You can to feel sorry for Cecile Raubenheimer....
Cecile appears on Fox News from time to time to talk about travel. She used to be referred to as a "Travel Expert", but now Fox News has knocked her down to "Travel Analyst."
Don't feel too bad, attest Bob Beckel didn't call her a slut.....yet.
H/T Doresy Shaw
KEYE News Director Greg Turchetta has resigned from the station and is leaving the TV business altogether.
Turchetta is leaving Austin and headed to Naples Florida to be the new Communications Director at a Collier County School District.
FTVLIe obtained the internal memo to the staff by KEYE GM Amy Villarreal:
From: Amy Villarreal <avillarreal@sbgtv.com>
Date: July 31, 2014 at 4:10:42 PM CDT
To: Austin-All <ml-Austin-All@sbgtv.com>
Cc: Jeff Parsons <jparsons@sbgtv.com>
Subject: Greg Turchetta resignation
Today Greg announced that he will be leaving KEYE a week from this Friday as he is returning to Naples, Florida.
I appreciate everything Greg has done for this station as we just finished a great July book full of growth in households.
HH ratings:
6am News is +60% over July 13
5pm News is +%57.1% over July 13
6pm News is +26.7% over July 13
10pm News is +28.6% over July 13
And the weekend is doing awesome too:
Sat 10pm is up 25% over July 13
Sunday 530pm is up 72% over July 13
Sunday 10pm is up 89% over Jul 13
And Sports Sunday is up 38%
Telemundo 5pm is up 2%
I am proud of all the work that everyone has done with the consistent content and dedication to winning.
Jeff Parsons will be the interim News Director as we begin our search.
Please feel free to come see me if you have any questions or comments.
Best,
Amy Villarreal
Vice President & General Manager
KEYE TV
WBNS Sports Anchor David Wilkinson signed off from the station last night after 3 years.
Wilkinson is headed for a new gig in his hometown of Atlanta.
Before arriving in Columbus, Wilkinson spent nearly four years at KCEN-TV in Waco, Texas, where he served as the weekend sports anchor.
No word yet on what the Atlanta gig is.
The WBNS newsroom said goodbye to David yesterday with some hugs and some cake, which of course the thugs from engineering ate before anyone else could.
KCPQ is adding another Reporter to the staff as the station to launch a new 11PM newscast next month.
Their latest hire didn't even have to change his home address. Adam Mertz, who worked across the street at KING, is headed over to KCPQ.
Here is the internal memo obtained from FTVLive, from News Director Eric Hill:
I have a new addition to announce to our reporting team!
Adam Mertz is joining us on Monday August 4th.
Adam has been a reporter at KING for the last year and before that worked at KFOR in Oklahoma City and KYMA in Arizona.
I’m very excited to have Adam on board, he is a great storyteller and very solid journalist.
Please join me in welcoming Adam to our team!
Erica Hill
News Director, Q13 FOX
KTRK Executive Producer Jerry Vazquez is leaving the station, but not the city of Houston.
Vazquez quit the ABC O&O and immediately was named the News Director of KTMD across the street.
KTMD is the Telemundo station in Houston.
Vazquez came to KTRK in 2002 from KMID Midland where he was news director. Before that he was at WOAI (KMOL) in San Antonio.
This is the second news manager to leave in a week.
Just a few days ago, FTVLive told you that KTRK News Director Dave Strickland had resigned from the station.
If you're in news management and looking for a new gig, we know of a couple of openings.
Get your resumes out.
H/T Mike McGuff
A KSL (Salt Lake City) news car was spotted parked in front of competitor KUTV's studios.
Was someone dropping off a resume?
When Scripps bought the Granite stations, the current Scripps stations made a cheese video to welcome the Granite stations to the Scripps family.
We'll have to wait and see if they do the same for the Journal stations.
Let's go to the video:
They have to be one of the unluckiest news crews in the country.....
The very same KPIX (San Francisco) news crew that was attacked and had a camera stolen during a live broadcast in Oakland in 2012 had they news van broken into again Today.
Today's incident happened late this morning, Reporter Anne Makeover, Photographer Gregg Welk and security guard Jim Macedo were outside the Starbucks coffee shop doing some "man of the street" interviews.
As they were doing the interviews, someone broke into the right front passenger seat of their news van, which was parked nearby, and stole a laptop computer and personal belongings.
A witness saw the burglary and ran over to the crew.
But the ripoff artist was long gone.
H/T SFGate.com
After FTVLive posted the story about Bill Weir calling the gang over at Fox News "fucksticks," Weir went back on Twitter to say he was sorry.
Weir says he made a "dumb move."
You think?
I don't think it's happening....
CNN Producer Josh Rubin is out the door and taking a new gig at The Daily Dot.
The Daily Dot bills itself as a comprehensive source for original Internet-community news.
Rubin has more than 15 years of experience in national media and joins the Daily Dot as Executive Producer and Managing Director of Video.
Rubin was formerly lead producer for CNN’s Election Express Bus, traveling more than 100,000 miles to cover everything from presidential campaigns to cultural events like Comic-Con.
“The Daily Dot aspires to be all the things that modern media isn’t,” says Rubin. “In an age of shrinking newsrooms they’re growing their editorial team. While others focus on listicles and content aggregation the Dot focuses on original reporting. The Internet provides journalists with a window into the beating heart of humanity, so I’m joining The Daily Dot because they cover Internet news with journalistic integrity and explore trends without mindlessly following them.”
Bill Weir has been M-I-A from CNN's air, but he didn't seem to mind taking some time to take a shot at Fox News.
It started with a tweet from the Fox News blog on Wednesday which stated, “Climate Doesn’t Cooperate With Al Gore’s Group’s Visit to Denver EPA Hearings.”
Fox Nation's tweet was referencing when Al Gore's Climate Reality Project delivered ice cream to an event this week even though it was 58 degrees outside.
"The Climate Reality Project brought its “I’m Too Hot” trucks and offers of free ice cream to this week’s Environmental Protection Agency hearings on power-plant emissions, but the climate wasn’t cooperating," the story read.
That's when Weir decided to correct Fox News with a tweet of his own.
Weir is right, climate is not weather and weather is not climate, but really Bill?
Fuckstick?
Boy, TV news has changed. I don't think I could ever see Walter Cronkite tweeting that David Brinkley is a fuckstick.
We did find the fuckstick in the urban dictionary, you can read the definition here, but you might have to wash out your eyes after you do.
H/T HuffPo
In a shocker to many in Orlando, WESH Anchor Martha Sugalski has left the station after 8 years.
In a memo to the staff, WESH General Manager Jim Carter said he believed Sugalski, 44, had accepted an offer from another station in town, based on a discussion with Sugalski and her agent.
But she can't appear on another station immediately. In a standard practice for the industry, a noncompete clause would keep her off the air for a year.
"I really can't comment on that," said WFTV General Manager Shawn Bartelt. "We don't comment on competitors' talent, contracts. We just don't. She's very talented. We wish her the very best. We know she's going to have a great future."
So yeah....she's totaling going to WFTV.
H/T Orlando Sentinel
Sources tell FTVLive that WWAY News Director Scott Pickey is no longer with the station.
Earlier this month, FTVLive questioned if WWAY Reporter Sara Hopkins wasn't crossing ethical lines with her pimping products and services on social media?
Pickey said he had no problem with Hopkins selling out on social media and said she was doing it on her own time.
FTVLive questioned if that was really the case?
Pickey also made news when he was arrested for driving a station news car across police lines at a Martin Luther King Parade.
Pickey's bio has been scrubbed from the station's website and staffers tell FTVLive he's gone from the station.
Here we go again....
E.W. Scripps and Journal Communications announced that the two are merging their broadcast operations. The two will also off and then merge their newspapers, creating two focused and separately traded public companies.
The merged broadcast company will operate under the Scripps name, have about 4,000 employees and continue to be based in Cincinnati.
The newspaper company will be called Journal Media Group.
The deal is expected to close in 2015.
“In one motion, we’re creating an industry-leading local television company and a financially flexible newspaper company with the capacity and vision to help lead the evolution of their respective industries,” said Rich Boehne, chairman, president and CEO of The E.W. Scripps Company, who will continue at the helm of Scripps.
“This transaction will create two solid media businesses that will continue to serve their communities with a commitment to integrity and excellence that has been built over many years,” said Steven J. Smith, chairman and CEO of Journal Communications. “Journal’s radio and television stations will add depth and breadth to the Scripps TV group and additional expertise to its management team.
It doesn't take an expert to figure out that Scripps got the better end of this deal. They get to give up their dying newspapers and pick up more TV and radio stations.
Here is the internal video that was sent out to the people working at Scripps.
Basically the video says, if you work on the TV side, it's a great deal. If you work for Scripps newspaper? Good luck.
Here's the video:
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