and there are quite a few of you these days - to become members of our brand, spankin’ new WBIR Online Community. Here’s my own WBIR Profile right here.
Our community is similar to many other social networking sites with which you are already familiar, [...]
Get to know us!
The new WBIR.com is here! We are really excited about it, and one of the cool, new features is our video player, which will allow you to share and embed our video, just like you do with You Tube videos.
See, like this:
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We’ve been outed
The new WBIR website should finally launch this week.
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Traffic Twittering redux
Let me direct you to the beta WBIRtraffic Twitter feed, designed (or in the process of being designed) to make your driving experience in and around K-town better and safer.
I expect to have the whole thing fully functional within a few days, with frequent traffic updates from our newsroom (we get a lot of [...]
Did you feel the earthquake this morning?
A quake centered in Illinois was felt all over East Tennessee early this morning. We had a number of callers to the WBIR newsroom who told us they felt rattled. Did you feel it at your house?
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10 Things You May Not Know About…Susan Richardson Williams
Next up in our “10 Things” series here at Knoxville Talks Is Susan Richardson Williams, who once again this year made the list as one of Tennessee’s “Power 100,” coming in at #89:
“…quasi-member of TVA board due to Congressional failure to re-appoint her when term expired. As such, despite President Bush’s re-nomination, Williams is not [...]
An award for WBIR
Congrats to News Director Bill Shory and all my colleagues at WBIR on winning this year’s Murrow Award for overall excellence in our region.
I notice that WNOX also picked up a Murrow or two (no small accomplishment!), so congrats to them as well.
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Some new WBIR bloggers
The response to my call for folks interested in blogging at our soon-to-be-launched, completely redesigned WBIR.com has been huge. I’m still trying to wade through dozens and dozens of e-mails from great people who’ve expressed an interest in becoming one of the featured bloggers for the new site. So for those of you who have [...]
Read More..>>This week on Inside Tennessee
We’ll be taping this week’s edition of Inside Tennessee tonight.
Our guests will be Commissioner Victoria DeFreese, and government relations expert Mike Cohen.
We asked Mayor Ragsdale’s office to send a representative to appear on the show, but they very politely declined.
The show will air Sunday morning at 9:30 am on WBIR.
(And for those of you who [...]
Priorities, priorities…
Offered without comment, two stories from Knox County government during the past 24 hours:
Clinic offering free health services for working poor denied county grant funding
Mayor Mike Ragsdale reimburses county taxpayers for things like unused plane tickets and $76 car detailing services, using some of the $82,788.81 remaining in his campaign warchest.
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Read More..>>WBIR looking for a few good bloggers
I am happy to announce that within the next few weeks, WBIR.com will be launching a whole host of new online tools and community features.
We’ll also be building a roster of regular, featured blogs, in addition to Knoxville Talks. That means we’re looking for a few talented bloggers to join our team.
This isn’t a paying [...]
Knoxville Talks traffic
Wow. We’ve had a great first few months. Since launching my little project with scant fanfare during Christmas week (’07), we’ve racked up 72,797 page views.
I’m pretty happy with that.
Soon, you’ll start seeing more promotion for Knoxville Talks at WBIR.com and on the air at WBIR-TV. Lots of good stuff coming down the pike for [...]
Sharp-eyed WBIR.com readers help solve a p-card mystery
This is the power of new media at work:
Until now, the events surrounding the creation of these false invoices were unknown. However, 10News has learned how and where the false invoices were created.
When we posted copies of the false FedEx Kinkos invoices to WBIR.com last Friday, a sharp-eyed reader noticed that the zip code given [...]
Global warming leads to snowy skepticism
Commenters at WBIR.com say they’ll “believe it when they see it” when it comes to snow predicted for this weekend.
It’s true that we really haven’t had a good snow in Knoxville in all kinds of years. On the other hand, the fabled Blizzard of ‘93 was a March weather event, so maybe this time will [...]
Watching for tornadoes
Much of the WBIR viewing area is currently under a tornado watch.
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“Lamar, Lamar, Lamar…”
As the person who invited both Terry and Gray to appear on Inside Tennessee this week, I can tell you that for the sake of better ratings (a bloody fracas always means better ratings, don’t you know), I could only hope that Stacey Campfield’s entertaining pre-broadcast description of how the show went off was [...]
Read More..>>A matter of open record
Yesterday’s release of the draft audit of p-card spending in the Ragsdale administration is an important reminder of why the press and the public need open access to government records. WBIR’s News Director (and my boss), Bill Shory has written a commentary on why WBIR chose to push for the release of the p-card draft [...]
Read More..>>Which Knox County official spent how much on what?
Check out this supercool database widget Jake Jost built over at WBIR.com that allows you to easily search specific budget items and staff members from the just-released p-card draft audit.
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