KPHO in Phoenix had one of the newscasts last night that you just want to forget.
Technical problems seem to plague the entire newscast. Monitors that were blank, audio issues and just one of the shows that you are finally glad it's over.
If that wasn't bad enough, the Temperature bug had at "14,3" degrees. WTF?
Needless to say, we don't think the station will be submitting this newscasts into any contests.
Just saying....
Longtime WCPO (Cincinnati) Clyde Gray says that he is retiring after 37 years on the air.
Gray says that, "it is totally my decision" which almost always makes us think it's not.
“For 24 years, Clyde Gray has been such an important member of the 9 On Your Side team,” said Alex Bongiorno, WCPO 9 On Your Side news director. “We’ll miss his calm demeanor and warm personality, always present whether he was delivering the day’s top stories or breaking news.”
Here is his announcement to viewers:
WGN in Chicago produces more local newscasts than any of the other broadcast stations.
And they are about to add more.
The station has announced that it will add a 5PM newscast on the weekend. The added cast will be anchored by Robert Jordan and Jackie Bange, who’ve been co-anchors of the 9 p.m. weekend newscasts on the Tribune Broadcasting station since 1995.
“Over the past year we’ve seen more and more major newsworthy events happening on weekends from serious weather to major construction projects,” interim news director Jennifer Lyons told staffers in a memo Monday. “It will be a good thing to be in the Saturday and Sunday afternoon time slot.”
H/T Robert Feder
WNYW is going to try a new approach to doing the news.
It's a whole new way to see the news.
The unveiling of the station’s reformatted 6 p.m. newscast. The program now will focus heavily on enterprise journalism and lifestyle stories, aiming to offer viewers a more positive spin on the news according to WNYW Anchor Ernie Anastos and the station’s news director, Byron Harmon.
So called "Good News" newscasts have tried and failed in many markets. Most often it is done in a last ditch effort by a struggling station. But WNYW is hoping they have found the right formula.
“I’ve been doing the news for 35 years in New York, and I feel a very personal relationship to the viewers,” Anastos told The News. “So this is a chance to be more personal, more direct and more conversational,” he said. “It’s a chance to discuss things rather than just report them.”
The nightly report will have a new set and a slightly different lineup of talent.
Anastos will do a solo anchor on the broadcast, backed by meteorologist Nick Gregory and sports anchor Russ Salzberg. But Anastos says he’ll occasionally leave the studio to report.
H/T NY Daily News
Former WRGB Reporter Judy Sanders, who faced a diagnosis of ovarian cancer with unflinching fortitude and uncommon grace, and who used her final months to gather a wide circle of friends to celebrate life and exchange heartfelt goodbyes, died Thursday.
An older sister and close friend were at the bedside of Sanders, 63, who was under hospice care.
Except for a few hospitalizations, she continued to work as an official photographer to Govs. David Paterson and Andrew Cuomo while she underwent several surgeries, eight rounds of chemotherapy and an experimental drug trial. The cancer had spread throughout her body and she chose to conclude treatment except pain medication. She outlived doctors' predictions about how long she had left to live by six months.
"She never got morose about dying and she wasn't afraid of it," said her older sister, Vicki, a former newspaper reporter. "She never got angry or depressed. She was always in the present and said she would live every day until the time came that it was over."
"She was always one of the brightest reporters on TV, and when she left TV she turned into a first-rate photographer," said author William Kennedy, who, with his wife, Dana, visited Sanders in Lenox.
Sanders was a triple threat in broadcast journalism: admired by colleagues, respected by competitors, feared by unscrupulous politicians.
She had a dogged, fearless style when it came to chasing a story. She won the New York State Emmy for a 1999 story in which she tracked down the perpetrator of a baby abduction in the streets of Troy with shoe-leather reporting that outpaced detectives and helped cops make the arrest.
The media at the World Cup now have a waterfall in their workplace.
The media center at the Estadio das Dunas stadium in Natal, where the U.S. played Ghana, a water pipe bust and has caused a waterfall in the middle of the center.
Word is that CNN's Anderson Cooper paid somewhere between $5 and $9 million bucks on a mansion in Connecticut.
Page Six says the massive, 10,127-square-foot Tudor revival stone mansion, called Rye House, has 18 rooms feature original chestnut wood paneling, limestone fireplaces and a hand-carved marble staircase. There’s also a private four-bedroom guest wing. The 280-acre grounds boast Japanese pagoda trees, wisteria, magnolias, a walkway with stone pillars and a grape arbor.
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More bad news for NBC Meet The Press host David Gregory.
MTP lost in their home market of DC to Fox News Sunday.
FNS also beat ABC's This Week and CBS' Face the Nation in household viewers.
According to Nielsen, FNS delivered 59,000 in households and 73,000 in total viewers.
Compared to the same date last year, FNS is up triple digits in household viewers (up 119%). Meanwhile, Meet the Press was down 10% versus the same Sunday last year (6/22/2013).
Ouch! That's going to leave a mark.
Another day....another station sale.
Media General says it is buying WHTM (Harrisburg, Pa). The station is one of those that Sinclair is spinning off as part of their acquisition of Allbritton Communications.
Media General is shelling out $83.4 million for WHTM.
"WHTM TV is a marquee station in an attractive, capital-city market," said George Mahoney, CEO of Media General. "It fits perfectly with our company."
CNN says they are teaming up with Georgia Tech to study how to operate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) safely and effectively, otherwise known as drones.
CNN and GT are calling it a "research initiative" and said they will share data with the Federal Aviation Authority "as it considers regulations for drone use in the media.
CNN couldn't find the missing plane, so how do they expect to do with drones?
Just asking.....
HLN pulled the plug on Showbiz Tonight, but they promised that AJ Hammer would stay on at the network in another capacity.
That is not the case.
The Hammer was dropped.
In an e-mail exchange, an HLN spokesperson said to CNN Commentary Blog, “A.J.’s moved on to other pursuits. We wish him only the best.”
Sure you do.
Imagine baring your soul to 6 million people at once — and having no recollection of the moment.
It happened to “Good Morning America” news anchor Amy Robach, who was diagnosed with breast cancer and took a leave of absence from the telecast to undergo a double mastectomy last fall. But the rising network news star with beauty queen looks and the iron will of a boxer returned to the telecast just three weeks after the major surgery.
“I was absolutely scared on many levels, because fear is such a part of cancer,” Robach said to the NY Daily News.
“The funny thing is I actually have thanked ABC News several times for letting me come back so quickly. I wanted to have something in my life to focus on other than doctors and needles and medicines and just looking at numbers and statistics and waiting for tests. It was such an amazing distraction. And interestingly enough, being afraid of what I might say or what I might forget to say on the air was just another part of the overall fear of cancer — it invades your body, it invades your mind.
“And so because I knew I was afraid of what might happen, that was exactly why I was going to keep coming to work, I needed to keep coming on the set every morning and face my fear. I did not want to let cancer — and the fear of what could happen to me physically or mentally while I was in front of 6 million people — I didn’t want to let that stop me from doing what I love.”
“When I was on the air, I felt like I was functional. But chemo is cumulative, so each round it hits you harder and it has some pretty scary side effects, like memory loss.
“The chemo brain, the chemo fog, is a real thing. I would have conversations with people, they would take pictures with me after the show and they would send them to me and say thank you and it took my breath away — it upset me tremendously because I actually wouldn’t be able to remember taking that picture or having a conversation, and for me that was one of the hardest side effects of chemo. I was so afraid I was gonna drop the ball or just do or say something stupid because I wasn’t in my sharpest mode.
Read more of the in-depth story at The Daily News
CNN Anchor Alison Kosik broke into laughter when a story about Hillary Clinton was being teased by her co-anchor.
Kosik cracked up at the remarks by Hillary Clinton that she and President Bill Clinton aren't really well off.
It might be laughable that Clinton who has made millions, does not consider herself truly rich, but I'm not sure a CNN Anchor should be laughing on air.
Then again....it is better than a big smile at the scene of a double homicide or a fire at a hospital.
Just saying.....
Let's go to the video:
WTF? is going on with TV news people Today?
On Friday, FTVLive FIRST told you about WYFF (Greenville) Reporter Mandy Gaither was sent to a story of a fire at a local hospital. Gaither took a smiling selfie on the way to the fire and posted it on Twitter (she took the picture down after the FTVLive story).
Gaither isn't the only one to show a lack of judgement when it comes to smiling and social media and tragic news.
WOFL (Orlando) Reporter Jackie Orozco posted a selfie to her Instagram account from the scene of a double homicide. Orozco and a station Photographer were all smiles as the police where investigating the 2 murders.
Orozco posted the smiling selfie and wrote, "So why are we smiling in front of a crime scene? Because we work in TV News and it's my Friday!"
I can assure you Jackie, if I was your boss, you would no longer be working in TV news.
Update: Jackie Orozco has now deleted her Instagram account.
About 30 students that graduated from Northwestern's Medill Journalism program got their diplomas with a bit of a surprise.
The diploma had the word "integrated" misspelled.
The school says they will issue replacement diplomas to the students.
H/T Romenesko
FTVLive has been telling you about on air changes at WBMS in Columbus.
First in May, longtime Anchor Chuck Strickler decided to retire from the station. After that, WBNS kicked Anchor Kurt Ludlow to the curb.
Now, word comes that 3 Reporters are packing it in.
Reporters, Kevin Landers is leaving the business to become a PIO. Reporter Ashleigh Barry is headed to newly Meredith owned KTVK in Phoenix. And sources tell FTVLive that Reporter Danielle Elisa is also leaving the station. No word on where she is headed.
If you're looking for an on air job, you might want to call WBNS.
There are a lot of openings.
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