Monthly Archive for November, 2001

Best of Florida 2001 @ Florida Magazine ranks:

Best news station: WSVN for Miami
Best Meteorologist: Bill Kamal @ WSVN
Best anchor: Dwight Lauderdale WPLG

Among the ranks for overall Florida were things like friendliest town, best places to eat, best football team, best rollercoaster and more
Click here for all of Best of Florida 2001

Best of 2000 (City Link Mag) for local tv and personalities:

Best TV Anchor: John Turchin WSVN - mornings
Best TV Reporter: Mark Londner - WSVN senior reporter
Best TV Weatherperson: Bill Kamal - WSVN chief weatherman
Best TV Newsbabe: Holly Herbert - she’s left since but anchored weekends and reported few times on weekdays. Definitly deserves it ;)p
Best sportscaster: Mark Jones - Sports town - WAMI 69
Best hair on TV news: Belkys Nerey - WSVN entertainment anchor - she’s the bomb funny, upbeat really cool girl

Local news chopper flying over my house :)

Just took those pix 30 min ago (5:10pm) with my digital camera. The chopper was unmarked, but it had gyro camera so it was either WTVJ or WSVN. WPLG’s Chopper 10 flew by about half an hour before this one and was white with blue and the Ch10 logo. WSVN”s 7Sky Force flew by this morning and I didn’t see any logos so who knows :). Now that I think of it, could be a traffic chopper too … Click here for the pix

Survivor at WFOR

From a Playboy Playmate as a weather girl, WFOR now hired Dr. Sean Kenniff, a former survivor member as its new Health correspondent

TVnewsTalk

TVNewsTalk @ Yahoo Clubs - it’s unmoderated club, open to all who have a Yahoo ID, and free. Join free and start chatting about anything. It also has a chatroom so you can talk in real-time. Enjoy!

Looking for newscasts

I’m looking for newscasts from any of the following stations:
WFOR - ‘99-00
WTVJ - ‘97-99
WSVN - ‘96 (official makeover after the globe open)-99, the “New Millenium special”
WHDH - ‘96-01 - and any station promos
WPLG - ‘97-99

If you have tapes of any of the above, please email me @ fltv@yahoo.com and lets talk.

Advertisers are pushy, viewers are turning away

The biggest study of local TV news, Project for Excellence in Journalism, says so and takes a look at 43 stations in 14 markets. Miami/Ft. Lauderdale wasn’t featured but still, the study has a lot of interesting information. Our market is featured in the 1999 edition of the study. Journalism.org

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I’d like to add information about local station’s involvements in the community, awards received by anchors, reporters etc. So if you’d like to share such information feel free to email me at fltv@yahoo.com You can send pictures and videos if you’d like. Please, email the event info at least a week in advance so I have time to add it. NOTE: This is only for DMA15 stations.

Empty emails

Just a small note. I keep getting blank emails from someone so if you aren’t getting an answer from me write again or try sending me a message to Yahoo Instant messenger or ICQ.

Today’s moto: Be productive

Give your hand (whichever one) a job, see how fast you can spank the monkey http://www.vectorlounge.com/04_amsterdam/jam/flamjam.html :)

WFOR and WTVJ in trouble with the FAA

WFOR and WTVJ in trouble with the FAA
Miami Herald 11/7/01
Apparently local stations keep an eye not only on the news, but on each other too. Proof of that is a call made from “someone” at WPLG to the FAA notifying the agency that WFOR-CBS4 and WTVJ-NBC6 had their choppers flying during a police chase which went through Miami and ended all the way down to Plantation Key, just south of Key Largo.
As you probably know the FAA has imposed restrictions on news choppers flying close to certain metro areas. For South Florida, the no-fly zones are 20 mile nautical radius around Miami International Aiport and the second is near Turkey Point nuclear powerplant. The FAA will investigate and if WFOR and WTVJ are found to have violated the rules, severe penalties on both the pilots and the stations can be imposed.
WSVN and WPLG didnt cover the police chase, which at some points reached 100pmh, due the restrictions.

For more see the Miami Herald article: http://web.archive.org/web/20011207113449/http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/florida/digdocs/108215.htm

Local Emmy awards for excelence in journalism

Public Affairs Programs
Unity 4 The Community
Eliott Rodriguez
WFOR, Miami, FL

Entertainment Programs
Viewfinders
Fabio Jafet, Rafael Murciano, Maggie Rodriguez, Glen Horn
WFOR, Miami, FL

News/Public Affairs Segments
Jump Out Boyz
Allison Lusby, Ed Munn
WFOR, Miami, FL

Feature Segments
Cartoon Cuts
Abel J. Castillo
WFOR, Miami, FL

Surviving the Outback
Fabio Jafet, Robert Lyon, Maggie Rodriguez
WFOR, Miami, FL

The Last Kiss
Fabio Jafet, Shane McLafferty, Michele Gillen, Robert Lyon
WFOR, Miami, FL

Macks Fish Camp
Todd Tongen, John Oliva
WPLG, Miami, FL

Doggie Daycare
Todd Tongen, John Oliva
WPLG, Miami, FL

Sports
Claire Marino, The Woman Behind The Legend
Nelson Martell
WFOR, Miami, FL

Editing
Breaking The Silence
Kevin McCarthy
WSVN, Miami, FL

Rockstar
Fabio Jafet
WFOR, Miami, FL

To Be Given Flight
Mitchell Cuba, Shane McLafferty
WFOR, Miami, FL

Cartoon Cuts
Abel J. Castillo
WFOR, Miami, FL

Ski Rixen
Robert Lyon, Marisa Navarro
WFOR, Miami, FL

November Sweeps
Vilma Medina Ramos, Carl Ramos
WSVN, Miami, FL

Reporting
Breaking The Silence
John Turchin
WSVN, Miami, FL

Funeral Foulups
Alicia Ortega
WTVJ, Miami, FL

The Last Kiss
Michele Gillen
WFOR, Miami, FL

Writing
Cuba Mision Clandestina
Gina Barroso
WLTV, Miami, FL

Dreams of Africa
Michael E. Williams
WTVJ, Miramar, FL

Not yet

I know, no videos yet. I have ALL of the news videos coded in Windows Media format (wmv) and the lovely Geocities does not support it. They support only Windows Media Audio (wma). How nice indeed.

On the other hand, I have a lot of sites to manage (upwards of 20) and so it will be a couple of days before I get back to this one.

But, in the meantime if you have any suggestions about a descent host, please let me know @ fltv@yahoo.com

Fun weekend to everyone

WSVN with facelift

WSVN has just updated their grafix, however Geocities wont let me upload *.wmv files so I’m checking out other options* * * *

Well finally huh :) … Sorry was busy with my other sites and stuff, so I kind of left it for a while, but it’s back up. I decided to stick with good ‘ol Geocities free hosting. Crossing fingers they wont shut down :).

In the future I’ll try to have updates couple of times a week or so, if there’s anything to update. So keep checking

Webmaster

Sweeps rezults

WFOR CBS4 snached the #1 spot for midday news and for some later spots. Their ratings are up 20% from one year ago 5pm, 18% at 5:30pm and 19% at 6pm. For the 11pm slot, they lost 9% from their audience. Their 10pm newscast produced for UPN33 News at 10 beat out the more established WTVJ production WB39 News at 10. However, the combined ratings of both newscasts don’t even come close to what WSVN has for their 10pm news.

WTVJ NBC6 on the other side, gets the big chair for top late weeknight newscast, although their late new lead over the marked is diminishing.

WSVN FOX7 is seeing a ratings decline since Rick Sanchez left, but they still are number one at 5pm and 5:30pm. And their “Today in Florida” show which runs from 5am to 9am, is not only number one in the mornings, but also beats the network produced morning shows! For 10pm The News Station still has the biggest audience.

WPLG ABC10 is number one at 6pm with a 7 rating. One ratings point in S. Florida is equal to about 15,726 households. WFOR, WTVJ and WSVN were separated by a four-tenths of a ratings point for this time slot.

Overall, WFOR is the highest rated english-language station, followed by a tie of WSVN and WPLG, and WTVJ after them, and UPN33 and WB39 trailing next.

Busted: WSVN exposes Miss Cleo

The special report from Carmel Cafiero will air tommorow, named “The Psychic Speaks”. The News Station nailed her down infront of a store, or so it looks from a promo they just ran. Should be interesting to see what she has to say. Wonder if she already knew it? Hhhhmmmmmm
Watch for the video here.

Promo - .wmv format, 440KB, 00:17 sec - User right click save-as if on dial-up

Since I can’t watch each and every station, if you know of any other interesting special reports from a local station let me know