Former WSMV (Nashville) Anchor and Reporter Cynthia Williams was found dead on Friday night.
Police said it appears Williams, 57, died in her sleep while staying at a friend’s house in Nashville.
Williams left WSMV a couple of years ago, shortly after being diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
H/T The Tennessean
Another social media tip from your friends at FTVLive.
When sending out an early morning tweet to tease your newscast, please try and find at least one story that depress the hell out of the viewer before they even open their eyes.
Just saying.....
A Memphis Police officer was shot multiple times on Saturday night and later died from his injuries.
A number of Memphis TV stations reported the officer's name before his family could be notified. The Police Director held a very late night presser on Saturday night to say the family has not yet been notified and they are not releasing the name.
This was after Memphis stations had reported the name. Cox-owned WHBQ was the first to break the name Saturday night, turning up the pressure on other stations to report the name before official confirmation.
Some commenters say the family even learned of the death from watching WHBQ.
Stations then started backtracking and scrubbing the officers name from their stories until it was finally released early Sunday morning.
WMC posted an apology online, WREG blamed a "miscommunication" and WHBQ has stayed quiet.
Former ABC Anchor Chris Cuomo has been at CNN since February 2013. But, that hasn't stopped ABC News from still asking for story ideas for Cuomo to work on.
Here is a link to a still active page on ABC's website (we'll see how long it stays active after this story is posted).
Here's a screen shot so you can see what we're talking about after ABC pulls the page:
Thanks to CNN for clearing this up for me. I was almost sure that Cecil's brother was a giraffe. That must be his sister.
The New York Daily News says that CNN Anchors discovered that the hair and makeup staffers have been tricking them into arriving on the set earlier — by setting the clocks in the makeup room 10 minutes ahead so they aren’t so rushed.
A spy noticed a sign above a digital clock in the 7th-floor Columbus Circle makeup room reading, “Clocks have been set to actual time,” and inquired as to why.
“They explained that the anchors are arriving last-minute to set because they sit in hair and makeup, then rush out, but they need to look the best they can,” laughed our source. “Talent spends too much time in the makeup chairs and are arriving on the set too close to going live. Producers want talent in the chair on set at least 10 minutes before the show goes live. That gives them time to get (their) mic and earpiece and make sure everything is working.”
We hear the trickery was exposed last week when talent complained, after which the beauty crew was forced to post the sign. The plan had been working smoothly for seven months, we’re told.
“Everyone was frustrated,” says our source. “They’d look on the wall, then at their phone, and never know what the actual time was. And they’re going on live. So they found out, and now the clocks have been reset. They laughed about it at first, then a few felt like they were being treated like children.”
But because getting to the set has become a last-minute race, we hear, makeup is determined to inch the clocks forward again, even if it’s by just five minutes.
“Talent is so busy looking in the mirror, they leave no time to get their mic on. Ten minutes makes all the difference,” says our insider.
Did MSNBC's Ed Schultz have a hissy fit that caused him to miss his last show.
MSNBC announced that they were pulling the plug on Schultz's 'The Ed Show" along with 'The Cycle' and Alex Wagner's show.
Wagner hosted her last show and even had a few laughs at the show's conclusion.
Schultz was nowhere to be found and Michael Eric Dyson guest-hosted the last show from Miami.
MSNBC claims that Schultz had a “pre-existing scheduling conflict” and that was the reason he was not on the last Ed Show.
Of course if you believe that I have some prime real estate here in a swap in Florida.
Schultz is known to be a hot head and we're betting dollars to donuts that had something to do with him being a no show on Friday.
Just saying....
Longtime St. Louis Anchor Robin Smith just retired from KMOV last month, but she is already onto her next gig.
Smith is running for Missouri Secretary of State in 2016 as a Democrat.
Current Democratic Secretary of State Jason Kander is running for senate. He is hoping to take Republican U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt’s seat this November.
Smith says in a statement:
“What Missouri needs now, more than ever, is a public servant who checks their politics at the door. That has been my life’s work and my training. I look forward to giving Missourians straightforward, professional service as their Secretary of State.”
Smith currently has no Democratic opponents in the race. Republican candidates for the seat include St. Louis attorney Jay Ashcroft and state Sen. Will Kraus of Lee’s Summit.
H/T KTVI
It used to be, before you could land a job in a big market like Chicago, you had to work your way up and pay your dues.
Often that meant years in a small market, followed by a jump to a medium market, then to a top 20 and then Chicago.
Audrina Bigos has skipped a bunch of those steps.Bigos has gone from her college station to Charlotte's WCCB to WBBM in Chicago.
She will be a General Assignment Reporter starting on August 24th.
Jeff Kiernan, WBBM-TV Vice President and News Director, said of his new hire: "I am thrilled to welcome Audrina to our news team. She is a talented reporter, who can work on multiple platforms to help tell original stories of what's happening in and around Chicago."
Bigos shared her excitement in today's announcement, saying: "Chicago is a reporter's dream city and I'm happy that CBS 2 has chosen me to help tell the stories that matter. I also look forward to becoming a part of this dynamic and diverse community and continuing my advocacy for girls."
WDSU (New Orleans) is looking forward as it looks back on the 10 year anniversary.
Yep, it's been 10 years since former NBC Anchor watched bodies float down the street of the French Quarter.
Starting tonight, WDSU will kick off their anniversary coverage with a series of two- to three-minute stories will air during the 5 and 6 p.m. weekday newscasts throughout the month, leading up to a week of half-hour specials beginning Aug. 24 at 6:30 p.m., and then a one-hour special, "Chronicle: Children of Katrina," Aug. 29 at 6 p.m.
The coverage is branded "Katrina: 10 Years Forward."
"We're looking throughout the month of August at issues relevant to the 10th anniversary," said Jonathan Shelley, news director. "We made a conscious effort to acknowledge the past, but also look at where we are today."
The newscast pieces will explore "how Katrina changed the dynamic of the city," Shelley said. The nightly 6:30 p.m. specials will focus on specific topics, such as recovery progress in individual neighborhoods and the storm's impact on the local sports scene. The Aug. 29 special will look at subjects who were "children and teens at the time of the storm," Shelley said. "What became of them? How did it change their lives, and how are they faring today as adults?"
The organizing philosophy for the coverage, Shelley said, is that Hurricane Katrina and the effects of the federal flood are still an evolving story.
"We recognize that not everything we put on television is going to necessarily demonstrate complete success of the recovery," he said. "There are still some things we're exploring that are very much challenged. We're not going to sugarcoat it, but there's a lot of success out there."
H/T NOLA.com
If you grew up in Columbus, chances are you got your weather report from Joe Holbrook.
Holbrook, who spent 42 years reporting on the weather for WBNS-TV before retiring in 1992, died on Saturday. He was 87.
“Back in the day, he was everything to folks in central Ohio,” said WBNS meteorologist Mike Davis, who worked with Holbrook for five years. “He took them through the tornado of ’74, the blizzard of ’78. He was the one people turned to.”
Even after more than two decades off the air, viewers still ask about Holbrook.
Raised on a farm in Pike County in southern Ohio, Holbrook created his career without a college education, his son, Pat, said.
He worked in radio for several years in Portsmouth before moving to WBNS in 1950.
“My mom used to tell the story that when he left to go to Channel 10, the TV was a big box with a small screen and at the time radio was king,” said Pat Holbrook, a sports copy editor for The Dispatch. “My mom said, ‘You left radio for that?’ ”
But his father always saw the potential in television, he said.
After two years at WBNS, the business had matured and reporters developed beats. Holbrook, an avid amateur pilot since 1947, chose weather.
A Sky News Anchor Throws Down the F-Bomb and then Quickly apologizes:
The Weather Channel is watching its value drop like a rock and it appears that they are looking for some new ways to bring in cash.
This display in a Wal-Mart shows that The Weather Channel has teamed up with Pantene to give you the Pantene Haircast.
We're betting that the American Bald Ego Jim Cantore (right) doesn't tune into the Haircast.
Just a hunch.
The American Journalism Review quit printing their magazine in 2013 and went to an online only edition.
Now, they are going to stop that as well and shutdown. They have run out of money.
“Unfortunately, we are unable to provide the resources needed to keep AJR the vibrant, innovative online publication it deserves to be,” said Lucy Dalglish, dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, which produces the digital news service.
AJR says that they will not produce new content, but online archives will remain available.
Not sure why WLEX in Kentucky reported that 5 people were arrested in a "Math" lab bust.
Maybe they were doing long division.
I fairly certain it was a "Meth" lab bust.
But hey, it's Friday.
KCPQ Reporter Brien Blakely flew with a stunt pilot and it all started out good, but as the stunts got going, it was tough for Blakely to keep down his lunch.
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