Cool storm video sent in by viewers

  by Christian Grantham - January 10th, 2008 - 4:32 pm| Uncategorized | no comments

As the storms swept through Nashville, many of you submitted photos and videos from your cell phones to WKRN (pix at wkrn.com). You can see many more at NashFlix.com, but here are some of the videos:

This is from Chris Etheridge in Wilson County showing water rushing across his driveway on Hamilton Road.

This video shows a creek bed the sender said was dry 24 hours ago in Leiper’s Fork.

Top 10 stories in Tennessee for 2007

  by Christian Grantham - December 28th, 2007 - 6:39 am| Uncategorized | no comments

The Associated Press poured over the stories, and here’s their list of the top 10 stories in Tennessee for 2007. Do you think they got it right?

1. A drought grips Tennessee while a heat wave kills more than a dozen people in the state.
2. Mary Winkler being convicted of voluntary manslaughter for killing her preacher husband.
3. John Ford being found guilty in the Tennessee Waltz corruption case.
4. Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize, an Emmy and an Oscar.
5. Workplace smoking ban and tripling the cigarette tax.
6. Fred Thompson declaring his candidacy for President.
7. The fall of Titans cornerback Adam Pacman Jones.
8. Ron Ramsey becoming the first republican since the Civil War to serve as speaker of the state Senate.
9. The brutal murder of a young Knoxville couple Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.
10. The future of the death penalty is on holdwhile the U.S. Supreme Court decides on the constitutionality of lethal injections.

Programming Changes at WKRN

  by Christian Grantham - October 3rd, 2007 - 5:04 pm| Programming, Uncategorized, WKRN | 5 comments

Every now and then I pop in to see how Rose Mary is doing at the front desk. I’m glad I did today. She tells me she’s getting a lot of calls about ABC’s Cavemen. On Tuesday nights at 7, WKRN airs Titans on 2 with Jeff Fisher. On Saturday nights at 7 we air football. Those games can go over and affect the following schedule, but here is how the other shows are arranged:

Cavemen - Saturday 11:05 p.m.
Car Poolers - Saturday 11:35 p.m.
Sex In The City - Sunday 12:05 a.m. and 12:35 a.m.
Cold Squad - Sunday 1:05 a.m.
Ebert & Roepert - Sunday 2:05 a.m.
Degrassi: Next Generation - Sunday 2:35 a.m.

You can also watch Cavemen, Car Poolers and a few other popular ABC shows any time you like right here on this website by clicking the ABC SHOWS button in the right hand column.

Volcano Discovered?

  by Christian Grantham - September 18th, 2007 - 2:48 pm| Uncategorized | no comments

This has to be one of the most interesting calls I’ve gotten here in the news room. Jack Dryden from Chapel Hill says he was doing online research on Darfur and was looking at the terrain in the surrounding area via Google Earth when he noticed something, well, strange. There in Kenya, below the A1 was something that looked like lava. Dryden believes he has discovered a volcano that no one knows about from his home in Chapel Hill! Dryden says he has spoken with geologists who say there is no volcano at that location. Could this be?

Welcome to WKRN News Extra!

  by Christian Grantham - September 18th, 2007 - 7:59 am| Uncategorized | 5 comments

Thanks for stopping in. It will take a little time to get the new blog rolling, but we hope to provide viewers an inside look into the WKRN news room experience. You can expect breaking news coverage here as well as insight into the stories we cover from anchors, producers, managers, the news desk. Reporters will also post about the stories they cover and provide more information than they could fit into their 2 minute stories.

We also hope to hear from you. Your news tips and feedback will help us see the stories through your eyes and help us report the stories that are important to you. We also hope to share information that won’t always make it into our newscast, but that you might still find important. You may even find the story behind the story that we might not have seen.

I’ll add more features to the site today and over time. If you have a particular feature you’d like to see here, let me know in comments.