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Viewers Voice: People react to killing of bear cubs
Over the last week, we covered multiple bear cubs that were rescued by local people. and handed over to the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Unfortunately, two of the cubs were put down by officials, who after multiple questions from WSLS finally said it was because the animals weren't in a good enough shape to rehabilitate.
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Viewers Voice: A teacher's arrest for DWI and Autism Awareness Month
Last week, we reported on a Grayson County teacher who has been arrested for DWI. That sparked some outrage from a few.
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Viewers Voice: Complaints, thanks for severe weather coverage
We had a series of severe storms pelt the viewing area last Saturday. And in turn, we were pelted with a host of comments about our coverage of them… some good... some not so good.
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Viewers Voice: Praise, suggestions for wsls.com radar
Last week we added a live interactive Precision Ten radar feature to wsls.com, allowing you to track weather systems all the time. And, it premiered to some good reviews on our WSLS Facebook page.
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Viewers Voice: Reaction to last week's VVoice
In last week's Viewers Voice, I used a phrase that got under the skin of one viewer who called to say, “He referred to the US postal service as snail mail. I'm a retired US postal service letter carrier and I take great offense by having the job I did so well and very proud of referred to in the sense of snail mail. I'd appreciate it if you referred to it as US postal service."
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Viewers Voice: Comments on both sides of our winter weather coverage
Last weekend, Southwest Virginia was under a winter weather warning and ended up with anywhere from 3 to 10 inches of snow. This caused widespread power outages, as well as road, church, and school closures. As such, our Storm Team made repeated interruptions into programming to keep viewers up to date. But, not everyone appreciated it.
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Viewers Voice: Double standard for ballot access?
Only two Republican candidates qualified for the Virginia GOP presidential primary, leading to a WSLS investigation into Virginia's laws for getting on the ballot.
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Viewers Voice: Reaction to Coach Leitch's DUI conviction
Yesterday we reported on Alleghany County's High School Basketball Coach “Thumper” Leitch's drunk driving arrest and conviction.
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Viewers Voice: Technical glitches fuel complaints
Our newscast after the Super Bowl Sunday night was riddled with technical difficulties that did not go unnoticed by our viewers.
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Viewers Voice: Outrage over Paterno coverage
Joe Paterno's death last week and our coverage of it has one viewer ready to turn off WSLS.
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Viewers Voice: Complaints about the VA, WSLS paid programming
Our story on the VA Hospital in Salem and one veteran's trouble getting prescriptions refilled, sparked a conversation on our Facebook page and this email from KP Waterman who defended the VA.
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Viewers Voice: Thankful comments on storm coverage
Last week, we aired several complaints about the severe weather cut-ins Storm Team Ten Chief Meteorologist Jeff Haniewich recently made. This week we received several notes thanking Jeff.
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Viewers Voice: Kudos, complaints on weather coverage
As a result of the outbreak of severe weather last week from Tropical Storm Lee, our Storm Team had to break into regular programming to relay urgent weather alerts including flash flood and tornado warnings.
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Viewers Voice: Suggestion for our traffic alerts
You may have noticed Karen and me asking people to tweet us any traffic accidents or backups so that we can get that information out to people in the hopes that they can then avoid getting caught in traffic.
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Viewers Voice: One viewer wants more rain!
A regular WSLS viewer who likes our coverage had one suggestion for Storm Team Ten.
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Viewers Voice: Comments and questions on MeTV 10.3
Our new channel, 10.3 Me-TV, which shows many old, hit shows is quickly becoming a new hit with our viewers.
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Viewers Voice: A couple of viewer complaints
Our story about the severe weather damage at a local condo complex had one viewer pointing out a mistake.
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Viewers Voice: Outrage over NBC's coverage of the US Open
NBC's coverage of the US Open outraged some people for something that was left out of the opening to Sunday's event.
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Viewers Voice: More reaction on the Memorial Day shootings
Our coverage of the Memorial Day shooting spree and the subsequent investigation into how Franklin County Sheriff Ewell Hunt handled the situation has many voicing their opinions this week.
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Viewers Voice: Outrage over town's treatment of tornado victims
Our story about the town of Pulaski turning off the water to tornado victims who were behind on their payments turned on the faucet for our viewers outraged over the town’s actions.
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Viewers Voice: Complaints about VT over-coverage
Our story about graduation, which included sound from Virginia Tech students, had Clinton McLaughlin asking this question: “Why is it that WSLS Channel 10 is a Roanoke, Virginia station, but it insists on going to Virginia Tech anytime it wants to do a news story involving higher education? Instead of going to say Hollins University which is a local university? It appears to me that there is a definite bias towards Virginia Tech. Prove me wrong!"
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Viewers Voice: Complaints about bin Laden coverage
We heard from several viewers who weren't happy with our decision not to air an extended version of NBC Nightly News the day after the death of Osama bin Laden.
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Viewers Voice: Reaction to last week's severe weather coverage
Our extensive coverage of the severe weather that blew through the entire viewing area last week drew a lot of comments from our viewers. Some were happy and others weren't.
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Positioning Danville for the future
Personally, I don’t believe that Danville’s best days are already written in history books. I believe they still lie in the hearts and minds of its people.
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Viewers Voice: Kudos and complaints for our tornado coverage
Our coverage of the tornados in Pulaski County dominated the comments we got this week.
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