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5 days ago

It has been an amazing week for Erie, and that inherently includes its media. If a 15-year flood, the apprearance of the vice-president, and fatal fires were not enough, local TV, radio, newspaper and new media reporters provided non-stop coverage of the story of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ...

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10 days ago

Julius Genachowski, FCC Chair YourErie.com and WSEE’s Jacqueline Policastro are reporting that the new FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, will join Vice President Joe Biden in Erie on Wednesday. Biden, Genachowski, along with Cabinet members Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Commerce Secretary Ga ...

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11 days ago

On Saturday morning, June 27th, P&T was able to witness the Braveheart Rush leading up to the demolition of Clara Ward’s old home on Erie’s east side. This podcast lets you hear from some of the volunteers, the Erie media covering the event, and actual audio instructions given to the children and ta ...

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25 days ago

This open comment forum continues to be filled with lively conversation about the 12/35 merger, the relevance of micro-formats in radio, and Steve Martin jokes. This is your place to sound off about Erie media without the confines of my posting agenda. Please continue to send your private notes via ...

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37 days ago

If there was a “go/no go” pre-launch check for WICU/WSEE merger on Monday ala the Apollo 13 movie, it could have gone like this: “audio” - “no go” “video” - “no go” “graphics” - “no go” “master control” - “no go” “medical” - “no go” I thought I was going to need oxygen just watching WSEE’s debut at ...

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40 days ago

It will be a day or two until we begin to realize how things are going to work with a merged WICU and WSEE news team. Meanwhile, there is other Erie media news to talk about, including the Spring radio ratings period winding down, the major loss of state funding for WQLN, and how the Erie Times-News ...

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41 days ago

The end of an era. After 55 years of continual broadcasting from a building that one housed a hairdressing academy and bingo hall, WSEE is moving to 35 th & State as it merges with WICU. Scott Bremner and Jacqueline Policastro aired the final Newswatch from the studio last night at 11:00. WSEE.tv Sc ...

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45 days ago

About two-thirds of our respondents to last week’s poll felt that unions are getting totally rolled over by media owners during this current downturn. Only 15% voted that the unions were fully-engaged, even while their members ended up on the beach. This Friday marks two weeks before analog televisi ...

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46 days ago

The Press and Tower readers spent the week reeling from the news of layoffs resulting from the WSEE/WICU merger. We learned this week that conversations about the merger began last summer. Meanwhile, we come to realize that a use of new media may have been the deciding factor in the change of the ad ...

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49 days ago

NABET, the union that represents the released WSEE employees, has been under fire here on The Press and Tower, with comments asking why the union wasn’t able to cushion the impact of this massive job loss. Their representative Eric Seggi responded to our request for comment. Here’s our e-mail exchan ...

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