April 23rd, 2009
Memphis native Charles Vance will join the WTVO Channel 17 News at Six and Ten (Comcast 4) as co-anchor on Monday.
He will anchor with Nicole Kilmer. Vance replaces Steve Stadelman on the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts. Stadelman continues to anchor the 5 p.m. news with Kilmer and in January started anchoring the 5 a.m. WTVO Morning News.
Vance was an anchor and reporter in Champaign the past three years.
In other television news, WREX-13 (Comcast 3) on April 20 seated a new, but familiar, anchor on its morning newscast: Laura Gibbs, who had been a reporter at the station. WREX also expanded its morning news show to start at 5 a.m. instead of 5:30 a.m. Former anchor of 13 News Today, Marissa Alter, is reporting at WREX.
April 23rd, 2009
This cnn.com story tells why we’re fascinated with Susan Boyle, the matronly looking, beautifully voiced singer in “Britian’s Got Talent,” who has become an Internet sensation.
(Us Magazine)
Peter Bregman writes that Boyle is a “phenomenal role model for us because she is us, in all our awkward ordinariness and amazing extraordinariness.”
Tell about your Susan Boyle moment(s).
I’ll share two of mine: Two years ago, when I won a stock car race against other women media drivers at Rockford Speedway. It’s shocking because my kids have always told me I drive like an old lady. And I was so uneasy in the borrowed car I was driving, that I couldn’t even undo the (albeit, altered) seatbelt to get out to get my trophy.
And last fall, I was the People’s Choice at a Dancing with the Rockford Stars fundraiser for Family Counseling Services. I didn’t win favor with my dance moves, despite having taken 10 lessons at Arthur Murray. Rather, the people liked my beer-barrel-polka/hokey-pokey/chicken-dance routine because they connected with it.
