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Shame on WUSA in DC for forcing viewers to watch a commercial before getting the station's live stream of coverage from the shootings at the DC Naval Yard. 

All the DC stations are streaming their coverage, but only WUSA is tacking an ad onto the live video before it plays. 

I understand that stations want to make money, but this is disgraceful.  

Fortunately, WUSA is the only DC station stooping to this level.

Earlier FTVLive posted links to all the DC station's live coverage.  

Matt Lauer Out of the Mix Again

When the Boston Marathon bombings happened, Today Show co-anchor Matt Lauer was 1800 miles away in West Texas.

NBC sent Lauer to the site of the Fertilizer Plant explosion in West Texas. He did not end up getting much air time as all eyes were focused on Boston.

Fast forward to Today, the Today Show took the wraps off their new set in studio 1A. Lauer missed the sets debut.

NBC sent Lauer to Colorado to cover the massive flooding.

But, once again, breaking news has Lauer taking a back seat. The multiple shootings at the DC Navy Yard has NBC and Today covering the breaking developments of that story and is taking away greatly from Lauer's air time. 

Poor Matt can't seem to catch a break.  

DC Stations Cover Shooting at Navy Yard

All the DC stations are going wall to wall with the breaking news of a shooting at the DC Navy Yard. 

Reports are at least 7 people shot so far. WJLA was the first to break the news. 

Here are links to live coverage: 

WJLA 

WTTG

WUSA 

WRC

Look Who's doing The View

Last week FTVLive told you about the rumor being reported by a New York newspaper that Katie Couric was in line to takeover for Barbara Walters at 'The View' when Babs retires.

Both Walters and Couric denied the rumor saying there was no truth to it. 

This morning 'The View' sent out this tweet.:

Talk about adding fuel to the fire.  

Hasselbeck Debuts on Fox and Friends

It's like the mothership called her home. 

This morning Elisabeth Hasselbeck made her long awaited debut on Fox and Friends.  

A couple of times Steve Doocy said it was "a new day" and Fox and Friends. A not so subtle poke at CNN's morning show of the same name. 

It seemed that Fox was more excited about their new set than they were with Hasselbeck. The show opened with Doocy and Brian Kilmeade throwing away the old curvy couch and then walking inside the studio to debut the new set.

They were then met by Hasselbeck who brought Doocy and Kilmeade coffee cups. Doocy complained his cup was empty.

We're gusiing that Hasselbeck will be doing more at F&F's then getting her co-hosts coffee.  

The former beauty queen says she is happy to be at Fox News and F&F's. “I’m a long-time fan,” she tells the NY Daily News. “My family watches them. I’ve feel like I’ve known them forever.”

She says her first goal is more modest. “These guys know how to run the plays,” she says. “It’s like joining a Super Bowl team. I’m just happy to have a playbook. I’m going to figure it out as I go along.”

And what about the conservative tag that almost always fronts her name? “What bothers me is that it’s so one-sided. You almost never see ‘wildly liberal’ in front of someone’s name.

“Any time you look at someone as a label, it’s unfortunate. My friends don’t all think the way I do — and that’s perfectly fine.”

Right now she's just happy being the new co-anchor of Fox and Friends.  

The Video...

Here is the first couple minutes of Fox and Friends this morning, where Elisabeth Hasselbeck made her debut and they unveiled their new set. 

The New Studio 1A

Fox and Friends wasn't the only one taking the wraps off a new set. Over at 30 Rock, the crew from the Today Show showed off their new digs. 

Matt Lauer was not around for the unveiling, he was sent to Colorado to cover the flooding. 

Al Roker posted a 6 second tour of the new set on Vine: 

CBS O&O's Get New Graphic Package

The CBS O&O's are getting a new look graphic package. Here is a look at what some of them will look like: 

H/T Newscast Studio

Reporter Turns to Twitter to Find Hit and Run Suspect

Reporters use Twitter for many things. They use it to find stories, promote their stories and to blow off steam. 

One Reporter has turned to Twitter to find the person that ran down his wife in a hit and run. 

NFL reporter Jason La Canfora tweeted on Friday in an effort to spread the word about a hit-and-run suspect responsible for putting his wife in the hospital.

Shortly after 10 a.m., La Canfora tweeted: “Let me catch the scumbag who is trying to get away with the hit and run on York Rd in Towson from a half hour agao. You will pay.”

La Canfora has more than 330,000 Twitter followers, and his initial tweet received more than 100 retweets.

Hours later, he tweeted again, this time with a link to a news report from The Baltimore Sun.

His wife Lauren was seriously hurt in the crash, but was finally discharged from the hospital. 

And while while no follow-up report has indicated a suspect has been located, thanks to the power of Twitter, people in the Baltimore-area will undoubtedly be on high alert for a “white four-door foreign vehicle” with “hood and bumper damage” and a temporary Maryland tag.

H/T CBS DC

We're Sorry You Had to Watch That

While many of you get to sit down on Sunday afternoon and watch NFL professional football, we here in Jacksonville are stuck watch the Jacksonville Jaguars. 

The Jags are so bad that I think a high school team could beat them. 

But not only are Jacksonville residents stuck watching that awful excuse for a football team, Orlando viewers get stuck with the game as well. 

And WKMG in Orlando actually apologized to the viewers because they were stuck watching the Jacksonville Jokes.

WKMG issued an on-air explanation for why it aired the struggling Jaguars while many NFL fans probably would have preferred seeing the Denver Broncos-New York Giants game, a possible Super Bowl preview featuring Peyton and Eli Manning.

WKMG TV issued the scrolled message on Sunday. It read that NFL policy states the station must carry all Jags away games. The end of the message said: "We apologize for any inconvenience.''

Viewers then took to Twitter to remark on what many saw as an apology from the station.

But WKMG vice president and general manager Skip Valet says the arrangement is nothing new. He says for nearly two decades Orlando has been designated the secondary Jaguars market and has carried all the away games. As he put it: "I know it's frustrating, but as a CBS station in this market you have to carry the away games.''

We can't blame Valet, anyone stuck watching that team. we feel sorry for them as well.  

H/T ESPN

The Top 5 Most Read Stories for the Week

Here are the Top5 Stories that you guys clicked on the most last week, which by the way was another record week for traffic to FTVLive.

Let's roll with the countdown: 

No. 5 -  SEX OR SLEEP? ABC'S NEWSMAN'S WIFE WILL TAKE THE LATTER

No. 4 -  WHAT'S UP WITH YOU DUDE? VOL. 8

No. 3 -  CANDY ARM

No. 2-  I'M ON?! NOW?!

And the most clicked on story in the past week was: LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE

Back on in Jax

Anchor Joy Purdy was on the air in Jacksonville. She left, then came back, then left again, then came back, then left again and now she is coming back again. 

According to a station's news release, 

Purdy is rejoining WJXT and will anchor weeknights at 5:30pm, 6:30pm and 11:00pm with Rob Sweeting.

Joy was a weekend anchor and reporter at WJXT from 1995-2000.  She left WJXT in 2000 to anchor newscasts at WFOR in Miami.  After leaving television earlier this year, she spent time with her young children and saw her stepdaughter graduate from the University of North Florida.  Now Joy is returning to television news.

When Purdy came back from Miami, she was anchor across the street at WTLV in Jacksonville.

The interesting thing is that the WJXT release doesn't even mention the fact that she was a one time anchor at the competition. They have no problem using the call letters of WFOR in Miami, but not of their competitor. So the station just left out that fact. 

Guess it's now time for the obligatory sound bites: 

 "We’ve been looking for just the right person to join Mary Baer, Tom Wills and Rob Sweeting in the evenings.  Joy is like so many of us, trying to find the time to balance all the things important in life between home and work.  To have her back with her original TV family at The Local Station and bring that perspective to our viewers who are trying to do the same thing is the perfect match," says Vice President and General Manager Bob Ellis.

Ms. Purdy commented, "I was able to spend important time at home with my baby.  She is now a toddler, sleeping through the night, eating table food, and learning a lot from her older 3-year-old sister!  Now that things have calmed down at home, I look forward to rejoining an incredible news team who are like family to me!"