WFOR’s lead co-anchor of the 5, 6 and 11pm news Rob Hanrahan is facing trial for DUI. According to the Miami Herald he was stopped on October 12th on US 1 for speeding, the cop said he smelled alcohol in the car and asked Hanrahan if he had been drinking, Hanrahan said he hadn’t. When the DUI task force showed up Hanrahan told them he was taking prescription drugs for depression
Miami Herald
Heading for court
Erica Pino. No idea where she comes from.
She’s nice and pretty and smiles a lot, and doesn’t know a lot about weather, and reads from the teleprompter.
Video at 6pm
Update:
She’s a freelancer (won’t be permanently at 7) according to an “insider” at 7 who just emailed me, and “she doesnt read from the telepromter”. Coulda fooled me but what do I know. The person also says that “no she doesnt know weather very well”.
Video link – 7.5MB XviD
Whent the Bill Kamal story broke everyone rushed to gripe how they weren’t seeing anyting on WSVN’s website forgetting the fact that the site is usually the last one to get updated, if at all sometimes for days, when anything happens. On Monday however it was a different story, the arrest was mentioned on the 12pm newscast with the one sentence message issued by station executives. Then at 5pm and 5:30pm they teased the story for an upcoming full report at 6pm. The same report re-aired at 10pm, Im not sure about the 11pm newscast I was watching “The Daily Show” at that time. Then of course on Tuesday they mentioned Kamal’s arraignment and showed him being led in handcuffs. And that was it, nothing else has been mentioned after that. In my opinion they handled it pretty well, without any fanfare or hype.
Today however there’s this in the Sun Sentinel “Any scandal will do for Channel 7″ of course blasting the station for running with the story in a “seemingly endless loop”. Endless loop? Could that be because their news ARE on an endless loop with 9 1/2 hours of it every day? And if they didn’t show the story “just like they show other people” the same Sun Sentinel will be screaming their eyeballs out why they’re shoving it under the carpet. 7News mentioned nothing of Kamal’s DUI arrest last year.
As expected of course there’s no mention that other stations like WPLG for example had the story on, WTVJ did too. The video is even on their website. But of course there’s no criticism of them running on an endless loop. And how could it be when your newspaper is in bed with the station, or maybe it’s because WTVJ are dead last in the ratings and nobody watches them except for their 11pm newscast thanks to NBC’s programing.
Sun Sentinel
Any scandal will do for Channel 7
Bravo has announced their new spin off from “Queer Eye for the straight guy”, “Queer Eye for the Straight Girl” which will debut sometimes in 2005.
No detalis on whether lesbians will be making over straight girls. Hopefull by 2006 they’ll have “Queer eye for the gay guy” some of us “bad gays” with no style need saving too 
Yahoo news
‘Queer Eye’ Spins Off Show for Women
Settled. No sex tapes exposed. At least for now, untill someone steals them, but we all know you don’t settle if you know you’re not guilty unless there’s evidence pointing otherwise
San Francisco Gate
Bill O’Reilly, plaintiff in harassment case agree to settle legal dispute
It looks like the Japan earthquakes have awaken the Vrancha mountain in Romania, Bulgaria and surrounding countries were just rattled by powerful 5.5 earthquake at 11:36pm (4:36pm EST). No damagest are reported but people are leaving their apartment buildings for their out-of-town villas to spend the night
In 1977 massive 6.0 on the Richter scale rattled Bulgaria’s northern part bringing large apartment buildings down with massive casualties
Sofia News Agency
Mighty Night Quake Awakes Bulgaria
Tom Haynes has been oficially promoted to co-anchor with Lynn Martinez the weekday 5:30 and 6:30pm newscast and also be a main-fill in anchor for Craig Stevens when he’s off.
He’s vacating his 5-7am seat and the considered replacements are Richard Lemus or Charles Billi.
The recently departed Delaine Mathieu has been replaced by Diana Diaz who was promiced the early mornings job after her brief stint on Deco Drive
Update:
Just got a tip from one of the insiders – Richard Lemus is Tom Haynes’ replacement in the mornings, Charles Billi is the new weekend nights anchor replacing Charles Perez
WFLX- FOX29 the FOX affiliate for Palm Beach County is taping it’s newscast and airs them later in the evening when the sports games are over. Which isn’t really a big deal if they don’t bill themselves as being LIVE.
He goes by the name of Jason, and appeared on FOX’s now tanked show Forever Eden, and he also has been lucky enough to get fotographed by my boss in ways that would probably get you fired …. up and off from your job if you saw the pics. Im trying to get the full spread AND video and it’s going to land right here on this site if they allow me to have them. So curious ones keep checking 
All out on election day
An insider reports WSVN is doing an all out blanket coverage of election day. Every available photog, anchor, reporter, engineer, producer, writer will be working. The station will have crews all over South Florida and expert analysis from the Newsplex beging at 5pm on Tuesday and continuing untill one candidate concedes the election.
I’ll be glued to the TV myself untill this thing is over and will do my best to have video on the site from 7News since they’ll be the only ones with unique “in-house” coverage and not relying on the Network provided coverage like the other stations