January 28, 2009
al.com launches new look for Newhouse newspaper web sites
Business Alabama Launches Blog
Obama First 10 Days In Office
The man on the street and in the taxi remains optimistic that a new era in politics is possible. But the economy seems to be slipping further away toward a 2010 recovery. And signs in Washington are that independent politically neutral thinking is fast vanishing …
January 27, 2009
Bail Out Billions, Obama, Snow and DTV Hit Capitol Hill
The President came to the halls of Congress to save the economy with $800 billion dollar request. Alabama delegation remains skeptical. As snow blankets the city the Senate also debates whether to delay the Feb 17 DTV transition. WJAL ABC Washington tv joins the ranks of media layoffs. Bloomberg is reporting on the mortgage industry …
January 25, 2009
Coastal Alabama Sends Reporter Back to Washington
A chance of flurries tonight in beautiful Washington DC as the plane flies in over the Pentagon, the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial. CA.TV is here for the first 100 days of the Obama era. What is happening to the economy with 2 million unemployed Americans. Stay …
January 24, 2009
RSA Adds First National Bank Building To Coastal Alabama Empire
The Press Register reports today that David Bronner RSA CEO will buy the FNB building, pictured here from lumis.com between two other RSA owned Mobile properties. Once the tallest building in Mobile until RSA built Alabama’s tallest skyscraper, the building was the AmSouth …
January 23, 2009
Senior Bowl HDTV Kickoff on NFL TV
January 22, 2009
Obama’s Paul Volkert Says Recession No End in Sight
Paul Volkert started the 2009 Obama era with a bleak picture of a recession with no end in sight and that federal intervention is required to save financial markets from continued erosion or collapse. Protectionism and economic socialism options on the table. However CA.TV advisors say buy blended mutual fund stocks now despite troubled banks …
Oscar Nominations Announced
In a few hours the nominations will be announced from these candidates for best picture, but already the Oscar winner runaway is Slumdog Millionaire. The rest are Milk, Frost Nixon, Benjamin Button, Doubt, Gran Torino, Revolutionary Road, Dark Knight, Wall-e. Slumdog Millionaire is said to be the favorite as a complex upbeat international story worth …
January 18, 2009
Coastal Alabama TV Places Reporter at Inauguration
A bus from coastal Alabama leaves tonight for Washington DC and on board is one citizen prepared to witness, and share, history:
Text report: “We are singing on the bus ride praying preaching praising storytelling inspiring …
Clint Eastwood Gran Film About Life
If you have ever sat behind the wheel of the Pontiac Gran Torino or Gran Prix you have felt the pedal power of this film. Eastwood speaks, directs and tells the story as only an old master can. Without concern to Hollywood, he tells his story …
January 16, 2009
Digital Revolution Big Bang Coming
A month from now analog tv is dead, but 10 million Americans without tv suddenly is cause for concern, so much so that Congress wants to delay the digital Feb 17 transition by 3 months. Obama has introduced a bill seeking the FCC rule change. …
Apple Ipod Steve Jobs Turns Over Company to Robertsdale Grad
From Robertsdale High School in Baldwin County, a school built literally in a soy bean field, to the head of the world famous Macintosh computer pioneering empire, as Steve Jobes steps down for a medical leave of absence. Tim Cook takes over.
PREPARE FOR IMPACT
Captain “Sulley” spoke only these words as the jet made a wheels up water landing in the icey Hudson River. After hitting birds in air in both jet engines, the plane was descending over New York City. One passenger said “the thumps” were followed by “a burning smell, not of jet fuel or electric”, perhaps …













