No Parking
/A resident at an apartment complex in Beaumont, TX says they sick and tired of a KFDM news truck that parks in the fire Lane at the apartments.
The person posted a few pictures on Facebook, saying that they are, "So tired of this!"
#WrongScottWalker
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WDSU (New Orleans) Anchor Scott Walker gets a long of hate Tweets, but he's ok with it.
Most of the hate is not intended for him, but the other Scott Walker.
As Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker gears up for a White House run, Anchor Scott Walker has been getting more tweets that are not meant for him.
“Don’t oppress women with malicious ultrasounds,” the woman from Florida pleaded with him on Twitter. “Focus on jobs, not vaginas. Please!”
Walker, responded with what has become a frequent hashtag to misguided Twitter haters: #WrongScottWalker.
Walker — who anchors WDSU News at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. on weeknights — is amused about the coincidence of sharing a name with someone who is getting a lot of buzz as potential Republican presidential candidate. But he says the confusion isn’t new.
“It’s been going on for years now,” Walker said with a laugh in an phone interview with The Daily Caller.
When the Wisconsin governor, a foe of public sector unions, was facing a tense recall election in 2012, the newscaster said the tweets poured in.
“I just don’t understand how people confuse the two,” Walker, the anchor, said. “If I send a tweet, I know who I’m sending it to. He is @ScottWalker, I’m @ScottWalker6. I don’t look like the guy. I’m a news anchor in New Orleans. He’s the governor of Wisconsin.”
Don't look alike? Maybe this picture of the two will prove otherwise:
Anchor Takes Time off to Fight Blood Disease
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Longtime WNEM (Saginaw) Anchor Katie O'Mara has taken a leave of absence from the station due to a blood disease.
O'Mara, who has been away from the station since the first of the year, said she has been battling her medical condition for "quite some time and it's chronic."
"Its not cancer, but it keeps me from working," she said through her Facebook page. "As much as I miss being next to Sam [Merrill] and Carrie [Sharp], it's important that I take the time I need to heal."
O'Mara, 47, declined to comment on specifics of the disease, but said it's idiopathic, meaning doctors still aren't sure what's causing it.
She said she was diagnosed with the disease after giving birth to her daughter Rosie eight years ago.
"Things were fine for a year, but have gone downhill in the last four years," she said. "I've had a lot of medical procedures and it has been really difficult. I thought taking some time off would help me heal, but it's still a daily problem."
Al Blinke, general manager of Meredith Corp.-owned WNEM, said the station is pulling for her to return.
"We hope she has a quick recovery and we keep her in our thoughts and prayers," Blinke said. "We're in a ratings game right now and we'd love to have her come back. She's still in all of our promos and is still very much part of this station."
H/T MLive.com
Bumped Up the Food Chain in Greensboro
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Longtime WGHP Assistant News Director Kevin Daniels has been bumped up at the Tribune Fox affiliate.
Daniels moves from the Deuce to the News Director gig, replacing Karen Koutsky who left in December 2014.
Daniels has been at WGHP newsroom for more than 15 years, serving in various leadership positions.
Say What?!
/He looks like's he's standing in front of a McDonald's, but the chyron says it's McDoland's:
I bet McDoland's hasn't served billions of hamburgers.
CoCo Does Cuba
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Conan O'Brien is going where no late night talk show host has gone before.
Cuba.
O’Brien and a small crew flew to Havana Thursday and have spent the weekend filming for his TBS late-night show’s March 4 episode, becoming the first American late-night show to film in Cuba since the US embargo began in 1962.
The episode is intended to give O’Brien’s audience a rare glimpse into Cuban daily life, said show representatives in confirming the report to Deadline.
They're Baaaaaaack
/We held out hope we would never see it again.
But, WZTV in Nashville and WGME in Portland have brought back the very tired "Ice Desk" for another year.
The way this Winter is going, these things might be around for the 4th of July:
Former DC News Director Spotted in Cleveland
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Former WUSA News Director Fred D'Ambrosi was spotted by FTVLive spies in the newsroom at WOIO in Cleveland.
Word is that D'Ambrosi is pitching for the News Director job, replacing Dan Salamone, who FTVLive told you left the station.
FTVLive reached out to D'Ambrosi days ago for comment.
We never heard back.
Stay tuned....
Digging Up more BriWi Lies
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In a long story over the Weekend, the Washington Post dug up some more Brian Williams lies.
The paper writes, "Interviews with more than two dozen of the “NBC Nightly News” anchor’s current and former colleagues reveal a man who took such delight in spinning yarns that he could sometimes lose sight of where the truth began and where it ended."
Of course, many of BriLies stories are from his coverage during Hurricane Katrina.
Talking about his time at the Superdome, Williams said in June last year, Williams said in a taped interview at Columbia University with Brokaw that “all of us watched as one man committed suicide.”
That account was challenged by an NBC producer who was with Williams in the Superdome that night.
“I didn’t see anyone commit suicide. None of us did,” said the producer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of warnings by NBC management about discussing Williams publicly.
Then he talked about the lack of food for him and the NBC crew covering Katrina. “We were desperate for food and drink. But not like the people we were seeing in the streets,” he said in the documentary “In His Own Words: Brian Williams on Hurricane Katrina.”
“I remember seeing a box of Slim Jims and thinking, ‘That’s better than any restaurant meal right now. That’s the greatest thing I’ve ever seen,’ ” he said.
However, there was abundant food at the Ritz-Carlton, according to DeGersdorff. The hotel was stocked for a fully booked weekend, and it set out buffet breakfasts, lunches and dinners each day.
Later, after the NBC crew left the hotel, the network set up a compound with about two dozen RVs and had “food being trucked in from Houston,” said a producer who worked with Williams during the storm.
The Post uncovers more stories and you can bet there are even more still out there.
NBC News should just cut their ties with Williams right now, there is no way he can comeback and be respected as a network News Anchor.
Just saying....
Will BriWi be Bounced using the Morality Clause in His Contract?
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If you are wondering how NBC can dump Brian Williams, but not pay off his $10 million dollar a year contract, you just need to look in the NBC handbook at the "morality clause."
It reads:
“If artist commits any act or becomes involved in any situation, or occurrence, which brings artist into public disrepute, contempt, scandal or ridicule, or which justifiably shocks, insults or offends a significant portion of the community, or if publicity is given to any such conduct . . . company shall have the right to terminate.”’
Looking at that line alone and you see that NBC has more than enough reason to fire BriWi.
At this point, if NBC keeps Williams, it will go down as one of the dumbest moves ever made in the broadcast news industry (and that's saying a lot).
What you will likely to see is that NBC will work out an exit agreement with Williams, that will pay Williams a handy sum to stay quiet.
Williams has lawyered up with Bob Barnett, the distinguished attorney who also repped Ann Curry during her dealings with NBC.
H/T Page Six
NBC Nightly's Ratings Drop amidst BriWi Scandal
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The BriLie scandal is taking its tool on the ratings for NBC Nightly News.
Looking at some numbers from last week, it is not good for the Peacock.
Deadline reports that ABC’s World News Tonight beat NBC Nightly News by 347,000 viewers on Wednesday. The previous Wednesday ABC’s newscast lost to NBC’s by nearly 400,000 viewers in fast affiliate time period stats (apples to apples). Likewise, two weeks earlier, ABC’s newscast had trailed Williams by more than 600,000 on Wednesday night in the early numbers.
In the news demo, this past Wednesday ABC beat NBC by 109,000 viewers, the early stats show. The previous Wednesday it had trailed Williams by nearly half a million viewers in the demo. Two weeks ago ABC trailed NBC by about 300,000.
Ouch!
OUCH!
/You know that these had to sting the Peacock:
Holt-a-thon
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Lester Holt Anchor NBC Nightly news last week after already pulling a double shift (Weekend Today and Nightly Weekend) last weekend.
So, many wondered who will fill in for Holt this weekend so the poor guy could have some time off?
It was Holt again both morning and night.
Hard to believe that NBC is not at least giving the guy a little time off.
You can count FTVLive on #TeamLester! The guy is working his butt off.
Bye, Bye BriWi
/Over the weekend, NBC updated their iPhone app in the iTunes store. The update said it was to fix some bug issues, but it really looks like it was to scrub Brian Williams name from the app.
OK...This is Scary
/The American Bald Ego, Jim Cantore was covering the snowstorm in New England when a thunderstorm moved in.
To say that The Ego got excited with the "Thundersnow" would be a major understatement.
Hide the wife and kids and watch this video and let's hope someone at The Weather Channel refills Jim's Prozac prescription really soon:
San Diego Station Says President Obama will not be Charged with Rape
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According to KSWB, President Obama will not be charged with rape.
While covering the story of a rape suspect having charges against him, KSWB made a painful error: The station aired a picture of President Barack Obama with the story, complete with a “no charges” caption under his photo.
Oops!
And let's go to the video:
