Sept. 1, 2014:
- Hamilton, ON, 36.1 CITS (RF36)...The station formerly known as CTS was resurrected as Yes TV!
Sept. 2, 2014:
- Buffalo, NY, 4.1 WIVB (RF39)...Ed Drantch began the month on WIVB, but jumped over to rival WKBW a few weeks later!
Sept. 3, 2014:
- Cleveland, OH, 61.1 WQHS (RF34)...I certainly was inspired by this episode of Univision's El Gordo y la Flaca!
- Pittsburgh, PA, 11.1 WPXI (RF48)...Don't mock Valerie Smock, cause her forecasts rock!
- Erie, PA, 12.3 WSEE (RF12.3)...Eva Mastromatteo paired up with "Quick Draw" Katie McGraw!
- Erie, PA, 12.1 WICU (RF12) with Kara Coleman and Mark Soliday!
The witness to a robbery at Adultmart was both revealing and stiff about the whole situation! Next time, she'd definitely be On The Move!
Maura Sirianni was reporting that morning for WICU's 12 News Today!
Matt Knoedler was also on the scene!
- Erie, PA, 12.3 WSEE (RF12.3)...Craig Woodard, former football player for Mercyhurst and WICU sportscaster in the 90s, joined the Erie Athletes Against Violence campaign! (He also wrote an autobiography!)
I enjoyed the Queen Latifah show while it was around!
- Erie, PA, 12.1 WICU (RF12)...There was a fab 12 News Today promo with Kara Coleman and Mark Soliday!
Sept. 6, 2014:
- Buffalo, NY, 2.1 WGRZ (RF33)...Heather Ly and Kevin O'Neill are 2 of my fave anchors!
Sept. 8, 2014:
- Erie, PA, 12.2 WBEP (RF12.2) with Geoff Cornish!
- Erie, PA, 12.1 WICU (RF12)...Hunky Brandon Arroyo tackled Erie sportscasts for a brief period!
- Detroit, MI, 20.1 WMYD (RF21)...WXYZ's 7 Action News This Morning advertised their 7AM-9AM edition on sister station WMYD!
- Detroit, MI, 20.2 WMYD-CO (RF21.2)...WMYD also hoped viewers would Cozi up to WXYZ's Bounce subchannel! (Both WMYD and WXYZ are owned by E.W. Scripps!)
- London, ON, 10.1 CFPL (RF10)...Anchor Kelda Yuen grew up in Scarborough and Markham, just like me!
- Detroit, MI, 20.1 WMYD (RF21)...Here's Keenan Smith in Action delivering that morning's forecast!
- Rochester, NY, 8.1 WROC (RF45) with Prescott Rossi!
Sept. 11, 2014:
- Toronto, ON, 9.1 CFTO (RF9)...The Amazing Race Canada featured Ryan Steele and hunky Rob Goddard who has done some stunning work as a model! Also check out Rob's Twitter!
There was a fun challenge on the show where Rob seemed to be wearing a Pizzazz outfit with a Jem & The Holograms wig! (Screenshot: CTV/YouTube.)
So it seemed appropriate to bump into Rob's father dressed like Jem at the hotel where I was co-chairing JemCon 2014!
Sept. 13, 2014:
- Buffalo, NY, 2.2 WGRZ-WN (RF33.2)...WeatherNation often showcased local stories like this one from Little Rock's KTHV with handsome Kevin Trager!
Sept. 15, 2014:
- Buffalo, NY, 2.1 WGRZ (RF33)...Salsarita's became legendary to my pals after a Buffalonian recommended it during a 2011 excursion!
Sept. 19, 2014:
- Toronto, ON, 19.1 TVO (RF19)...The Agenda episode Trans Nation featured a discussion with Hershel Russell, Nicole Nussbaum, Danielle Araya, Kusha Dadui and Cheri DiNovo!
Sept. 22, 2014:
- Buffalo, NY, 2.3 WGRZ-AT (RF33.3)...I enjoyed The Nanny when it first aired and I loved having it on in the background as I burned CD's for JemCon 2014!
Sept. 23, 2014:
- Rochester, NY, 8.1 WROC (RF45)...Mister (Matt) Jones and me tell each other fairy tales about the Sun-usual weather!
- Rochester, NY, 21.1 WXXI (RF16)...PBS aired the excellent documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work as a tribute to the late, great comedy icon!
Sept. 24, 2014:
- Rochester, NY, 8.1 WROC (RF45)...I loved Katharine McPhee on American Idol, so it was cool seeing her in the new Smash hit Scorpion!
- Erie, PA, 12.1 WICU (RF12)...I have a soft spot for WICU, so I love seeing new variations of their station ID!
Sept. 25, 2014:
- Buffalo, NY, 2.1 WGRZ (RF33)...The Daybreak crew was especially animated during their National Comic Book Day segment!
- Toronto, ON, 41.1 CIII (RF41)...The Morning Show featured the fabulous Rosey Edeh and Antony Robart!
A couple of years later, I got to meet Antony Robart when he was covering Toronto Pride in 2016!
Sept. 30, 2014:
- Buffalo, NY, 7.1 WKBW (RF38)...Growing up in Scarborough during the 90s, WBLK was so popular it blared out of boomboxes in stores I went into!
E.W. Scripps was updating WKBW's look and graphics! Compare the new "circle 7" logo to the previous one, seen just minutes apart from each other that day!
Keith Radford and Joanna Pasceri anchored Eyewitness News that day!
The revamped morning show featured Laura Gray and Andy Parker, newly poached from WGRZ!
- Buffalo, NY, 2.1 WGRZ (RF33)...Kathie Lee & Hoda had Amy Grant promoting her new song "Welcome Yourself" and fabulous dance album "In Motion: The Remixes"!
Oct. 1, 2014:
- Buffalo, NY, 4.1 WIVB (RF39) with Jacquie Walker!
- Buffalo, NY, 7.1 WKBW (RF38) with Kendra Eaglin!
Oct. 5, 2014:
- Buffalo, NY, 2.1 WGRZ (RF33)...Josh Kozlowski was doing double duty as a meteorologist for Buffalo's WGRZ and Rochester's WHEC!
Oct. 9, 2014:
- Buffalo, NY, 2.1 WGRZ (RF33)...Robert Downy Jr. inadvertently inspired one of my Jem & The Holograms mashups! I was thinking about real life hustlers, and the intensity of the Bangles' "Hazy Shade of Winter" from the film Less Than Zero which had - SPOILER ALERT - Downey Jr's character turning tricks to pay off debts. Blend that in a pot with Jem/Stingers lyrics about mind games and manipulations, and you get "Mind Games Are Too Much (Jensen's Hazy Shade Of Winter Mashup)"!
Oct. 12, 2014:
- Buffalo, NY, 2.1 WGRZ (RF33)...Josh Elliott was fielding all sorts of new assignments at NBC!
Oct. 25, 2014:
- Buffalo, NY, 2.1 WGRZ (RF33)...Entertainment Tonight covered Scandal-ous scenes from Shonda Rhimes shows, including the infamous "made my eyes water" episode of How To Get Away With Murder!
Oct. 26, 2014:
- Buffalo, NY, 7.1 WKBW (RF38)...I was an Eyewitness to Ed Drantch leaving News 4, and joining Jessica McLaughlin and Nick Filipowski at 7 ABC!
Oct. 27, 2014:
- Rochester, NY, 13.1 WHAM (RF13) with Ginny Ryan!
Patrice Walsh was reporting that evening! (And I fight the urge to call her "Patrice Royale"!)
- Rochester, NY, 8.2 Bounce [WROC] (RF45.2)...Halloween wasn't even over, yet holiday ads for Geva's production of A Christmas Carol were already sneaking in!
- Rochester, NY, 21.3 WXXI-C (RF16.3)...I grew up reading The Berenstain Bears, so I had nostalgia seeing their animated adventures!
- Hamburg, NY, 39.1 WDTB (RF29)...Western New York's Daystar affiliate was finally airing programming after a friendly nudge from "majortom" on the Digital Home Canada forums!
- Toronto, ON, 9.1 CFTO (RF9)...Olivia Chow is awesome and fought hard in the Toronto mayoral race, but lost to John Tory.
- Toronto, ON, 5.1 CBLT (RF20)... Anne-Marie Mediwake and Dwight Drummond handled CBC Toronto's coverage of the election!
- Rochester, NY, 31.1 WUHF (RF28)...Rachel Glaser was reporting for 13WHAM News on Fox Rochester at 10!
Glenn Johnson stormed in to provide the evening's forecast!
- Rochester, NY, 10.1 WHEC (RF10)...Lia Lando and Scott Kilbury teased their upcoming newscast. (But what did the newscast ever do to them?)
- Rochester, NY, 31.1 WUHF (RF28)...And then WHAM! Alexis Arnold and Mike Catalana were Fox-y and they knew it!
Stay tuned to TV Garth for more fabulous frequency freak-outs!
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