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What’s your favorite broadcast station?
Knoxville is fortunate to have a varied spread of local media outlets, especially when it comes to television. According to ETEDA, Knoxville is a top media production hub along with New York, L.A. and Atlanta. What is your favorite local broadcast station?
GKBJ Looking for Young Knoxville All-stars
Last year, the Greater Knoxville Business Journal held their first 40 Under 40 awards ceremony. And if you were there, you’ll recall that our very own Brandon Clarke walked away as 1 of 40 young Knoxville all-stars. w00t! The GKBJ is at it again this year looking for a new …
Wiffleball in Market Square?
Allegedly, late-night wiffleball games have invaded Downtown Knoxville. Knoxify got wind of the topic this morning via a Market Square resident. Does anyone have more info? This sounds like a lot of fun. Update: Instapundit broke the story a while ago. Our bad. Keep on swinging boys. Photography by Yogi
Getting Real with Knoxville Insurance
You may be surprised to see that the author of this entry is me, Casey. With Brandon being the local insurance mogul he would seemingly be a better fit to tackle this one. Not the case. Brandon approached me several months ago about launching an insurance-centric blog for his company, …
Interstate 40 is About to Go Crazy; Read This Blog
Before the I-40 Downtown bottleneck gets better, it's only going to get worse. TDOT has outlined the entire project on their site and are even providing high-tech web cameras to publicize the progress. To help better answer the question, "what the heck is going on with I-40", Don Jacobs of ...
All Headlines; All Knoxville
Would anyone be offended if I tossed out a shameless plug? *crickets* I’ll continue on then. This weekend a Knoxville-centric website launched called Knox’d. This site lets you see the latest headlines from the best media outlets in Knoxville. For free of course. Patrick Beeson puts it best: Knox’d has …
Young Professionals of Knoxville now accepting nominations
Beginning today, the Young Professionals of Knoxville (YPK) will accept nominations for new members. Brandon and I co-founded YPK in 2006 and the group now boasts over 80 dynamic members who were all hand selected by Knoxville’s top business leaders. With the nomination process we hope to continue our run …
Citizens step up to change Knox County government
The public has spoken and decided that structure in Knox County government matters. Today, a letter was published in the News Sentinel signed by a Steering Committee to Knox County Commission with separate charter amendments attached asking them to place the amendments on the ballot and informing them that they …
Knoxified: Top 10 News Sentinel Stories of ’07
Yesterday, the News Sentinel released the Top 10 local stories for 2007. The lineup came courtesy of an on-line poll from KnoxNews.com (I voted, did you?). Although many of the top 10 were good stories, here is my Knoxified 10 best. Christian-Newsom killings: I’m still baffled as to how this …