CNN had goofball Don Lemon out in the "Blizzard Mobile" (really that is what they called their vehicle) covering the storm and poor Don could not remember his own name.
As stupid as forgetting your own name is, it's not nearly as stupid as the "Blizzard Mobile."
By the way, hold on to your hat, at least for the beginning of the live shot:
A WNBC crew has a close-call with an idiot trying to showoff for the camera.
Reporter Stacey Bell and her Photographer were doing a live shot a snowy intersection when a driver trying to "act cool" almost plowed into the news crew during the live hit:
While the Weather Channel is making up storm names, it also appears that they are making up state names as well:
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has figured out a way to not have to deal with the media.
He's starting his own state-run taxpayer-funded news outlet.
Talk about going head first down the slippery slope.
Pence is planning in late February launch of "Just IN," a website and news outlet that will feature stories and news releases written by state press secretaries and is being overseen by a former Indianapolis Star reporter, Bill McCleery.
The news service will make pre-written news stories available to Indiana media, as well as sometimes break news about his administration, according to documents obtained by The Indianapolis Star.
Needless to say, most members of the media think this is an awful idea and if you think it is only and Indiana media problem, consider this.
Pence is considering a run for the White House.
If he runs, we're guessing he will not be getting many votes from the people in the press.
Just saying...
Fox owned KTTV replaced its main actors Christine Devine and Jeff Michael on its low rated 5PM "Studio 11." Michael and Devine will continue on the 10PM news only.
Devine reached out to one of her biggest fans on Twitter give him the news:
Lauren Sivan (see how she works) and Bob DeCastro will now anchor the 5PM broadcast.
Sources say the station is exploring the replacing newscasts with "Chasing L.A.," a TMZ type tabloid show.
Fox has already done that at WOR with "Chasing New Jersey," now it is being talked about in LA. The program features various segments and stories focusing on headlines and issues affecting the market featuring reports by a group of correspondents known as "chasers".
Stay tuned....
WMAQ News Director Frank Whittaker will miss the February book to focus on his health.
Whittaker told the staff that he is taking time off and will undergo surgery Thursday for prostate cancer.
Whittaker said he was diagnosed with the cancer on Halloween.
He is not expected back until the end of next month at the earliest.
H/T Robert Feder
Yesterday, FTVLive told you that former Today Show Anchors Bryant Gumble and Katie Couric have a Super Bowl commercial for BMW that pokes fun at their lack of knowledge of new technology.
Of course, as Yahoo's Global News Anchor, we're not sure how much technology company Yahoo appreciates the ad that makes their main face look like a noob.
Here's the full ad:
Variety and other lesser known websites reported that Rosie Perez had left ABC's The View and would not be returning.
FTVLive checked with our sources and they said that the story was not true and Perez would be returning to the show, which indeed is the case.
Now, Variety is trying to say that ABC had planned on firing Perez and they backtracked on the plan after the story was leaked to the magazine.
Variety writes, "At the time, the network wasn’t ready to announce the co-host’s departure. According to a source familiar with ABC execs’ thinking, fear of “an Ann Curry situation” — a reference to NBC’s botched firing of the “Today” anchor in 2012 — led executives to reverse course and keep Perez on the network’s 11 a.m. talk show for now."
Senior ABC executives strongly deny that there was ever a plan to oust Perez.
“These unnamed sources are wrong,” said an ABC spokesperson. “As was always the plan, the amazingly talented Rosie Perez took time off to rehearse for her Broadway play. We’re eagerly looking forward to having her back on February 3rd. Any speculation to the contrary is simply untrue.”
Looks like someone is trying to make an excuse for a wrong story.
Just saying....
Louisville Police believe a news vehicle belonging to WHAS was involved in a crash that killed a pedestrian Friday night.
in a story on their website, WHAS confirmed that witnesses told police one of their vehicles was involved in the crash. The station said the vehicle has been impounded, and they are cooperating with the investigation.
Alicia Smiley, a spokeswoman for the Louisville Metro Police Department, said, "We believe the second vehicle involved is that of a news station, but we are trying to determine what that involvement is. The incident is still under investigation."
58 year old Fontaine Jeffery was hit by multiple vehicles in a crosswalk of a downtown intersection. Police say before she was hit, Jeffery had fallen for unknown reasons while crossing the street.
University Hospital doctors pronounced Jeffery dead at 9:16 P.M. after being struck by two vehicles at the intersection of 2nd St. and Jefferson St. Friday night.
Here is the Live feed from WCBS in New York and their coverage of the massive snowstorm bearing down on the northeast:
NBC's Savannah Guthrie is having a good 2015 so far.
Guthrie has landed the President for his annual Super Bowl sit down interview and she has also landed a contract extension.
Guthrie has inked a 3 year extension to stay on as the Today Show co-anchor a job she took over in June 2012.
Guthrie walked in when Ann Curry was pushed out. Guthrie said that she came in quietly and kept her head down when she was named Curry's replacement.
"It required a delicate touch," Guthrie told the LA Times. "My own approach was not to go in there with guns blazing, saying, 'Pay attention to me.' It called for someone to come in, put their head down and do the work. I tried to be a credit to the show and not another problem."
Now, Guthrie also gets to interview President Obama before this year's Super Bowl. It has been custom of the President to sit down with a network news Anchor from the network that is broadcasting the game.
Guthrie got the nod and will talk to the President before kickoff.
The Boston Herald's cover is helping feed the ego of windshield wiper salesman and Weather Channel Anchor Jim "The American Bald Ego" Cantore:
A man saying that Fox News ruined his life, went to the network's studios and shot himself in the chest.
The NY Post says that the man, who was not identified, was found just before 9 a.m. sitting slumped outside of the building on Sixth Avenue and West 47th Street, cops and witnesses said.
Police at the scene said that the man apparently shot himself with a small-caliber pistol, which was found on the ground next to him. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition, cops said.
Prior to the shooting, the man was heard protesting Fox News, saying that the news channel ruined his life, a source said.
Security guards asked the man to leave and when they turned around to walk back inside, they heard a gunshot, the source said.
The man, believed to be in his 30s, had what appeared to be a suicide note in his pocket, the source added.
Update: The man that shot himself has died, he was a former employee of a Fox station in Texas.
Police say the man was Phillip Perea, 41 years old, of Irving, Texas.
Perea shot himself once in the chest and had no ties to Fox News. Perea had also been handing out fliers, which criticized his employer for having “ended my career,” moments before he shot himself.
This is the forecast for the Northeast if Weather Anchors didn't have to watch their language:
Former WICU News Director Bill Cummings is the new ND at KFSM, Fayetteville, AR.
Cummings parted ways with WICU late last year after two years at the station. Cummings came to Erie after a very short stint at KSWT, in Yuma, AZ.
He's formerly worked in Tucson, Evansville, IN, Huntington, WV, and Tri-Cities, TN.
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