Sources tell FTVLive that KJRH News Director Susan D'Astoli is out.
D'Astoli joined the station in mid 2012 and now leaves as the very important February book just gets started.
FTVLive contacted the Scripps station and although no one would say why? They did confirm that she is no longer working there.
Someone from HR was spotted in her office a short time ago, cleaning out her desk.
Never a good sign.
Stay tuned....
On the biggest day of the year for a TV station, WPSD (Paducah,KY) had a number of outages during the Super Bowl and needless to say, Viewers were pissed.
At least 6 outages, 3 that were very long occurred during the game and the post game.
Bill Evans, vice president of news and operations, said the outages will be investigated further on Monday, but the station initially believed that the outages were related to a major house fire near one of its substations in Ballard County, Kentucky.
Evans said the station’s chief engineer responded immediately to reports of the first outage, and headed out to the station’s transmitter located in Monkeys Eyebrow, Kentucky.
“On his way to responding to the outage, he came upon a fully engulfed house fire with fire fighters and ambulances,” Evans said. “This house fire may have had an impact on the substation, which caused a spike or a dip and caused our transmitter to go into -- for lack of a better word -- a safe mode, to protect from surges.”
Evans said it’s just a “working hypothesis” that the fully engulfed house fire may have impacted the electrical grid. He said the station was able to restart the transmitter from a smart phone app. But it takes between 10 and 12 minutes to recycle itself, he said.
With each outage, people took to Facebook and Twitter in droves to express concern -- as well as outrage.
During the first outage, WPSD posted on its Facebook page: “We know that some of you are having issues watching the game. We are working on fixing this issue.”
The station’s status was updated again to say: “We apologize, but we are still having problems with our signals. We have engineers working on the issue.”
Hundreds of people responded to the station’s posts. And most did not take kindly to the interruption of the matchup between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots.
Said one poster: “How come it never happens when Obama is on there?”
And another: “You don’t have ‘engineers’ working on anything...You have idiots ruining the most watched program of the year -- your advertisers must love you guys.”
And another: “Who cares about deflategate #signalgate.”
And there were plenty along the lines of this poster: “Unacceptable. No apology is gonna help here.”
Evans said that to those upset with the station, “We apologize for the outages.” He said investigation into the cause will continue next week.
H/T The Southern
The Peacock is flying high Today with the news that last night's Super Bowl was the highest rated ever.
In overnight ratings, the Patriots nail biting win of Super Bowl XLIX drew a 49.7/72 for NBC.
That’s the highest overnight rating in Super Bowl history and a 4% rise from last year’s 47.6/70 metered market result, where Seattle blew out the Denver Broncos.
KARE in Minneapolis ran a promo during the Super Bowl that started with a tease on Social media.
Here is the tease:
This is the ad that aired during the game:
And here are the bloopers that were made while creating the spot:
January goes down as a huge month here at FTVLive!
Another longtime Anchor has announced that he is going to retire.
This is the 4 or 5th Anchor that has used the Feb Book to tell viewers that they are retiring.
Longtime KTRK (Houston) Anchor Don Nelson announced this morning that he is stepping down after almost 40 years.
Of all the Anchors that have announced their pending retirement, Nelson is the first to say he is leaving this month.
All the other anchors announced they were going to retire, but that it was still months (and in one case almost a year) away from happening. Nelson says that on Feb 27th you can stick a fork in him....he's done.
What are his plans after retirement?
"I will be immediately going to the gym daily to find out where all these noises are coming from when I move," Don said.
Here is a video of HLN's (and FTVLive) favorite Robin Meade like you have never seen her before.
You're Welcome:
CBS 60 Minutes Correspondent Steve Kroft did his best to keep his affair with Lisan Goines as quiet as he could.
But, when a tabloid outed Kroft, the newsman quickly copped to the affair and the juicy story lost traction quickly.
But, the NY Post got their hands on some texts that they say is between Kroft and Goines and it shows how Kroft was really worried the two would be caught.
Kroft insisted she dress low-key — like “Laura Bush” — with him in public to keep things hush-hush, according to newly revealed texts.
A source close to Kroft’s lover told The Post that the TV hotshot was “really paranoid about right-wing zealots” finding out about their affair and using the tawdry details to try to destroy his career and CBS.
The sexts between Kroft and Lisan Goines — obtained exclusively by The Post — include a nude selfie of the lusty lawyer that she sent to her much-older lover. Other photos show her wearing a red thong and busting out of a black bra.
But “dress in Washington is Either professional or Laura Bush,” Kroft messaged his illicit squeeze in advance of their September 2011 play date at the Park Hyatt on 24th and M streets in DC.
“Don’t dress like Beyoncé,” Kroft warned the Harvard-educated beauty, according to the source.
In another exchange, Kroft wrote “Too old and Sick to jerk off,” reads one text to Goines from last March, to which the real-estate and corporate lawyer responded with a sexy selfie and the encouragement, “Get well soon…”
The selfie showed Goines smiling alluringly, her long hair be-ribboning her ample cleavage.
“This will help ;)” Kroft responded appreciatively.
H/T NY Post
Brian Andrews with WFOR Report Michelle Gillen before he was shown the door
Three more staffers left the building Friday at WFPR in Miami.
Signing off were Sports Anchor Kim Bokamper Reporter MaryAnn Martinez and Reporter Brian Andrews.
Bokamper left after not coming to terms on a new contract. He says he will now focus on his restaurants.
Martinez says she has a new gig at KENS in San Antonio.
As for Andrews he says he's done with TV News and is starting a PR consulting business.
So what’s it like to end your career on a Friday? Andrews filled in FTVLive as what it was like for him.
"Bokamper is getting a 1:30 look back at his career and time with the Dolphins at the end of the 5. MaryAnn is turning a package on measles. And me? We’ll, my day began at 8:55am when I sat down at my desk to find I had already been wiped out of the computer system," Andrews told FTVLive. "I was later told a mistake had been made and corporate gave me the boot from the computers a day ahead of schedule. I went to the 2pm meeting, was told I wasn’t needed for the early 90, and was out the door by 3:15pm. I stood at the backdoor and gave a quick shout of “thank you” and “the news continues…” and watched my 20 years in local TV news go to a break," he said.
Not exactly how many picture their last day in TV news.
Although the Feb book has just gotten started, a number of longtime Anchors have waited till the book, to announce that they are retiring.
You can add another one to the list.
KSBW (Monterey) Weatherman Jim Vanderzwaan has announced plans for retirement after 32 years at the station.
He won't step down until the Summer, but viewers needed to know, because you know, it's February ratings.
Vanderzwaan made public his decision Sunday evening during a special edition of KSBW Action News 8, following the Super Bowl.
"My decision to retire this summer was not made in haste or taken lightly, but one that my wife and I, along with KSBW, have been working on for some time now," Vanderzwaan said. "I will miss the wonderful people I’ve worked with over the years here at KSBW 8, and I will miss telling our audience about the weather. I’m truly grateful to have served our viewers for so many years, but now it’s time for the next chapter for me and my family."
Why these anchors feel that they have to tell us about their retirement that is still months away, we have no clue?
Must be an ego thing.
WCBS Anchor Dana Tyler was reporting on a fire at a highway maintenance garage that cause some major damage to the building and vehicles.
According to Tyler, some of the vehicles damged were "Sweet Streetpers"....we're guessing she was trying to say "Street Sweepers."
Here's the video:
Here are the Top 10 commercials from this year's Super Bowl:
The Super Bowl was a good one this time, coming down right till the end. But, New England was able to pull out a 28-24 win over Seattle.
Now, that the Patriots are Super Bowl Champions, they will get themselves another ring for winning.
FTVLive has obtained and exclusive picture of the Pats 2015 Super Bowl Ring:
WFLA in Tampa had a Super Bowl countdown clock in the corner of the screen, you know just in case you didn't know there was game.
Word is after the game was over and the station was in their late local newscast, they still had the clock on the screen.
Oops!
Guess anything for ratings month.
ESPN's Suzy Kober wanted to pay tribute to former ESPN Anchor Stuart Scott on Super Bowl Sunday.
It turned very emotional, very quickly:
Not sure what happened to Whitney Houston's Daughter, but it doesn't look good:
Pic via WDIV in Detroit
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