Here it is
WFOR 11pm Open
640×360 HDTV source
MPEG-1 video
3.79MB
Monthly Archive for April, 2005
So what’s the scoop? Lynn had red hair on Monday, she was missing on Tuesday, and Wednesday came back substituting for Belkys Nerey, but her hair was back to what it was before!
The Washington Posts asks - “Now that television has dumbed us down, will Internet weird us out?”
Use bugmenot.com if it asks for a password
WashingtonPost.com
Internet TV Age Is Dawning, but Who Will Watch
Like not being viewed in mass numbers anymore ie not being THE mass media anymore. Impossible? According ot the investment bank Veronis Shuler the ratio of time people spent watching tv vs time they spent on the Internet was 8:1 in the year 2000. Today, it’s down to 4:1. And I suspect it’s even “worse” for 18-34 demographic tv stations like to chase. I know in our house, one of us never watches the local news, and the other does only rarely, and that would be me, and when I do watch local news it’s on fast forward using my DVR. Skipping ads and anything else I don’t care for, getting to what I want to see, and switching the channel just as fast. I work on my PC, I talk on it (Skype r0x), and get my news with it as well.
Judging by local stations’ websites if they don’t adapt fast, and quit this copy-pasting of Associated Press articles that can be found everywhere else, there’s not much for people to see. Unless they want to read about the boat fire that happened on some distant beach 8 hours ago.
DigitalDelivarence.com
Speech to the Broadcast Education Association at NAB
Rather interesting Deloitte & Touche report on what the future of TV networks is
“What was previously considered “TV content” is now being burned into DVDs, time delayed by PVRs, broken into fragments, piped on demand over the Internet, downloaded into mobile devices and syndicated around the globe. Such changes are having a profound effect on the structure, dynamics and future of the global broadcast television industry, both private and public.”
PVR (Personal Video Recorder) also known as a DVR (Digital Video Recorder) has changed how I watch TV. VOD (Video On Demand) too. I imagine it has, and will, do the same for lots of other people
Deloitte.com
Television Networks in the 21st Century (report in PDF format)
Starting May 3rd the New York Post website will let you read articles only if you register. Like the other newspapers do.
They do this so that they can gather info and “help the web site develop more relevant content and features”. I think they meant to say getting as much info as we can about you so we can sell you even more stuff.
Guess they haven’t heard of bugmenot.com or that some of us like to enter fake information using our “spam” email addresses. It’s okay, they’ll learn in time
NYPost.com
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Nice article from MSNBC on the end of analog TV and the pending switch over to digital on December 31st, 2006. That is unless by that date fewer than 85% of american households can watchi digital TV at which time Congress will have to make use of a loophole in the law they passed and delay the transition untill the number of households who can receive a digital TV signal goes above the 85% mark
MSNBC.com
The end of analog TV
Phil Ferro oficially debuted on 7News at 5pm.
I think he should have been phased in and not just thrown at the viewers so suddenly.
Update 6:50pm: New talent bumps appeared today as well, they have been refreshed and now instead of running Anchor-Anchor-Weatherman-Sports, are done much the same as the talent bumps on WHDH, WSVN’s sister station in Boston. Craig and Belkys are together, then Phil Ferro and then Steve Shapiro. Same for Lynn Martinez and Tom Haynes. They added some little blue boxes for the names instead of just a plain name in a white font, but it looks a little out of place if you ask me.
7 has begun running promos for Phil Ferro so chances are he’ll be debuting this Monday just in time for the May sweeps. Contrary to popular belief they’re marketing him as someone who came from Cuba, no metion of him being family man.
Very sad and angry day for us Bulgarians. Unfortunately only the military is leaving this hell hole, contractors are left to their own devices and we’ll porbably see more of this
Part of a series of great promos from CBS4 that started last year. Unfortunately the only one I cought in Hi-Def.
Click here to download 4.07MB, 640×360 HDTV source, WMV9 format
Here’s another clip
This one’s from a CBS4 promo that ran after the sweeps, I think it still does. Not sure
5.04MB, 640×360 widescreen HDTV source, WMV9 format
6 has a new voice over guy, so here’s tonight’s 6pm open.
Much better with the voice-over IMO, livelier and sounds more authorative
Click here for video
2.36MB, 640×360 widescreen HDTV source, WMV9 (Windows Media Video 9)
Her name’s LuAnne Sorrell, presently works for KLAS-TV the CBS affiliate in Las Vegas. If she’s familiar to you it may be because of the stink she raised with the “Hunting for Bambi” report she did, where men shoot hot chicks with paintball guns in the desert for 10 grand. That story subsequently picked up by FoxNews and a huge stink ensued for the next 1.6 minutes after which everyone forgot about it, as usual.
Except that, the whole hunt thing was one huge fake. The owner of the alleged business put on a show for Ms Reporter and fed her so much bullshit she ran with the story. The authorities investigated and said
“The bottom line is we are convinced as a city, based on the information we have, that … some in the media were used as unwitting dupes to promote a private enterprise,”
Journalism at it’s best 
Wonder what she thinks of The BaitBus or the BangBus (not work safe)
Thanks to Chris for the scoop
Reviewjournal.com
Officials: Bambi an elaborate hoax
That’s what I think. And I think TV people working in these studios day in and day out with all of this radiation and stuff can’t be good, but Im sure others would disagree.
Unfortunately locally for us we’ve had too many anchors who’ve had to, and still do, deal with breast cancer. Kelly MItchel, who worked at WPLG. Laurie Stein, a WFOR reporter who last November put a brave face on and showed us what it’s like to live thru breast cancer.
Now there are two other female anchors who’ll have to deal with cancer
WPBF’s Kristine Hoke, who while driving one night home after anchoring the 11pm news and listening to the radio about breast cancer, did a quick self exam and felt a lump immediately knowing it was cancer. Something confirmed by her doctor the very next day.
Nightbeat reporter Liz Weaver from WPTV found she had an 18 pound cancerous growth on her kidney which has been removed.
Read more at TCPalm
Bob Betcher: Cancer scare hits two area TV broadcasters (registration required, you can use Bugmenot.com and type TCpalm.com in the search box)
CBS4 with new open
just got alerted that CBS4 has a new open, that’s “AWESOME” according to the insider.
Expect a HDTV video preview of it tonight.
Also, the insider tells me that NBC6 have broke a story on their web site calling it First on NBC6.net, and this is probably a first for all of the local media getting a story online first before it hits the airwaves. Good going. Now if they redesign that think IBS calls design and throw a live feed of the newscast, they might have something on their hands.
CBS4 open video tonight