Miracles Do Happen After All!

[Mark_Giardina]

It only took the Democrat and Chronicle newspaper several weeks to finally print the story about Rachel Barnhart being let go at Channel 8 and her subsequent lawsuit against the television station over the issue of a no-compete clause in her contract.

The only reason I believe that the paper picked up on the story is because Barnhart’s lawyer appeared on a local radio talk show last Friday to discuss the lawsuit. Even then it was four days after that radio program that the D&C published an article. It should also be noted that Scott Fybush was the first to report on Barnhart's dismissal on his web site www.fybush.com a few weeks ago.

The reporting staff at the D&C is quite aware of the happenings going on in the electronic media in Rochester; it’s just that apparently it is the paper’s policy to ignore such stories, unlike newspapers in other cities where they actually have someone assigned to cover local TV and radio.

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"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted and I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them".</P>

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Scott Fybush should make a deal with the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle to have them publish his Northeast Radio Watch.

Then, they'll always have the big stories concerning local broadcasting, and in a timely manner.

 

[Mark_Giardina]

> Scott Fybush should make a deal with the Rochester Democrat
> and Chronicle to have them publish his Northeast Radio
> Watch.
>
> Then, they'll always have the big stories concerning local
> broadcasting, and in a timely manner.
>
That's an excellent suggestion except Scott has offered the paper his professional services in the past, but the newspaper has never accepted Scott's offer.
So if I want to know anything about the electronic media, I read Scott's web site first.

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"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted and I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them".</P>

 

[rochesternynews]

> Scott Fybush should make a deal with the Rochester Democrat
> and Chronicle to have them publish his Northeast Radio
> Watch.

So you're saying Rochester, NY News isn't good enough? Just kidding. Scott does an excellent job keeping things up to date on NERW. In fact I use his site on occasion for information that I put on RNYN. Just keep in mind that I do still exist and even though my website may not be as professional, and I certainly could never top the amount of experience Scott has, you can still find some neat stuff on there. <P ID="signature">______________
Jack Allen
Rochester, NY News - www.rnyn.com</P>

 

[NewsSleuth]

Fybush = the Man

Never heard of the pre-NERW.com Scott Fybush, but man does he know everything. Who is this guy and where did he come from?

 

[Bob1370]

Re: Fybush = the Man

> Never heard of the pre-NERW.com Scott Fybush, but man does
> he know everything. Who is this guy and where did he come
> from?

Scott's a Rochester area native, and only in his early 30s, but he's already a broadcast news veteran, with experience first as a news anchor in medium New England markets, then as an editor at Boston's WBZ...and finally as one of the senior journalists on the founding team at Time Warner Cable's RNews in Rochester, before going freelance and making online journalism about broadcasting a business. He's also an author who publishes regularly in the broadcast trade papers, and has a forthcoming book about the history of the FM side of broadcasting in the nation's #1 market, New York City.

He's a top shelf reporter who knows his subject inside and out.