The Press and Tower
Blog URL http://www.pressandtower.com
Located Erie, Pennsylvania USA
Tags erie, media, pennsylvania, dtv, newspaper, television, radio, new media, blogs
The Press and Tower is a web community for the producers and consumers of newspapers, radio and television stations, and new media outlets in Erie and Northwestern Pennsylvania.
Latest Blog Posts
- Old media: We’re not dead yet! on Nov 19, 2009 in Metrics Nielsen Scarborough Research
A couple recent studies reveal that somebody didn’t tell the consumers that old media like newspaper, radio and TV is dead. A Nielsen study found that 77% of adults were reached by broadcast radio on a daily basis, which was second only to tele...
- Taking care of business on Nov 16, 2009 in From The Editor blogging Quantcast
Over the past 14 months, Press and Tower has become one of the most read blogs in the region, averaging 2,500 page views per week, while doubling that at times in recent months. We are the “go to” source for news about the media climate in Erie,...
- Deep Background for November 15-21, 2009 on Nov 15, 2009 in Deep Background Brenda Savelli Chuck Priestap Citadel Broadcasting Erie Erie Times-News Jerry Del Colliano WQHZ WRIE WXKC WXTA
Whispers became a shout this week as executives at Citadel Broadcasting are indicating that they may have to go Chapter 11 ahead of a scheduled January debt payment that the owners of WXKC, WXTA, WQHZ, and WRIE don’t have. To hear Jerry Del Col...
- Post columnist Dionne visits Erie on Nov 14, 2009 in Newspaper David Bruce E. J. Dionne Erie Erie Times-News George Will Jefferson Educational Society Obama Reagan Washington Post
Due to a series of unfortunate events, I was not able to attend the concluding lecture at the Global Futures summit conducted by the Jefferson Educational Society last night. Washington Post and syndicated columnist E.J. Dionne was the speaker on the...
- CNN shockers on Nov 12, 2009 in Television Carrie Prejean CNN Larry King Lou Dobbs
With apparently no advance warning to his own staff, the last of the original CNN anchors Lou Dobbs abruptly quit the cable news network, to pursue new ventures. Meanwhile, Larry King, the long-time interviewer known for his “soft-ball pi...
- Poll: will you participate in a media fundraiser? on Nov 10, 2009 in Polls Erie media NPR WERG WJET WQLN WXKC
We have our winner from our two-week long poll of the most listened to radio morning shows by our Press and Tower readers. It’s WQLN and Morning Edition, as 12% of our poll respondents said that they listened to most in the past week. Runners u...
- Deep Background for November 8-15, 2009 on Nov 9, 2009 in Deep Background
This past week Press and Tower went over the 2,000 approved comment mark, with many commenters this week aghast at the quality of live election reporting, or at least the dissemination thereof, coming out of the combined news team at 35th and State...
