Former Miami Weatherman is Now Forecasting the Real Estate Market

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Former WFOR Weather Anchor David Bernard has traded in his Doppler for the MLS.

Bernard, who abruptly left his job last year, is launching a new real estate company with his partner of five years, longtime real estate broker Charles Urstadt.

“I’ve been thinking about this for the past year,” Bernard says. “We wanted to do something together, and I wanted something a little more flexible than doing news every day.”

Bernard got his real estate agent license and, with Urstadt, started the Miami Beach-based CD Property.

“When you’re doing TV like I’ve done for 23 years, you’re in a studio all day for three or four people,” Bernard says. “You’re not really engaged in personal contacts in the outside world.

“I wanted much more contacts with the public.”

At 45, the Miami Beach-based Bernard said it was time to start over. Even if he and Urstadt have yet to get their first residential listing a few weeks after starting the business.

“We’ve been representing buyers so far,” he said.

Bernard added he has not been discouraged by the up-and-down market, and the high number of real estate firms.

“There’s always room for more in any business,” he says. “Sure, millions of people have their real estate license. But it all depends on how your run your shop.”

Meanwhile, Bernard talked about how he left the station a year ago despite a new contract offer.

“I was just done with news,” he said. “I was tired of the grind and the hours, including the 1 a.m. shift during sporting events.”

And then, while Bernard was billed as hurricane specialist when he arrived from New Orleans, he hasn’t had one measly hurricane to report in the past 10 years.

“I’m not saying I wouldn’t take a free-lance gig here when the next one comes,” he said.

H/T Gossip Extra

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Ummmm...Mike....You're on the Air

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FTVLive was watching NBC Nightly News this Weekend, when the big story was the crazy weather hitting a number of states.

After a report from out West, NBC's Lester Holt wanted to go live to The Weather Channel's Mike Seidel in North Carolina.

Mike was too busy to be bothered with a live shot on national television and some think Seidel might have been turned away from the camera to take a leak.

Whatever he was doing, he missed his live shot and Holt was doing his best to cover for him. 

Let's go to the video: 

Uploaded by scott Jones on 2014-11-01.

Man Dressed As Fox News Anchor for Halloween is Beaten

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A man attacked a partygoer in Santa Cruz, California, because he dressed as a Fox News Anchor on Halloween.

Sean Kory he saw the person in costume and screamed 'I hate Fox News' before grabbing their microphone prop.

Kory then started hitting the innocent bystander with an aluminum racket he was carrying.

The assault victim called police, after a short chase Kory he was tracked down, restrained and arrested. 

Cops did not say which Fox News Anchor the victim was dressed as, but it makes no difference, you shouldn't get beaten up for dressing as a FNC Anchor.

Unless, the guy was dressed as Howard Kurtz, then he totally deserved it.

Philly Consumer Reporter is Signing Off

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WPVI "Saving with 6ABC" Reporter Amy Buckman is leaving the station after 25 years.

Buckman started at WPVI as a producer in 1989, moved to the Reporter ranks and has been doing the "saving with 6ABC" since 2008. 

Buckman says that the station offered her another contract but she had been thinking for a while about changing gears. "My husband, Terry, is very supportive of my decision and I'm already enjoying spending weekends at home and being able to watch my youngest son's sporting events," Buckman said.

Buckman added that she is looking forward to taking some time off, but will be ready to go back to work when the right opportunity presents itself.

"In the meantime, I'm looking forward to sleeping in on Thanksgiving (though I will watch the parade on TV!) and sipping hot chocolate on my couch during our first winter snowstorm," Buckman said.

H/T Philly.com

San Diego Anchor Has Role in Nightcrawler

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The movie Nightcrawler officially opens tonight and San Diego movie goers will see a familiar face. 

KUSI anchor Lisa Remillard didn't know if she would be left on the cutting room floor, but she ended up making the movie's final cut.  

“I thought for sure they would cut my scene,” Remillard laughs. “Even though they were so nice, I had no hope that they were going to keep me in the movie.”

Remillard is just one of the many news reporters cast to play themselves in Nightcrawler, the fictional story of a dangerous drifter, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, who becomes an overnight sensation as a blood-thirsty TV news cameraman.

Remillard started as weekend anchor of KUSI’s Good Morning, San Diego in March 2014. She was working in Vegas before landing the job in San Diego and took a year off to look after her ailing father, who succumbed to cancer last month. “I spent a lot of time at home with him — which was great — and auditioned to play reporter roles in various movies and TV shows, because obviously I am not an actress.”

When the Nightcrawler audition came up, she was originally chosen to play one of the anchors in the studio. “When it came down to it,” she says, “they needed another actress for that role.” She had the look they were going for, “and that’s how it happened. I auditioned and got it!”

Her bit was filmed in November 2013. “When I walked on set, [writer-director Tony Gilroy] came right over to me,” Remillard recalls. “He not only knew my first and last name, he knew how to say it properly — which rarely anybody does. He had seen my work and expressed his trust by asking me to tell him how the scene should look. He even let me write my own dialogue.”

H/T San Diego Reader

$1000 down, $1500 to Go

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FTVLive is uploaded from a 5 year old Apple iMac that has certainly seen better days. 

So, we have started a fund raising drive to try and buy the new Apple iMac with retina display. The cost of the new computer is $2500 + Tax.

We started the fund raising drive 2 days ago and have already made it just past $1000 raised.

Donations have ranged from $5 to $350 and we blown away at how many people want to help us get that new computer.

Behind the scenes people in small markets to Network Anchors and Executives have pitched in for the cause and we could not be more thankful. 

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Missing the Days When Anchors Just Reported the News

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When voters head to the polls on Tuesday, many will be voting on propositions. In Phoenix, On  voters will decide on Prop 487.

Prop 487 is a measure to reform the city's pension system and end pension spiking. Pension spiking is the practice of employees inflating their compensation in the years immediately before retirement, it gives them larger pensions that they otherwise would not be entitled to.

This has become one of the nastiest proposition battles in the city's history and people are firmly on both sides of the issue. 

Station insiders claim that KSAZ Anchor John Hook has turned into an advocate for the "Yes on 487" campaign.

"He has picked a fight with the Police and firefighters union because of his personal views -- and doing so using the station name. It is affecting the station image and how reporters are being treated when they are out on the streets covering fire and police," said one station source.

Hook has taken to his Facebook page with what clearly appears to be his own political agenda:

10 hours later, Hook posted this to his FB page:

Hook using the line "as a Journalist" in his post. I miss the days when "as a journalist" you just reported both sides of the issue and let the people decide. 

It would seem to us, that KSAZ seems to be letting this happen without reigning in their main Anchor. Kind of sad actually.

Just saying....