Laurie Jennings’ photo has already been added to the header of the WPLG website, no bio yet though.
She debuts on Local 10 news Monday Oct 4th at 6pm. Watch the sites for updates
Monthly Archive for September, 2004
if that doesn’t say Welcome to South Florida don’t know what does. Or is that Welcum 
NBC6 has decided to go live two hours before the debate with special coverage. Don’t know yet whether they’ll do it for two hours or 30 minutes
Update: it’s only 30 minutes “preview” of what we’ve already seen on the news and didn’t say anything new or different. Boring
It appears that WSVN’s head honchos have made up their minds as to who’s taking the 5:30pm chair and that would Tom Haynes, who has been anchoring along with Lynn Martinez for some time now. His place in the mornings will probably be taken by Richard Lemus. Weekends 5 6 and 10pm are perhaps going to Charles Billi who anchored along with Sharon Melton
In one of their promos they just ran where viewers call in to say how nice 10’s coverage of Jeanne was, they played a call from someone who says “I’m an avid WSVN viewer but I find myself glued to WPLG’s coverage….” Bad bad bad they should know better the golden rule of TV – you’re not supposed to mention other stations, other stations don’t exist, you’re THE only one and everything you do and say is like there’s nobody else to get the same info from. Period.
For WKMG a.k.a Local 6 the Orlando CBS affiliate. She’ll be anchoring their weekdays morning newscast starting October 18th
Bill Kamal, at WSVN-Fox 7, worked 145 hours in eight consecutive days for Frances and went on the air more than 300 times.
Miami Herald
Hurricane season floods weathermen with fatigue
Now Im going blind here with this item, kind of guesstimating what happend, but I think that a 7News satellite truck lost it’s dish during the hurricane. Diane Fernandez was on on the phone from Stewart, FL and mentioned they’ve lost a dish and have no video connection to Miami HQ.
More details asap
Update dish isn’t lost, just slightly damaged and will probably be fixed in a day
CBS4 photographer was nearly killed while sleeping in his hotel room while sationed with Shamari Stone and Art Barron in Sebastian, Florida.
The roof was ripped off the building while he was in bed taking a nap and luckily escaped with no injuries other than being a little shaken up
Everyone’s going network
Even 7News has opted to go to FoxNews for coverage of the prez debate instead of their usual doing-it-yourself coverage.