Abc ending One life to live and All My Children

    TV  ABC  Soaps

       ABC annouced today they ending long running Soaps.  'All my Children' is ending this September and 'One life to end is ending in January 2012.   They will be replaced with 2 new shows called  with two new shows, 'The Chew' and 'The Revolution.'  After this in the world of soaps only 4 will remain. CBS's 'Young and the Restless' and 'Bold and the Beautiful' ABC's 'General Hospital' and NBC's 'Days of our lives'.  Disney annouced last year they will be closing Soap Net in 2012 this is another trend of the Soap Opera dying.  

Have The Evening newscasts has lost their purpose?

      Opinion By Skyler of mychiller
 The news that Katie Couric leaving the 'CBS Evening News' after her contract expires in June , makes us think about the future of the national network newscasts.   Those 6:30/5:30c newscasts that only live in those 2 timezones have been losing an audience for the past few years. They are mostly the name just different graphics ,reporters, anchors and studios.  Why watch the evening news , when  your local news and cable news can do at more convenient times and live.   Though the appeal of the evening news has also faced an audience shift  the people who started watching it a long time ago , still are. It's hard to catch a new audience with younger people and with more people not on the east and central time zone part of our nation who wants. FOX, CW, and other local affiliated and independent stations have started local newscasts at the same time as the network newscasts.

TV this week's headlines : Let's play who's leaving?

  by Skyler of mychiller 

     Let's see  CBS NEWS's Katie Couric is leaving the CBS Evening news she announced about 5 years to the day she announced she was going to the CBS Evening News. The 3rd place newscast didn't raise past it. She may go to daytime TV.  She as you may remember replaced Dan Rather.  We don't know yet who will replace her on the newscast.
    Meanwhile the person who replace Ms.Couric  on the 'Today Show' ,Meredith Vieira  may be leaving this year the speculation came around the same time NBC announced she's leaving ABC'S the View to join them.

     Matt Lauer also may leave the Today Show when his contract is up in 2012 as that speculation came out.  Meredith and Matt's stories are both speculation and not confirmed or denied.

Mark's Media Report Card Sunday March 27th 2011

By Mark C for Mychiller Media
MEDIA 

How did the media do this week in their coverage of stories? Here's  a look at  this.
 United States and other Countries "No Fly Zone" on Libya : How did the media cover this? Well to say awful is the last of their worries. It looks like we have a D- as our grade . They started of on last Saturday calling this everything but a war, unless your CNN ,then it was called Libya War. They weren't even skeptical of the whole thing until Monday. It took them until Tuesday to cover why the heck we are in there at all , we have no interests in Libya meaning no oil.  Shame on you media you're lucky you didn't get an F.

Opinion: Time to change public Brodcasting in the United States

 There has been talks to stop the government portion of funding to NPR and PBS.It's small portion they are worried about, though independents do fine with out the funding. They rely on people to give them money from the public. They have those annoying sponsorship drives. Now let's compare America's public broadcasting to Britain. The BBC to be exact.  The BBC is better than PBS and NPR. Why? because they give you options of choice. BBC TV has great programming on it's many channels , great entertainment options that our PBS doesn't have , many PBS stations air BBC classic. I would rather watch the BBC over PBS  they have a great news department that our PBS lacks.  How does the BBC get money?  They are paid from taxes.  BBC , much like the commercial British Broadcasters , allows you to watch their channels stream online  LIVE . One question many people answer about PBS is that they are boring.

TO CBS: don't replace Sheen end the show.

    Opinion :  written by Carrie  A. a mychiller Contributor

   Charlie sheen was fired by CBS and Time Warner from the show 'Two and Half  Men' and now talks about who will replace him. No don't replace him! End the show!, No why should they replace him on the show.  I understand about the other actors who did nothing wrong, but  why are people talking about doing something impossible. This show was bulit around Sheen and Cryer , who plays the brother, and Charile was the character for Sheen. Many fans of the show will probably not attach to a new actor. Maybe it's a sign to let the show end that it's run it's course a lot of shows do so, like 'Friends' did, and 'Will and grace'. Many shows run their course. The show is in syndication and will live there for a long time.     Nothing against anyone, I watched the show, but I think it's time for the show to end and the story to  go away.

Charlie Sheen Fired

  Warner Brothers which , produces the show "Two and Half men" for CBS has announced in a statement that Charlie Sheen was fired.
"After careful consideration, Warner Bros. Television has terminated Charlie Sheen’s services on "Two and a Half Men" effective immediately," the statement reads. 

CBS has not said if they are going to end the show. 

NBC'S golf coverage gets a new name

 TV WATCH  
       Robert M.  a mychiller contributor.

      Comcast owns the Golf Channel  , NBC has golf coverage too, Comcast owns NBC now. NBC's golf coverage has been renamed "GolfChannel on NBC" kind of like , when ESPN (owned by Disney) and ABC (owned by Disney) renamed ABCSports to ESPN on ABC in 2006. NBC Sports is not being renamed anything , at least at this time. So it's not CSN on NBC or Versus on NBC  ,but will tell you if they do. Meanwhile CNBC has been doing business updates on Golf channel during the mornings.