January 2009 - Page 5 of 5

KGOW-1560 scores ratings victory

January 6, 2009 Kevin Whited

KGOW-1560 (The Game), which only recently began encoding its signal to register with Arbitron, scored a nice victory in the latest ratings book. The Chronicle‘s David Barron posts the details: John Granato and Lance Zierlein,

Murders decline in 2008

January 5, 2009 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Jeff McShan reports that murders as reported by HPD declined in 2008: In 2006, there were 376 homicides within the city limits. In 2007, the number dropped to 347, and in 2008, it dropped

Rebuild UTMB

January 4, 2009 Kevin Whited

Way back in November, we noted the problems caused by Ike to UTMB, and pointed out that it would be nice if various pols could get behind rebuilding the important resource. While people were busy

Taking apart Mayor White's spinning of red-light-camera study

January 4, 2009 Anne Linehan

There have been several follow-ups to Bradley Olson’s story on the findings of Houston’s long overdue red-light-camera study. TheNewspaper.com came up with a couple of interesting points after looking the data: The Rice-TTI study compared