Anchorman 2 New Trailer

The cast of Anchorman 2 was spotted filming in New Your City ​and they have also released a new trailer over the Weekend:

Bumped up in Lex

Staring Today longtime Lexington news anchor Jennifer Palumbo will begin leading a 4 p.m. weekday newscast on WKYT in addition to anchoring the 10 p.m. newscast on sister channel WDKY.

Palumbo got her start at WYMT in 1994, and then moved to WKYT, where she worked her way up from weekend producer to weekday anchor. She took a break from the business in 2005, returning in 2007 for the launch of Fox 56 Morning Edition. For the past four years, she has anchored the 10 p.m. news.

H/T Kentucky.com

St. Louis Anchor Barred from Facebook

St. Louis Anchor Larry Connors has been barred from posting on Facebook according to his attorney. ​

Last week, Connors claimed on his Facebook page that he became a target of the IRS after his interview with President Obama.​

Connors then admitted that his IRS trouble started before the interview with the President.​

KMOV has taken Connors off the air but the station stopped short of calling it a suspension (even though that is exactly what ii is). BELO the parent company of KMOV felt that Connors crossed the line in his post on the social media website.

“As a news anchor, he owes a duty to our viewers to report in an unbiased manner. His Facebook post and his Twitter posts, as a result, were inappropriate. And we don’t condone personal posts that jeopardize the journalistic nature of our business. It’s really that simple, ” said BELO's Mike Valentine.

Since Connors has been off the air, he has not posted on Facebook and has hired and attorney. ​

The attorney claims that the company has barred Connors from posting on Facebook or talking about the incident. The lawyer sent out this statement: ​

The Top 5 Most Read Stories on FTVLive This Week

So what are the stories that you guys found most interesting on FTVLive this past week. Here are the Top 5 most read stories from the week.​

No. 5 -​ Dallas Anchor has Been Served in Lawsuit

No. 4 -​ F-Bomb Anchor Now Tending Bar

No. 3 -​ NY Anchor Tweets Racy Message on Twitter By Mistake

No. 2 - Hoda and Kathie Lee Talking about FTVLive

And the No. 1 most read story on FTVLive last week was: ​Not Sure We'll see Scott Pelley Do that

Chicago Anchor Gone from CBS O&O

In a head shaking move, WBBM in Chicago has parted ways with their morning anchor,while still in the all important May sweeps.​

Susan Carlson who has been at the station for 11 years is out.  Her bio scrubbed from station's website.​

Carlson anchored the CBS O&O's Morning News at 4:30 AM, 5:00 AM, and 6:00 AM. She spent five years at the station working six days a week.

Now she is gone and no replacement has been named.​

Stay tuned on this one. ​

St. Louis Anchor off the Air After IRS Tax Claims

FTVLive reported the story that KMOV (St. Louis) Anchor Larry Connors claimed they he was a target of the IRS after he did an interview with President Obama.

It appears that the anchor may have left out a tiny little detail...like the fact that his IRS troubles started well before he did the interview with the President.​

Oops!​

Now, Connors has been taken off the air. The station isn't calling it a suspension but instead he is going “take a few days off”.​

​After his post, Connors went on the air with a brief explanation of his post. He didn't exactly apologize, but he did admit that his troubles with the IRS actually started years prior to his 2012 interview with President Obama.

Connors may or may not have ticked off the President, but he most certainly pissed off BELO, the company that owns his station.​

“Any issue he has with the IRS are personal issues. They have nothing to do with our television station KMOV or him as a journalist,” Mike Valentine, vice president for content at Belo.

So while the station is not saying that Connors has been suspended....he totally has been. 

In this Case a Tie is a Win

Don't count the Today Show out just yet.​

The NBC morning show tied No. 1 ABC's Good Morning America in the demos.​

For the week of May 6-12, NBC's “Today” posted a 1.8 rating in the key demo A25-54 tying with GMA.

​This was “Today’s” best delivery in the demo since February 13, 2013. Year-to-date, “Today” has narrowed the gap with GMA by 52% (51,000) versus the prior season-to-date average.

If used to be that the Today Show was so solidly at Number 1 that a tie with GMA would be a disaster. But, the time have changed and it this case, NBC is looking as the tie as a win. 

What's up with You Dude? Vol. 5

FTVLive opens up the email box to answer some of the biggest burning questions in TV News.

Like the Reporter that wants to know what to do about her Photog that keeps hitting on her? 

One person asks if they should apply for an Anchor opening in Pittsburgh?​

Another wants to know why they keep getting rejection letters from News Directors?​

FTVLive is here to help (OK not really) and we do it in another edition of What's up with you Dude? Vol. 5

Read the latest edition in ScottLand ​

Club Operator That Fleeced Philly Wxman is Sentenced

The South Beach (Miami) club operator who part of the scheme that fleeced former Philly Weatherman John Bolaris out over over $40 grand was sentenced in a Miami courtroom.

​Albert Takhalov cried when the judge sentenced to 12 years in prison for using  a "bar girls" scheme that would separate patrons from their money.

The scheme also separated Bolaris from his job as weather anchor at Fox Philly. Bolaris was fired after he was taken by the ​"bar girls" scheme and then talked about it to Playboy magazine. 

"I feel great, I feel relieved that all that stuff is paid off and they’re behind bars," Bolaris told the Philly Daily News. "If I didn’t [testify], that operation would be still be operating. It was very embarassing ... but I feel good. I’ve had a hardship since then, not working and really feel that I was blackballed from the TV news industry because of it."

​Bolaris claims he is leaving Philly next month for New York City where he claims to have some job opportunities.