Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Tuesday's Bits and Pieces - 11/18/08

Here's our daily update of what's happening at the WKYC Digital Broadcast Center.

Tonight's WKYC Evening Programming Schedule:
6:00 PM: Channel 3 News at 6 PM
6:30 PM: NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams
7:00 PM: The Point After
8:00 PM: Biggest Loser: Families
10:00 PM: Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit
11:00 PM: Channel 3 News at 11 PM
11:35 PM: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (Guests: Larry the Cable Guy; Chris Matthews; Adele)

"The Point After" Tonight at 7 PM

Channel 3 Sports celebrates last night's big last minute win over the Buffalo Bills with a special "The Point After" broadcast tonight at 7 PM featuring the radio voice of the Browns Jim Donovan, former Browns Coach Sam Rutigliano, The Plain Dealer's Tony Grossi and Jim's radio partner and former Browns player Doug Dieken. You can watch the show on-line beginning at 7 PM on wkyc.com

Thanksgiving Programming on WKYC

WKYC is all set to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday as well with special programming on NBC and Channel 3 all next week. A bevy of series will celebrate the most festive time of the year including "The Office," "ER," "My Name Is Earl," "30 Rock," "Kath & Kim" "The Biggest Loser: Familes" and "Deal or No Deal." For Thanksgiving, WKYC is offering up the "82nd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade" from 9 am until noon on Thursday, November 27th. That will be followed by "The National Dog Show Presented by Purina" from noon to 2 p.m.

For a complete list of our Thanksgiving week specials: CLICK HERE

NBC's HULU Catching up to YouTube

Online video joint venture Hulu will catch up to YouTube in U.S. ad sales despite having more than 10 times the unique user base (83 million vs. 6 million), according to a forecast from digital media research firm Screen Digest. Screen estimates YouTube will notch $100 million in U.S. ad sales this year, compared to $70 million for Hulu, while each will post $180 million in U.S. ad revenues in 2009. If you haven't tried Hulu: CLICK HERE

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