Houston Station Says Sorry to Competitor

Yesterday, FTVLive told you that KPRC in Houston Tweeted pics of a traffic accident that they took off the air from KTRK. 

Now KPRC says their sorry and are blaming it on someone that works outside the station. 

KPRC GM Jerry Martin released this statement about the incident:

"The image was not ours to post. After investigating, we discovered it was tweeted by an employee of a third party company contracted to assist with our traffic presentation and the matter is being handled privately.

Post Newsweek Inc. has social media guidelines in place and just recently held staff meetings covering this exact topic. We will make sure to extend that training beyond PNS employees to anyone with the potential to post under our brand on any platform. It was an oversight on our end and we extend an apology to Channel 13."

KTRK had quickly used the incident to put together a promo about how KPRC turns to them for news. 

Ouch! 

H/T Mike McGuff

Cat Fight Anchors Say It's All Good

KYW (Philly)  Anchor Nicole Brewer and meteorologist Carol Erickson say that despite what the video shows, they really do like each other.

So what about all the catty comments the two make to each other on the video?  

They say they are just having some "fun." 

"I [really] adore Nicole, but some crazy fun editing put out a totally unreal spin," CBS3 Philly meteorologist Carol Erickson tweeted to fans concerned about the video showing her being berated by weekend anchor Nicole Brewer.

"If you know @CarolCBS3 and me, you know there's only love between us. So, we're going to keep having fun," Brewer tweeted.

But Fox 29's Howard Eskin is calling "Bullshit!"I'm in biz. [that's] BS!" Eskin tweeted Brewer and Erickson, while referencing Brewer's earlier message about "only love between us."

"Nicole Brewer needs to give u respect," Eskin told Erickson.

Either way, the Philly Anchors are getting their 15 minutes and can now say they have gone viral on YouTube.  

MSNBC Stays Away from Breaking News

Shoppers filled a Philadelphia Salvation Army thrift store yesterday morning, unaware that an excavation crew ripping down walls at a gutted building next door was about to yank on the wrong beam with heavy machinery.

The building collapsed, 6 people were killed another 14 hurt....but you won't have known any of this if you were watching MSNBC. 

The cable news network that admits they don't like news. for all intents ignored the building collapse and stayed with their regular programing. 

CNN and Fox News both went wall to wall with coverage of the tragic accident.  

If you're looking for information on big stories like this as MNBC Boss Phil Griffin says "We’re not the place for that." 

OMG! Is That the President?!

WJZ (Baltimore) Anchor Kai Jackson was at the White House yesterday reporting on the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens’ visit with President Obama.

The gathered crowd at the gate apparently mistook Jackson for President Obama and started to scream and shout.  

At that point, Jackson got a fleeting taste of what it must be like to be Obama. You know....minus the IRS, DOJ scandals and all. 

The 60 Market Leap

WSET (Lynchburg-Ronaoke) Reporter Mark Kelly is making a move to the left coast.  

Kelly has been named a general assignment reporter for KPIX 5/KBCW (San Francisco).

Kelly spent 3 years in Lynchburg-Roanoke, Virginia, where he has been a general assignment reporter. During that time, his focus was on politics and government, and he was a fill-in anchor.

He starts at KPIX on August 19th.  

Heeeeeee's Baaaaaaaack!

Keith Olbermann is making a return to cable TV.

This time, Olbermann is headed to TBS (one of the few cable Channels he hasn't pissed off....yet) to help host Turner’s coverage of the Major League Baseball postseason. 

Olby will be working out of TBS' Atlanta-based studio show with Dennis Eckersley and possibly a second analyst.

TBS has both Wild Card Playoff games, 18 of the 20 League Division Series games and exclusive rights to the National League Championship Series. 

Sources say the deal has an option for the 2014 postseason as well.

But come on! This is Keith Olbermann we're talking about.

No way he makes it to next year.  

Al Roker may have summed up the news best with a Facebook post:

St. Louis Station Wiping Egg of Their Face

KMOV in St. Louis has another embarrassment on their hands.  

First, the station fired their longtime Anchor after he went rouge on Facebook. And now the station is catching heat for reporting a story that wasn't even close to true.

The station reported that a "mass casualty" event at a local Holiday Inn after severe weather moved through the market.

KMOV's report spread through the social media world and had news outlets trying to find out more on the story. 

The problem, there was no "mass casualties" and KMOV had to retract the report.

And somewhere, Larry Connors is having a good laugh.  

Here's more on the story that wasn't. 

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Philly Station Denies Cat Fight

Yesterday, FTVLive posted the video of the KYW Cat Fight and after our posting the story went viral.  

The video is edited together clips featuring KYW morning anchor Nicole Brewer and meteorologist Carol Erickson.

Most often the clips featured Brewer snarking at Erickson.  

KYW says the video does not paint an accurate picture.  “Ridiculous.” “It’s edited out of context,” the KYW rep told the Philly Daily News. “Carol has been a mentor to Nicole and they’re friendly both in the newsroom and out. It gives a totally false impression of what they’re relationship is like. Their viewers who’ve watched them over the years know they’re more than friendly.”

If that's friendly...we'd hate to see how they treat their enemies.

Just sayin'

If you haven't seen the video you can watch it here.  

Houston Station Gets its News From Competition

When KPRC wanted to break the news of an overturned truck that was making traffic a mess, they turned to the competition for the pictures. 

KPRC tweeted out some pictures of the accident. The problem was that the pictures were taken straight off the air from competitor KTRK.

KPRC cropped out KTRK, but as most people in Houston know, Mike Guerrero is KTRK's morning chopper reporter/photographer.

It didn't take KTRK long to slap together a promo of the theft: 

H/T Mike McGuff