From the General Manager of CBS 10 WILM

Check it out... we have a new hurricane tracker. If you look on the left side of our web page in the nav bar you’ll see a link to our hurricane tracker.  Right now Hurricane Earl is churning off our coast.  This map shows you the current forecast track.  You can add clouds, radar and computer forecast models to the map as well as moving and zooming features.

The coolest feature, in my opinion, is the distance measure.  If you move your mouse over a city it will show you how far that city is from the hurricane.

Let’s all hope and pray that we don’t see any hurricanes around here, but this is an excellent tool to help you keep track of the latest information about the tropics.
 

Because of the strong response to our recent interviews about Titan Cement, we've decided to air both sides of the story again in one day.  This Sunday at 8:30AM, a coastal advocate and an environmental scientist from Stop Titan make their case.   At 11AM, Bob Odem, General Manager of the Titan project defends his company’s plans. The Two Tales of Titan, this weekend on Byline: Wilmington. 

Looking ahead to the 4th of July weekend… CBS 10 WILM will be airing the movie “Die Another Day” on Saturday from 9 – 11:30PM. If you are recording the movie, I suggest you add a few minutes to the end of the recording as CBS tells us it might run a little long.

On Sunday our annual Boston Pops Fireworks special will air at 10PM. This is always a spectacular event.

I hope you and your family have a happy and safe 4th of July weekend!
 

Here is some exciting news about the NEW BIG BROTHER season...  very cool!

WHO IS THE "BIG BROTHER" SABOTEUR?

In a Series First, One Contestant Will Enter the BIG BROTHER House With One Goal:
To Secretly Wreak Havoc on Their Fellow Contestants

Fans will Provide Unprecedented Influence over the Game as the "Saboteur" Receives Their Suggested
Tasks Directly from the Audience

The producers of BIG BROTHER are implementing a major twist for this season’s batch of Houseguests that will top all past seasons. One Houseguest, known as the Big Brother Saboteur, will enter the house to play their own game, unbeknownst to their fellow competitors. The Saboteur's mission will be to carry out viewer suggestions on how best to disrupt the lives of fellow players.

Upon moving into the house on premiere night, Houseguests will discover that one of them...

After the loss of the NCIS Finale on Charter Cable last night, I’ve got more information for you about where to see it. I’ve talked to CBS and unfortunately it is not possible for us to re-air it over-the-air on WILM-TV but we did find the “Rule Fifty-One” episode on CBS.com.

As of this writing it has not been posted on the “CBS All Your Characters…” video player that is linked to our home page but it is on CBS.com so you can go there right now to see the entire NCIS Finale.

Enjoy the show.

Unfortunately for Charter customers in the southern end of New Hanover County NCIS lost about 30 minutes of the its finale. We had several calls about it during the show and our master control operator was working hard to get to Charter engineers to correct the problem. Their engineers were working on it but it took most of the show to get it back on the cable system.

While this is an unfortunate loss of the shows live airing, the good news is that you can catch up on this show by going to http://www.wilm-tv.com/video_player/ or click on the "CBS All Your Favorite Charactor's..." banner just above this blog on the home page... from there look at the list on the right side and select NCIS.  You’re looking for episode “Rule Fifty-One”.  They had not posted the new episode as of this writing but I’m hoping it will be up there today.

Also...

For Time Warner customers CBS 10 WILM will be moving to new channel positions beginning next week.

CBS 10 WILM in Standard Definition will move to channel 110 (on the Time Warner system). However Time Warner customers with the basic tier will still be able to find WILM on channel 12.

CBS 10 WILM in HD will move to channel 1110 (on the Time Warner system).

These changes go into effect in Southport on Monday 4/12/10 and in the rest of the Time Warner territories on Wednesday 4/14/10.

Below is a link to the entire Time Warner Cable new channel line up (although you’ll need a magnifying glass to read it). This is a printable document.

http://www.timewarnercable.com/MediaLibrary/4/144/Content%20Management/Documents/CDL/Wilmington_Southport_Brunswick%20Co.pdf.

Over-the-air, Charter, ATMC, DirecTV and Dish viewers will not be affected by this change. Free over-the-air viewers can continue to watch WILM-TV...

CBS has just confirmed that the teams for the Division II Men's Championship Game will be Cal Poly Pomona vs. Indiana University of Pennsylvania at 1:00 PM  Saturday March 27th, 2010.

Here are the March Madness Elite 8 games for the Saturday 3/27/10

4:30PM Butler (5) vs. Kansas St. (2)

7:05PM West VA (2) vs. Kentucky (1)

Well I have to say it has been a fabulous first decade. Today CBS 10 WILM turns ten years old.  It was March 23rd 2000 when we flipped the switch from being a UPN affiliate, formerly known as WSSN, to being a CBS and UPN dual affiliate changing the brand and call letters to WILM.  We had moved the UPN primetime to the 6 PM hour and called it Primetime at Dinnertime.

I remember our first day perfectly.  We were still building the station when we went on the air.   Most of us were still working on folding tables as our furniture had not yet arrived in our new facility.

On that day was the first time I met Ricky Meeks, who has become an icon in the Wilmington area.  I was working in my office when I heard a knocking on the window inside our lobby. When I walked out to the lobby I saw a towering man with a sheet of paper held up to the glass facing master control and he was knocking on the glass with the other hand trying to get the attention of...

This just in....

Our Sweet 16 game assignments only on CBS 10 WILM

Thursday 3/25 Game 7:07 PM - Butler vs Syracuse
Thursday 3/25 Game 9:57 PM - Cornell vs Kentucky

Friday Game 3/26 7:07 PM - Tennessee vs Ohio State
Friday Game 3/26 9:57 PM - Purdue vs Duke

Don't forget to play the March Mayhem brackets contest.  Just click on the banner at the top home page.

Go Duke!
 

1:05 pm St. Mary’s(Cal.) vs. Villanova

3:35pm Ohio vs. Tenn

5:40pm N. Iowa vs. Kansas

8:15pm WAKE FOREST (9) vs. Kentucky (1)

For basketball fans the March Madness tournament is great but for Survivor fans you have to go without this week. However please note that Survivor will air on Wednesday (3/24) as the March Madness tournament continues Thursday – Sunday next week as well.

Here are our March Madness Game assignments for THURDAY 3/18/10!!!
12:20pm - Florida (1) vs. BYU (7)
2:20pm – St. Mary’s (Cal.) (10) vs. Richmond (7)
7:15pm – East Tenn. St. (16) vs. Kentucky (1)
9:35pm – Wake Forest (9) vs. Texas (8) *CONSTANT

For FRIDAY 3/19/2010
12:15p Morgan St. (15) vs. WVa. (2)
2:35p Mizz (10) vs. Clemson (7)
7:25 AR Pine Bluff (16) vs. Duke (1) *CONSTANT
9:40p Houston (13) vs. Maryland (4)

*”Constant” means that CBS will air the game in its entirety instead of breaking away to another more interesting game.
 

Our March Mayhem online contest is the biggest contest of the year and it just started again!  Here you can participate in two contests for some great local and national prizes.  In the Upfront Contest you can take a guess at the winning team of every game for the entire tournament and the other Round by Round Contest you can jump in and play round by round anytime throughout the tournament.

To play, click on the banner at the top of the WILM home page.  It’s that easy.