Pittsburgh Pop podcast: Talking ‘Dahmer,’ regional Emmy Awards for local TV news, ‘Alaska Daily’
In this episode of the “Pittsburgh Pop” podcast, host Tim Benz and TV Talk columnist Rob Owen discuss Pittsburgh pop culture news of the moment, including the Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmys, where TRIBLive.com won three awards, WQED won nine (including overall excellence), WPXI was awarded five, KDKA took home two and the Pittsburgh Penguins won three. WTAE won none. Local individual winners included WPXI’s Gordon Loesch (best anchor, news), former WPXIer Mike Holden (best reporter), Dan Potash (best sports talent, AT&T SportsNet), Beth Dolinar (best writer, WQED) and Joe Wos (best host, WQED’s “Cartoon Academy”). Read the complete list of winners here.
They also talk about the departure of WQED Multimedia CEO Deb Acklin, the passing of Perrysville native and TV news innovator Al Primo and Susan Koeppen’s life-saving CPR report.
Benz and Owen discuss the poorly-reviewed but wildly popular Netflix hit “DAHMER – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.”
Owen reviews ABC’s “Alaska Daily,” the new season’s best broadcast drama bet and gets into a bit of how the sausage was made. And he offers a prediction about the new character played by a Carnegie Mellon University grad on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy.”
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