Heads and tales: What have you done for me, latex?
By Wade Kwon
Hard to conceive: Alabama ranks fourth in providing contraceptives, according to a study by New York-based Guttmacher Institute. The acting president of the Montgomery chapter of the National Organization of Women and the president of the Alabama Pro-Life Coalition praised the ranking. We never use contraception — and sadly, it’s exactly why you think. Sigh.
• Study: Alabama ranked 4th overall in providing contraceptives [Associated Press]
Planning a Big Dance: Pure madness. SEC Commissioner Mike Slive and SWAC Commissioner Robert Vowels left Birmingham for the heavily guarded 15th floor of an Indianapolis hotel with just one thing on their minds: hoops. They’re part of the NCAA selection committee, designated to select by Sunday the 65 men’s teams for the championship tournament. No cell phones, no voting on your own conference, no second chances. Pure madness.
• Slive, Vowels climb into NCAA ‘bunker’ [Birmingham News]
Whose network is it anyway?: As previously reported, The CW is replacing The WB and UPN, meaning Sinclair-owned Birmingham stations WTTO and WABM would be stuck with an unknown sixth-place network and the other would languish in indie obscurity. Fret not! Now, they’re both with crazy startup networks. A new Fox-created network, MyNetworkTV, is signing up affiliates, including WABM (since WTTO will be The CW affiliate). What will it show? Nothing but telenovelas! Well, not exactly, but two hourlong soaps every weeknight for 13 weeks. It launches Sept. 5, and we swear, if they fold before episode 65, we’ll launch a vicious letter-writing campaign.
• MyNetworkTV Signs 17 Sinclair Stations [TV Week]
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