Starting the Book off with a New Set

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Starting the Book off with a New Set

KBZK in Bozeman kicked off the May book with a brand new news set. 

KBZK launched their new HD News set the first night of sweeps during their 5:30PM newscast to rave reviews from their viewers!

“The set was ready for air five days ahead of schedule even after our rehearsal time.  It looks great in person and on camera.  We’re already getting positive comments from viewers. What I like best is the great lighting and how versatile it is, giving us many venues for showcasing stories.” ~John Sherer, KBZK-TV News Director.

More on the station's new set after the jump  ​

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Sponsor Love - EPH Communications

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Sponsor Love - EPH Communications

FTVLive is wrapping up our biggest week ever to visitors of this website. ​

We want to thank all of you for not only stopping by, but for telling your friends and co-workers about FTVLive.com as well.​

It's been just about 3 months since FTVLive knocked down the paywall and become a free website to all (and we have yet to take off a single day in that time).​

The way we were able to go free is because we have the BEST sponsors in and around the TV news business.​

Sponsors like EPH Communications. 

Read more about this awesome company and the guy behind it after the bounce  ​

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Where in the World is Ann Curry?

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Early this morning FTVLive told you that the crew at the Today Show is rallying around Matt Lauer.

Kathie Lee Gifford didn't like the criticism of Matt Lauer that she decided to show him some love in a full-page newspaper ad — and got the whole “Today” cast and crew to sign it.

Gifford backed off publishing the open letter this week at Lauer’s request.

We pointed out that the one NBC staffer that did not sign the letter was Ann Curry (no surprise).​

Gifford says there was a reason for that  "It's not that she didn't sign it. It's just that we couldn’t find Ann." 

Has anyone checked to see if she's buried in Lauer's backyard? Or maybe locked up in his basement?  ​

I'm just putting it out there.... ​

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Twin Cities Anchor Takes The High Road as She's Pushed Out The Door

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Twin Cities Anchor Takes The High Road as She's Pushed Out The Door

When KSTP-TV announced in August that it was pulling Vineeta Sawkar from the anchor desk, it caught a lot of viewers by surprise.

After all, Sawkar had been with the station for nearly 18 years and as a morning anchor is known for her warm, friendly personality. The other unusual move? The station set a May 1 exit date, giving Sawkar time to explore job possibilities while remaining on the anchor desk.

Now that she's got only a handful of days left at KSTP, Sawkar talked about what this last year has been like and what her future might hold.

After the jump see how she's leaving the station with class. ​

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Jillian Barberie Says She's Coming to Your TV

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Jillian Barberie Reynolds posted a message on her Facebook page that teases that she has her own show in the works. ​

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The post on her FB has almost 3,000 "Likes" but no other info as to what the show is?​

Maybe she will be will be on an episode of Divorce Court. Just a few weeks ago, Barberie filed for divorce from her husband Grant Reynolds. She cites the usual irreconcilable differences for the split.

Stay tuned.... ​

Atlanta Anchor Announces her Firing...Errr... Retirement On Air

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Atlanta Anchor Announces her Firing...Errr... Retirement On Air

You know it's ratings when your anchor that was arrested last year, comes on the first night of sweeps and announces she has been fired from the station. 

OK...officially she says she has retired, but let's be honest. If she wasn't busted by police she would have been anchoring the entire newscast last night and not on for just few minutes sweeps stunt.

Long-time broadcast anchor Amanda Davis was given a few minutes on WAGA in Atlanta last night to announce her "retirement" from the station after more than 26 years.

What she had to say on air after the jump  ​

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NBC Wants Katie Couric Back on Today

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NBC Wants Katie Couric Back on Today

NBC's Today Show thinks the only way they are going to recover is if Katie Couric comes back on the couch and sits next to Matt Lauer.

NBC is reaching out to Couric everyday to try and make that happen.​

At least that's what the National Enquirer says.​

The Enquirer reports that with viewers calling for Lauer’s ouster for turning on Curry, panicked producers are desperately wooing likable Katie to come back to the show that made her a star, say insiders. “They’re calling Katie and begging her to return, saying the morning couch on NBC is where she belongs,” revealed an insider. “They want to save Matt and the show.”

Read more on this after the jump  ​

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We've Got Your Back Matt

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We've Got Your Back Matt

The crew at the Today Show is rallying around Ann Curry Executioner Matt Lauer.​

Word is that Kathie Lee Gifford was so fed up with criticism of Matt Lauer that she decided to show him some love in a full-page newspaper ad — and got the whole “Today” cast and crew to sign it.

Gifford backed off publishing the open letter this week at Lauer’s request.

More after the leap  ​

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F-Bomb Anchor Shows he Can't Anchor or Report

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F-Bomb Anchor Shows he Can't Anchor or Report

​Even if A.J. Clemente never uttered an f-bomb on the air, the station still may have been wise to fire him.

As you all know by now, Clemente is the Bismarck, ND Anchor who was fired for cussing on his very first newscast.

His video of his awful anchoring went viral and he was asked to appear on several New York talk shows, so they could make fun of him to his face.

He did the Today Show, Letterman, Live with Kelly and Michael along with some other shows.​

Kelly and Michael gave him a "reporter job"  and instructed him to go to a movie premiere and interview the stars.

After the jump watch what an awful job he did. ​

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A.J. Clemente Needs Work on When to Drop the F-Bomb

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A.J. Clemente Needs Work on When to Drop the F-Bomb

David Hinckley ​of the NY Daily News does have a problem with very green former anchor A.J. Clement dropping the F-bomb. He just wishes the kid learned when and how to drop it.

Hinckley writes that this week's most famous f-word seems to be the one uttered by rookie TV anchor A.J. Clemente on KFYR in North Dakota.

Yet despite the certification of Mr. Clemente's fleeting fame by David Letterman, Kelly, Michael, Morning Joe and others, I would humbly suggest we might focus instead on the f-word uttered two days earlier by David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox.

Simply put, Big Papi's was a way better F-word.

Read more after the skip  ​

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Anchor Does his Best Evan Baxter Impression

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Anchor Does his Best Evan Baxter Impression

Veteran Puerto Rico newsman Saúl Cordero, current anchor of WOLE-DT's daily news program Noticias Locales, went temporarily insane during last night's broadcast after stumbling over a sentence he was reading off the teleprompter.

Unaware that he was still on live TV, Cordero proceeded to unleash a stream of discordant sounds that immediately drew comparisons to the classic Bruce Almighty scene wherein Jim Carrey uses his powers to embarrass his rival Evan Baxter, played by Steve Carell.

The video and the comparison ​after the hop  


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Houston Sports Anchor Says He's Gone from the Station

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Houston Sports Anchor Says He's Gone from the Station

Longtime KTRK Sports Anchor Tim Melton suffered a stroke back in October 2011, yesterday he that his contract with KTRK has expired and that he is no longer with the station.

Melton, who joined the station in 1981, said he continues to recover and hopes to return to the air but is not yet prepared to do so.

“I can do a lot of things, but not everything the job requires,” Melton said. “I still hope to get back on the air. That’s always been my plan. The problem is that you never know how things are going to play out, and while the recovery process has been good, it has taken longer than I would have imagined.”

MOre after the jump  ​

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Big Easy Station to Dump Newscast

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Big Easy Station to Dump Newscast

Starting Monday, WWL will scrap the 9 p.m. weeknight newscast it has produced for sister station WUPL and will launch “The 504,” a new interview-focused show hosted by Melanie Hebert, in its place. The show will be recorded each morning so Hebert can continue her role on WWL’s morning-news block.

“I think we’re looking for a chance to do something original, and that would allow us to have a little bit more depth,” said Bill Siegel, WWL’s news director. “It can be a wide range of topics. One night, we might do a half-hour on Orleans Parish Prison. Another night, we might do education (or) Jazz Fest.

Read more after the hop  ​

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O-Town Ratings Race Will be a Nail Biter

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O-Town Ratings Race Will be a Nail Biter

As we enter into the very important May ​Book, one ratings race that promises to be a close one is in the Orlando Market.

Just look at the numbers from April and you can see just how close it is.​

April ratings show how tight the race for Central Florida viewers has become and how the competition is challenging longtime leader WFTV-Channel 9.

In the April ratings period that ended Wednesday, WESH-Channel 2 and WOFL-Channel 35 overtook WFTV in the 5 p.m. half-hour. 

More after the bounce ​

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Gawker Refuses Judges Order to Take Down Sex Tape Post

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Gawker is defying a Florida Judge's ​order to take down a post about the Hulk Hogan sex tape on their website.

Gawker writes that Yesterday the Hon. Pamela A.M. Campbell, a circuit court judge in Pinellas County, Fla., issued an order compelling Gawker to remove from the internet a video of Hulk Hogan fucking his friend's ex-wife, as well as a 1,400-word narrative of the video written by former Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio and 466 user-submitted comments. Here is why we are refusing to comply.

More from Gawker ​