To the annoyance of thousands of Suddenlink customers, access to two local stations – KIEM (Channel 3) and KVIQ (Channel 6) — disappeared Jan. 8 and Third District Supervisor Mike Wilson brought the matter to the attention of the Board of Supervisors at its meeting Tuesday, though the board has no real power over the situation. […]
Television
Posted inArts + Scene
American Pickers Wants to See Your Junk
How’s that KonMari purge going? While you’re folding your clothes into little squares, you may be wondering what to do with the road signs, vintage car parts and random advertising ephemera you’ve got stacked to the rafters in your garage. If you’ve got the right kind of stash, Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz from the […]
Posted inNews
Trusted Weatherman Jim Bernard has Died
Jim Bernard, the popular, longtime Channel 3 meteorologist who was also an air traffic controller at the Arcata-Eureka airport has died, the television station announced. He was 64. Trusted for his accurate forecasts and known for referring to viewers as “weather fans,” Bernard stepped down from the job in 2012 after a neurological disease began […]
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New Kid’s Channel Coming to KEET
Kids, adjust your rabbit ears. Local PBS affiliate KEET is planning to launch a new, 24-hour children’s programming channel this year. The channel will feature PBS Kids shows, according to a press release, offering educational and entertaining programming outside of the classic kids-times — Saturday mornings and before and after school hours. KEET General Manager […]
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Anchors Aweigh!
The North Coast has a new TV news program. Back in spring the Journal caught wind that KRCR out of Redding was launching a news program to rival our local NBC affiliates at KIEM. The news program, which debuted yesterday at 6 p.m., apparently (although they have web content dating back to Sunday), will air […]
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[UPDATED: With More Zaniness] A Brief, Incomplete History of Local TV Ads
In case you haven’t seen it yet, this week’s cover is all about local TV ads. But, since we don’t have magical moving newspapers a la Harry Potter, readers are left with still images of some of our most (in)famous commercial productions. Except for here, online, where you can behold the glory of decades of […]
Posted inLife + Outdoors
A Home in a Redwood
Maybe you’re feeling low, a little too close to the ground. You want a place of retreat to elevate, inspire and get you floating again. For Humboldt County resident Crystal Miller, a longtime lover of great trees, that meant a treehouse in a redwood in her backyard. Miller and her fiancé Arif Malik bought their […]
Posted inEat + Drink
Fieri in the Belly
Even over the phone, you can hear the hair. Guy Fieri is talking about his old job as table-side flambé captain at the Red Lion hotel in Eureka with the same fist-bumping joy he has over a drippy burger on his Food Network show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. “It was the best job. Food is […]