Speaking of hair on the morning shows, Robin Roberts tells why she didn't go for the "Anchor wig" after undergoing her bone marrow transplant that kept her off the air for several months and caused her to lose her hair.
Roberts opted for honesty.
"It came about after hours of thinking and searching," she said.
More on why she chose to anchor GMA bald after the hop
Read MoreThe media folks in Boston had one hell of a week.
Covering the marathon bombings and the aftermath became a 24/7 job for many members of the media.
And while there were some mistakes, often the coverage was very good. The Boston Globe was picked out as one of those that stayed on top of the story from start to finish.
The Chicago Tribune was impressed enough with the hard working gang at The Globe that they decided to buy them lunch.
The Tribune sent dozens of pizzas to The Boston Globe newsroom and attached this note:
See the nice gesture and read the note after the jump
Read MoreFTVLive has been reporting about CNN's colossal mistakes made during the coverage of the Boston Marathon Bombing story.
We pointed out that it could take years for CNN to recover.
It looks like the NY Times David Carr is seeing the same thing.
Carr writes that when I woke up on Friday morning and found out there was a manhunt in the Boston area for the remaining suspect in Monday’s bombing at the marathon, I turned on CNN.
It’s a common impulse, although less common than it used to be.
More after the skip
Read MoreFTVLive got an advance copy of NY Times Reporter Brian Stelter's new book "Top of the Morning" and just over half way through it.
At the half way point, we can say that we think it's a very good read, especially for people working in the crazy world of TV.
Stelter takes you behind the scenes of the Today Show debacle and tells you about how the internal politics that lead to the Today Show's fall from grace in the ratings.
FTVLive defiantly recommends "Top of the Morning" and we think you will enjoy it.
As for the NY Times (the company that Stelter works for) they panned the book.
More on what The Times said out the book in their review.
Read MoreA settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit involving Fargo anchorwoman Robin Huebner, who accused a former employer of discriminating against her on the basis of age and gender.
But it looks like we won't be finding out who got what?
In an order filed in U.S. District Court in Fargo, Judge Ralph Erickson alludes to a settlement reached by the parties, but available court records disclose no details.
Gina Janeiro, an attorney for Hoak Media, the defendant in the case, confirmed this afternoon that a settlement had been reached, but declined to provide details, stating that the parties would issue a joint statement later.
More after the hop
Read MoreSometimes you have to be quick on your feet.
A Reporter for Fox Sports Milwaukee was interviewing Milwaukee Brewers player
Carlos Gomez.
Gomez got some big hits to help his Brewers to a dramatic win over the San Francisco Giants Wednesday night. Teammate Ryan Braun was going to throw water on Gomez, but he saw it coming and got out of the way.
The Reporter did not.
Video after the jump
Read MoreThe Boston Manhunt pulled in nearly 42 million viewers for the last hour.
Nielsen estimates that from 8-9PM on Friday, viewership more than doubled a normal Friday night.
During the 8 p.m. hour, NBC's coverage was tops in the ratings with 10.7 million viewers.
ABC had 7.8 million viewers for that hour, Fox News Channel had 7.6 million, CBS had 6.9 million, CNN had 6.8 million.
MSNBC which really does not employ any journalist on staff and surley not in Prime Time pulled a measly 1.7 million viewers.
Ouch!
Matthew Keys, the Reuters editor who isunder indictment for his alleged collaboration with the Anonymous hacking group, was fired on Monday.
Keys himself tweeted the news. He had already been suspended as the wire service's deputy social media editor. He has been accused of providing Anonymous with information that helped it hack into the Tribune company's servers.
Keys did not say exactly why he was fired, though he told someone it was "not correct" to say that he was let go in connection with his indictment. He did say that he would be fighting the dismissal.
Read more after the bounce
Read MoreFTVLive FIRST told you back on the 18th that KNSD NBC San Diego Noon Anchor Mari Payton (pictured) is being bumped down to the reporter ranks.
Today the station tried to spin the demotion as a promotion. The announced that it will be "enhancing" its “I-Team” investigative reporting unit by dedicating two additional full-time staffers, Mari Payton as lead reporter and Wendy Fry as producer.
Payton currently works on investigative pieces part-time along with her midday anchor duties and Fry works on the assignment desk. With the additional allocation of resources to investigative journalism, Christine Haas, currently anchoring the 4 and 5 p.m. newscasts, will expand her anchor duties to include the midday newscast.
FTVLive FIRST reported that Hass would be taking over for Payton.
The obligatory B.S. Quotes after the jump
Read MoreFTVLive told you early this morning about A.J. Clemente's first night at the anchor desk for Bismarck NBC affiliate KFYR.
His first day anchoring and his first words on air were "Fuckin' Shit."
We also told you that the station suspended A.J. after incident. Well now he's fired.
The good is he goes into the record books for having the shortest anchor job of all time.
We're going to go out on a limb here and say this isn't the way to you want to kick off you're brand new job as an anchor.
Over the Weekend, it was A.J. Clemente's first night at the anchor desk for Bismarck NBC affiliate KFYR.
Things did not go well.
And that maybe the biggest understatement we have ever made.
The full story and the F-Bomb video after the jump
Read MoreAl Michaels, the sportscaster that made of of the most famous calls in sports history, was busted over the Weekend for driving drunk.
Michaels made the call "Do you believe in miracles?" as the U.S. hockey team upset the mighty Soviets in the 1980 Winter Olympics was busted in Southern California on Friday night.
Santa Monica police Sgt. Ryan Gradle said Michaels was extremely cooperative and was released on his own recognizance Saturday morning.
Michaels is currently working as play-by-play announcer for NBC's "Sunday Night Football.
He was arrested shortly before 10 p.m on Friday and spent more than five hours in the Santa Monica City Jail.
He's scheduled to appear at Los Angeles Municipal Court at 8:30 a.m. on June 26.
Neither Michaels nor NBC had immediate comment.
One person on Twitter said that watching the police trying to capture Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was like watching the OJ Simpson chase back in 1994. The difference was, the person watched the OJ chase on TV and the Tsarnaev capture on Twitter.
Many watched the events unfold on TV while also being logged onto to Social Media at the same time.
Mnay of those on Twitter were also using an app to listen to the police scanners in the Boston area.
KIRO News Director Bob Jordan was over 3,000 miles away in Seattle and yet he was tweeting some of what he heard on the Boston Police scanner.
More after the jump
Read MoreIt can happen to anyone...you're in the middle of your live shot and you totally forget what you're trying to say.
But, it's extremely rare when it happens at the network level.
On Saturday night's CBS Evening News, Correspondent Terrell Brown was tagging out his story from Boston Live.
Brown tripped over one word and then absolutely lost his train of thought. He made no sense in his stumbling and then pulled the rip cord and sent to back to the studio.
One has to wonder if NY Times Reporter Brian Stelter's new book had anything to do with NBC's decision to use Ann Curry live on Nightly News on Friday Night?
Stelter's book "Top of the Morning" (FTVLive started reading it over the Weekend) points out how badly Ann Curry was treated by NBC when she was pulled from the Today Show.
Just as the book is about to be released, Curry appears live on NBC's Nightly.
Curry appeared on set with Brian Williams as part of the team covering the capture of Boston marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
It was Curry's first time live on NBC in 9 months!
While CNN's John King was reporting on fake arrests, another CNN reporter were breaking world exclusive that a dog was barking.
As police were closing in on Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, CNN reporter on the scene in Watertown Deborah Feyerick suddenly found herself at the edge of frenetic police activity, and found herself in the unenviable position of having a lot to report on, and not much to actually report.
As police vehicles rushed down the street, Feyerick frantically called an audible to the control room, reported smelling smoke, adding “Something just happened. We don’t know what it is.”
Then, in a moment worthy of Jon Stewart’s Moment of Zen, an understandably excited Feyerick reported “We smell smoke, people running to the center, cars going straight, cars turning to the right. Whether they cordoned off this block, we can see a helicopter that is up in the air. Something has just happened. Police officers are running, we have a dog, a dog that’s on its way. Interesting, that dog is barking. Whether that’s a canine, we don’t know.”
We're fairly certain if the dog was barking, it was a canine...but that's just us.
More plus the video after the skip
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