Making News AS WE START THE NEW YEAR, it might be a good time to look at the local small screen scene… where it is and where it’s going. We can start with the recent news of WZMQ-TV adding veteran sportscaster Mike Ludlum to their daily newscasts. As you may recall, it was just about a year ago when Ludlum was ... Continue Reading
More News from TV6
The Story Continues It was one week ago today when we first reported that Karl Bohnak would be leaving TV6. And possibly others as well. And now this well-documented story about vaccination mandates and on-air talent departures has taken an even more serious turn with Sarah Blakely’s recent Facebook post explaining, as ... Continue Reading
TV6/Fox UP… continued
More Departures? It looks like the Karl Bohnak resignation/firing was just the tip of the vaccination needle. Watching the regular news programs last night on both TV6 and Fox UP, we didn't see any sign of popular anchors Sarah Blakely or Elyse Chengery. Since corporate policy is to not comment on personnel matters, ... Continue Reading
Anchor Shuffle at TV6
THE RECENT DEPARTURE of Sophie Erber from WLUC has led to wholesale changes in the anchor lineup at the local TV news leader. Let's start off with Sarah Blakely, who's been the morning co-anchor for the last two years and has won a lot of fans with her news savvy and her charm. She'll become the new co-anchor with Steve ... Continue Reading
GoFundMe Site Delay, Travel Marquette Help, and TV6 Social Distancing
Donors stepped up MORE THAN TWELVE thousand dollars. That's how much has been raised for Marquette's restaurant, tavern, and coffee shop workers in the last four days on a GoFundMe site. But now, this is where the story gets interesting...and frankly, discouraging. The money was raised so quickly that GoFundMe has ... Continue Reading