NBC and the Today Show are not happy with their credibility slowly slipping away.
So they have decided to speed things up a bit.
Next week, Today Show News Reader Natalie Morales is on vacation, so Today needs someone to fill in.
Brian Williams? Nope. Tom Brokaw? Nope. Kate Snow perhaps? Another No.
Today Show EP Don Nash Tweeted who would be reading the news.
Find out who after the hop
Read MoreSources tell FTVLive that WUSA Anchor Anita Brikman will soon be out the door at the DC station.
Word inside the Gannett owned station is that News Director Fred D-Ambrosi has already started a quiet search for Brikman's replacement.
Birkman who anchors the 5PM news and does medical reports for the station has been at the WUSA since January 2008 coming from WPVI in Philadelphia.
Sources tell FTVLive that the station is not renewing her contract.
This information is supposed to be all hush hush, so don't tell anyone. OK?
FTVLive was the FIRST to tell you that WSVN Weather Hottie Julie Durda was crossing the street to WPLG in Miami.
With Durda coming on board, the station has to make room for her.
Sources tell FTVLive those changes at Post Newsweek station are going to be laid out later Today.
The hiring of Durda means some upset and displaced people.
Now that KTVX is under control of Nexstar, sources tell FTVLive that new management team is making some big changes.
Word is that News Director George Severson is changing up many of the people that former ND Larry Perret put in place.
Sources say these are some of the changes going down:
Read them after the Hop
Read MoreFTVLive told you that WCAU in Philly had taken the wraps of their new News Chopper SkyForce 10.
The station bragged about how great the camera was on the new bird and viewers got to find out how good it was with some humping action.
WCAU reporter Christine Maddela was reporting on an alleged dogfighting ring in the area and the chopper was hovering over the scene of where the fights were supposedly happening.
When the new SkyForce 10 camera zoomed in on the backyard only to catch one dog mounting another.
The "You Got to See It" Video after the Jump
Read MoreWord is that Today could be a bloody one at WXXA in Albany, NY.
Sources tell FTVLive that more jobs will eliminated as the Fox affiliate is consolidated with ABC station WTEN in the market.
WXXA has already cuts jobs in the past month including that of longtime Anchor Ann Hughes. Word is Today's cuts will be deep and include a number of people.
Not sure what the total body count will be, but FTVLive hears... Read more after the Jump
Read MoreReporter Eric King says that when he was 6 years old, he set of goal working on Dallas TV News (When we were 6 years old, our goal was to catch a frog).
Years later, King has reached his goal, he's the new Reporter at KXAS in Dallas. "I set a goal when I was 6, and here I am," King said on his Facebook page.
King just arrived from WLKY Louisville, Kentucky where he was a noon anchor and a reporter since 2009.
King is a Dallas area native.
H/T Mike McGuff
Jay Leno might be getting replaced at NBC and the gossip is giving him some great material for his monologues.
Leno seems to be enjoying tweaking his NBC bosses and making the Audience laugh at the same time. Here's his take on the matter last night:
““Are you all excited about March Madness?” Leno asked the audience. “Are you all into March Madness? People are talking about who’s in, who’s out, who’s gonna be eliminated. And that’s just here at NBC. I’ve never been in the paper this much. It’s fantastic.””
NBC says they are not (even though they totally are) going to replace Jay Leno with Jimmy Fallon.
So when that happens (even if NBC says it isn't going to), who is going to replace Jimmy?
Page Six says that “Saturday Night Live” head writer and “Weekend Update” host Seth Meyers will move into Fallon’s late-night slot.
A source told us, “Lorne Michaels wants Seth to take over from Fallon. It would be perfect for him.
Tina Fey’s name had also come up, but she has said she was too busy to do it.”
The network is trying to get Leno, 62, to bow out gracefully from the hosting job so it can unveil Fallon at its presentation to advertisers in May.
NBC may have another reason to kick Jay Leno to the curb and have Jimmy Fallon take over the Tonight Show.
A big Tax Credit.
Quietly tucked into tentative state budget is a provision that would help NBC move “The Tonight Show” back to New York, the Daily News has learned.
The provision would make state tax credits available for the producers of “a talk or variety program that filmed at least five seasons outside the state prior to its first relocated season in New York,” budget documents show.
How this credit is totally geared to the Tonight Show after the Hop
Read MoreA widow claims that ABC aired video of her Husband's last dying breath for the commercial and entertainment of others.
And now she's suing the Network for $5 Million Bucks
The NY Daily News writes that Widow Anita Chanko is suing ABC and New York-Presbyterian Hospital for failing to get permission to televise the last-ditch treatment her husband, Mark, received in the emergency room after he was run over by a car on E. 79th St. last April.
She didn’t even know the taping had been done until she flipped on the ABC show “NY Med” last August and saw her husband breathe his last and say the words, “Does my family know?”
More after the Hop
Read MoreBriWi agrees with the President about NBC's Chuck Todd
Merely a day after FCC commissioner Robert McDowell announced his resignation, it appears that chairman Julius Genachowski is going to do likewise.
Citing an unnamed FCC official and industry official, The Wall Street Journal reports Genachowski is expected to leave -- presumably as his term ends on June 30th. Granted, the departure isn't a shock to anyone who follows the roller coaster ride of Washington, but it's bound to rekindle chatter about who is set to take his place.
H/T Engadget
Word is that Former KNBC Managing Editor David Kirkland has landed a new job in the Valley of the Sun.
Kirkland has been hired at KPHO/Phoenix as Executive Producer.
We have another candidate for the greatest TV News interview ever.
Yesterday morning a freak hail storm hit Brookshire, Texas. KPRC in Houston caught up with Brookshire resident Michelle Clark and KABOOYOW! she gave them an interview.
Expect this to be auto-yuned and be on YouTube in 5....4....3.....
The video after the Jump
Read MoreFTVLive is giving away a brand new iPad Mini next week!
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