Barry Jackson from The Miami Herald checked the local ratings for the 2010 Winter Olympics and it turns out they got slightly worse! Trough Wednesday February 24th Miami/Fort Lauderdale ended 56th among the 56 Nielsen metered markets. At the start we ranked 55th
However, WTVJ’s Olympic coverage won every night during prime time when American Idol was on. An average of 10.3 percent of Miami-Fort Lauderdale homes with televisions were watching the Olympics on WTVJ. New Orleans which at the start ranked dead last, had 10.7 percent of households with TVs tuned to Olympic coverage.
Of course this year you could watch live Olympics online, and as usual on a myriad of channels from MSNBC to CNBC and others.
Fight breaks between to men (producers?) while the anchor is live on the air reading the news. The perils of using the newsroom as a backdrop. At least they weren’t watching porn
Chris Gilks, an executive producer at WPLG, passed away last week after battling cancer.
Gilks produced the weekend morning newscasts for WPLG as well as many of the special features such as Dwight Lauderdale’s trip to Egypt.
Prior to WPLG Chris Gilks was the news director at WGCL, the CBS affiliate in Atlanta, GA.
WPLG aired a very nice tribute to Chris in which fellow colleagues remembered him. Even Suze Orman shared her experience of working together. You can check it out here
I am hearing trough the grapevine from people in the know that News Corp is interested in Palm Beach FOX affiliate WFLX! Other info is speculative as to what News Corp wants to or plans to do with WFLX.
It’s an open secret Murdoch has been wanting a FOX affiliate of his own in South Florida for some time. WSVN owner Ed Ansin is said to have rebuffed every advance by Newscorp to sell so short of swiping WBFS from CBS, WFLX seems like News Corp’s best bet for a station in the SFL
Currently WFLX doesn’t have a news department. For about twenty years the station’s news have been produced by WPEC CBS12 trough an agreement with owner Raycom. Though they have their own studios on Blue Heron in West Palm Beach where many FOX News guests visit for appearances via satellite. West Palm residents Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter being just two of them
News Corp already owns the FOX affiliates in Tampa and Orlando and FLNewsCenter says Newscorp is showing interest in WTLH in Tallahassee as well
This blurb by Herald TV critic Glenn Garvin says that of all 55 markets which have people meters installed, Miami/Ft Lauderdale ranked 54th in Olympics viewership the weekend after they started.
Contrast that to West Palm Beach which rank at number 10 overall!
Now that every english speaking television station in the Miami/Ft.Lauderdale market has made the switch to High Definition, I decided to check them all out and see what’s different from when they were all doing news in SD. Read my personal opinions after the jump. Continue reading ‘Review: Finally, All Our Local News in HD’
In an apparent attempt to make the station feel more local to the viewer, WTVJ has started running new promo’s recently, that focus on the “Miami community and culture.” Interesting text at the ending, saying “NBC Miami News @ 11″
It appears as if WTVJ (NBC6) has done some minor re-branding in the past few weeks, in an apparent effort to make the station feel more local to the viewer. Anchors and reporters have started to refer to the station as “NBC Miami” during general newscasts, where as reporters on assignment or from a live-shots refer to the station as “NBC [City filmed/reporting in].” This results in some interesting names for the station, such as “NBC Wilton Manors,” “NBC Davie,” and “NBC Hialeah.” At this point, no logo/voice over re-branding has taken place. Alert reader “Alain/TMBtD” points out that a recent promo refers to the 11 P.M. newscast as “NBC Miami News at 11.” Perhaps this is still in it’s experimental phase.
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