WCET's Music Hall Program to go head-to-head with American Idol finale!
The Cincinnati Enquirer's John Kiesewetter reports in his Sunday, May 1, 2005 column that the Program on Music Hall expanded to 90 minutes:
"Too much good stuff has convinced WCET-TV (Channel 48) programmers to expand its Music Hall documentary from 60 to 90 minutes.
"Music Hall: Cincinnati Finds Its Voice debuts 8 p.m. May 25, the last day of sweeps. The tough TV choices include Fox crowning the next American Idol, ABC's Lost finale and CBS' Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution with Janel Molony (The West Wing) as Scott Peterson's former girlfriend.
"Channel 48 plans several repeats of Music Hall. It also may offer the program to PBS as a 30- or 60-minutes analog show or a HDTV version."
I'm glad. PBS and its affiliates are no match for the Big 3 Networks, especially when they are spewing out the biggest and baddest budget sweeps spectaculars they can. Tossing WCET's labor of love into the Roman Colesseum of which the battle for ratings supremacy has become is tantamount to throwing the whole program away. Music Hall, its fabled history, and WCET producer Joanne Grueter deserve much more respect!
"Too much good stuff has convinced WCET-TV (Channel 48) programmers to expand its Music Hall documentary from 60 to 90 minutes.
"Music Hall: Cincinnati Finds Its Voice debuts 8 p.m. May 25, the last day of sweeps. The tough TV choices include Fox crowning the next American Idol, ABC's Lost finale and CBS' Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution with Janel Molony (The West Wing) as Scott Peterson's former girlfriend.
"Channel 48 plans several repeats of Music Hall. It also may offer the program to PBS as a 30- or 60-minutes analog show or a HDTV version."
I'm glad. PBS and its affiliates are no match for the Big 3 Networks, especially when they are spewing out the biggest and baddest budget sweeps spectaculars they can. Tossing WCET's labor of love into the Roman Colesseum of which the battle for ratings supremacy has become is tantamount to throwing the whole program away. Music Hall, its fabled history, and WCET producer Joanne Grueter deserve much more respect!
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