Hey Matt Lauer....WTF Was this About?
/Matt Lauer was on Jimmy Fallon last night, we're guessing it was part of the "Matt Lauer Reputation Rebuilding Tour."
Here's a clip, maybe you can figure out what the "F" it is about:
Hoda and Kathie Lee Talk About FTVLive
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We did not see it, but we're getting emails and now we're asking for your help.
According to the emails, supposedly Hoda and Kathie Lee were talking about FTVLive during the 4th hour of the Today Show.
Word is that talked about it in the first 5 minutes of the 4th hour.
They were talking about our posting of this story.
If anyone has the video or a link to it, PLEASE email it to us.
Thanks!!!
The Scam that is the UpFronts... But for How Long?
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The TV networks have been taking their turns pitching their new shows to advertisers at what is called the "UpFronts".
Why is it called the "upfronts" because if they called it "scamming the ad buyers' it is likely they would get fewer buyers to show up.
At the "upfronts" the networks parade out their big stars, put on crazy shows and try to build as much buzz as possible.
Once again Networks are expecting to see TV ad spending rise. Some nets are expecting an increase of almost 10%.
The biggest demo the ad buyers are looking to get is the 18-49 year olds. Goldman Sachs estimates that 17% of that 18-to-49-year-old demographic simply stopped watching broadcast TV.
So you have to wonder why advertisers pay more to get less?
Well tell you plus why the nets need to worry after the jump.
Read MorePoll: Should F-Bomb Anchor should get Another Shot at TV News?
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AJ Clemente who holds the record for the shortest anchor career in history should get another shot to be on TV.
At least that is according to the listeners at New Jersey 101.5 radio station.
The station talked about how the former anchor is now tending bar for juts over $2 bucks and hour.
In case you live in a cave, Clemente was sacked after his first words on air were "fuckin shit".
The radio station posted a poll on their website asking listeners "Do you think AJ Clemente should be back on TV or stay in the bar?"
The results.... Plus what the hell is this guy going to do for a resume? After the jump.
Read MorePelley Continues to Pick Up Viewers
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The CBS Evening News is still sitting in third place, but they are (and have been) heading in the right direction.
The brodcast anchored by Scott Pelley added 680,000 viewers (6.41m from 5.73m, +12%), the largest year-to-year viewer gain among the network evening news broadcasts.
The newscast also posted double-digit year-to-year percentage increases among households (4.4/09 from 4.0/08, +10%) for the week ending May 10.
Season-to-date, the CBS Evening News continues to be the only network evening news broadcast to post increases among adults 25-54 (1.6/06 from 1.5/06, +7%) – the demographic most important to those who advertise in News – compared to last year.
Season-to-date, the CBS broadcast posted the largest gains among the network evening news broadcasts in viewers (6.75m from 6.25m, +8%) and households (4.6/09 from 4.2/08, +10%) compared to last year.
Not Sure We'll see Scott Pelley Do that
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Before Scott Pelley at CBS News, there was Katie Couric and before that Dan Rather.
At one time, CBS was so desperate for ratings they were willing to try anything. CBS hired Connie Chung to co-anchor with Dan Rather. The experiment flopped and Chung was soon booted from the show.
So what is Connie Chung doing these days?
She's popping out of giant cakes.
The video and more on this after the jump.
Read MoreMedia coalition letter of protest to Attorney General Eric Holder
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The media is still in shock of the news that the Justice Department's broad subpoena of telephone records belonging to The Associated Press.
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press sent a 4 page letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, protesting the Justice Department's action.
You can read the full letter at this link
Buffalo Host/Reporter is Dead
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Many years ago, FTVLive worked with Brian Kahle.
In fact with WKBW GM Bill Ransom laid off Brian, we took him to lunch on his last day at work. Brian was a good guy.
Monday night he was found dead in his home.
Authorities say there was no signs of foul play and Kahle had been ill in recent days. The family’s physician signed off on the decision not to have an autopsy.
Kahle worked at WKBW from 1978 to 2001 (when he was laid off from the station by Ransom). He was best know as the co-host of AM Buffalo.
Back in Kahle's day, AM Buffalo was a local morning show that was very well done and did a good job on mixing news with features. Now the show is nothing more than paid sponsors coming on the air to pimp their product.
More on Brian's most famous interview after the skip.
Read MoreBumped up in the Big Apple
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Antwan Lewis has been named coanchor of the Fox 5 Weekend News at 6 and 10 p.m., WNYW Fox 5 Vice President and News Director Dianne Doctor announced Tuesday.
Lewis will coanchor with Christina Park, beginning May 18.
Lewis joined Fox 5 in 2010 from WGN-TV in Chicago. He worked as a general assignment reporter and recently has been the fill-in anchor on "Good Day Wakeup," the station's 4:30-7 a.m. weekday newscast.
Al Roker and Kathie Lee Get Down
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Al Roker and Kathie Lee Gifford get down during the commercial break on the Today Show.
St. Louis Anchor Thinks IRS Targeted him After Obama Interview
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KMOV (St. Louis) Anchor Larry Connors thinks he may have become a target of the IRS after he did an interview with President Obama.
Connors lays out his conspiracy theory on his Facebook page.
He writes:
Shortly after I did my April 2012 interview with President Obama, my wife, friends and some viewers suggested that I might need to watch out for the IRS.
I don't accept "conspiracy theories", but I do know that almost immediately after the interview, the IRS started hammering me.
At the time, I dismissed the "co-incidence", but now, I have concerns ... after revelations about the IRS targeting various groups and their members.
MOre of his story after the jump.
Read MoreNew Morning Show Struggling in the Ratings
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NBC's Today Show isn't the only morning show that is having a tough time in the ratings.
Cross north of the border into Canada and take a look at Global Montreal.They started new local morning show are were hoping to hit the market with a bang.
They have fallen well short of the mark.
According to figures, last week Morning News has an average audience of about 500 people.
500?!
The PA announcements at the local high school draws more people.
Global Montreal’s Evening News isn't exactly a ratings juggernaut either. The 6PM newscast pulls in just 3,800.
Global Montreal’s station manager could not immediately be reached for comment on its ratings.
We're guessing the GM is frantically updating his resume.
Free Pub or Desperate Act?
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There is no doubt that the Today Show is doing anything they can to get their ratings back up. But, the latest stunt seems more like an act of desperation.
The Today Show is having popular morning radio show hosts in different markets give tours of their city.
It seems like a simple plan. Send the camera into town, have DJ's show off their city and then they'll talk about it on their morning show. It's like a free promo for Today on the hit radio station in town.
But, more often than not the pieces are boring and the radio people that think they are funny, really aren't.
It's also a stunt that appears more like a last measure of desperation when you have the ride the coattails of morning DJ's to bump up your numbers.
Here are the hosts from Chicago's 101.9FM The Mix hanging out with the Today Show cameras.
CNN Anchor Reveals She Has Cancer
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It's ratings and this is the time that News Anchorss to discuss their cancer battles.
CNN Anchor Zoraida Sambolin is the latest to disclose that she is battling the big "C".
Sambolin told viewers has breast cancer and is getting a double mastectomy.
The CNN "Early Start" Anchor talked about her condition on the show this morning while discussing the recent double mastectomy of actress Angelina Jolie.
Sambolin said wanting to be there for her children helped her make the decision.
F-Bomb Anchor Now Tending Bar
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A.J. Clemente started off his TV anchoring career in tiny Bismarck with his first words being "fuckin shit".
He was fired shortly after that newscast.
From there Clemente went on a red carpet tour of New York talk shows, Letterman, The Today Show, Kelly and Michael.
Clemente talked about his swearing incident and tweeted about his new fame and all the great things he was doing and the people he was meeting.
Clemente told Letterman he would take calls from ESPN. He then said he was thinking Hollywood was more his speed.
FTVLive kept warning Clemente that his 15 minutes were just about up.
Now, the rookie F-Bomb anchor has landed his next job.
Find out was his new job is and what his TV plans are after the jump.
Read MoreJustice Department Secretly Obtained AP's Phone Records
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n a move that should send shivers down the spine of any Journalist, the U.S. Justice department “secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press,” according to the AP.
The records obtained by the Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.
A release from the Associated Press notes that President and CEO Gary Pruitt has denounced the action in a May 13 letter.
See what the AP says after the bounce.
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