FTVLive hears that former NBC White House Correspondent Kevin Corke is heading back to DC to join Fox News Channel as a Washington Correspondent.
Most recently he's been a news anchor in Miami at WTVJ and doing play-by-play for ESPN.
Expect an official announcement soon and then at that point you will see the story on the other websites.
SNL took a few swipes at St. Louis newscasts and it might be funny if it was n't so true.
Just saying....
Back in June, FTVLive told you that a man was arrested in Gainesville, FL and accused confining three women in his home as sex slaves, prostituting them and posting a video of himself raping at least one of the victims.
The man Timothy Deegan faces a number of charges.
But, when WTEV/WAWS (now WJAX, WFOX) in Jacksonville posted the story on their website, the station included a mugshot of Deegan in their story, problem was they used a picture of WTLV Weather Anchor Tim Deegan...same name, different guy.
Now the Weatherman is suing the company that helps run WJAX's website and is owned by Nexstar.
Deegan has filed suit against a service provider for a local television station, citing defamation of character, after the service provider featured his mugshot next to the headline "Florida man kept three women as sex slaves, police say."
Deegan is seeking damages in excess of $75,000.
The lawsuit filed, filed on Nov. 7, names Nexstar Broadcasting Inc as the defendant. Nexstar's division Inergize Digital provides digital content for various television stations owned or managed by Cox Media Group.
The suit says Nexstar falsely identified Deegan as the person who had been "arrested and charged with some of the most despicable crimes and immoral conduct imaginable."
Deegan claims the publication of the photo caused him financial damage as well as mental suffering, including mental anguish, personal humiliation and injury to reputation.
In its response, Nexstar admits that it published the wrong photo, but that it did so "in good faith and without negligence, express malice or actual malice."
"The publication about which Plaintiff [Deegan] complains, when considered in its entirety as required by applicable law, was not of and concerning Plaintiff, and could not be reasonably understood to refer to him," the response says.
As WISH in Indianapolis gets ready to lose their CBS affiliation. they decided to whack a few more people from the staff.
Sources tell FTVLive that several staffers at wish were let go today on Friday.
The commercial production team and two long time news staffers were kicked to the curb. The news operations administrator and Assignment Editor Jim Scott who had all the institutional knowledge on the desk.
Happy Holidays!
TV news loves a good car chase and this is one of the better ones. The suspect steals a BMW and tries to outrun the cops. But, the chase gets best after the guy crashes the Beamer and then takes off on a skateboard.
Yes...only in SoCal is this going to happen.
Let's let CNN's Jeanne Moos tell the story in only the way she can:
KTRK in Houston had a number of news management openings and they have started filling them. They also did something a bit different, by hiring two different Assistant News Directors.
One Deuce will work on the broadcast side, while the other will oversee the digital side.
Mike McGuff says that KTRK has promoted longtime managing editor Chris Hanson to be the new Assistant News Director of Digital. News director Wendy Granato said in a staff email that Hanson will keep working on the broadcast side, but will mainly oversee the digital operations.
The new Assistant News Director for Broadcast will be Rehan Aslam who recently left Fox owned WFLD Chicago where he served as an executive producer.
The new Nightside Executive Producer is former KTRK producer Rick Bagley. Bagley joins from Fort Smith/Fayetteville, Arkansas' KFSM where he was news director. Before that he was ND at KDBC El Paso.
Is it me, or is this Detroit (early we said Phoenix by mistake) Reporter just a little too dramatic covering this fatal car crash?
Watch and see what you think:
Big props to WTTG in Washington, DC for showcasing the hard work of the people that make TV not radio.
The News Photographers.
WTTG aired a one hour special of the work of their Photographers did in 2014.
It was very interesting, well done and a lead that other stations should follow.
Let's go to the video:
KABC stayed on top of the Left Coast Ratings but did shed viewers in a number of shows.
5am
KABC 135,000 (last year 109,100)
KTLA 93,100 (last year 98,400)
KNBC 37,800 (last year 39,200)
KTTV 36,800 (last year 28,700)
KCBS 27,300 (last year 32,900)
6am
KABC 192,700 (last year 213,300)
KTLA 182,400 (last year 176,200)
KTTV 72,800 (last year 65,100)
KNBC 66,400 (last year 68,200)
KCBS 46,600 (last year 38,700)
5pm
KABC 245,600 (last year 257,700)
KNBC 139,600 (last year 146,600)
KCBS 108,900 (last year 109,700)
KTTV 48,200 (last year 45,700)
6pm
KABC 277,500 (last year 278,200)
KNBC 147,200 (last year 136,900)
KCBS 97,200 (last year 107,300)
KTLA 58,900 (last year 86,600)
Primetime
KABC/ABC 428,600 (last year 388,500)
KCBS/CBS 331,100 (last year 341,700)
KNBC/NBC 287,400 (last year 273,800)
KTTV/Fox 161,100 (last year 233,900)
KTLA/The CW 112,800 (last year 111,000)
10pm
KCAL 156,100 (last year 131,900)
KTLA 126,500 (last year 130,500)
KTTV 76,900 (last year 128,100)
11pm
KABC 335,900 (last year 318,200)
KCBS 215,000 (last year 205,000)
KNBC 159,000 (last year 186,700)
KTLA 83,000 (last year Arsenio Hall 75,300)
Cox owned WHIO in Dayton had another strong rating book.
Here is the internal memo that News Director Sean Dunster sent out to the staff:
From: "Dunster, Sean (CMG-Dayton)"
Date: December 6, 2014 at 12:38:10 PM EST
To: !CMG-COH-Content-CMG Ohio
Subject: November Wrap!
I’ve pasted some key highlights below from the November book. CONGRATULATIONS!!
Thank you for all the hard work!
Sean
Sean Dunster | WHIO TV News Director
Ø From 4:30 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. News Center 7 delivers an impressive 69 percent of the available local news viewers which is MORE THAN THREE TIMES the nearest competitor. WHIO-TV has 42,000 households watching, while the nearest competitor has 13,000. Plus, ratings grew +18% from November 2013.
Ø News Center 7 at Noon grew three percent and remains one of the highest-rated newscasts in the country, delivering 81,000 households each day.
Ø From 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., News Center 7 delivers 73 percent of available news viewers, delivering 88,000 households. That’s 68,000 MORE than the nearest competitor. Plus it grew +2% from November 2013.
Ø At 11:00 p.m., News Center 7 delivers 64 percent of available news viewers, delivering 68,000 households and exceeding the closest competitor by 47,000.
CBS and Dish Network reached a new multi-year agreement that will continue delivering the network's programming to Dish's 14 million subscribers, and eventually raise your bill if you are a Dish subscriber.
A CBS statement on Saturday did not disclose the financial terms of the deal but said it will result in the dismissal of pending litigation between the companies.
In the end the rich get richer and you and I pay for it.
Supposedly Fox News Anchor Bill O'Reilly and Donald Trump attended a Ny Knicks game together at Madison Square Garden, there is even a picture of the two.
But, we believe that this picture has to be photoshopped, because there is NO WAY MSG is big enough to hold both of those egos.
So, we're calling bullshit!
Just saying....
Looks like CNBC might be running a bit scared.
As FTVLive has been reporting, the money channel has been in a ratings free-fall this year and it appears CNBC is digging into an old bag of tricks.
The NY Post says that the Englewood Cliffs, NJ-based CNBC is spending big bucks renting studio space in Midtown in order to set up its “Squawk Box” studio just two blocks north of the Fox Business headquarters on the Avenue of the Americas.
Competition is so tough, top business executives tell us, that CNBC is stepping up its haranguing of guests about appearing on any parts of the Fox Business lineup and has threatened these executives with banishment from CNBC if they appear on Fox first.
Booking wars are nothing new, but it seems some of CNBC’s hosts lack a team spirit, our sources say. “The culture there seems to be kill your colleague,” one person quipped over bookings. “They [the hosts] seem to think they’re more important than the guests.”
“When you are first in business worldwide, sometimes confidence is misinterpreted as arrogance, and if that were ever the case, we would certainly be apologetic,” said a spokesman for CNBC.
Instead of flying high, Peter Pan crashed and burned in the ratings and it appears that some NBC suits are putting the blame on Brian Williams' daughter, Allsion, but no one is saying so publicly.
The NY Daily News writes that at least two top executives at NBC say that network brass were upset by the 9.2 million viewers who tuned into “Peter Pan Live!”
NBC suits assumed that the ratings would be better than last year’s “Sound of Music Live!” as the network got more press for this production than they did in 2013.
More than 18 million viewers tuned in last year.
The problem now is that NBC is in a very tricky position — internally some high-ranking brass blamed the lukewarm ratings on Allison Williams’ star power, or lack of it, but they cannot say anything publicly because of the network’s relationship to Brian Williams.
The sources note that the next time NBC does a live musical they plan to cast a star on par with Carrie Underwood, the country music megastar whose massive fan base ignited the ratings for “Sound of Music Live!” last year.
Don't look for BriWi to promote that one as much as he did for Peter Pan.
Longtime CNN Reporter Candy Crowley is leaving the cable news net. CNN boss Jeff Zucker sent this email out to the staff announcing Crowley's departure:
December 5, 2014
In her 27 years at CNN, Candy Crowley has been one of the most important and impactful journalists on our air. Since she joined us in 1987, her assignments have taken her to all 50 states, covering a broad range of political stories, including presidential, congressional and gubernatorial races. Candy made her mark covering the presidential campaigns of Pat Buchanan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Bob Dole, Jesse Jackson, Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan and Mitt Romney. And as we all remember, she made her mark yet again in 2012 when she became the first woman to moderate a presidential debate in 20 years.
To say she lives and breathes politics is more than an understatement. She has an innate ability to sense its nuance, push its limits, and ask questions that others won’t. She is beloved in Washington even by those that she so skillfully takes to task on Sunday mornings. And she’s an award-winning journalist – taking home everything from a Peabody and Emmys to an Edward R. Murrow award. She is a television news icon.
Thus, it is with mixed emotions, that I wanted to let you know that Candy has let us know that she has made the decision to move on, so she can embark on the next chapter of her already prolific career. As difficult as it is for us to imagine CNN without Candy, we know that she comes to this decision thoughtfully, and she has our full support. There will be more time in the weeks ahead for all of you who have been lucky enough to work with Candy to share your own thanks for all she has done. But for now, on behalf of everyone at CNN, I want to extend my sincere gratitude and appreciation.
Jeff
Proving that TV people are not qualified to do anything else....
A couple of weeks ago, FTVLive told you that KSAZ Fox O&O weekend anchor Kristen Keogh was leaving the station to start her own venture.
Believe it or not, it isn't in PR.
Keogh has teamed up with KPNX Reporter Hailey Francis (who is keeping her job) to launch a YouTube channel called the CrapCasters....no wait....the CraftCasters.
It is newscasters that do crafts...get it? CraftCasters!
Anyway, the two look-a-likes put on their best sequin outfits set up a camera in the kitchen and welcomed fans to their new venture.
If this video isn't at the top of their demo reel, then I just don't want to live anymore:
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