Ummmmm....Do You Take Bribes?

A PR firm called Status Labs Image Management sent an email to a CNBC.com freelancer with the following "proposal":

“…I would be asking you to include our clients in stories you’re working on (assuming there’s a natural fit) or pitch your editors on new stories that include discussion of our clients. We’re not looking for you to promote or shill for anything. Just include discussion of our clients in a natural, organic way.

“What we’re paying varies wildly depending on quality of the secured hit. We’ve paid up to a dollar per word for great placement. What payment structure would you be comfortable with?”

Are you F-ing kidding me?!

H/T CNBC

Come On! Kelly Ripa Knew What She Was Doing Here

Kelly Ripa was talking about the new iPhone 6 and the size of it.

She wanted to know what 5.5 inches looked like and that's when things started going south.

Let's go to the video:

Former Producer Files Lawsuit against 'The View'

A former Producer of 'The View' has filed a lawsuit against the show after she claims she was “abused,” downgraded to a shabby office and given poor job evaluations simply because she’s old, according to a new lawsuit.

Page Six says that Bernadette Piccolomini, 63, was “humiliated” after her younger boss, Scott Tucker, played favorites with workers his own age, lashed out at her and screamed, “I’m the boss!,” according to an age discrimination lawsuit filed against ABC in Brooklyn federal court on Aug. 28.

“The younger and less experienced Mr. Tucker commenced a course of abusive conduct against the older plaintiff,” according to the suit.

“Tucker engaged in a tirade, screaming and abusing Ms. Piccolomini,” court papers state.

Despite Piccolomini’s stellar performance, Tucker also gave her a poor performance review in October 2012 and assigned her to an office with no windows, the suit claims.

After she reported the alleged discrimination to higher-ups at ABC, the station made her choose between moving to an office in LA and losing her job, court papers state.

The television firm failed to “conduct a fair, prompt, and timely investigation,” according to the lawsuit.

Piccolomini had worked at ABC since 1981 . She began working for “The View” in 2000 and had always worked in New York, the suit claims.

She refused to relocate and was without work in September 2013. She now seeks $1 million.

Tucker is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit.

either Tucker nor ABC immediately returned calls for comment.

ATL GM is Out the Door

Earlier, FTVLive told you that Larry Perret was hired as the new News Director at Meredith owned WGCL in Atlanta.

Now, word comes that WGCL GM Trey Fabacher is out the door at the station.

Fabacher was hired two years ago.

KC News Director Headed to Atlanta

Meredith insiders tell FTVLive that KCTV News Director Larry Perret is headed to WGCL in Atlanta.

Perret joined KCTV last October (FIRST reported by FTVLive) and is now being bumped up the Meredith food chain. 

At WGCL, he replaces Lane Michaelsen, who lasted just 15 months on the job before being kicked to the curb.

WGCL has long been the dog station in Atlanta.

Advice to Perret....rent, don't own.

Just saying.... 

GMA Hiring Tim Tebow

It appears that Good Morning America is adding another ex-football player to their line-up.

ABC has had success with Michael Strahan and now word is that Tim Tebow joining GMA as a contributor.

I totally get Strahan, he was an NFL star and proved he could do TV with his hosting of "Kelly and Michael."

But Tim Tebow?!

Why?

Apparently This is His First Talk Show Interview

Our favorite TV interview, Noah Ritter stopped by the Ellen show and although he says he is done using the word "apparently" he is still funny.

Let's go to the video:

Bill O'Reilly Has a Heart.....Who Knew?

You might be shocked to learn that Fox News Host Bill O'Reilly does have a soft spot in his heart.

O'Reilly has long been advocating for and helping fund Tuesday's Children, a New York-based nonprofit family service that still, after 13 years, offers guidance, special events and other programs for children and spouses who lost loved ones during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

"My campaign is to raise awareness that 9/11 continues, that these kids need to be supported by Americans," O'Reilly says. "It's the right thing to do."

For O'Reilly, who lives in New York in the Long Island community of Manhasset, where 50 residents died on 9/11, keeping the memory of the attack alive is an ongoing mission. "My neighborhood is different," he says, "because we are still furious in a very personal way." The trick, he says, is to channel that anger into productive avenues. "In my job, I try to expose evil. But in my private life, I try to fund charities that help those who have been touched by evil. I'm lucky to have that platform."

H/T Hollywood Reporter

That About Sums it Up....

Talk About An Awkward Interview

Kudos to this anchor who kept it together. She was interviewing Chris Young, Mayoral candidate for the city of Providence, Rhode Island. Now, this is going to be hard to watch, but stick through the whole thing. What he says at the very end, is even funnier than the rest. I think this anchor deserves an EMMY for "Most Polite Journalist During A Complete Waste Of Time Political Interview." ROLL TAPE:

Mike Tyson Goes Off on Reporter Throws F-Bombs

Boxing legend Mike Tyson was on a Canadian TV show to talk about his one man show.

It ended like many Tyson interviews with an expletive-filled rant and F-bombs being dropped all over live TV. 

CP24 News Anchor Nathan Downer asked Tyson about his meeting with Toronto’s scandal-plagued Mayor Rob Ford.

Downer asked: “Some of your critics would say, ‘There’s a race for mayor. We know you’re a convicted rapist. This could hurt his campaign.’ How would respond to that?”

Let's go to the video:

Tampa, Phoenix Up Detroit, Seattle Down

The Nielsen media markets 2014-2015 become official at the end of the month and we have some winners and losers to tell you about.

First off, Phoenix is this/close to cracking the top 10. The Valley of the Sun is moving up to number 11 for the 2014-15 TV season, a jump up from No. 12.

Also moving up from 13 to 14 is the Tampa/ St. Pete market.

Big market stations headed the wrong director at Detroit, which goes from 11 to 12 and Seattle which falls from 13 to 14. 

New York stays at No. 1 and Glendive stays in last place at 210. 

Here is the latest market sizes from Nielsen 

Seriously CNN?

A couple of hours before President Obama addressed the nation on what the media calls ISIS and the President calls ISIL (why?), CNN put up a countdown clock.

Although, everyone has reported that the President was going to speak at 9PM eastern time, CNN must have figured that no one has a clock (or a cell phone) in their house and would not be able to figure out what time it is?

This is just a very, very small morsel as to what is wrong with cable news these days.

Really? A F-ing countdown clock? 

Phoenix ND Defects to Scripps, The Internal Memo

FTVLive was the FIRST to tell you that KTVK News Director Cameryn Beck is leaving the Meredith owned station to become the Senior Director Of News Strategy for the Scripps stations.

Here is the internal memo that KTVK GM Ed Munson sent to the staff announcing Beck's departure: