WFTS (Tampa) reporterRob Munoz stayed in the market just long enough to have a cup of coffee.
Now he's headed to the land of coffee.
After just one year in Tampa, Munoz is leaving for KIRO in Seattle.
Munoz told his Twitter followers yesterday that he was packing up and headed to Seattle:
He starts at KIRO on March 10th.
When WCVB Channel 5 (Boston) announced that Mike Dowling was leaving the station after more than 28 years as a sports reporter and weekend sports anchor, some viewers probably thought he was forced out.
No one would choose to stop getting paid to attend games, right? Dowling, however, insists the decision was his.
"It was time," he said. "I've been thinking about it for a while."
Dowling said he made his decision in November, but remained with the station until lead sports anchor Mike Lynch returned from spring training. His final day was last Friday.
"I don't want to say it became a grind," Dowling said, "because our jobs are certainly good jobs and it's not digging ditches, but I felt like I've kind of seen it all and covered it all."
Read MoreThe video is shaky and blurry, but it is historic.
An activist apparently managed to smuggle the first-ever known video recording of a Supreme Court hearing out of the storied building and posted it to YouTube as part of a protest against the court's pro-corporate Citizens United ruling.
Cameras are banned from the court, and only audio of most arguments has ever been released in public.
Here's the video:
H/T Gawker
MSNBC's Ronan Farrow has been on the air just a few days and he has already picked up the Cronkite Award for Excellence in Exploration and Journalism. Proving that most Journalism awards are a bunch of crap.
Farrow is also learning how to spin the press in his first week.
As FTVLive told you two days ago, Reporters were ordered to sign a form pledging they will not ask Farrow, the son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen (or possibly Frank Sinatra), personal questions if they want to attend a benefit where he will be honored Wednesday night.
Farrow says he did not make that demand.
Page Six says they were informed by Reach the World Director Heather Halstead that the order came “direct” from Ronan’s team.
Someone is lying, find out who after the jump.
Read MoreWMC Anchor Pam McKelvy has shared her battle with breast cancer with her audience
On Wednesday (the last day or ratings), McKelvy took a final step in her journey, and she did it on camera.
"A woman's relationship with her hair is sacred. Her hair is her crown of glory. And for women in TV. It's intensified. I lost my hair after chemo and I've been wearing a wig since this past march. Today I'm taking it off for good. This is a milestone, blessed experience for me," said McKelvy.
McKelvy got a bit teary eyed has she pulled off her wig and showed her hair that is starting to grow back.
Here's the video (note the audio goes out for a few seconds in the middle)
It appears that NBC News used fake audio from a radio report while covering last week's rescue of a dying baby on a Florida expressway.
It was a story that captured the heart, a baby stops breathing in the middle of traffic on a highway expressway and good Samaritans come to the rescue.
A newspaper Photographer catches the rescue seen on camera. And NBC Corespondent Mark Potter says the incident "was broadcast live on local radio."
The problem was....it was not.
NBC called Broward radio station WFTL and asked for the live audio from the station's coverage of the rescue. The radio station did not have any audio, so morning host Rich Stevens went into an audio booth and made it up.
This is what it look and sounded like on Potter's report for NBC News.
Gossip Extra points out that Stevens is the morning host, the rescue happened at 2:30 in the afternoon. It's likely that Stevens wasn't even at the station when it happened.
Stevens isn’t returning calls for comment but his boss, GM Steve Lapa, says he sees nothing wrong with what Stevens did.
“The information fed to Rich was accurate,” Lapa said. “We had the info fed to us by the traffic people, and there’s nothing wrong with how we voiced it.”
It appears that NBC was either taken in by the fake audio, or worse they knew it was fake and aired in anyway.
So far NBC News isn't commenting on the story.
Former MSNBC Anchor Keith Olbermann says that he stopped watching MSNBC while he was still working at the network.
Of course, a lot of people stopped watching MSNBC while Olbermann was there. But then again, they didn't have a show on the network at the time.
Olbermann told TPM he hasn't tuned into his old cable news channel since 2009 -- more than a year before he left the network in 2011.
TPM reached out to Olbermann on Thursday to for his thoughts about a "Morning Joe" segment on proposed rules for nutritional labels where host Mika Brzezinski threw junk food and soda in the trash. After all, Olbermann once reportedly took some heat from the network's top brass for addressing a health issue.
"I don't know anything about this as I've never watched [Joe] Scarborough's shows and I stopped watching msnbc in 2009," Olbermann wrote in an email.
Olbermann did a segment on his former show, "Countdown," in 2005 that drew on his own cancer scare to urge viewers to quit smoking. The New York Daily News reported at the time that the segment riled up MSNBC's then-president Rick Kaplan so much that he "erupted angrily and at length, calling Olbermann 'out of control' and 'not to be trusted,' and accusing him of driving away viewers from the 9 p.m. debut of Kaplan hire Rita Cosby's show, 'Live and Direct.'"
Olbermann put that rumor to bed, telling TPM in an email that no one at MSNBC had reprimanded him for suggesting people quit smoking.
"I'm sorry, nobody at msnbc 'threw heat' at me for suggesting people quit smoking," Olbermann wrote. "We had a regular on-air segment and a continuous web presence."
Olbermann left MSNBC in early 2011 after his relationship with cable news channel deteriorated.
WKYC (Cleveland) Anchor Robin Swoboda will anchor her last newscast for the station tomorrow night. She’s not retiring. She’s not withdrawing from public life. She’s just calling it quits as a news anchor.
“Your contract has an expiration date, and, when it expires, you need to decide whether or not to renew,” Swoboda said from her home in Medina. “And my heart just isn’t in doing the news anymore, so it’s as simple as that. I’m too young and too bored to retire. My desire would be that, whatever I end up doing, I can wear cowboy boots.”
The Cleveland Plain Dealer writes that she emphasizes that her decision has nothing to do with WKYC, where she has co-anchored the 7 p.m. newscast with Jim Donovan. It has everything to do with reassessing life and goals and aspirations as she moves into her mid-50s.
“When I walked away from a station before, it was to spend more time with my family or for another job opportunity,” Swoboda said. “This feels different, because it’s completely my choice and it doesn’t have anything to do with outside influences. This is just me saying, ‘This just isn’t me.’ ”
More after the jump.
Read MoreIf you drop a lizard story on WPBF Anchor Felicia Rodriguez, don't be surprised if she cops and S-bomb.
When KTVA in Alaska took the wraps off their new news set, it was something to behold. The set was jaw dropping and many much bigger market stations drooling.
But it isn'y only the news set that is cutting edge, the entire station was reinvented from the ground up.
And one of FTVLive's sponsors, Devlin Design Group played a huge part in the rebirth of the station.
Devlin shares the story of KTVA with FTVLive.
This is a story about a group of scenic artists with a 23,000 square-foot blank canvas, a long sea voyage, an adventure in a far-away land, and all within a time frame that would frighten the writers of “24.”
Read the full story after the jump.
Read MoreNBC's Todays Show is doing "love your selfie" week. The week started off with the Anchors hosting an hour of the show with no make up.
This morning, Today showed a photo of Matt, Savannah, Al and Natalie that was then photoshopped by the folks at Cosmopolitan magazine.
You will notice that the color of the clothes changed, but you might also notice that both Matt and Natalie got more hair.
Here's the before and after:
KTVU Reporter Heather Holmes was sent out to cover the Miley Cyrus concert in town.
She ended up doing something that was more gross than Miley (and that's saying something).
While she was talking, a big snot ball was coming out of her nose. She ended the report by eating it!
Seriously, we are not kidding. If you haven't recently eaten, you can watch the video here.
Holmes did show a bit of her sense of humor about the incident on Twitter:
H/T Rich Lieberman
KHQ in Spokane decided to give some idiot Facebook commentator a little bit more time in the sun.
Here's a screen shot of what the station posted:
Now if someone posted that one of their Anchor's looked like a two-bit whore, would KHQ have used that comment as a Facebook question?
KHQ's Facebook post has received over 700 comments — remarks that covered the spectrum from decrying the person who made the "monkey" comment to decrying KHQ for even posing the question. And of course there were plenty who joined in the racism.
For its part, KHQ defended its post in the Facebook comment thread after someone accused the station of "trying to fuel the 'race' war": "Really? You think we are fueling the race card? Do you have any idea how many racist comments we see on our Facebook threads every day? There are too many to count. Typically we just ignore them but we wanted to try and bring awareness to the issue by starting a positive discussion."
Jeff Hite, KHQ's assistant news director, adds: "We felt that the topic was a good conversation starter on Facebook, as opposed to our website (or on air). We do like to engage the audience in a thoughtful way."
So the station figured posting some racist's words was "thoughtful"?
How does that start a "thoughtful" conversation?
The bottom line is KHQ posted this question to drum up attention to their Facebook page and nothing more.
How someone isn't fired over this is beyond us.
H/T The Inlander
It seems like just about everyone at ABC is unveiling their personal demons.
The question, is it just a coincidence or a new strategy in the world of "all about me TV"?
The Hollywood Reporter writes that into every life a little rain must fall, and it's obvious to viewers of ABC News that its anchors lately have endured a downpour. One after another has made headlines for disclosing personal travails.
Nightline co-anchor Dan Harris confessed to cocaine and ecstasy use to palliate depression that set in after covering wars in the Middle East. He has chronicled his journey from on-air panic attack to self-discovery through meditation in a book, 10% Happier. Then, on Feb. 7, Los Angeles-based correspondentCecilia Vega revealed her father's heroin addiction in the course of reporting on the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. 20/20 anchor Elizabeth Vargas — a frequent fill-in for Robin Roberts last year on Good Morning America while Roberts was battling a life-threatening blood disease (chronicled on GMA) — in November admitted to being an alcoholic. A few days after Vargas' revelation, correspondent Amy Robach divulged she had breast cancer and would undergo a bilateral mastectomy. Extraordinarily, Robach's cancer was discovered after a live, on-air mammogram as part of a GMA segment. (She later was featured on People's cover.)
To be sure, ABC's anchors are not the only ones sharing: Al Roker's dramatic weight loss was chronicled on NBC; Tamron Hall, Lester Holt and other African-American anchors have talked about being racially profiled; and NBC correspondents Jenna Wolfe and Stephanie Gosk scored airtime for the birth of their daughter last summer.
Still, ABC News' recent trend toward making its anchors the story has prompted cynical eye-rolling among some competitors. But ABC executives are adamant that there is no larger strategy afoot.
"The confluence of personal stories coming out of this news division is absolutely not by design," ABC News senior vp Jeffrey Schneider tells THR. "They just reflect real life and real things happening to real people. It is our belief that telling those stories in a relatable way is the best way to deal with them."
After all, in the social media age, personal disclosure, even from the once buttoned-up TV anchors, no longer is taboo.
So is the new TV news strategy to show which station or network has the most screwed up anchors?
Local station might want to get their anchors hitting the crack pipe now....the May book is right around the corner.
KBFX (Bakersfield) Weatherman Aaron Perlman had spider come down on him during his weather segment and he went all schoolgirl.
Somewhere Jim "The American Bald Ego" Cantore is shaking his bald head.
You can stop love, even if it involves a competitor.
Orlando reporters WFTV's Anthony DiLorenzo and WKMG's Kala Rama are getting hitched.
The couple will wed April 26 in Newport, R.I., and honeymoon in Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
"My parents are from Sri Lanka, and I'm excited to show Anthony where they came from, and then it's off to paradise in the Maldives," Rama said Wednesday.
"We're both from Connecticut, and Newport is a city on the ocean we have been visiting our whole lives," DiLorenzo said. "We are fortunate enough to be getting married on the historic Cliff Walk at the Rosecliff."
He started at WFTV in January 2013 to be near Rama, who is also a weekend anchor. Things have gone swimmingly.
"This has probably been one of the best years of our lives personally and professionally," DiLorenzo said. "We had been in a long-distance relationship for several years and finally struck the perfect balance in Orlando."
Rama described herself as "Anthony's biggest fan in this competitive business."
She added: "It sounds cheesy, but I respect him greatly as a journalist and his opinion matters to me. I think we make each other better at work and we can still be best friends at home! When he doesn't like an outfit I wore on the anchor desk, that's another story!"
Being competitors hasn't been a problem in their romance, he agreed.
"It's nice to come home at the end of the day to someone who 'gets' the news business," he said. "While we're at competing stations, we've never had it get in the way of our relationship. It's a healthy competition. We've managed to strike a balance between our home and work lives."
We're sure the News Directors at both stations want the couple to watch the pillow talk.
H/T Orlando Sentinel
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