Bricks & Clicks
The Rockford Register Star is more than a newspaper: the ink on print or the “bricks” in the News Tower. We’re a multimedia news and information company: the “clicks” on our Web site and the TV clips on WREX-13. This blog explains our fast-changing media environment and interacts with our readers to show how and why we do what we do.

You read stories about local celebrities

May 1st, 2008 at 02:34pm Anna Voelker

We track what people are looking at on our Web sites each day. It’s pretty easy, usually, to know what stories will drive traffic. Crime and accidents usually take top billing. And local TV personalities. Take the story today on former TV anchor Mimi Murphy. Murphy, who anchored WIFR-23 news for several years, filed a lawsuit against the station’s parent company. Hands down, the Murphy story is the No. 1 story on rrstar.com today. Next closest is this one, more than 1,000 page views behind.

Two recent stories on former local TV people were top traffic generators, too. We had this story on Heather Pick, former WREX-13 anchor. Pick is now in Columbus, Ohio. And this one on Randy Salerno, who died in a snowmobile accident. Salerno got his start at WIFR  and eventually ended up in Chicago. 

Mimi Murphy
RRSTAR.COM FILE PHOTO
Mimi Murphy at the WIFR-23 studio in this 1998 photo.

Entry Filed under: Heather Pick, Randy Salerno, WIFR-23, Mimi Murphy, Local celebrities, WREX-13, Traffic, Driving traffic

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