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Monthly Archive for November, 2004

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Herald confirms – WPLG drops 5pm newscast for Dr. Phil

The Miami Herald is confirming what I wrote about yesterday, WPLG is dropping it’s 5pm newscast to air Dr. Phil and has aquired the rights to Judge Judy which it will broadcast at 4pm. WFOR and WSVN have said that this will allow them to “showcase themselves as more committed to local news”.

The change however will not occur untill the fall of 2006 when the new contracts for Dr. Phil and Judge Judy begin.

Now here’s my guess as to how things would turn out. WSVN has a hole in the 4pm slot, WFOR in the 3pm. Both stations will have news at 4pm – WFOR will take Oprah down from 4-5pm to 3pm slot so they’d have a nice lead-in for their 4pm newscast. WSVN on the other hand doesn’t have much in terms of afternoon programming, but I’m pretty sure the Judge Judy slot will be news much like their sister station WHDH who have a newscast at 4 in the afternoon.

Insiders have said that WPLG General Manager David Boylan has pretty much given up trying to push the ailing 5pm newscast from it’s miserable 3rd place in the ratings and has decided to “find other ways to sell the station”.

Miami Herald
Channel 10 to add Dr. Phil, drop 5 p.m. news

Complete Newscast #1: NBC6 News at 6pm

Ok the other day WPLG’s newscast had some error in the audio stream and it kept aborting the encoding so I ditched the recording so that’s why it took a while.

Now

Here’s the NBC6 News at 6pm newscast – video – it’s 80.1MB large – 23 minutes long you need XviD codec to watch.

I need feedback on the quality of the video, I tried to make it so the picture isn’t tottaly hideous and the size not too big, it takes forever to upload.

Tonight I will try to record WPLG @ 11 and post it, if not tomorrow it will be a tossup between 4 7 or 10

Sharon Reed Naked Photos

Sharon Reed got naked during the summer of 2004 along with thousands of Clevelanders, but it wasn’t untill November when the video aired during sweeps week on WOIO 19Action News. She posed for famous photographer Spenser Tunick. Ok so it’s not a video, because someone was asleep and didn’t tape it and you know who you are. But we’ll forgive him for now because he gave the next best thing. Photos. And some of you I’m sure are pretty eager to see them. So click the thumbnails and indulge

11/18 Update: Added 3 more photos, thanks to those who emailed them to me

19Action News
Sharon Reed’s Body Of Art Page

Promax awards winners

Promax/BDA awards are for promotion and marketing proffesionnals from around the world who work in the electronic media. For this market only WSVN won a silver award for their Public Serivce Announcement “Women in distress” which is promoted by Lynn Martinez

2004 Promax & BDA award winners

WSVN footage in HBO documentary about serial killer Aileen Wuornos

Watching a documentary on HBO about Aileen Wuornos, AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER: AMERICA UNDERCOVER.
Towards the end of it they played about a minute from WSVN’s coverage of her execution, from the morning newscast with Tom Haynes, Christine Kruz and Patrick Frazier

Big changes at WPLG

The rumor is that WPLG snagged rights to Dr. Phil and Judge Judy. As part of the agreenment with King World, Dr. Phil must air at the 5pm slot, no ifs or buts. With that WPLG’s 5pm newscast will be removed. Dr. Phil currently runs on WFOR at 3pm to 4pm, Judge Judy has been WSVN’s lead-in for the 5pm news airing at 4pm.

Thanks Jimmy

Weather Plus on WTVJ soon

NBC Weather Plus will be coming to WTVJ’s digital spectrum within the next 90 days. The new service from NBCU was launched yesterday in New York on WNBC’s digital multiplex. It will be a mix of national weather updates and cut-ins from the local NBC affiliates to provide local weather.

All stations will need to be equipped with $110,000 in extra gagetry to be able to broadcast the new digital channel.

There’s one problem though, unless a vewer has a digital terrestrial antenna or Comcast and the satellite services are carrying the digital broadcast of WTVJ nobody is going to see anything of this weather plus thing. The Weather Channel in comparison is available in 83 million homes accross the United States.

Andrews on board

A familiar face to South Florida has joined the WFOR/CBS4 news team.

Former WSVN reporter Brian Andrews started at the station Nov. 4.

Miami Herald Andrews on board

Double digits for the naked anchor

As previously mentioned WSVN alumni Sharon Reed, who now works for WOIO, bared it all for a famous artist by the name of Spencer Tunick who likes to photograph bunches of naked people out in the open, sometimes in the middle of big cities.

WOIO ran the whole report uncensored if you can believe this and it mowed down the competition by a 2 to 1 margin. The whole thing was a huge hit with viewers in Cleveland area and WOIO doubled their ratings digits for the 11pm newscast to a whopping 17.1/30 share, the best in the station’s history.
In comparison, WOIO’s nearest competitor WKYC managed an 8.4/15 share

Cleveland-Akron, OH is ranked as the 16th largest TV market. One ratings point equals 15,566 households.

Our market Miami-Ft. Lauderdale is the 17th largest TV market in the US. One ratings point here equals 14,968 households

Broadcasting&Cable
Buff broadcast breaks record

Full newscasts. Coming up

Empty the hard drives. I’m leaving the PC to slave all night, tomorrow there’s going to be a full newscast posted on the site, temporarily. Some people have wanted to see local stations that don’t stream online so now’s your chance. Quality of the encode will not be top notch because space on the server is limited for the usual 1.5GB per 30 minute newscast, and I’m not too eager to upload that much to begin with. Just hope I dont get my ass nailed by the stations, if I do it’s ya’z fault :)