GARTV: Georgia Radio and Television
The online blog related to GARTV: Georgia Radio and Television News. at www.edricfloyd.com/gartvFriday, November 25, 2005
Will Jimmy Kimmel ever come to Atlanta?
"Jimmy Kimmel: Live!", seen latenights on ABC has been a hit around the country since its debut in 2002. But some ABC affiliates around the country choose not to carry the program. This included Atlanta's ABC Affiliate WSB-TV Channel 2 and its sister station in Orlando, WFTV Channel 9, both owned by Cox Communications of Atlanta.
Also of note, none of the ABC Affiliates owned by Albritton Communications of Washington DC have aired the Jimmy Kimmel program, leaving places like Birmingham AL.,Roanoke VA. and Washington D.C. among many areas who did not have the option to watch ABC's entry into the latenight entertainment arena along with David Letterman, Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien.
Like many ABC stations, WSB elected to continue with syndicated programing or repeats of news or syndicated programing aired earlier in the day on the same station. Recently, WFTV in Orlando began airing Jimmy Kimmel in its national live timeslot after Nightline and is offering video highlights of previous years of Jimmy Kimmel's show.
Orlando viewers were highly critical of WFTV for not airing the program making Central Florida the only area in the state where the show was not available. They intitally called and complained and after 3 years, WFTV decided to offer the program. In Georgia, the Atlanta market served by WSB as well as cable viewers around Georgia that don't have a local ABC station but get WSB on their cable system are not able to watch Jimmy Kimmel unless they recieve other ABC stations from neighboring areas. WSB is the only ABC station in Georgia not carrying the show. ABC stations in Augusta, Columbus, Savannah and Macon have carried the show from the beginning as does the ABC stations in Chattanooga Tennessee, Jacksonville and Tallahassee Florida, and Dothan Alabama all available to Georgians who live just across the state line from those cities.
Since WFTV in Orlando and WSB in Atlanta are owned by the same company and are both ABC affiliates then hopfully WSB will finally offer their viewers a better option than a repeat of Entertainment Tonight (which airs at 7:30 earlier in the evening) and the 11:00 "Action News" from less than 90 minutes earlier.
Also of note, none of the ABC Affiliates owned by Albritton Communications of Washington DC have aired the Jimmy Kimmel program, leaving places like Birmingham AL.,Roanoke VA. and Washington D.C. among many areas who did not have the option to watch ABC's entry into the latenight entertainment arena along with David Letterman, Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien.
Like many ABC stations, WSB elected to continue with syndicated programing or repeats of news or syndicated programing aired earlier in the day on the same station. Recently, WFTV in Orlando began airing Jimmy Kimmel in its national live timeslot after Nightline and is offering video highlights of previous years of Jimmy Kimmel's show.
Orlando viewers were highly critical of WFTV for not airing the program making Central Florida the only area in the state where the show was not available. They intitally called and complained and after 3 years, WFTV decided to offer the program. In Georgia, the Atlanta market served by WSB as well as cable viewers around Georgia that don't have a local ABC station but get WSB on their cable system are not able to watch Jimmy Kimmel unless they recieve other ABC stations from neighboring areas. WSB is the only ABC station in Georgia not carrying the show. ABC stations in Augusta, Columbus, Savannah and Macon have carried the show from the beginning as does the ABC stations in Chattanooga Tennessee, Jacksonville and Tallahassee Florida, and Dothan Alabama all available to Georgians who live just across the state line from those cities.
Since WFTV in Orlando and WSB in Atlanta are owned by the same company and are both ABC affiliates then hopfully WSB will finally offer their viewers a better option than a repeat of Entertainment Tonight (which airs at 7:30 earlier in the evening) and the 11:00 "Action News" from less than 90 minutes earlier.
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