The LuLac Edition #2807, December 30th, 2014

TOP 5 MEDIA STORIES OF 2014

(in countdown form) 

5.  VOICE/LEADER EYE PITTSTON

In a battle to capture the important Pittston Area newspaper market, The
Citizen's Voice added a Pittston news veteran for its lineup. Eddie Ackerman
joined the staff as a columnist. The newspaper war between The Voice and The Times Leader continues with both touting circulation figures.

4. NOAH RITTER

 He became a You Tube sensation when he was interviewed on WNEP TV, then wound up on The Ellyn Show. The kid was visiting from out of the area and made the word “apparently” a catch phrase in the summer of 2014. (Thanks to Brian Hughes for reminding me about this little ham!)

3. LOOKING FOR THAT CROSS OF GOLD

There was a mad dash by area radio people to land a job with Wilkins Radio as its Operations Director. The long time ops manager left and the broadcast group put an ad in the paper. 90 per cent of the radio people I knew applied for the job. After some fits and starts veteran broadcaster Jim Rising got the gig at WITK AM. The station was formerly known to area radio listeners as WKQV AM, WARD AM and WPTS AM.

2. AND THE EMMY GOES TO.....

WBRE TV won an Emmy for best nightly newscast 

and WNEP TV's Dave Bohman and Suzanne Goldglang won awards too. Bohman won for his investigative story

Ampersand regarding an environmental issue in Schuylkill County and Goldglang won hers for "Ferris Wheel Rescue". 

 1. WARM FADES THEN RETURNS

Despite what many people think there are people who listened to the Mighty 590 with it's fuzzy signal and golden oldies. (A generation of kids who used to bring in CKLW, WKBW and WCFL at night don't give a shit about static!) Around the end of the summer the music died and so did the signal. The good news is that new owner Cumulus Broadcasting improved the signal and put the nearly 75 year old radio station back on the air. The bad news it is still another all sports frequency in a radio market already saturated with them. But with an improved signal, maybe someone might buy it? Old WARM fans do play the Powerball you know! Anyway, LuLac will be on Sunday Magazine January 4th at 6AM with Brian Hughes. And NO, that is not the reason why this was the Top Media Story of 2014!