![]() ![]() Others include "Portlandia," "Louie," "Parks and Recreation," "Sherlock," "Damages" and "Downton Abbey." "Breaking Bad" is among 39 Emmy-nominated shows streaming on Netflix. Shawano native Mark Samels was nominated as executive producer of the documentary "The Amish" on "American Experience." Richard Dahm, a Waukesha native and former writer for The Onion, was one of multiple writing nominees for "The Colbert Report."Īnd something called "Dancing With the Stars" was nominated for best reality-competition program for the past season, won by Green Bay Packer Donald Driver. Most prominent among the Wisconsin connections was University of Wisconsin-Madison alum Steve Levitan, whose show "Modern Family" received 14 nominations, including one for Levitan for best director. In the nominations, which were announced Thursday, "Community" - created by Milwaukee native Dan Harmon, who has since left the show - received just one writing nomination. But there were slim pickings for anyone looking for Emmy nominees with Wisconsin ties. We have received very sincere and touching emails from many of our loyal viewers who tell us how they miss our news. When asked if she thought WISN-TV could suffer long-term damage because of the blackout, Wade replied, "I really don't. since dinosaurs walked the Earth, and any momentum WISN-TV had achieved could have been affected as Time Warner customers sampled other stations. WISN-TV and WTMJ-TV have been in a pitched battle at 10 p.m. What any of this means in the long term is anybody's guess. And if I had the ratings figures discounting Time Warner ratings for other stations for the same period, I would include them here as well for comparison. Since WISN-TV was blacked out on TWC, the station's ratings for the past week measure viewers watching it over the air and on U-Verse, DirecTV, Dish Network and Charter Communications cable. WDJT-TV (Channel 58) dropped 1.5 points since May but ranked third for the week, ahead of WISN-TV. WTMJ-TV, too, had its spikes this week, climbing to a 9.6 rating on Wednesday. WTMJ-TV was up less than a point since May, suggesting there is truth to the rumor that viewers of one station do not watch the other. The improvement was negligible at first, but jumped to a 9.7 on Wednesday, beating WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) by a hair. news ratings improvement was experienced by WITI-TV (Channel 6), which saw its audience grow 1.5 ratings points since May. Where did WISN-TV's viewers go? Here, there and everywhere. The numbers cited here are for Friday and Sunday through Wednesday. That is down more than 5 ratings points since the station won the May sweeps ratings period, with help from Donald Driver, with an 8.5 household rating.Ī single ratings point represents 9,100 viewers. Since last Friday, the first night of the blackout, the station's 10 p.m. newscast about 50,000 viewers and more nightly. The resolution couldn't come soon enough for WISN-TV, where the blackout was costing the 10 p.m. ![]() In a statement, Wade thanked the station's "loyal and unwavering viewers for their wonderful support and patience." ![]() Jan Wade, WISN-TV president and general manager, hailed the "successful resolution" of the dispute. No dollar figure was announced in the agreement. Doing so would affect broadcasters' leverage during such disputes. And he accused TWC of staging the stalemate to force Congress to change the laws regarding retransmission of broadcast signals.īarrett said pay-TV services want the right to continue to retransmit stations' signals during such negotiations. On Wednesday, Barrett put the blame squarely on Time Warner, saying the cable company had not responded to an offer from Hearst that was less than 5% higher than the last offer made by the cable company. The cable company thanked its customers "for their patience and their willingness to stick with us through another unnecessary broadcaster blackout." In a statement, Hearst Television President and CEO David Barrett said: "This process has been an important step to insure the ongoing vitality of our local TV service in communities across the country."Ī Time Warner statement, meanwhile, seemed to suggest Hearst was responsible for the blackout. "See you at 10," WISN-TV news anchor Craig McKee said on Twitter after the news was announced. WISN-TV, which was taken off Time Warner at midnight on July 12, was back on the air for cable subscribers during the 9 p.m. The dispute was over fees paid to stations allowing the cable service to retransmit the broadcaster's signal. and Time Warner Cable announced Thursday night that they reached an agreement in the dispute that had kept WISN-TV (Channel 12) off the cable service here for the past week. ![]()
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