Man Caught Stealing Roses During Live Shot

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Man Caught Stealing Roses During Live Shot

A Polish news crew reporting live from outside an apartment complex captured some breaking news as their cameras inadvertently recorded a crime in progress.

As the reporter for 24-hour news channel TVN24 went on about two local parents accused of keeping their kids locked indoors for five years, a thief could be seen in the background stealing a bouquet of roses from a flower shop.

Two employees are then seen emerging from the store before quickly returning inside, presumably to phone the police.

The crook was identified and apprehended, thanks in large part to his appearance on the news.

More plus the video after the leap.  

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Staying out of the Hood(ie)

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With the George Zimmerman trial starting Today, Sinclair has sent down an edict not to show pictures of Trayvon Martin wearing a hoodie. 

The Producers at WPEC in West Palm Beach were sent a memo that says to replace any photos in any packages that show Martin wearing a hoodie. 

The memo read in part: 

"Do not use any photos showing Trayvon Martin wearing a hoodie. 

Do not show show Trayvon wearing a hoodie in vid boxes, teases, cold opens or in packages that are downloaded from CBS or CNN. If there is a pic of Trayvon wearing a hoodie in a CBS or CNN pkg please replace it."

Corporate has approve 9 photos that are allowed on the newscasts at WPEC.  

No word if Sinclair is allowing Producers to wear a hoodie in the often chilly WPEC newsroom.  

EXCLUSIVE! Flying High with Robin Meade

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EXCLUSIVE! Flying High with Robin Meade

FTVLive has said it so many times in the past, when it comes to great people in TV news, the list starts with Robin Meade.

The HLN Morning Anchor is one of the nicest people you will ever meet and an excellent anchor to boot. 

FTVLive worked with Robin years ago at WSVN in Miami. She was a such a professional to work with, but it was her personality that set her apart from the rest. Robin truly is a rare bread of being so good on air and so nice off of it. When Robin asks how your day is going, she really wants to know.

She is also a person that understands social media. With over 130,000 followers on Twitter, Meade not only Tweets several times a day, she engages her followers. She seems to respond to every person that asks her a question on Twitter. Although she is on the 5 hours a day starting at 6AM, it is not uncommon to see her answering Tweets well into the night. 

Along with her anchoring and social media skills, Robin is also one hell of a singer. Tomorrow, Meade's second album "Count on Me" is being released. 

We caught up with Robin in a taxi from Nashville airport to her hotel for CMA fest where she was performing at the Opry and and doing some meet and greets with viewers.

We talk to her about her new album and about the day FTVLive changed her career (seriously!).  

Read our interview with Robin Meade after the jump.   

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Couric Heading to CNN?

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Is Katie Couric going to go to CNN to rejoin Jeff Zucker? 

FTVLive told you last week that Couric's talkshow 'Katie' is on deathwatch and many think next season will be the last for the perky one.

But, it appears that Couric may already have her next job lined up. 

Buzz in the hallways at ABC is that Couric could leave 'Katie"after Season 2 and head to CNN to rejoin Zucker.

“The show was oversold at syndication and hasn’t lived up to expectations,”  a TV source told Page Six. “Now everyone at ABC is gossiping that Katie will end up at CNN with Jeff.”

Stay tuned....  

MSNBC Hopes Zimmerman Trial can Rescue Falling Ratings

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If you can't beat them....join them.  

MSNBC is hoping George Zimmerman will do something that Chris Hayes and Al Sharpton have not.

Help raise the ratings for the cable news network that admits they don't like news.  

MSNBC says they will cover the Zimmerman trial in-depth, which is something they don't normally do. 

But after MSNBC watched rivals HLN and CNN racked up huge ratings with wall-to-wall coverage of trials like Casey Anthony's and Jodi Arias's they decided to join in.

MSNBC finished the May book fourth place as CNN rode the Arias wave to higer numbers. 

An MSNBC says they will offer "in-depth, continuing coverage" of the Zimmerman trial, and would "cover the criminal proceedings live as news warrants during our regularly scheduled programs."

MSNBC does have a bit of an advantage for the Zimmerman trial. Their own Al Sharpton extremely close to the Martin family and might be able to provide MSNBC with access that other networks may not be able to match.

And the Tony Goes to......News?!

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And the Tony Goes to......News?!

Atlanta viewers were more than pissed last night when WGCL decided to dump out of the Tony Awards to bring the late news.  

The Tonys went past the 11PM end time and most CBS stations around the country stuck around to the conclusion. 

WGCL cut out before the winner was named for Best Musical and before the Tonys always well anticipated closing number.  

Oh! and when they did announce the winners on the newscast. The anchor stumbled and bumbled so many times, we don't know who won:

Angry viewers turned to Social Media and the lit WGCL up on their Facebook page.

See the video and some of what tee'd of viewers wrote after the hop.   

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Control Room Fire Knocks Newscast off the Air

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Control Room Fire Knocks Newscast off the Air

Viewers it Ft. Myers got a bit of a surprise while watching the news on Friday. 

In Ft. Myers, the newscast had one anchor from WBBH and one anchor from WZVN. 

Why?  

Because of a fire in the control room at WZVN made the station unable to air their newscasts. The fire causes damage to their switcher.

WZVN simalcasts their news with WBBH which is located in the same building. They used and anchor from each station.

Video of the start of the newscast with an explanation from the anchors after the bounce:

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A Nose for News

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A Nose for News

Poor Canadian news anchor Alexis de Lancer. He was signing off the newscast, when he got a sudden nosebleed.

As he tried to wipe away the blood, he only made it worse. Some viewers were very concerned as to what happened to the anchor, but de Lancer responded to his fans on Twitter by saying that he’s fine and it was just “bad timing”.

The video of the bleeding anchor after the jump.   

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I'm Sorry....Sort of

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Glenn Beck says he's sorry, but is it all just part of a bigger plan? 

The former Fox News host host apologized Thursday for “dividing” the country with his conservative and controversial views in recent years.

Beck delivered the mea culpa while accepting a First Amendment award from Talkers magazine, a talk radio trade publication.

The 49-year-old agitator won the award for his defense of free speech, but admitted his own tirades have pitted Americans against each other.

“For any role that I have played in dividing, I wish I can take them back,” he said. “I don’t wish I could take back the truth that was spoken, but perhaps — not perhaps — many times I could have said it differently.”

At least one Beck adversary attributed the apology to self-interest. Angelo Carusone, of the liberal advocacy group Media Matters, said Beck is merely trying to rehab his image so cable and satellite operators agree to broadcast his news and entertainment network, The Blaze.

Stay tuned... 

H/T NY Daily News

 

O-Town Stations Gear up for Zimmerman Trial

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The Orlando stations are getting ready for the Case Anthony Sequel and it starts Tomorrow.

When the topic is the George Zimmerman TV coverage, the discussion inevitably turns to Casey Anthony.

"We as a media learned as we went along with that case because of the way it exploded two years ago," said Jeff Zeller, news director at WOFL-Channel 35. "That's kind of a blueprint, but this is a very different case. We may have more going on in the community."

The Zimmerman case already has generated hundreds of hours of coverage, locally and nationally, about the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. But the stations acknowledge they don't know whether the public will follow Zimmerman with the same fervor accorded the Anthony murder trial.

•WFTV-Channel 9 will telecast the Zimmerman opening statements live, then check how the public is responding, General Manager Shawn Bartelt said. "If the viewer demand is there, we're covering it on Channel 9," Bartelt said.

•WKMG-Channel 6 will put everything on its main channel or subchannel 6.2, which is 463 on Bright House Networks. "We're going to start off taking the trial [on Channel 6]," news director Steve Hyvonen said. "We do anticipate a great deal of viewer interest."

•WOFL has developed plans to cover the trial gavel-to-gavel on its air, Zeller said. "Many things happen in the trial. We'll be flexible," he added. "I think there's significant interest in this community."

•WESH-Channel 2 wouldn't discuss its TV plans. But most stations will stream everything online, starting with jury selection Monday. Central Florida News 13 won't but will post clips and stories through the day. The plan is to cover the entire trial live on News 13, said Elliott Wiser of Bright House.

H/T Orlando Sentinel  

Paralyzed Vocal Cord Keeps Anchor off the Air

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Paralyzed Vocal Cord Keeps Anchor off the Air

Vanessa Flowers sounds hoarse.

Like she spent too much time yelling for her beloved Crimson Tide at an Alabama football game.

Or she’s in the midst of a really bad cold.

Regardless, she couldn’t be more pleased with a raspy voice.

She’s just happy to be heard.

“This right here is actually kind of a miracle with what the doctors have been able to do,” she said in a conference room at KOLN/KGIN-TV studios in north Lincoln.

Because three weeks ago -- before a specialist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center injected a gel into her vocal fold -- her voice was nothing more than a whisper.

That’s not a good thing when your livelihood depends on your voice.

Flowers, 37, is the noon and 5 p.m. anchor at KOLN, the Lincoln CBS affiliate, and she’s been off the air -- save for giving it the old college try one day in March -- since Jan. 16.

“I was going on the 5 o’clock news, and my voice … I didn’t feel bad,” she remembered. “There was nothing leading up to to it. There were no signs or symptoms. I wasn’t coughing or sneezing -- no signs of any problems.

“But about five minutes before we hit the air, I started practicing a little and wondered ‘What’s going on?’”

Read the rest after the jump.    

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