Word out of the Big Apple is that Dan Mannarino is out as weekend co-anchor on WPIX.
After just anchoring 3 weeks on the Weekend newscasts, sources say This past weekend was Mannarino's last behind the anchor desk.
He will stay on at the station as a Reporter.
Word is WPIX is looking for a replacement for Mannarrino's anchor spot and that News Director Mark Effron is committed to the the two-anchor format.
Something the station did not do in the past.
H/T Tuned In
Word out of SoCal is that KNBC has parted ways with Investigative Reporter Ana Garcia.
The station launched “Get Garcia, Get Results” in April 2012. It was a consumer news segment which exposes fraud, corruption and exploitation.
Garcia's bio is still posted on the website, but she is no longer with the station.
A memo was sent out to the staff late yesterday, telling them Garcia is gone.
That memo after the jump.
Read MoreWord out of the Valley of Sun is that changes are happening.
Phoenix sources tell FTVLive that either new KTVK News Director Cameryn Beck is flexing her muscle or someone in the Gannett ivory tower is already 'suggesting' what happens to anchors even before the merger with Belo?
Either way, it appears that longtime KTVK anchorwoman Patti Kirkpatrick is reportedly OUT.
Insiders say her desk has been cleaned off and management isn't saying much.
Word coming down from the top is that Kirkpatrick is on an "extended leave."
But, sources tell FTVLive that her her contract is up at the end of August and some feel that she may not be back.
Kirkpatrick has been at KTVK 22 years, so it may also be a decision about $$ - she only anchors the early evening newscast.
Stay tuned...
Sometimes life changes your game plan.
Don Hudson joined WHEC in Rochester a year ago, coming from KTVX in Salt Lake City. Now word comes that Hudson is leaving Rochester and headed back to SLC.
Word is that Hudson's mother-in-law has developed severe dementia which meant his wife could not relocate to Rochester. So, he has decided to return to Utah.
FTVLive hears that Hudson's replacement at WHEC will be KOLD Tucson anchor, Scott Kilbury.
The swap is expect to happen soon.
WCNC in Charlotte did a story last night about a man named Woody and look who they interviewed:
So they were talking about Woody and they talked to Harry Beaver?! Seriously?!
No one ever gets fired in TV News, they just "pursue other opportunities."
WITI (Milwaukee) Morning Anchor Shawn Patrick has been fired...errrr... is pursuing other opportunities according to station GM Chuck Steinmetz.
Replacing Patrick is Jessob Reisbeck.
Reisbeck worked in Fresno, Calif., as a sportscaster. He also handled reporting duties and filled in as an anchor.
As for Patrick? GM Steinmetz says "wish him nothing but the best." You know, as he pursues other opportunities.
The media has been all over the sudden death of Actor James Gandolfini.
Gandolfini who was best known for his role as Tony Soprano died while in Italy.
But according to WNBC in New York, this really should not be that big of news right now. WNBC's graphic shows that Gandolfini died back in 2012.
So, why is this just making the news?!
The George Zimmerman trial started off with a big old F-Bomb.
Just a few seconds into the opening statements prosecutor John Guy began his statement with a quote from Goerge Zimmerman “Fucking punks,” “These assholes, they always get away.”
Oops! MSNBC was caught off guard and quickly went to Chuck Todd to apologize and put the trial coverage on a 7 second delay. Todd sent it back to the courtroom, just in time for another F-bomb to fly.
So much for the delay.
The video after the hop.
Read MoreWord is that CBS Anchor Scott Pelley was dispatched to CBS News’ Washington, DC, bureau last week by CBS brass to apologize for rubbing staffers there the wrong way.
At least that is what Page Six is reporting. They say that dissension over pugnacious Pelley’s brusque treatment of them “had been building up for a long time.
Pelley was ordered to go to the DC bureau on Thursday to offer an apology.
Page Six says that it had gotten really bad in the past few weeks, and he was told by management to get his ass to DC.”
Pelley's Rep says: “Scott is often in Washington, was a correspondent there for many years, and talks all the time with members of the team.” A friend added, “Scott just went to DC to visit with the staff and speak to them.”
I don't know about you, but there is nothing funnier than a building collapse where children died.
OK...maybe not.
But, an Australian Anchor get a case of the giggles while reporting on the building collapse and riots in Brazil.
But at least she said she was sorry:
WTVR (Richmond) Reporter Mark Holmberg has been suspended from his job after being arrested for driving under the influence early Friday.
Holmberg posted on his Facebook page that he was riding his motorcycle westbound on Interstate 64 about 2:30 a.m. when he was pulled over by a New Kent County deputy. Holmberg said his blood-alcohol level registered 0.1 percent on a Breathalyzer, above the legal limit of 0.08 percent.
He's got a date with the judge on July 2nd.
Last week, FTVLive told you that WLS in Chicago was pulling the plug on their 11AM newscast.
Well, while WLS is dumping a newscast, WGN is expanding their news commitment.
Starting September 3, WGN Morning News is expanding an extra hour from 9-10am. The added hour will feature anchors Larry Potash, Robin Baumgarten and weatherman Paul Konrad. “There will still be a mix of news and fun,” commented Greg Caputo, WGN News Director. “The new hour of WGN Morning News from 9-10am will take on a more conversational approach to the news and allow viewers a chance to transition into the rest of their day.”
WGN Morning News’ expansion until 10am on September 3 also means Chicago’s Very Own WGN News will add to the most television news hours (54) delivered to Chicago viewers every week, including the continuation of WGN Midday News from 11am-1pm, around the same time WLS cancels their midday news broadcast.
It looks like Gannett's KSDK is done helping out the station across the street.
KSDK says that this year will be the last that they produce a newscast for KDNL Channel the ABC affiliate in St. Louis.
KSDK began producing newscasts for KDNL in January 2011. Under the deal, KSDK controls decisions on hiring and news content for KDNL's newscasts.
KDNL, which is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, cut its newscasts in October 2001.
Tom Tipton, KDNL's General Manager, said it's undetermined whether KDNL will offer local news after the end of the year. "We haven't decided," Tipton said. "We won't make a decision anytime soon, probably the third or fourth quarter."
A Gannett spokesman said the decision to end the partnership is unrelated to Gannett's announcement last week that it is acquiring Belo Corp. of Dallas, which owns KMOV Channel 4 in St. Louis.
Matt Lauer and the Today Show gang are going to give Paula Deen another shot.
Deen has said that she will appear on the NBC morning show this Wednesday.
Last time Deen promised to be on the show, she stiffed them. That action along with others ended up getting her fired from her TV show.
So, it looks like she now has enough time on her hands, she might actually show up this time.
We are outside a rating book, so that means that KOLD chief meteorologist Chuck George is off the air and on another leavce of absence.
This is the forth time that George has gone missing from the station since 2010.
So far, KOLD General Manager Debbie Bush is not talking and George has not posted to his Twitter account since June 6.
George’s last leave was four weeks, ending May 2, when he revealed in an interview on air that he suffers from depression.
Reached by phone today, George said he is not ready to talk about his absence.
That was not the case in early May when he disclosed struggles with depression.
More after the hop.
Read MoreThere will be some downtime for FTVLive updates for a few hours Today.
I'll will be off the grid for a bit Today as I attempt to qualify for the US Senior Open that will be held next month at at Omaha Country Club.
We should be back on the grid later this afternoon.
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