FTVLive bangs out a lot of stories each and everyday and we do have our share of typos.
But, as far as we know, we have never misspelled our own name. WTKR in Norfolk ran a crawl on their air and in the crawl they got the station's call letters wrong, sending viewers to the wrong website.
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Bloomberg's Trish Regan sat down with Les Moonves and the CBS boss admitted that CBS is looking to launch their own digital network.
Moonves says it will be CBS's answer to the 24 hour cable news channels.
Let's go to the video:
Savannah Guthrie addressed the reports that Katie Couric could fill in for her while she is on leave to have her baby.
Guthrie says multiple guest hosts will fill in for her at “Today” – but there will be “surprises”, possibly Couric.
“My understanding is it’s going to be a rotating group of anchors. Most of them will be people that work at NBC right now, so Natalie [Morales], Hoda [Kotb], Tamron [Hall] Then there might be a couple of surprises mixed in.”
There might be somebody who comes in for a week here and there.” When asked if one of the surprises could be Couric, “I don’t think they’ve decided,” said Guthrie.
H/T Page Six
TV icon Barbara Walters signs off Today.
The woman that helped blaze the trail for many other woman in TV news is saying goodbye.
A look back at her career in pictures:
All the past hosts of 'The View' (and there are a lot of them) came on the show to g̶o̶o̶s̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶s̶ say goodbye to mama bear.
It was all part of the verrrrrrrry long goodbye to Barbara Walters who is wrapping up her TV career (although not really) Today.
Barbara Walters reunited with all eleven co-hosts of "The View," past and present, on Thursday's show.
Rosie O'Donnell, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Joy Behar, Meredith Vieira, Star Jones, Lisa Ling and Debbie Matenopoulos returned to the show to joining the show's current co-hosts, Whoopi Goldberg, Sherri Shepherd and Jenny McCarthy.
"I'm so proud you are here and proud we are still friends," Walters told them. "Not everybody can say that and work with people and still love them. I thank all of you. I have been honored to share this table with you."
"This is the last supper with Barbara," Behar joked.
It was the first time that O'Donnell and Hasselbeck have been on air together since their famous clash in 2007, after which O'Donnell left the show. The two former co-hosts sat side by side Thursday, and when O'Donnell was asked what she missed most about the show, she joked, "Fighting with the skinny one right here."
"I knew it," Hasselbeck laughed.
H/T HuffPo
Noooooo! Not BoBo?!
WREX has lost like 5 or 6 (we lost count) on air talent in the past few months and they are about to lose another one.
Meteorologist Greg Bobos let viewers know on his Facebook page that he is leaving the station. He writes:
The feeling that most describes my mood tonight is bittersweet as I announce my departure from WREX.
I have loved every minute at the station, but in every journey there comes a time to take a different path, and that time for me is now. I have accepted a position as morning meteorologist at ABC57 in South Bend, Indiana. I will be a mere hour away from my hometown, which I can easily say made my mom pretty excited! My last day on 13News Today will be May 30th.
Meredith announced that they are moving KPTV (Portland) General Manager Patrick McCreery to a newly created role, local media group vice president of news and marketing.
It is a job position that Meredith had in the past, but was cut out during the bad economy.
McCreery has been with KPTV for over 10 years, working his way up from Assistant News Director to ND to Station Manager to GM.
McCreery also worked at KPHO Phoenix as a special projects executive producer when he first joined Meredith in 2003.
KPTV bumped up sales guy Andy Delaporte to the GM chair.
You can talk about shitty assignments all you want, KSDK Reporter Elizabeth Matthews has you beat with one story she did yesterday.
Matthews did a story about an Illinois farmer who uses mountains of human waste to fertilize his crops. His neighbors don't like it because that says his land smells like.....well shit.
"It doesn't smell very good," Matthews comments, moments after sticking her bare hands into a shit pile and lifting a glop to her nose for a sniff.
No Really.... she did that. That had some people on Twitter cringing just a bit.
More plus you can watch the video after the jump.
Read MoreShame on WSMV in Nashville for wasting viewers time with this very stupid sweeps stunt.
Green Bay insiders tell FTVLive that WFRV News Director Kent Harrell is out after less than two years at the station.
Harrell came to the station in September of 2012 from WTVO in Rockford.
The station posted the News Director job late yesterday afternoon.
WFRV is owned by Nexstar.
Update: Harrell tells FTVLive is is leaving the station, but is not out the door just yet. He says he turned in his notice last week and is headed to an ND job in Springfield, IL.
WNCT Main Weather Anchor David Sawyer dropped some news that he will be taking on another job with a new boss.
Along with working for the WNCT News Director, Sawyer is also going to do a little side job for God.
Sawyer explained to viewers about his new mission from God:
WPIX (New York) Reporter Dan Mannarino enters the Shark Tank....literally.
The video is up after the jump.
Read MoreSpeaking of the Twin Cities....
KSTP Anchor Eric Kahnert is leaving the station and headed to the Mile High City.
Kahnert has taken an anchor job at KMGH in Denver.
“Eric has accepted the main anchor job at KMGH, the ABC affiliate, in Denver. They have a longtime guy there who’s retiring. Eric will take his seat. His last day with us will be June 1,” KSTP News Director Linday Radford. said “Eric came to us from KUSA so this is a return to Denver for him. We liked him. It was one of those things where we can’t match that opportunity, right now. It’s hard to hold somebody back from that.” Kahnert has been at KSTP “close to two years,” she said.
H/T Star Tribune
As Barbara Walters winds up her final week on TV, she jokingly had some advice for other Journalists out there.
“It is fine to make people smile,” she said with a smirk, “but the real money is in making them cry. Nothing brings in the viewers like seeing a celebrity reduced to tears. You may think, aw, I’m really feeling bad for them, but all I’m thinking is ‘ca-ching!’ ”
It was a joke, but it had an uncanny ring of truth to it.
The Boston Globe says that Barbara Walters has not made her fortune on confrontation and insight so much as a few soft cries and confidential whispers.
The question now is, who will replace the un-replaceable?
When MSNBC hired actor Alec Baldwin....well.... it didn't work out too well.
But now word is that Fox News might be looking to add an actor to their roster.
“Clueless” star Stacey Dash, famed for playing the ditsy Dionne Davenport in the 1995 movie, is in talks to sign a deal with Fox News to become a regular network contributor.
She appeared on the conservative radar in 2012 when she endorsed Mitt Romney for president, and was then subjected to a storm of backlash on the web and social media.
Dash has since emerged as an outspoken conservative on Twitter and TV, including Fox News, and had even been developing a show called “Stacey Dash is Normal,” a satirical television comedy series about her life as a single mother and Republican in Hollywood.
A Fox News rep didn’t comment.
H/T Page Six
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