Jamey Tucker’s BlogSquat

I see that American Idol is slipping in the ratings. Still the numero uno show on tv, it slipped 10% from the week before.

My family’s been a fan of the show since season two but I gotta tell you…it’s getting painfully hard to watch.

We were out Tuesday night so we dvr’d it. Tonight, instead of watching the girl’s compete, we watched the boy’s night. Here’s a tip, from me to you:

Don’t watch American Idol unless you TiVo or DVR it!!!!!

Just skipping the commercials, we watched Tuesday’s 2-hour show in 1:12. No kidding. I hit the FFWD button only when they were going to commercial and hit play again as soon as the last spot ended. 48 minutes of commercials in a two-hour program. Some of the commercial breaks were nearly 5 minutes long!

So from now on, we’ll watch Tuesday’s episode on Wednesdays, Wednesday’s episode on Thursdays and Thursday’s elimination show on Friday. That is…if we don’t bore ourselves silly before it’s all over.

Collette Connell made a fool of herself recently. All jacked up on some adult beverage, Connell made it to the Tuscaloosa airport for the arrival of new bama coach Nick Saban.

Oh…this is good.

You may have to make the photo bigger, but guess which kid is the trouble-maker.

Here’s where we’re headed. Not WKRN but the business of local television.

KFTY Goes to Citizen Journalism

It’s Carrie Underwood. I’ve been watching the Grammy’s for the past 20-30 minutes and it’s all Carrie.

I’m telling you, she is poised to become one of the biggest stars in the history of music. She sang a Bob Wills tune and two Eagles songs tonight and I’d probably buy a ticket to hear her sing The Best of The Bay City Rollers.

I cannot remember another female singer in any genre of music making this type of splash and if you saw her during the ACM’s last spring when she began to cry on stage, simply overwhelmed by what has been happening, you know she’s still a down-to-earth, rather normal girl.

A few weeks ago she baked Gerry House a pie or cake and dropped it off at the WSIX studios. She then said she had to go to Wal-Mart the night before to buy a blender, a mixer, bowls and spoons because she had just moved into her house.

Carrie may become the biggest female star in music history. Seriously, name someone who Carrie couldn’t catch…

There was a buzz in the newsroom Thursday. Anna Nicole Smith.

First there were reports she had fallen and then…died. Every eye found a monitor with FOX or MSNBC reporting what details they had at the moment. Was this just a slow news day or was this woman really that important?

Now I read someone, or some media company paid $500,000 for the last minutes of videotape of ANS. The video shows paramedics administering CPR on Smith, though you can’t really make out who was on the stretcher. A half-million dollars for that video? You gotta be kidding.

Here’s the video, tell me do you think it was worth the $$?

One of the more interesting parts of this story actually happened much earlier in the day when Rosie blasted Smith on “The View”, basically saying she’s sick of hearing about Anna Nicole and wished she would go away. (well, she didn’t actually say that, but that was the drift). Here’s the Rosie clip.

One of these days this blog will probably go away. Not because my employer will tell me to pull the plug or for fear I’ll post something that’ll get me in trouble. No, this blog will probably go away some day just because I’m either bored, or feel I can’t find something interesting to say.

Or maybe it’ll disappear because I’m writing too much in other places.

As some of you know, I have another blog www.faithandethics.com for WKRN. In addition to those posts, I also produce a newsletter each week that goes out to about 350 pastors, ministers and other leaders in the faith community. Each Monday morning, the station allows me to spend a few hours writing 3-5 stories, finding artwork to go with the articles and then sending it out to subscribers. I’d already been doing a newsletter for my ministry, the ACTS Network so this is nothing entirely new to me, but it is taxing, both in time and creativity.

What’s been cool is the reaction from the people getting the newsletter. Every week I get about a dozen e-mails from someone on the list who tells me they’ve used something in the newsletter in their worship service. A couple of weeks ago my pastor quoted me from the newsletter and told the congregation about my website. Last week, I got an e-mail from a pastor in Green Bay, Wisconsin who tells me their district superintendent told all of the pastors in the district about my website and they’ve been visiting it on a regular basis.

Last night, my site meter showed as many hits from other parts of the country than in Nashville.

So between the writing of the news stories, the newsletter and the blog, this website has taken a backseat. I don’t expect anyone will be saddened by this blogsquat’s extinction, I do appreciate the fact some of you are still checking in here.

Thanks.