- Title: Local10 Id - Michael Schumacher and the Local10 Problem Solvers
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- Title: Local10 Id - Dwight Lauderdale Laurie Jennings
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Monthly Archive for January, 2005
Just testing a video. Click the image, check it out and let me know if it’s not loading allright. I am thinking of switching to MPEG-1 for all videos but kind of don’t want to dump XviD because of it’s quality
- Name: 7News 10pm Close with newsplex shot and 11pm tease
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Rumors are floating around that WPEC-CBS12 affiliate for the Palm Beaches may be losing it’s CBS affiliation in a year when their contract expires. With Viacom controlling WFOR-CBS4 and WBFS-UPN33 in Miami and with their recent purchase of two stations in the Treasure coast area WPEC may be left hanging dry much like WSVN in the early 90s. Unless of course Viacom buys WPEC.
JP Hervis will be joining the 7News team starting March 15th. He’s currently working at WLBT, the NBC affiliate in Jackson, MS. According to his bio He’s a Miami native where most of his family and friends still live.
Ouch, that piece of news might not be to the liking of companies like Comcast, who actually pay to keep channels such as MSNBC exclusive so you don’t wander off on that Internet thing and miss the commercials. MSNBC’s prez Rick Kaplan discussed his network’s blogging strategy and let it slip “what we’re edging toward is streaming our shows. I’ll probably get in trouble for saying that.” Yes he will, my guess: look for Comcast and the like to start a high pitch whining pretty soon
PaidContent via LostRemote
MSNBC Moves Toward Streaming Shows
Readers emailed me about a rumor that WTVJ’s chief met Roland Stedham may be leaving the station at the end of his contract. And he’s to take a job at another station, not in Florida. I guess that would be one reason to explain why there are so many weather dudes on TVJ. Oddly though John Gerard doesn’t have a bio on NBC6 site, unless I can’t find it because I need a GPS to navigate that site
Hide the childrins ya’ll another naked anchor has poped up. The Palm Beach Post uncovered that WFLX-FOX29 10pm news anchor Claudia Shea posed for Playboy waaay back when she was in college in 1982 and just 19 years old. Station boss John Spinola blamed it on “youthful indiscretion” saying it didn’t affect Shea’s credibility as a newswoman. No word if she’ll do a report during the February sweeps on what it’s like to pose naked for Playboy.
Palm Beach Post
Way back when
Shaunie O’Neal has joined WFOR-CBS4 and UPN33. She’ll be filing entertainment and lifestyle reports for both stations. Her “skillz” allegedly had to do with the hire, but somehow even a mosquito wouldn’t be able to convince me that was the reason she got picked :). At least not the first reason
South Florida Business Journal
Shaunie O’Neal Joins WFOR, WBFS
After the CBS scandal some local CBS affiliates are seeing ratings declines for the CBS Evening News by as much as 9%, while in other places the newscast is seeing a 23% surge
Thanks to alert reader who emailed me. The graphics have debuted at noon today, I have the DVR on to catch them at 5pm so expect screen caps and video today.
Update:The graphics are nothing flashy, slightly newer font with pale almost grey-ish blue. The maps have better colored graphics, and the wall is touch-sensitive or at least it looks that way. Tom Johnston can draw on it and make H and L pressures appear, 3 day outlook has the temeratures showing initially with Tom touching each day and a graphic of the weather apearing. Will be posting screencaps and video asap the recording is over.
Update: There’s a new 7 day forecast added too “7 on 7″, how clever 
7News 5pm forecast - Video - 11MB XviD codec needed
The new gfx are blue, and this probably means 7 is going back to bloooo … Although i didn’t tottaly hate the all red/chrome scheme, I tend to favor blue a lot more. Hopefully the future graphic changes won’t dissapoint
Update 1/15:The new system that 7 uses is called “Weather Central”, now I know why it looks so familiar I’ve seen a sample of it a while back but couldn’t remember what the name of it was. Thanks to anon emailer who emailed me
UPN33s cast of characters might all end up being seen by a lot more than just people in South Florida. Rumor has it UPN33’s owner Viacom are planning a nationally sindicated morning show originating from Miami using the UPN33 morning anchors. Apparently they’ll attempt to take a stab at the competition such as Good Day Live which is produced and aired from KTTV-FOX11 in LA. And I happen to think it’s a very dumb show, but who’s asking me right?
More info to come
An insider just emailed with this scoop. The new hire is Tom Llamas and he was most recently an MSNBC campaign embed with the Al Sharpton presidential campaign. WTVJ’s GM Ardy Diercks has been after him for months and when his contract with MSNBC expired she finally got him. Llamas also is a Miami native who studied drama.
More details as I have them. Thanks to the insider for emailing me
update 1/12: he starts Monday
6am and only NBC6 has news on. 7News apparently has dropped the half hour newscasts and replaced them with infomercials. I see the TV guide showing the new schedule is from 8am untill 10am. 7 has also started re-airing their 10pm newscast at 12:30am
7News is about to debut new weather graphics package and gagets in about a week or two. HDTV previews when it happens.
Brian Andrews has contracted malaria while in Thailand and was recovering in Sri Lanka. When I was told about it on Jan 6th Andrews was said to be very sick, but he has received shots since then and doing better
As always thanks to the insiders who emailed me
PBS’s “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” has commisionned a analysis on all 3 cable networks and their prime time content. It found CNN was a newsgathering network, FoxNews was an opinion network with most interviews in a “confrontational format”. The analysis also found that fewer than 25% of all interviewees were female
PBS Online Newshour
Cable News Wars
Local10 the family people
Channel 10 is running some cheesy promos featuring their on-air personalities as family people and how nothing else matters to them. I don’t really get why they must tell me how so and so is the problem solver but when it comes to it family is number one and nothing else matters. I already knew that, us viewers don’t sit around all day wondering “geez if this Channel 10 anchor had to choose between the station and their family what would they choose? Hmmm?” Do viewers care? Doesn’t look like it, not at 5 and 5:30pm at least, hence why it’s getting shaved off and replaced with … Dr. Phil. My advice, stick to being the problems solvers, tell me what you do and why should I give you my time. This family thing … we all know where that got WTVJ.