WTTE/WSYX (Columbus) Chief Weatherman Bill Kelly did his forecast from an easy chair.
Word is that Kelly broke his toe after hitting it on a suitcase.
As someone that has broken our toes a dozen or more times, I'm not sure he needed to be in a chair for that, but he was.
And Orlando Reporter is leaving the station for "family reasons".....we've all heard that before. But, this time it really is the case.
Reporter Amanda Evans has decided to leave News 13 to care for her husband, Joe Clark.
"This is the hardest and easiest decision at the same time," Clark told the Orlando Sentinel. "Balancing doctor's appointments, chemo and working full time just wasn't working. News 13 has been so good to me through my husband's battle with cancer, but I know he needs me right now. I definitely hope this is not the end of my TV career. I love my job, but right now, I just love my family more."
In February, Evans revealed that Clark's cancer had returned after major surgery in October. He had been diagnosed with colon cancer, which spread to his peritoneum, the membrane that lines the abdominal cavity.
Evans has shared updates on the couple's Cocktails and Chemo blog.
News 13 announced her decision as well. "I wanted to let you all know that Amanda Evans will be leaving News 13 on May 2nd," Tim Geraghty, News 13's senior director of news, said in a staff memo. "Amanda has decided she needs to give her full attention to her family right now. Amanda has been with News 13 for almost five years. Please join me in wishing Amanda nothing but the best in the near future and beyond."
WPBF Reporter Randy Gyllenhaal helped rescue a kitten. Really it was a resident in the area that heard the kitten cry and didn't give up until it was safe. But, it makes a much better story when a station can claim it was one of their Reporters that was the hero.
A veteran Fox executive who was the Vice President of Standards and Practices for the Fox Cable Networks Group used her company email account to plan aid for loved ones of the missing Malaysian airplane's passengers has been fired.
The AP writes that Darlene Tipton said Saturday she had wanted to arrange swift financial aid to families and other loved ones, sparing them lengthy court fights. She said she began by emailing Sarah Bajc, an American whose boyfriend, Philip Wood, was a passenger on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and who has made frequent TV appearances since the plane's March 8 disappearance.
Fox spokesman Scott Grogin said Tipton's "conduct and communications" violated company policy. Citing privacy concerns, he declined to discuss particulars, but he said, "As soon as we became aware, we took appropriate steps." He confirmed that Tipton has left the company.
Tipton was with Fox for a quarter-century before her April 9 dismissal. She said she plans to continue with her initiative, soliciting contributions through the crowdfunding website GoFundMe.
CNN boss Jeff Zucker has been trying to rebrand CNN into more than just a news operation. It hasn't gone very well and the ratings have been awful.
But, there is one group that CNN points out might have even a tougher time trying to rebrand their image.
The Ku Klux Klan.
CNN did a story on how the KKK might want to try rebranding themselves.
Is it impossible for a group that has a history of killing people, burning crosses and all out hate can rebrand?
No...says top marketing experts to CNN.
"The Klan could change its name, get a smooth-talking spokesperson, replace the robes with suits and take off those ridiculous hats, but underneath, people would recognize its message is the same," the story says.
The CNN story ended with a marketing executive comparing the Klan's killing to that of a faulty car. WTF?!
"Or to compare it to a product, "if you have a car that is killing people because the gas tank is exploding, it doesn't matter how fantastic the ad campaign is for that car.""
Really CNN?! You giving PR advice to the KKK now?
Let's get back to the missing plane shall we.
KSWT in Yuma, AZ had a "exclusive" interview with a man claiming to have been abducted by aliens....almost.
It happened in 1975, long before the Anchor and the Reporter on the story were even born. A movie called "fire in the sky" was made about the attempt by aliens to snatch him up.
How this is an exclusive story? We do not know. How this is even a story....we don't know.
But hey, it is Yuma.
While the LA Anchors were diving for coverage when a small earthquake hit the area, Eduardo “Lalo” Salazar of Mexican television network Televisa remained calm and composed as a 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit the capital Friday morning.
With the earthquake-siren blaring, Salazar kept his cool as he slowly and meticulously described what he was feeling and seeing.
It's a far cray from KTLA anchor Chris Schauble's reaction:
News Director Jennifer Hardy is leaving the biggest little city in the world (Reno) and KOLO to become the new news boss, ND at WAAY in Huntsville.
She's been at the Reno station since March of 2012.
ABC has just promoted Lara Spencer to co-host of Good Morning America alongside Robin Roberts and George Stephanopolus.
Spencer is not replacing anyone, just being added to.
ABC said that Spencer is "clearly an essential ingredient in the success of Good Morning America."
Her promotion got the thumbs up from Stephanopoulos on Twitter:
A florida Judge had thought he had scene and heard it all. Until this guy came before him.
In a federal class action, an Arkansas sports broadcaster accuses KTHV the Gannett station in Little Rock of running a racist workplace that makes it impossible for black workers to be promoted to lead anchor and management positions.
Mark Nelson aka Mark Edwards sued Gannett's KTHV Channel 11 in a 26-page lawsuit with 23 pages of attachments.
Edwards claims that Gannett ran a sophisticated scheme and cover "in the form of focus groups and other means and methods that are subjectively manipulated by Gannett to achieve its discriminatory goals and objectives."
According to the lawsuit, Gannett "has a corporate custom, policy, pattern, practice and procedure of not promoting African-Americans to director and leadership positions and utilizing a 'one-and-done policy' that disparately impacts African-American employed within the company."
Edwards says he began working for Gannett at THV Channel 11 in 2003 "in what is referred to as a 'number three' position" - editing and production, rather than sports anchor or broadcaster.
More after the jump.
Read MoreIt appears that paying for news stories doesn't just happen at the network level.
The big story in Houston this week where a 14 year old girl was kidnapped by a 51 year old former family friend.
The good news is the teen was found over 300 miles away in South Texas. But, the parents didn't have money to drive down and get her.
Houston insiders tell FTVLive that KHOU offered to pick up the tab to bring the girl and her mom back to Houston.
Word is that KHOU paid for the mom and teens flight home in an effort to get the exclusive. KHOU Reporter Malini Basu rode with mom and daughter on the plane and tweeted pictures along the way back.
Whenever a big story breaks, local stations love to try and localize the story or do the the old "could it happen here?"
It is a crutch that TV news has used for decades.
But, WTAJ took it to a whole new level when they tried to "localize" the story of a former Kansas Klan leader killing three people at a Jewish Community Center.
WTAJ figured if they were going to localize the story they need to get both sides, so they called up the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan and sat down with the Grand Dragon.
WTF?!
You'll be happy to know two things. First, the PA Grand Dragon says the Klan is not a hate group and says he even has "a lot of black friends." Oh my God the station actually used that quote on air.
The second thing you will notice is the Klan has obviously gone green. No white robe for the Grand Dragon.
Good to see the Klan is environmentally friendly.
Shame of WTAJ for doing this story and letting this idiot on the air.
Let's go to the video:
Although I live in Jacksonville, I don't watch more than an hour of local news per month.
But according to FOLIO the weekly newspaper in Jax, the local TV news sucks and a former Reporter says one of the reasons why that is the case.
FOLIO writes that there are many reasons why local news sucks — and a conspiracy theorist would say that the biggest reason is that it's not local at all.
Action News has been the combined news operation of WAWS and WTEV for the last five years. First Coast News, the infotainment wing of WJXX and WTLV, is owned, along with the stations, by Gannett, and has been a shared operation for 15 years now.
Read more after the jump.
Read MoreRoger Ailes biography author Gabriel Sherman was at the Hollywood Reporter's party at the Four Seasons in New York.
The party was to celebrate the magazine’s annual Most Powerful in New York Media list.
Sherman writes in New York Magazine that despite Fox's repeated bashing of the mainstream media and Hollywood, the Fox crowd was well represented on the Hollywood Reporter's rankings this year. Last night, the magazine honored Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, Megyn Kelly, and Sean Hannity, and I wanted to hear what they thought of the book.
When I arrived around 7 p.m., O’Reilly was chatting up Alec Baldwin while Megyn Kelly was deep in conversation with CBS News chairman Jeff Fager. Ailes and Hannity were no-shows, so I decided to try O’Reilly first. I caught up with him near the doorway to the Grill Room. I asked if he had read the book and what he thought. When he registered who I was, his eyes bulged out of their sockets.
"Drop dead, man!” he screamed.
"Really?" I said, taken aback.
My response triggered another eruption. He lunged forward at me. He stood there, all six foot five of him, staring me down. I thought he might take a swing at me. His producer Jesse Watters stood nearby, smiling. Before I could say anything more, O'Reilly spun around and stalked off with Watters in tow.
I went up to Megyn Kelly next. She was touring the party with her husband, and the pair was way friendlier than her Fox colleague. But the vibe was cold. "I'm sorry, but I can't be seen talking to you," Kelly said. "It will get me in trouble." I asked her why. She stuck to her talking points. Before I turned to leave, there was one thing she wanted me to know. "Roger Ailes is a great man," she said.
Natalie Morales has a pain in her ass and surprisingly, it's not Matt Lauer.
The Today Show cohost trained so hard to run the Boston Marathon that she strained her proximal hamstring.
“It is literally a pain in my butt,” says Morales, who is running the 26.2 miles to raise money for The One Fund and the Challenged Athletes Foundation charities to benefit victims. “It really is painful, but I’m hoping that with all of the adrenaline and the support of the crowd, that it will be mind over matter.”
The 41-year-old mother of two has five marathons under her belt, including a speedy 3 hour, 31-minute finish at Hartford in 2006. It’s been eight years and two pregnancies since that last feat, however, and getting back on track has been a labor of love.
“I’m over 40 now, which sucks,” she says. “The body doesn’t recover as easily as it did in my 30s when I do these long runs. Finding time to do a 2 1/2 hour 20-mile run is not easy.”
The Boston Marathon has always been on her running bucket list. After interviewing bombing survivors like Celeste Corcoran, who lost both her legs but plans to run the marathon’s last few feet on her prosthetics with her sister, Morales was inspired to tackle this iconic race at last.
“There’s not going to be a dry eye,” Morales says. “What’s really gonna get me through is knowing how amazing it’s going to be to be a part of that.”
H/T NY Daily News
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