If your News Director or GM just sent out a memo, make sure you forward it to FTVLive.
If you have any tips, or found and interesting news story, pass it along. FTVLive is always looking for good tips and if you have one, why not share it with us?
You can email us at FTVLive at Gmail Dot Com
Also you can follow us on Twitter! We post to Twitter the second a new story is posted on FTVLive.com.
Remember all tips are treated as anonymous and FTVLive never reveals our sources.
A few more weeks like this and NBC might entirely forget old BriLie.
Last week, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt” was number 1 across the board for the second straight week, increasing its audiences and widening its advantages over the competition in all categories compared to the prior week.
The NBC broadcast topped ABC’s “World News Tonight” by almost 1 million viewers (+951,000), nearly tripling its lead week-to-week (vs. 326k) and marking its biggest total viewer win over ABC of 2015 (since week of 12/22/2014). Nightly has now won 7 of the last 10 weeks among total viewers.
Nightly also delivered its biggest A25-54 and A18-49 audiences since March (since 3/23 and 3/2, respectively) and significantly widened its lead over the competition in both demos week-to-week. Nightly delivered its best A25-54 advantage over ABC in nearly six months (since 1/5/2015) and over CBS in three months (since 3/23/2015).
Nightly posted the biggest gains among the network newscasts week-to-week, increasing in total viewers (+5%, or +401,000), A25-54 viewers (+3%, or +61,000), and A18-49 viewers (+4%, or +58,000). ABC declined across the board week-to-week.
#TeamLestor
Hartford's WTNH has a new Assistant News Director.
Former WABC Morning EP Adam Darsky is the new Deuce at the station.
Here is the internal memo from News Director Keith Connors that was sent to the staff and obtained by FTVLive:
Hi Everyone,
I wanted to let you know that Adam Darsky will be joining us as assistant news director starting July 15th. Adam comes to us from WABC in New York. Until recently, Adam was the executive producer of the most watched local morning newscast in America. Prior to that he was an EP at WCNC in Charlotte. And before that he spent a decade in a variety of producing roles at KTRK in Houston.
Adam is excited about getting to know everyone on the team. Outside of work he’s a dedicated husband and doting father to his 14 month old baby girl. If you’d like to reach out to Adam his email address is adamjdarsky@********.com. I know you’ll join me in welcoming Adam to the News8 family.
Keith
Move over Brian Williams, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta is being called out.
On April 27, Gupta and CNN reported that he performed surgery on an 8-year-old girl in Kathmandu who had been badly injured in the quake. He told viewers the girl, Salina Dahal, was in dire circumstances and could die without the surgery. Later, he informed his audiences that Salina was progressing well.
Now, an international news operation based in San Francisco is muscularly challenging those accounts. The Global Press Journal reported late Tuesday night that the 8-year-old girl never underwent surgery. Instead, the journal says Gupta helped perform surgery on a 14-year-old with traumatic head injuries.
Gupta tried to explain how he made the mistake.
"I don't like to make mistakes," Gupta said. "Sometimes you are beholden to other people for information, or you are verifying details in other ways. It gives me pause as a doctor. It gives me pause as a journalist."
The mistake, Gupta said, was one born of havoc. "We want to be accurate, 100 percent. It was a chaotic situation, no doubt. You had a hospital turn into a massive triage area."
Not good enough, argued Cristi Hegranes, the founder and executive director of the San Francisco-based Global Press Institute and the publisher of The Global Press Journal.
"When foreign correspondents are parachuted into a place where they have no social, historical, cultural or political context, the coverage is automatically compromised," says Hegranes, herself a former stringer in Nepal. "Accuracy is not the top priority."
CNN appears to have initially gotten the story right and then, at Gupta's behest, reversed its reporting to offer mistaken information instead.
In a piece posted at 10:14 am ET, CNN producer Tim Hume reported from Kathmandu that Gupta had aided the craniotomy of Sandyha Chalise, whom he identified as a 15-year-old girl (her actual age appears to be 14). At 2:30 p.m. that day, according to CNN spokeswoman Neel Khairzada, the network sent out an updated alert. The new story referred to Salina Dahal, the 8-year-old.
Salina did seek care that day, brought in by her grandfather. Her face and bandaged head are featured prominently in CNN's footage from the hospital and shown in brief segments on television touting Gupta's role.
Gupta told me it was his call to change the identity of the patient in Hume's story. He said he believed the inclusion of Sandyha was the mistaken version.
"I wanted to get the story right," Gupta said. "I didn't think the story was right. I had every reason to believe based on the [CAT] scans, based on what the doctors were telling me, based on the story they had told me, that the patient we had just operated on was an 8-year-old girl."
8 year old, 14 year old...either way it seems to be another black eye on CNN.
A black eye, in this case, the Doctor can't fix.
H/T NPR
CNN's Brianna Keilar sat down with Hillary Clinton for her first interview since announcing she was running for President.
By doing so, she put herself in a no win situation, not Clinton mind you, but Keilar.
No matter how she conducted the interview she was going to be criticized from both the right and the left.
Keilar could have reached over and slapped Clinton in the face and those on the right would have said it wasn't hard enough.
"During a 20-or-so minute interview that — again, as expected — came off as something scripted between the left-wing cable news network and the Clinton campaign, Keilar asked some of the right questions but then allowed Hillary to answer them with soundbites, platitudes, and half-truths." wrote right wing blog Brietbart.com
Politico made Keilar out as a light weight when they wrote, "Clinton sat with CNN’s Brianna Keilar (notably a beat reporter, not one of the network’s anchors who are household names) for her first nationally broadcast interview.
Keilar asked some tough questions, but Clinton only said what she wanted to say. It would have been that way no matter who did the interview.
The CNN interview did not unveil any big news and that comes as no surprise.
Keilar did a more than adequate job, but she was going to get slammed no matter what happened.
In the world of politics, it's messy for everyone, even the media covering the mess.
Hillary Clinton sat down for and interview with CNN's Brianna Keilar that aired yesterday. A few days ago, FTVLive wondered if Keilar and or CNN would mention the fact that she attended the recent wedding of a Clinton campaign staffer.
Keilar attended the the wedding of Clinton's Director of Grassroots Engagement Adam Parkhomenko and Kirby Hoag, Clinton's Deputy Operations Director.
FTVLive wrote, "Will CNN disclose that fact to viewers before the Clinton interview takes place. We'll just have to wait and see."
The answer is no, there was no mention of it at all.
And to be honest, we expected nothing less from CNN.
Just saying....
KAKE in Wichita did not like the fact that someone questioned their "over the top" coverage of some street flooding.
Ken Evans, who works for the City of Wichita, posted to his PERSONAL Facebook page about the stations coverage:
KAKE did not like the fact that Evans bashed their live shot of the flooding and decided to make an entire package out of his sarcastic social media post.
Evans responded to the station with, "I stand by my comments in that context on Facebook, but don't consider my opinions about coverage of the news as "news." I'm not sure why anyone would? My attempt at humor was clearly directed at the live shots themselves not the flash flooding, and included a note about the difficult job reporters do each day. I don't know how it could be viewed any differently, but I am always willing to learn."
Here is the story that KAKE did on the posting:
Update: It appears that after FTVLive posted this story, KAKE has pulled all references to the story from their website. Even the link to "most popular" stories on the right side of their website has the headline, but now links to a different story that is not related.
But just wait until you are using this for your live shot:
The gang over at Devlin Design Group is helping you over the Wednesday Hump:
If Fox News host Bill O'Reilly seems a bit more surly than usual, it might be because Megyn Kelly is taking away the king's crown.
Megyn Kelly is on a ratings roll.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that, fresh off of a rare month atop the cable news ratings heap, the Fox News Channel host is extending her hot streak into July.
The first week of July saw The Kelly File win among the adults 25-54 demographic, averaging 458,000 viewers in the advertiser-favored group over No. 2 The O'Reilly Factor's 431,000.
Bill O'Reilly's 8 p.m. telecast is perennially No. 1 across cable news, but Kelly scored a monthly win in June — only her second month atop the heap since her 2013 move to primetime.
O'Reilly still topped the cable news race with total viewers, netting 2.5 million, but Kelly is gaining ground there too. Her No. 2 status was by a margin of little more than 200,000 viewers, averaging 2.2 million for the week.
Oh boy! Papa bear is going to be pissed.
Thomas Roberts is out as host of Donald Trump's Miss USA Pageant.
Roberts was the slated host of the event when it was going to be broadcast on NBC. After the Peacock cut ties with Trump, the Reelz channel picked it up.
Roberts withdrew as host of the event and will be replaced by Todd Newton.
Yeah...we have no clue who that is either.
Rosie is leaving ABC's "The View."
No...not that Rosie,,, the other one.
Rosie Perez's departure from the talk show has been announced.
Just last week rumors began to spread that the host and Nicolle Wallace were on the chopping block after some anemic ratings, but in an announcement released by the executive producer of "The View" Bill Wolff, it appears she is leaving on her own to purse alternative career goals.
"Our friend Rosie Perez has decided to leave the show at the conclusion of this season to pursue full time her love for acting," Wolff's email began. "Stepping into the role of talk show host at the same time she has been starring on Broadway has been incredibly impressive. And beyond being an enormously talented performer, Rosie is a dedicated advocate who has brought passion and insight to the panel every day. Rosie will always be a part of The View family, and we will welcome her back as a guest anytime to catch up. We'll plan a proper send off for her in a few weeks, but in the meantime, please join me in thanking her for her great work on the show."
Who knows what the real story is and quite frankly, who really cares?
You know what? Forgot that I even posted this story.
OK?
H/T NY Daily News
This morning, FTVLive told you that a Fox News host referred to Professional Golfer Rory McIlroy as a "leprechaun."
Which a number of Irish people, like McIlroy consider a derogatory term.
Today on FNC, Lisa “Kennedy” Montgomery said she was the one that made the off camera comment about the world's number 1 golfer. But, if you were looking for an apology, you weren't getting it.
“Yesterday at this time I used the word leprechaun to describe golfer Rory McIlroy. I love sports, I love golf, but I am not a fan of Rory’s. Mostly for the way he treated tennis great Caroline Wozniacki and discarded her like a piece of chewed gum when he broke her heart and broke off their engagement in a short phone conversation. That’s worse than breaking up on a Post-it. Now to be clear, neither Harris (Faulkner) nor Jenna Lee used the term and I don’t want them to get the credit for it. I called Rory McIlroy a leprechaun and believe me I wanted to call him much worse. As you know, some of my best friends are leprechauns and they also have tremendous sense of humor. Thank you.”
Not sure that Rory is laughing.
McIlroy is known on tour as a down to earth really nice guy. Rory has been straight forward and honest about his break up with Wozniacki. He was not ready for marriage and backed out. It was a better option than going through with something you were not ready to do. He put all the blame on himself and never had a bad thing to say about Wozniacki. And it should be pointed out, that Wozniacki has never said a bad thing about Rory.
So while Kennedy can diss Rory all she wants, the truth is she does not really know much about the guy. And when she got caught on camera making a snide remark, she really couldn't step up to say she was sorry.
Something Rory has done time and time again when he makes a mistake.
Kennedy should have done the same.
Just saying....
Former Philly Weather Anchor and pants pooper John Bolaris has pulled the plug on his website, WeatherSavior.com.
The website, which offered up personal forecast for $500 a month has closed up shop. Bolaris had been working with Philly.com, but they struck a deal with NBC O&O WCAU and kicked Bolaris to the curb.
Bolairs left this message on WeatherSavior.com:
I want to sincerely thank my loyal followers of Weathersavior.com.
Our small team made this project fun, exciting, ACCURATE, and No B.S.
However to be perfectly honest losing our partnership with Philly.com was a huge blow to us as COMCAST pushed us out the door. The folks at Philly.com are wonderful people who work tirelessly and loved the team work.
Sometimes when things are at their bleakest (against the ropes) great things that you never knew existed before come to you. I'm truly excited about a couple of great projects that will launch. One project you might here about, however the grand slam will remain silent until sometime this fall. ..Stay tuned...
"Its always darkest before sunrise"
-JB
"It's always darkest before the sunrise"???? And people paid $500 a month to learn that?
Wow, no wonder it didn't work.
Twitter | Facebook | Contact Us ©2025 FTVLive LLC
