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Roger Simmons
Roger Simmons

Birds, Words, Pics + TV

Olympics doing well for WESH

Roger Simmons, August 12, 2008

 WESH has to be pleased with the massive number of people tuning in the Summer Olympics from Beijing. But the late-night anchors aren’t getting much sleep. They didn’t start the “11 p.m.” news until nearly 1 a.m. Monday night/Tuesday morning

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