Props to KIFI (Idaho Falls) Sports Anchor Chris Renkel who showed highlights of the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight while it was going on and without violating pay for view broadcast rights.
So how did he do it?
Let's go to the video:
The weather was gorgeous this weekend here in Florida and it appears it was as well in Little Rock.
Check out this picture sent to FTVLive of the full moon rising over the KTHV news car:
NBC sources told FTVLive a longtime ago that NBC News boss Deborah Turness was not a fan of Today Show Anchor Natalie Morales.
At one point, the Peacock was this/close to pulling the plug on Morales and replacing her on Today.
Problem was that after the Ann Curry debacle, NBC chickened out and Morales stayed on the show.
Well you can start the Morales rumor machine back up.
Page Six says there is rampant speculation within NBC News that Natalie Morales is being moved — against her will — off the “Today” show and over to “Dateline.”
Hoda Kotb would replace Morales, a favorite of Matt Lauer, as the 7 to 9 a.m. newsreader. “They’ll try to position this as a ‘promotion’ for Natalie — but make no mistake, she’s not happy,” said one source to Page Six.
“This sounds like someone is trying to stir up trouble after the ‘Today’ win in the demo last week,” an NBC News spokesperson told me. “We’ve got great momentum, we love our team and Natalie is an important part of it.”
Stay tuned.....
Looks like after getting bounced from NBC's Meet the Press, David Gregory might be looking to put Washington, DC in his rearview mirror.
The fired MTP host and his wife Beth Wilkinson, a trial lawyer, have put their Wesley Heights 1935 classic brick Colonial on the market for $2.475 million.
Gregory and Wilkinson bought the home in 2005 for $2.45 million from Victoria Casey and Peter Teeley, the former U.S. ambassador to Canada.
The listing says that the 5,200-square-foot home has been expanded and modernized over the years. The sunroom is flooded with natural light from two skylights and three walls of windows.
The living room has a vaulted ceiling with French doors that lead to a flagstone patio. It shares a two-sided gas fireplace with the dining room. The kitchen, which was designed by Fabiola Martens in 2013, has quartz counters and Porcelanosa floors.
No word if the Chuck Todd dart board is included in the sale price.
H/T Washington Post
On Thursday, CBS colleagues said their final good bye to Bob Simon at a memorial service.
Last night on 60 Minutes, the show paid tribute again by by broadcasting Simon's last unfinished story: a report from the Scottish island of Islay, home to some of the world’s greatest whiskies.
“Whisky Island” aired on last night's show and was finished by the rest of the 60 staff.
“Bob always had an appetite for a new adventure, and he loved whiskey – so it was a perfect mixture,” said 60 MINUTES Executive Producer Jeff Fager. “It was a labor of love for us to put it together and broadcast it as a salute to our old pal Bob.”
Harry Radliffe II, Simon’s producer on many of his recent stories, worked with Steve Kroft to bring to life the story of Islay, where many believe spirits have been distilled since the 15th century.
CNN Reporter Brian Todd interviewed a guy name Kevin Liles who was part of the protestors in Baltimore. The man was Kevin Liles, said he was Kevin Liles, but Todd did not believe him.
He was sure it was hip-hop star Russell Simmons.
It was not....it was Kevin Liles.
Todd tweeted Liles an apology later in the day:
While CNN's Don Lemon is busy with his "it's all about me TV" clown act on CNN, he was not the first to do the act.
Lemon tweeted out a picture on Saturday night of him and the master of me TV, Geraldo Rivera.
Surprisingly it was one selfie where Geraldo had his clothes on (Thank God).
The Fraternal Order of Police leveled serious conflict-of-interest charges Friday against the Baltimore state's attorney's office — and the local media.
Gene Ryan, president of Fraternal Order of Police, wrote in a letter to State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby that he has "very deep concerns about the many conflicts of interest" involving her office prosecuting six officers for the death of Freddie Gray. He asked her to appoint a special prosecutor.
One of his concerns involve the "lead prosecutor's connections with members of the local media" constitute a conflict of interest demands comment.
Ryan does not get into specifics, but lead prosecutor in Mosby's office, the official who led the investigation in the Freddie Gray case, is veteran attorney Janice Bledsoe.
Bledsoe is in a relationship with WBAL investigative reporter Jayne Miller (pictured), one of Baltimore's most experienced and well sourced TV journalists.
Miller confirmed the relationship to a Sun reporter Friday morning. Later in the day, when I called to ask her about the allegations, she said, "Call my general manager."
Dan Joerres, general manager at WBAL, offered three statements in response to a series of questions about Miller.
"I can assure you our news department operates at the highest level of ethical standards as does every department at WBAL," Joerres said when asked about the FOP allegations. "Jayne Miller's 30-plus years of award-winning reporting on the city of Baltimore speaks for itself."
When asked if he was concerned about a conflict of interest or perception of one in Miller's case, he said, "Anytime we have a potential conflict of interest, it's discussed and vetted in an appropriate manner."
He repeated that answer when asked if the station had ever disclosed on-air the relationship between the two when Miller reported on cases connected to Bledsoe's office.
Calls to the state's attorney's office seeking comment from Bledsoe were not immediately returned Friday.
CNN also has conflict, but they are being more open about it.
CNN is using attorney Sunny Hostin as one of its legal experts. Hostin, who once lived and worked in Baltimore, is a friend of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.
CNN has pointed out Hostin's connection in the case every time a show host went to her for commentary. CNN announced Hostin's conflict of interest so that viewers could judge her remarks within the context of that knowledge.
WBAL's viewers deserve at least as much transparency and truth as CNN's are getting.
H/T Baltimore Sun
Anyone that works in TV News knows, the male Anchor is very particular about his hair. Many have learned that if you touch the hair, you die, or at least get a very stern look.
The website GetGoodHead.com (don't ask us how we stumbled upon the site) has looked at every market in every state and has named the best male Anchor hair for each state.
We have to give huge props to KTVA Photographer Andy Nitchman (pictured), who took second place in Alaska.
Yes...a Photog made the list. Get Good Head wrote that, "Alaska didn’t have a large list of newsmen with great hair, so we had to look just outside on-camera talent to find our runner-up. But we’re sure you will agree that Andy has quite the head of hair.Andy Nitchman is a photojournalist for CBS 11 News. He is the only non-reporter/anchor on our list. If you don’t like it, then avert your eyes." They then added, "We found that most of the cameramen in Alaska had better hair than their on-camera counterparts. What’s up with that?"
If you want to check out the full list and we know every male Anchor will, you can do so here.
The weekend fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao brought in millions of dollars for the pay TV companies.
The fight brought in more money than any pay tv event in history.
But, a couple of TV Reporters were streaming the fight for free to those that logged onto their Periscope accounts.
Never mind the fact that it was a clear violation of copyright law and if the pay TV people go after the Reporters, it could get ugly quickly for them.
Alexis Mitchell from WBTV in Charlotte streamed a portion of the fight on Periscope and so did KSL's (Salt Lake City) Shara Park.
WRC (DC) Reporter Mark Segraves did not stream the fight on the app, but he did point out in a tweet that he was watching it for free using Periscope.
No word if he was watching another Reporter's feed?
Friday morning, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted a photo from the International Space Station of his TV tuned to KTRK's (Houston) morning news.
Back in April, Kelly tweeted a pic of him tuned into KHOU's morning newscast.
By this point, Houston's KPRC must feel really left out.
H/T Mike McGuff
KOLD (Tucson) Director Mark Herman is leaving the station and headed to WKRN in Nashville.
Now it is not often that FTVLive does a story on a Newscast Director leaving a station, but Herman gets props for doing it in a different way.
He handed in his resignation letter on a cake.
Herman called a Tucson bakery and told them how he wanted the cake decorated.
“They said it’s the first time they’ve heard of someone doing something like this, and happily obliged,” the newsman tells Romenesko readers.
Herman emailed his resignation to KOLD news director Michelle Germano, and promised to hand-deliver a physical copy for his personnel file.
“When I came in, I reminded her of that, and said, ‘Here’s the physical copy.'” He then presented her the cake.
And everyone knows how much newsrooms love cake.
H/T Romenesko
Speaking of newscast Director's.....
A Director at WJXT in Jacksonville was woken up Sunday to a damaged house, after a car drove into it.
Not often that you see a hit and run accident involving a house, but that is exactly what happened to WJXT's Ike Levitan.
Levitan said he never heard a thing, and before anyone could see who did it, the car was gone. "You (can) see the tire marks going across the lawn," Levitan said.
The most bizarre part is that no one nearby heard a crash either.
"We usually hear cars going up and down the street all the time, so I thought maybe it was something like that, maybe the house settling -- nothing out of the ordinary, not a car into the house," Levitan said. "Then it was like, 'OK, I've got to get this cleaned up and get this house in order so I can live in it.'"
Levitan said he only found out about the wreck when a Jacksonville Sheriff's Office officer knocked on his door and told him to come outside. Levitan said the neighbor eventually saw the damage and called police.
"It's probably going to be a couple thousand (dollars)," Levitan said. "All I wanted to do was paint the house -- that was the next adventure. Now I have to fix the house."
H/T WJXT
WFTV (Orlando) Reporter Lori Brown is packing her bags for the Big D.
Brown is leaving the land of Mickey and headed to KDFW in Dallas.
“I’m looking forward to going back to my home state, and doing my part to provide a check on government in Dallas,” Brown said in an email. She also looks forward to working with a cousin, who is a photojournalist at KDFW.
“We will miss her,” said WFTV news director Matt Parcell to the Orlando Sentinel. “Lori has a deep-down belief in journalism, journalists and the role we play in society. She fit perfectly with the Eyewitness News team’s approach to digging up significant local stories. She’s held many of our government leaders accountable, and I’m sure a few of them won’t be sad to see her leave.”
Brown joined ABC affiliate WFTV in October 2011, her last day is June 5th.
No one will argue that WOIO-TV (Cleveland) is about as 'in your face' as local TV gets. Their investigations, usually led by Scott Taylor, often make national headlines.
The station rents space in the Reserve Square building in downtown Cleveland. VP/GM Dominic Mancuso apparently got tired of complaining about the mice, bugs, and falling chunks of concrete, so he got the landlord's attention by mailing a dead mouse to his office.
The landlord says Mancuso, 'Isn't the easiest guy to get along with". What GM is?
Check out more at Cleveland.com.
Maybe #FF should stand for Friday Fumbles. WXIN's Ray Cortopassi was apparently distracted on the previous story about how to tell when your partner is in the mood for romance. He got a little tongue-tied and what should have been "food truck", came out as !*@$
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