FTVLIVE TALENT SPOTLIGHT- MELINDA DAVENPORT

Today, the FTVLive Spotlight is focused on Anchor/Reporter Melinda Davenport. Melinda is currently in the Manchester, New Hampshire market.  You can contact her at melinda@melindadavenport.com  Take a look at her demo reel below:

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Oh Sh*T. KTVU Fires 3 Over Asiana Airlines Gaffe

When KTVU Anchor Tori Campbell read the fake names on air of the flight crew involved in the Asiana Airlines crash, it didn't take news producer Brad Belstock (pictured) long to figure out that they had been pranked.

Shortly after the story hit the air, Belstock sent out this tweet:

Now word is that Belstock was one of three people fired over the incident. 

Two other Producers caught the bullet for their involvement in the embarrassing mistake as well.

Also, gone are Investigate Producer Roland DeWolk and Special Projects Producer Christina Gastelu.

Rich Lieberman says that  Producer Elvin Sledge who works the Noon Show (and was on duty the day of the gaffe),  told management that he's retiring. According to a source, Sledge weeks ago informed his bosses he was going to retire, well before the Asiana Airline name snafu.

FTVLive hears that KTVU News Director Lee Rosenthal held a staff meeting yesterday telling them of the firings. 

Station sources say that morale is very low right now and as one source said "walking into work is like walking into a funeral." 

The station has tried to cover their mistake by getting the video pulled from sites like YouTube. As FTVLive reported, yesterday YouTube restored the video of the "fair use" guidelines. 

Sacked in Sacramento

Last October, longtime KCRA Anchor/Reporter Walt Gray left TV news to take a job as a DJ at a classic rock station.

It appears that was a bad decision.

Yesterday, Gray said he was laid off from the station. He said his layoff was one of several job cuts made by the station.

"There were a number of people across the station who were let go today – good people in several departments," Gray told the Sacramento Bee

"They're cutting costs," he continued. "They have to do what they feel is right for them going forward. … I wish it could have gone differently."

And it appears that Gray is already trying to wiggle his way back into TV news.  

"I would love to remain in broadcasting, certainly," Gray said Wednesday. "Television has always been a favorite."

Oh...now it's your favorite?!  

Really...She Didn't Try and Draw a Dick

Yesterday, FTVLive showed you the story from Flint's WJRT.

Reporter Siobhan Riley was doing a story on some road-construction, when she pretty much drew a penis on the touchscreen.

Her News Director Jayne Hodak says that Riley wasn't trying to draw a dick and it just kind of happened. “This was an innocent mistake on behalf of the reporter. In no way was it intentional,” Hodak writes in an email to JimRomenesko.com.

If you haven't seen the video yet. Here's a link. 

Who is Creepy Cubicle Guy?

People wondered who the creepy guy was during the Anthony Weiner press conference. 

Not Weiner, we know how creepy he was. 

But it was the guy behind him in the cubicle that got a lot of attention on Twitter.  

So just who is he and what was he doing peeking over the cubicle? 

He's WOR Radio reporter Jeff McKinney.

McKinney became a Twitter star as "Cubicle Guy," after he says he showed up late to the presser.

Mckinney said the room was packed and it was the only place left to stand.

The radio reporter said he had no idea he was becoming a star on Twitter. 

The Ego Has Landed

Keith Olbermann may have burned more bridges in this industry than anyone. But, Olbermann points out, when you burn the bridge, just take the tunnel.

Somehow, Olby has tunneled his way back into ESPN and he now claims it was the best place he ever worked. He said that as he worked at other places, ESPN started to look better and better. He thought it was contentious when he was there in the 1990s, but “after my other experiences, it was like ‘Let’s applaud Keith’ for five years.”

He says that his work at MSNBC and Current TV "took a lot out of me, and it wasn’t all that much fun.”

He avoided mentioning either MSNBC or Current by name, and referred to his bosses there as “ex-politicians.” In response to a question about his past experiences at ESPN and Current, he said, “That’s like the difference between color TV and radio.”

He said he has learned a few things from a career marked by stormy exits.

“Man, I better have,” he said. “I have to have figured out what parts of it were my fault.”

Here's a hint Keith, most of it was your fault.  

How long he last at ESPN? 

Stay tuned...  

H/T NY Daily News

Ummmm... You Just Drew a Penis

Somebody need to tell WJRT's (Michigan) Siobhan Riley when you're doing a report about construction, it might be a good idea to NOT draw a picture of a penis on the screen.

Just saying.... 

Let's go to the video:

Tiny Dancer

When stations go live just for the sake of going live, they should bring this little girl along to make the live hit worth watching:.

Let's roll the video out of Chicago: 

The Giants of the Industry

The Library of American Broadcasting Foundation has announced their 2013 Giants of Broadcasting. 

This year’s honorees include Barry Diller, Anne Sweeney, David E. Kelley, Alex Trebek, Morley Safer, Dick Cavett, Robert L. Johnson, Jeff Smulyan, Richard E. Wiley, Richard Leibner and Carole Cooper (pictured).

This year is the 11th Annual Giants of Broadcasting Awards Ceremony and Luncheon and the event will take place in NYC’s Gotham Hall on October 16th. 

The event honors those individuals who have played a pivotal role in creating and advancing the electronic arts. 

Needless to say, I'm not on the list. 

Media Loves A Good Weiner

When it comes to coverage of Anthony Weiner, size does matter.

The cable nets took time off over obsessing over the Royal Baby to cover the latest thing to pop up in the Antony Weiner sex scandal. 

Word came out that Weiner AKA Carlos Danger had sent even more sexts. 

“Up next, we’re moving to a very, very different story,” Wolf Blitzer said as he transitioned the show from the Royal Baby to Anthony's Weiner.

The story is perfect for the cable networks still sulking that the George Zimmerman trial is over. 

As word came down that more sexts were out there and that Weiner was going to be holding a press conference, it was like "Trayvon Who?" for the media.

The kittens had a new shinny object and it was a story that could wrap their hands around (someone that Weiner did as well). 

The ingredients are perfect for cable news: New York, the U.S.’ largest media market, and home base to the networks; sex, politics, deceit and the woman that is standing by her man.

It's almost like we have been teleported back to the Clinton White House.

No matter what, you can expect ball to ball overage on this story from the cable news outlets. 

OK. I'm out of stupid puns now. 

I'm Blaming You Women For This...

Some of you women might be surprised to know that the dildo is  now extinct.  

Yep I heard it on CNN (so it has to be true).

Don't believe me? 

Watch this:  

Woman Goes After O-Town News Crew

A Woman that did seem too happy with WESH in Orlando, went after the crew on the scene of a police officer that had been shot.

The raw tape opens with a reporter running from the woman as she walks around. Then as she goes over to the live truck, the Photog runs towards his camera and it appears the woman gave him a quit pop to the face. 

An  Orlando Police officer then moves in places the lady under arrest.

Let's roll tape: