The Miami Herald is reporting that WFOR’s meteorologist Bob Soper has announced he’s retiring and his last day with the station will be July 27th.
Miami Herald
Veteran TV weatherman Soper to retire
Monthly Archive for February, 2005
WPLG’s Sky10 saved boaters who’s boat had capsized off the coast of Miami Beach. Sky10’s pilot saw the capsized boat and contacted authorities guiding them to the boaters’ location.
Previously 7’s Skyforce helped rescue a fisherman who got lost in the Everglades
It is pronounced KrakoV, with a V like vagina. No cows in the city or the name.
Same as Moscow, ends with ow as in Owl. Not cow
Sofia is Sofia with emphasis on the O not on the i
Just scratching my pet peeve with incorrectly pronounced names on TV 
Email from an insider
cbs 4 is making arrangements to send CBS 4 Investigator Michele Gillen to Rome to cover the Pope’s health .. and death, if it happens. She has made many sources at the Vatican and with the US ambassador to the Vatican.
I’ve noticed NBC6 is going more … um … energetic. Someone over there must be trying to kick the pace up and make the station more energetic. I have noticed a new voice over. Male still, but with a much deeper voice. And one of their latest promos looks like someone from 7 did it’s so fast paced and dramatic if it weren’t for the faces and NBC6 logo you’d never guess it was WTVJ’s. I’ll try to catch it and post some video latta
I just saw that NBC’s WeatherPlus got carriage here, channel 250. It’s only digital, not HDTV or anything – regular 704×480 feed. And it just looks like the Weather channel. Music with maps. Pre-recorded forecasts from the weather team at NBC6 runs every so often and during the breaks NBC6 promos one after another
Just noticed something funny with the local forecast(er)s.
You know how 7News has the “7 on 7″ which is a fancy name for the 7 day outlook. I noticedCBS4 only shows 4 days ahead except it doesn’t call it anything fancy. Can you guess WTVJ? Theirs is a 6 day outlook . And WPLG? I guess TV weather systems aren’t yet up for the 10 day ahead job otherwise we’d end up having the 33 and 39 day outlook 
Headline News’ new primetime format debuts tonight with three new programs. The kickoff show will be Showbiz Tonight, something along the lines of what ET, Access Hollywood and Extra do, except it’s hosted by two hot people, then it’s that Nancy Grace woman (eeeesh) and from 9pm untill 10pm Prime News Tonight a 1 hour hard news show, I think.
Bill Kamal got sentenced today to 5 years in jail with no parole and a $20,000 fine. He will also be on parole for the rest of his life. The media went into a frenzy and all local newscasts are leading with the story.
WSVN
Miami TV Weatherman Gets 5 years for child sex solicitation
Local10
Former TV Weatherman Sentenced
You can say buh bye to NBC6 as you know it
Starting in March, NBC6 will have a new executive producer by the name Jose Suarez. He comes from Toledo, Ohio where he was the News Director for Fox affiliate WUPW.
With him chances are the days of slow paced, calm NBC6 are probably over. If you thought WFOR looked and copied WSVN soon you probably won’t recognize WTVJ. His 3 year stint at WUPW has been an interesting one to say the least. As the station’s News Director he made the station devote two and a half hours of commercial free “breaking news” coverage of a puppy trapped in a six inch diameter pipe. Insiders tell me that Suarez is known to be a very aggressive and very sensational guy so it won’t be huge stretch saying look for a 7-ized NBC6 very soon.
Thanks to one of my regular insiders for the heads up on this news
Toledo Blade
Suarez brought creativity and innovation to Channel 36