As many people have already noted, Howard Beale of Beale's Bites – a most excellent blog that covers broadcast journalism in NEPA – posted a farewell and an explanation of why he disappeared last year. Farewell, Howard.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Farewell, Beale's Bites
As many people have already noted, Howard Beale of Beale's Bites – a most excellent blog that covers broadcast journalism in NEPA – posted a farewell and an explanation of why he disappeared last year. Farewell, Howard.
"Howard" was a straight-shooter, well-informed and with solid insights into broadcast news. He was obviously bothered when his open forum turned into "open season" and the postings went so negative.
ReplyDeleteI hope "NEPA Media" keeps posting discussions of TV (and radio). I'll put up with the bile to keep informed on "the biz."
forgive the ignorance, but just who is Howard Beale?
ReplyDeleteBeale was Millard, right?
ReplyDeleteFillmore?
ReplyDeleteI always liked him, but he edited my post about Paulo Gangiamcamo's excessive face and body hair. I think he lost his edge after that.
ReplyDeleteTim Millard. He was Beale, right?
ReplyDeletewho is/was tim millard?
ReplyDeletethe first poster is right on...this forum needs to clean up its act. Granted now its the only source out there, but come on some of the crap on here....doesn't belong....
ReplyDeleteI'm slightly amused that people are still speculating about my identity. If I had a quarter for all the guesses people had about who I am, I'd have enough money to afford ten sheets of Victory Pig pizza.
ReplyDeleteBut if you're all going to be busybodies, I'll let you in on the big secret: I am the spirit of Tom Powell.
Well then TP, I want to thank you for making me a better writer.
ReplyDeleteBonus points for the Victory Pig pizza reference.
ReplyDeleteJoe Zone?
ReplyDeleteSpike the Cat?
J. Kristopher?
Doc Mussari?
...or Geri Ann?
Regarding the OP's remarks, and Beale's on the negative vibe in NEPA journalism:
ReplyDeleteI can't fathom how two small cities in a backwater of a relatively insignificant state incubate so much animosity among journalists. You'd think you were all scrapping for the last gig as a copyboy in Metropolis or Gotham.
You guys made poisonkitchen.com go away; as harebrained an idea as it was, I was pissed about that.
You all need to chill before people start suing each other.
Beales Bites...that summed it up!
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ReplyDeleteI always liked him, but he edited my post about Paulo Gangiamcamo's excessive face and body hair. I think he lost his edge after that.
6:24 PM, February 19, 2008
This is truly funny!
ya know I just happened upon this site recently and Beales Bites by proxy. I have been perusing the archives and enjoy the Where are they now and just wanted to add a few of my old colelagues that I did not see mentioned
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Jeff Barnd- WPVI, Boston and now Baltimore Fox affiliate
Greg Fox WESH Orlando
Beth Powers WESH Orlando (now out of the buz)
Russ Spencer- WAGA ATlanta
Keith Oppenheim CNN
Mike Garguilo WNBC NY
JJ Davis- Omaha
Larry Sparano Binghamton
Dan Brady Cincinnatti, other places and now Web sports show.
and me... part of the Largest radio news staff in NJ for a good while, now (14 years) the head of video production for a state agency, independant productions, Voiceovers etc.
www.billmecca.com
www.losttownsvideo.com
btw, my guess for the ID, is a former 22 staffer, now employed at another station. I have my suspicions. ;)
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Beale "retired" because someone called him on the phone??
ReplyDeleteGive me a break
okay whaddya want broken?
ReplyDeleteBeale "retired" because someone called him on the phone??
ReplyDeleteGive me a break.
9:41 PM, February 20, 2008
I think it was fear of being "outed," of having his identity widely known. Face it, the posters here and on "Beale's" sound like the kind of people who'd put a horse's head in your bed.
Bonus points for the Victory Pig pizza reference
ReplyDeleteAnd you can take those points way for the use of the term "sheets." No one in either Wyoming or Lackawanna valleys uses the word sheets when it comes to pizza. You either get a pie or a tray.
So, while Howard may not have revealed who he is, perhaps he revealed that he is not a local as such.
I think the pizza there comes on sheets...
ReplyDeleteAlthough you are correct-when I call a local place for a pizza, I ask for a tray...
Unless I'm in Hazleton, then I ask for some pitz...(pronounced pits)
Go anywhere in the south and ask for a pie...they send you to the bakery...
ReplyDeleteSo, while Howard may not have revealed who he is, perhaps he revealed that he is not a local as such.
ReplyDeleteI've always heard sheets myself, especially when getting a sicilian pie. But that seems to be the case when you get down towards Berwick...or "Berk" as it's pronounced.
Yeah Beale, just change the name. Maybe Howard Schmeale?
ReplyDeleteSchmeale Bites!!
ReplyDeleteIt is the international system of currency which determines the vitality of life on this planet. THAT is the natural order of things today. THAT is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today. And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature. And YOU WILL ATONE. Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little 21-inch screen and howl about America, and democracy. There is no America; there is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
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ReplyDeleteSo... we are just going to keep posting quotes?
ReplyDeleteNo, we're looking for really original insight...like yours.
ReplyDeleteJeff Barnd worked at WLVI in Boston...not WPVI. WPVI is in Philadelphia.
ReplyDeleteI think "Howard Beale" stopped doing the blog site, because someone was going to reveal his true identity, and since he's still employed at a Northeast PA television station, he would probably get fired for being the moderator of Beale's Bites.
12:21...
ReplyDeleteJeff did in fact work at WPVI, that is where he met and married Terri Merryman who worked at KYW. They moved to Florida (she got a job) He couldn't land a TV gig there, the marriage went south (lol) and he got a gig back in Maine. At least I think that was where he went from there.
He also worked in Bangor Maine, Baltimore, Boston and back to Baltimore where he is currently with the Fox Affiliate.
He is re-married with a couple kids and still plays drums.
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