Monthly Archive for August, 2005

I was streaming some news from back home in Bulgaria, from bTV when they ran a news update showing the hurricane damage in New Orleans and what do you know, WFOR’s footage made it on the air. They also showed Bourboun street sign and a broken window of a police cruiser, not sure if that video was from CBS4.

My country too has been dealing with massive floods for the first time in decades, except there we have huge mountains and several villages were buried in avalanches of mud from the mountains. The weather has definitly gone crazy this year.

The local stations, although very weak in their coverage compared with here, have special phone lines and SMS numbers you can call to donate money. Every time you call or SMS you get charged 1BGL to your phone bill.

An insider tells me that WTVJ-NBC6 have hired a new assitant news director. What is interesting to note here is that this isn’t just another new hire. This person comes from WHDH where he was an Executive Producer. Before joining WHDH that same person worked at WFOR, and before that at WSVN.

Notice a trend here? If you’ve watched NBC6 lately you’d notice them trying to be edgier and faster paced, take this into account plus this new assistant news director and you’ll see how he or she fits into the overall picture and when you mix it well and let it sit what do you get? You get something that looks and talks like WFOR and WSVN, but it’s on NBC6. No more sleepy news? We’ll see. I was told he/she is “very aggressive and extremely competitive” don’t be surprised to see NBC6 being more hyper than usual.