Yes, they did.
WPEC pre-empted Dan Rather’s newscast on Thursday to run Entertainment Tonight because the program would have been canceled at it’s usual time 7:30pm for the basketball game thus “News”12 would have lost some money.
The station’s phones were ringing hot from irked viewers and probably some very very angry suits from the CBS mothership
Monthly Archive for March, 2004
Rumor is because of the poor performance of WPLG, Post-Newsweek is looking to unload it from it’s portfolio and are currently in negotiation with FOX Television Stations. Newscorp have been happy with their affiliation with WSVN, despite the station behaving like an independent more often than like an obidiant affiliate, but FOX have also made it known they really want to own a station in South Florida and since Ed Ansin won’t sell his they might just buy WPLG. If that rumor is true of course.
This would once again create a huge shakeup and n it would leave WSVN to save itself yet again. It will have to switch affiliations for a 3rd time and become an ABC affiliate, but it won’t happen for once simple reason - owner Ed Ansin won’t abandon the 10pm slot which brings the most cash for the station, so most likely they’ll again become an independent station. And with 8 and a half hours of news daily and only 8pm to 10pm FOX network programing 7 already could be considered an indy station anyways
Guess we’ll have to wait and see
It might have to do with recent ratings, but then it might not, 7News has a “new” ND (news director). Tom Gonzalez-Diego who previously worked as an Assistant News Director took the reins from long-time ND Alice Jacobs. She on the other hand has been promoted to Vice President of News and Programming and will oversee the news operations for both WSVN and WHDH.
7News has been seeing a lot of ratings decline lately and this move might have a lot to do with it. Additionally there’s talk some people over there have made up their minds to leave the station. Namely Brian Andrews who’s contract expires in May of 2004. If that happens one can only wonder what the suits (and skirts) over there have been drinking, considering the election is getting near and losing Brian and others would be a huge negative.
7’s Charles Billi recently premiered a 40 minute film he shot in college titled “Rotten Love”
The Herald has a blurb on it, or more like the love-hate he got from fellow colleagues
The Herald has a blip on the recent trend of cutting down the time Sports segments get on the air at the local stations.
Apparently for Channel 10, the stop watch came at less than one minute time for sports coverage compared to the 02:45 minutes it had before
Rod Burks formerly from WNEM-CBS5 in Michigan is joining the 7Sports team soon. Don’t yet know what duties he’ll assume, maybe weekend reporting?
Hopefully they’ll let him play on TV often, he’s nice to look at 
Rod begins work at 7 sometimes in April
Bio from WNEM’s website
Miami/Ft.Lauderdale market recently switched fully to people meters effectively ending the hoopla and hype surrounding sweeps months. Now we’ll have ratings fights year round, every day. But since hype here is the norm it shouldn’t get much louder and exciting than usual.
In an unfunny sort of way. I think.
If you’ve noticed the site was down. I decided to move everything to a new server, and of course it didn’t go smooth and the way I planned. It takes a lotta time to upload 2GB of data so my other sites had to be priority number one.
I’ve decided to go the simple route, for now who knows what mood will strike me later though :laughing: , so what you see now is almost it. Minus video and screen caps which should be up soon hopefully
Video update soon
Just uploaded 62MB of videos
I’ll link them asap