Adoption of TiVo and similar hacks from your local cable company has advertisers looking to cut down on their TV advertising budgets by as much as 20% in the next 5 years.
Monthly Archive for April, 2004
Some of you didn’t believe the 7Newsplex is getting re-done, but it is true. Just for the sake of it, I asked someone else, and this person would know for sure. Guaranteed.
WHDH is currently getting their newsplex refreshed. That started last week, and supposedly it would take 3 weeks. After they are done, the Deco Drive set is next, then the WSVN Newsplex. Plans for the newsplex are still in development, no info yet when everything is expected to come together
Any of you people who are into high tech gagetry will appreciate this one.
WSVN has made the switch from BetacamSP to BetacamSX. They’ve purchased 26 brand spanking new Sony DNW - 9 SX camcorders complete with accessories for their news department. The move is part of 7’s $10 million dollar investment to switch to digital. Speaking of money, the average price a Sony DNW - 9 SX retails for is around $33,000 to as high as $48,000.
The lucky people that made off with a lot of loot were
Midtown video in Miami
Added few more videos. Check WPLG and Other Stations pages
It appears Kristi Crueger and Dwight Lauderdale will be together for 5 more years. Crueger has signed a 5 year contract extention with WPLG.
Meanwhile, Doug Dunbar is leaving WPLG for KTVT, the CBS affiliate in Dallas, where he’ll be a morning news anchor
Part of the update for WPBF’s newscast includes new slogan, open and graphics with new theme.
Check the WPBF to see the new video click here
The video page for 7News WPLG and Other Stations are complete.
185MB in 70 videos total.
Click on the station images at the top to access the pages.
Check back later for even more clips
I was initally going to make a page with them but it will have to wait
and since some of you are so impatient
here’s a direct link to the folder Click here
I accidentally uploaded a test version of the front page and messed everything up. The videos are ready Im just linking the thumbnails to the files now
Robbin Simmons is leaving 7News for WDIV, the NBC affiliate in Detroit where she will assume the position of anchor/reporter. Robin has been with 7News since April of 2000
A new newsplex is in the works. Thanks to someone who shall remain nameless I can share some details. The plans are still in their early stages for the construction of a brand new newsplex, which according to the insider “will be radically different”. The new set will be something along the lines of what CNN Headline news has, but bigger and in a 2 storie scale. Deco Drive will also get a new set. In addition the station is getting a complete graphics overhaul.
I’m going to speculate here, and say that all of the changes will happen together by the end of the summer, likely sometimes in September or before the November elections
Bad ratings have forced WPBF to change their newscasts.
Starting today, Monday Apr 19th, a new slogan and new anchor line-up will debut.
The 5pm newscasts will be anchored by two women - Lisa Hayward and Kristin Hoke, with Tiffany Kenney joining them at 11pm. All newscasts will begin with the weather forecast, and subsequent weather updates will follow.
Palm Beach Post:
WPBF using three women anchors
WPBF website:
News 25 is changing the ways local news is done
WPBF Announces New Name, Logo, Anchor Lineup
XviD keeps fucking around with my PC crashing my video apps and explorer.exe process :angry:. Untill I figure out what’s up I can’t get the videos ready for the site, so the update is delayed yet again. I might give mpeg another try and see what happens, got 6GB more of traffic to burn by the end of this month anyways
A good informant, you know who you are, told me that on Friday night WFOR has begun updating their set. They’ll be adding new plasma monitors and that’s all I know for now
… aren’t on here yet. I know, but thanks for the email reminders 
I’ve just been tooo busy. I should learn about making promices but unexpected things came up during the last week and they pay me money soo money talks. Yeah.
I’ll try to do it this week hopefully
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