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WPLG sacks Jilda Unruh for allegedly being drunk on the air

Author admin on 9/25/2005 in Local Media.


The Miami Herald is reporting Jilda Unruh has been off the air and off the WPLG website since Thursday after she gave an odd live report from the Miami-Dade Couty Emergency Operations Center. She allegedly slurred words and giggled, and employees at the EOC said she smelled like alcohol.

She filed the report late at night during the hurricane coverage of WPLG.
If anyone has the video or tips regarding this story and wants to send it anonymously, use the red box on top right side of the site to get in touch.

Miami Herald
A familiar TV face yanked off the air

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Bryan Norcross – CBSNews hurricane analyst

Author admin on 9/23/2005 in Local Media.

Went to CBSNews.com and the big headline on the front page had video of Bryan Norcross giving the projected path and ladfall time for hurricane Rita. I thought it interesting that the lower third graphic stated he was a CBS News Hurricane Analyst. It seems CBS is integrating a lot of WFOR on the air during the hurricanes this season.

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Videos: Post Rita coverage promos

Author admin on 9/23/2005 in Videos.

Of course there’s already “we’re the best” promos for the just passed hurricane. Download Videos here
CBS4’s slogan – The most powerful name in local news. I guess they had the highest ratings during the hurricane coverage?!

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John Guaraldi on WPLG

Author admin on 9/21/2005 in Local Media.

As I previously noted, it was sort of a rumor that John Guaraldi will jump from WTVJ to WPLG. Now an alert viewer emailed me to say that yesterday at 2am Megan Glaros introduced Guaraldi to the viewers.

Now you know why he’s not on WTVJ anymore. I’ll try to get around and set the DVR to catch any promos or if he’s on the air today

Whoever emailed, thanks for the tip.

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Added function: Polls

Author admin on 9/21/2005 in Site News and Comments.

Now there’s a poll function to the blog. It looks a little weird on Firefox but I can’t figure out yet how make it better so it will do for now.
You can feel free to test it and give your vote

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Possible downtime tomorrow

Author admin on 9/20/2005 in Site News and Comments.

It is possible that this site will be inaccessible starting tomorrow (Wednesday) at around 6pm eastern time due to server move which will involve a 2 stage sync. The 2nd stage will require the server be unplugged from the web while all the data and OS settings are migrated over to the new machine. Hopefully without hickups. If something gets fudged my server in Bulgaria would probably show up online to say hello and keep my other sites barely floating. So if things look very weird and slow know it’s all on purpose.

Just giving heads up so you all won’t be going around having withdrawals and panic attacks, I’ll be bak – as that guy who runs Cali likes to say.

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Hurricane Rita, media 24/7

Author admin on 9/20/2005 in Local Media.

WPLG dish hit by falling debree
WPLG’s Jeff Weinser and crew are down in Key West, the live truck was near the hotel they’re staying at and a huge gust of wind and water came ashore some light fell from the hotel and hit the live truck, but they’re all okay and Jeff is reporting live on the air

4:23pm WPLG’s Jacey Birch from Key West – “When the wind picks up it can just take you with it – My photographer had to hold me down a few times down here.”

“If I don’t have to be out here, I wouldn’t be out here”

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Don Noe’s son arrested

Author admin on 9/19/2005 in Local Media.

The Miami Herald is reporting the son of WPLG chief met Don Noe, 21 year old Matthew Noe, has been arrested on child porn charges. Images of child porn were found on his personal computer.

Apparently in April the cops raided Noe’s home and seized the computer. Matthew Noe was using LimeWire to download stuff, and told police he downloaded 30 images of girls between 10 and 17 years old. He’s out on $10,000 bond and will be arraigned September 29th.

Computer Noe-No (middle of the page)

I know some will ask if WPLG covered it – I don’t know I haven’t watched WPLG in days. But I did look at their web site and found nothing. That would be one awkward story to report though

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More on the plex

Author admin on 9/17/2005 in Local Media.

I’m back.
Someone anonymous sent me the rendering of the plex but I’m not posting the pictures. Too big a chance for 7 to kibosh me and I’m not OK with it so I’ll just try and tell you what to expect. Everything will be done in two parts. 1st part being the main two-shot of the anchors.

Next on the renovation list are a new standup area and remodeled news desk.

News Desk
The overall color will be blue. Some evenly spaced red stripes running around the bottom part.
Where the metallic top is now, that will be changed to a reflective surface top and three blue stripes, like the ones behind the anchors, running from end to end.

7News Desk sign will be changed to 7 Breaking News.
The wall with all the little monitors will be blue with that metallic looking sheet with round holes. There will be a large widescreen TV with 2 smaller LCD TVs under it. Thick red stripes on each side, and near those on each side will be 3 LCD TVs under each other. Almost looking like hanging picture frames.

New Standup Area
This one resembles the WHDH stand up area.
It will be blue and red.
In the middle are three rounded tables with thing round bases, almost like mushrooms. Two of the small tables sit lower than the larger one. Again reflective surface, metallic looking base, red at the very bottom.
To the right of the anchor will be a large, what looks like 80-100 inch screen, probably projector.
Behind the anchor is a widescreen TV on a blue background, next to it are three smaller LCD TVs under one another.

The 2nd floor red railing is seen on the renderings painted light gray. The two red columns near the TV wall are painted blue and have a couple of those blue neon lights from top to bottom. Under each row of TV screen there is a gray metallic looking stripe.

Sadly the monitor wall looks like will remain with the same TVs in it.

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Livelier NBC6?

Author admin on 9/14/2005 in Local Media.

Im watching NBC6 at 11pm and they started out with Segreto and Yarbough standing up away from the anchor desk. Tossed to a report about hurricane Ophelia and then Segreto popped up near John Gerrard who was at the weather desk.

It seems like NBC6 is trying to make things a bit more dynamic.

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