Screenshot of potential “new” Birmingham News homepage.
Well, apparently not yet… though we were able to catch this screenshot of a revamped Birmingham News homepage about mid-morning - though it’s currently gone back to its original state. The redesign resembled the layout that is currently in use on al.com’s entertainment section.
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Tune in to WERC 960 AM this morning before 11 a.m. and you can say you were listening the first day that Steve Shannon and Leah Brandon were on the air together in The Magic City.
The radio veterans started their run on the heritage AM station at 7 a.m. The Birmingham Business Journal posted this [...]

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The Prattville native has announced on his website that he will be returning to metro Birmingham as CBS 42’s new chief meteorologist beginning July 1. The former ABC 33/40 meteorologist, last in the market in late 2004, seems to be looking forward to the challenge. He’s currently the chief meteorologist on INN in Davenport, IA
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Screenshot of al.com’s Twitter page.
So just before I was about to say that it was a shame that al.com hadn’t gotten it’s own Twitter profile yet - poof! - it magically appears.
Most of the mainstream media in the city recently joined the Twitterverse (even if they aren’t all joining in the conversation that it’s supposed [...]

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Screenshot of CBS 42 Twitter profile page.
CBS 42 has become the latest media outlet to add Twitter to their arsenal of news dissemination. They follow ABC 33/40, NBC 13 and The Birmingham News into the Twitterverse, leaving one major media outlet out of the tweeting - Fox 6. No word yet on when they’ll finally [...]

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The Birmingham Twitterati is all abuzz with word that NBC 13 has joined the world of Twitter.

Screenshot of NBC13’s Twitter profile.
It looks like it’s part of a larger plan to have all NBC affiliates on the service.
They are not the first service online - that honor goes to The Birmingham News, who we believe has [...]

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We’ve been noticing the increasing number of groups being created in Facebook (and frankly a lot more traffic there too). We thought it would be a good idea to start taking a look at some of the local groups that are popping up on Facebook.
This first one is tied to a national phenomenon, or at [...]

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