NBC executives and affiliate stations have been bombarded by "cut & paste" e-mails urging us to cancel "The Playboy Club". The cut & paste crowd got their wish, not because of the e-mail barrage but because the ratings stunk. However, somebody isn't paying attention because we're still getting the e-mails.

Have you had a chance to check out the Me-TV programming on WITN 7.2? We had the opportunity to load up our schedule with almost 100 hours per week of classic television. Plus we've added Live Doppler 7 to WITN 7.3.

Junk e-mail doesn’t bother me much but unsolicited phone calls do. I love political ads on television and radio but when they resort to “robocalls”, I’m not a happy camper.

Mako's in Pender County appears to be the closest place to Wilmington that will be showing WITN's coverage of the ECU/Memphis game.

We haven't cracked the top 100 yet but we couldn't be any closer. The Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville market also jumped in rank.

Why would the same chain sell gas in Washington for $2.66 per gallon yet set the price in their Greenville stores as high as $2.83 per gallon?

Oklahoma's favorite son, Will Rogers, was a Cherokee cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor. Here are some of his famous tax and government related quotes.

The quote you see above is from a comment posted on a recent WITN.COM story. I'll be the first to say that no one in NYC or DC is watching WITN News on Channel 7 but we are developing a good sized web audience in all 50 states and beyond.

Mike Voss of the Washington Daily News wrote a superb tribute to my friend and co-worker Ashley Stephenson that appeared in Wednesday's paper. If you knew Ashley, it should bring you a big smile (and maybe even get you to bellow a "ho, ho, ho")

Our final tally for January 2010 was 5,541,230 page views.

These made me laugh. Hopefully you'll smile too.

If you're looking for tips on how to use your antenna to pick up digital tv signals, I have a link to a great video from the LA Times. Click to check it out.

Some local TV stations have a taken an idea from the pages of the newspapers and the cable news networks. These stations are airing daily and/or weekly political editorial segments. I've included a link to an excellent story Mike Malone wrote for Broadcasting & Cable Magazine. Read Mike's story and let us know what you think.

My e-mail box is getting flooded with people asking some variation of the question.

Ron from Craven County sent us an e-mail sharing his thoughts about referring to our area as "Carolina". He doesn't like the use of "Coastal Carolina" or "Eastern Carolina" to describe our area. Read his note and share your thoughts with us.

Commenting is not just an outlet for you to post an opinion. Our comments also allow you to ask questions, to have inspired debates and engage in civilized arguments with other witn.com visitors.

Welcome to the new WITN.Com. What do you like? What don't you like? Is there something we should add to the site or take away? We're evolving and we are listening to your feedback. Post your comment and let us know.

It's back! Due to popular demand, here's the 2009 version of "One Hundred Things To Do In (and around) Eastern North Carolina.

We received an e-mail response to a recent poll stating “I do not believe pro-life and pro-choice are mutually exclusive.” What do you think?

General Manager Chris Mossman addresses viewer e-mail from early March. Topics include bugs crawling on your screen, Extreme Home Makeover and our Business Break Hosts.

It's tourney time and there will be teams from North Carolina in the dance however they'll all be from schools west of I-95.

There’s nothing like a little snow to boost traffic here at WITN.Com. January 2009 is our best month to date as we tallied over 3 million page views.

It's been the plan to shut down the analog signal on February 17th. Will pushing it back to June make a difference? Either way, there will be people who will scramble to get converter boxes the day after the signals are shut down.

This blog is not for everyone. I'm writing it specifically for media buyers and people who are interested in television advertising in Greenville NC and the Greenville-New Bern-Washington North Carolina DMA.

Let's get the digital transition done. I don't want any of us to have to endure another four months of digital transition promos. There's a link in this blog to a great flow chart which simply explains the digital transition. Enjoy!