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March 20
KMJ (AM 580) program director Skip Essick is facing an entirely different situation with his new agriculture reporter, Don York, than he faced with previous ag guy, Sean Michael Lisle.
March 18
I just finished chatting with Leslie Mann ("Funny People") about the upcoming release of her movie, "This is 40," on DVD.
March 13
Starting today (March 14), the broadcast power of Visalia's KJUG (FM 106.7) increases tenfold, producing a signal that will cover Fresno, Hanford, Lemoore and Wasco. A new 75-foot-tall tower in Yokohl Valley will broadcast at 27,100 watts, enough to more than double the current broadcast range of the country music radio station. The construction, which started in November, cost approximately $500,000.
Momentum Broadcasting, a group of local investors that includes Donald Groppetti, president of the Visalia-based Groppetti Auto Group, purchased KJUG (AM 1270 and FM 106.7) and KCRZ (FM 104.9) from Westcoast Broadcasting Inc. for $1.8 million in 2011. The signal increase doesn't affect the other two radio stations. Read more →March 06
Early ratings numbers from Arbitron, a leading monitor of radio listening trends, show the loss of nationally syndicated talk shows hosted by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and others by KMJ (AM 580) has hurt ratings for the local talk/news radio station.
Preliminary numbers for the winter ratings reveal that in January, KMJ, a station that has long dominated this market when it comes to listener totals, dropped to seventh place with a 5.0 rating. Read more →February 20
Sean Tanney got picked.
February 13
Longtime KFTV (Channel 21.1) reporter Reina Cardenas recently moved into the anchor chair for the local Spanish-language television station's 6 and 11 p.m. news. She says she thinks about her father, Agustin, whenever she does a news story.
"I remember when I was a kid, he always wanted to watch the news and we wanted to watch cartoons on the only TV in the house. We would compromise and he would watch the national and local news and then we would get the TV," Cardenas says. "I would sit with him while he watched the news. I think that's where I got the idea about a career in news." Read more →February 06
KJZN (FM 105.5) has switched from a conservative talk radio format to a sports talk lineup featuring programming from the CBS Sports Radio Network.
January 27
Coming up with the first question to ask Johnny Knoxville is always easy.
After watching him be beaten, electrocuted, gored, smashed and have his manhood hit with almost anything heavy imaginable, the big concern is how Knoxville is feeling. He's not as big a "Jackass" these days, but one has to wonder how much of the aftermath of all the physical abuse he took over the years in the name of the TV show and movies remains. Read more →January 23
The Christian talk radio format launched in October 2011 at KGED (AM 1680) has been replaced by a conservative talk radio lineup that includes syndicated programs hosted by Laura Ingraham and Hugh Hewett.
"We are very excited about KGED's new lineup. There have been a lot of changes in Fresno's radio market. Folks in the Valley are looking for quality content. We have six of the top 10 talk radio personalities on 1680 in terms of ratings. KGED will be the voice for traditional values in these challenging times," says KGED co-owner Jim Patterson. Read more →March 03
The seventh season of the locally produced “0 to 5 in 30 Minutes!” — starting at 7:30 p.m. tonight on KVPT (Channel 18.1) — will feature a slight change.
Over the first six seasons, each episode has looked at multiple topics. The difference this season is that four of the 24 episodes will be devoted to a single topic discussed by an on-camera panel of experts. Read more →January 27
Former KMPH (Channel 26.1) anchor John Malos will host “Straight Talk with John Malos,” a talk/news show Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 to 4 p.m. on centralvalleytalk.com. The Web site was created by Mike Briggs, a former member of the Fresno City Council and the state Assembly, and features several locally produced talk shows.
Programming on the Internet based radio-video network is simulcast on KSDI (Channel 33.1). Malos will discuss a range of topics from politics to entertainment. His plan is for viewers to call in their questions. Read more →December 23
With the end of 2009 rapidly approaching, it’s time to look back at some of the biggest local television and radio moments of the past 12 months.
* Change is good: Local television stations switched from analog to digital signals, which led to better pictures and opened the door for local stations to add multiple channels. Read more →November 04
KVPT (Channel 18.1) adds the new channel Create TV (Channel 18.2) to its digital lineup at 6 a.m. Sunday. You may already have seen the channel during test runs before the official launch.
Create TV is the second new service offered by the local public television station. It launched the Spanish-language V-me (Channel 18.3) in February 2007. The new channel can be seen via an antenna or on Comcast Cable channel 194. Read more →October 21
Halloween comes early on KAIL (Channel 7.1) with two locally produced spooky specials airing this weekend. “Eye on Horror,” at 8 p.m. Sunday, explores several central San Joaquin Valley haunts and offers a sneak peek at the locally produced horror film, “Stricken.” Sharon Kille Jenkins hosts.
It’ll be followed at 9 p.m. by “Hauntings in Central California: The Sierra Sky Ranch” where the Central California Paranormal Investigators look for proof that Sierra Sky Ranch is haunted. Read more →
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