KTLA Weatherman Henry DiCarlo was sending out Happy Birthday Wishes on the air (why do stations do that?) when he wished "Hugh Janus" a very happy birthday.
Only the news anchor caught the fact that "Hugh Janus" was a joke to sound like "Huge Anus"...which is exactly how DiCarlo must have felt after it was pointed out to him.
But, they all laughed like 5th graders after they figured it out.
The giggling video after the Jump
Read MoreFTVLive has been telling you about the budget tightening at the Fox Owned and Operated stations.
FTVLive has told you that O&O's are taking the usual steps with no unapproved overtime, no purchase of stringer videos, ect.
We also have heard that at least two of the O&O's are telling job candidates that they can not fly in any job applicants. In other words if you want to pitch the job, you have to fly yourself in for the interview.
Sources also tell FTVLive that some jobs that are opened, Corporate is telling the stations not to fill the jobs.
Many working inside the O&O's are hoping that these cuts save enough money that layoffs wouldn't be needed.
At this point... that might just be wishful thinking.
FTVLive has warned you about sexting in the past, but it looks like one Hearst Executive didn't pay attention.
Page Six dishes that top Hearst executive Scott Sassa has left the company over a sensational extortion plot involving a Los Angeles-based stripper he was sexting.
After the Jump see what happened when his bosses got a look at the sexts.
Read MoreEd Schultz, host of The Ed Show on MSNBC (It's OK...we never heard of it either), had a "Big" Exclusive this week.
Schultz sat down with Scott Prouty, the filmmaker behind the infamous 47 percent video of Mitt Romney. Not sure how this was really any big news? But Schultz and about 4 blogs on the entire Internet thought it was a huge "get".
What did the MSNBC suits think?
Well, they went ahead and demoted Ed and his Ed Show to Weekends.
But of course that's not the way they or Ed are spinning it.
Enter the full spin cycle after the Jump
Read MoreWe've been telling you for weeks about how Hoda Kotb and Kathy Lee Gifford have been fighting like Cats and Dogs.
We'll now they're just dogs.
Yesterday the pair dressed up as dogs on Today.
Why?
To try and get Facebook "Likes."
FTVLive isn't going to do that, but if you want to like our Facebook Page, Here's the link
Once the TV Networks finally figured out what color the smoke was rising from the Sistine Chapel. The next problem was finding anything or anybody that know something about the new Pope?
The New York Daily News writes that almost all correspondents sooner or later noted that as a Cardinal, the new Pope lived in a small apartment and cooked his own food.
And who says hard news investigative reporting is dead?
Jake Tapper is about to follow in the footsteps of Campbell Brown, Paula Zahn and a whole list of others at CNN.
He's hoping he will fare better than those now canceled and gone from the network Anchors before him.
The former ABC News White House correspondent is getting his own show on CNN -- "The Lead With Jake Tapper" -- starting Monday in the 4 p.m. Eastern time slot.
But will he stay at 4PM? More after the Bounce
Read MoreBrian Collister of WOAI in San Antonio will join KTRK ( Houston Channel 13) as the station’s investigative reporter, filling the vacancy left by Wayne Dolcefino’s departure from the station last year, the station said Wednesday.
MOre on the move across Texas after the Skip
Read MoreWhen Sports Anchor Pat Murphy finally had enough of reduced airtime and cutbacks, he retired from WPEC in West Palm Beach.
He may have left, but the newscasts continue to go on. So, WPEC needed to fill Murphy's job.... and they did so with Matt Lincoln.
Lincoln comes to the Palm Beaches from WWBT in Richmond, Virginia. He was that station’s sports director and weekday anchor.
We're betting the house that Lincoln will be making a lot less than Murphy did.
Earlier Today, FTVLive pointed out the tradition of the black and white smoke when it comes to electing a new Pope.
We pointed out in these times of instant information, it seems somewhat odd to stay with this antiquated system. You can read what we wrote here.
Mediaite put together a video of exactly what we said earlier in out story:
WUSA in Washington, DC had a bit of fun on the station's computer.
They made up a fake invitation to the White House and did if for more than a quarter of a million dollars less than the White House.
On their website they write: Can you tell the difference between White House invitations crafted by a quarter-million dollar calligraphy staff and the fake one we made using our station computer and printer for pocket change?
The computer printed invitation we made for our story would likely be spotted by Secret Service agents in a second, but when we asked you on Facebook and in person, most of you couldn't tell the difference.
"With the White House closing its doors to public tour groups in order to save money for the sequester, it's worth remembering some of the other costs the White House incurs annually," Harper wrote. "Despite sequestration, there's been no announcement of the White House scaling back on calligraphers."
By the way real one is on the right.
Argentine Jorge Bergoglio was elected pope Wednesday and chose the papal name Francis, becoming first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium.
He also sent out his first Tweet using the old Pope's Twitter account.
I thought using someone else's account was frowned upon by Twitter. I'm just saying those are the rules. Who does the guy think he is...Pope or something?
When Howie Kurtz did his story trying to paint Matt Lauer not as the guy that got rid of Ann Curry (even though he totally was) some insiders were surprised to see NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke featured prominently.
“You’re the best person who’s ever done this,” Burke is quoted as having told Lauer when the anchor offered to resign if it would help the show. “We’ll get through this.”
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Burke was intimately involved in shepherding Lauer's new $25 million-a-year contract last year.
Why the NBC boss is backing Matt after the Jump
Read MoreIn a world of instant information, it seems odd that we are still using smoke signals to get the news out of the Catholic Church.
Instead of sending out a Tweet a Facebook post or I don't know just stepping outside and saying "Nope, nothing yet."
We get reporters going "Oh! Ohhh! Is it.. It's--! Oh. Oh. Nope. Totally looked white for a second."
We're all for tradition and all, but breaking news through smoke signals seems just a bit odd.
Than again...that's just us....
6 days ago, FTVLive wrote a story about the possibility of layoffs happening at the Fox O&O's.
We reported that Betsy Swanson, the CFO for the Fox Stations is crunching the numbers and it looks like job cuts are a real possibility.
Word inside Fox is that big boss Jack Abernethy is not happy that Fox people are talking to FTVLive. "They have the ability to scan all outgoing email from Fox stations and they're doing it," says one source to FTVLive.
More after the Leap
Read MoreThis happens a lot more than you think. A station starts doing some construction inside the building and some employee calls OSHA to complain. More often than not it's just some disgruntle worker trying to get the station in trouble.
The latest station to have this happen is in Sin City.
KSNV in Las Vegas is building a new studio and shortly after some walls were knocked down last month to make room for a new studio, inspectors from OSHA and the city of Las Vegas showed up.
Read more on what happened after the Jump
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