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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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Viewers Voice: Salem Red Sox fan wants more coverage
Friday was opening night for the Salem Red Sox and one viewer thinks we should give them a little more coverage.
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Viewers Voice: Question about our East Coast Rapist coverage
One viewer had a question about our coverage of the East Coast Rapist. Carolyn Farris emailed, "Why doesn't WSLS show an actual picture of this East Coast Rapist instead of a drawing? I know I can't be the only person who wants to see an actual picture of this criminal. Thank you!"
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Viewers Voice: Monkey story had one man questioning WSLS's judgment
A baby Marmoset had a lot of us in the newsroom and you and home saying, “Ahhhhh.” But, Rob Wilson had a different take.
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Viewers Voice: WSLS managers act on viewer's suggestion
Josh Robertson has a suggestion for our 5pm newscast. He posted on our WSLS Facebook wall, “I have a pretty cool idea for Channel 10. How about, starting the 5 o'clock news at 5:00, rather than 4:57, or 4:58. Trivial I know, but some of us watch other stations other than WSLS and we watch shows until the end. When they go off, we switch over to Channel 10 and half of the first story is already finished.”
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Viewers Voice: Roanoke pound story stirs comments
Scott Leamon's story on the kill rate at the Roanoke pound brought in a host of comments from the viewers this week.
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Viewers Voice: The Virginia Tech coverage debate continues
Last week the Virginia Tech coaching carrousel continued, dominating the headlines for a day. And that dominated the calls and emails we got into the newsroom. We've stated the WSLS position regarding the amount of Virginia Tech coverage we provide in our newscasts countless times. I won't do it again here, but did want to give people on both sides of this debate another chance to sound off.
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Viewers Voice: Too much VT coverage
Last week, Virginia Tech athletics were in the news for a variety of reasons, from big basketball games to coaching changes for the football team. And, David of Roanoke has had enough.
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