KIII news shows top Nielsen ratings

ABC affiliate KIII is still tops in Corpus Christi news, according to recent Nielsen numbers for July.
   At the all-important 10 p.m. hour, KIII's news topped the competitors with a 32 share/18 rating (down four shares from the last ratings period).
   A share is the percentage of all viewers watching television at that time. Ratings reflect the audience percentage of the total population.
   Coming in second, NBC affiliate KRIS scored a 27 share/15 rating (up one share), followed by CBS station KZTV with a 7 share/4 rating (up two shares) and Univision affiliate KORO with a 4 share/2 rating (no movement).
   In 6 p.m. news, KIII again won, attaining a 30 share/16 rating. KRIS pulled in second with 22 share/12 rating, and KZTV scored a distant third with a 3 share/2 rating. At 5 p.m., KIII's 29 share/13 rating outdrew KRIS's 23 share/10 rating.
   New faces
   The local TV affiliates have seen a few personnel changes in the last few weeks. Beaumont transplant David Wayne joined KRIS as the 6 a.m. and noon anchor, and the affiliate also acquired a weekend meteorologist in Jason Gough, who came from Washington, D.C.
   KZTV has a few new reporters in Arezow Doost and Melissa Vega, and KIII made two changes in August. Tara Morgan (formerly Tara Longrigg) moved from KZTV to KIII where she reports three days a week and produces on weekends. And Regina Garcia (formerly of KRIS) is now co-hosting the KIII morning news with Kristina DeLeon.
   "When I first moved down here, I noticed that everybody looked a like in the mornings" said Doug Tisdale, KIII's new news director who found himself in Corpus Christi via Phoenix and Houston. "It gives us a ton of versatility, because if the big story happens, we can send one of them out and do live shots in the morning."
   Tarkovsky film festival

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Andrei Tarkovsky is one of Russia’s most distinguished contemporary directors.

   While the cable system is full of film festivals dedicated to such directors as Stanley Kubrick ("A Clockwork Orange") or Sydney Pollack ("Out of Africa"), it's encouraging to encounter a cable film series dedicated to a lesser-known - but still incredibly influential - director.
   Turner Classic Movies will screen all seven films from director Andrei Tarkovsky, one of Russia's most distinguished contemporary directors. The festival, which starts tomorrow and continues on each consecutive Friday throughout the month, will also include two documentaries based on Tarkovsky and the late director's diploma film, which is newly subtitled in English.
   "I'm not an expert on Tarkovsky," said Charlie Tabesh, vice president of programming and the mind behind the festival at TCM. "But I really like the fact that we can bring these interesting directors and films to people who wouldn't normally see them."
   Tarkovsky is best known for "Solaris" (which will air on TCM at 9 p.m. Sept. 14), "Andrei Rublev" (1 a.m. Saturday morning), and his final film, "Sacrifice" (9 p.m. Sept. 28), which he edited from his sick bed after finding out he had a malignant tumor.
   The best introduction to Tarkovsky's work is his first feature-length film, 1962's "My Name is Ivan" (11 p.m. Friday), Tabesh said. It's a bleak view of war that details 24 hours in the life of a 12-year-old Russian Scout.
   Tarkovsky is often compared with Kubrick, in that they often dealt with fear of technology and they told science fiction stories on a very personal level.
  
   TCM Tarkovsky film festival schedule
   "One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich," 9 p.m. Friday
   "The Steam Roller and the Violin," 10 p.m. Friday
   "My Name is Ivan," 11 p.m. Friday
   "Andrei Rublev," 1 a.m. Saturday morning
   "Solaris," 9 p.m. Sept. 14
   "The Mirror," midnight Sept. 14
   "Stalker," 9 p.m. Sept. 21
   "Nostalghia," midnight Sept. 21
   "Sacrifice," 9 p.m. Sept. 28
   "Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky," 11:30 p.m. Sept. 28
  
  

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