Monthly Archive for December, 2005

WTVT-FOX13 Tampa is owned and operated by Newscorp. They’ve just introduced an 11pm newscast called “News Edge”, a first for a FOX O&O station. The newscast is very fast paced with flashy graphics and dramatic music that closely resembles Fox News.

I think it’s a preview of what’s to come to other owned and operated station by Newscorp. Especially considering that the same people who run Fox News are in charge here as well

Even WTVT’s slogan is “The Most Powerful Station in Local News”
Florida News Center has a few screen and video caps from the broadcast.

Right now on Discovery Times channel a documentary called “Breaking News” giving viewers a “behind the scenes look at the news department at Miami’s NBC affliate WTVJ and the reporters covering news stories”

The first part is “Breaking News: Live from Miami”, it’s followed by “Swimming to Miami” at 2pm to 3pm also behind the scenes in WTVJ and their coverage of a confrontation between the US Coast Guard and 6 cuban refugees and their alleged mistreatment

3p-4p an unnamed Denver station gets profiled

then at 5p-6p a repeat of “Live From Miami”

“Live From Miami” looks to have been filmed at the old WTVJ building.

I liked how Kelly Craig proof reads a teleprompter copy and finds errors in the script and leaves it to see if Gerry Helfman would would stumble on the air or catch the error . Gerry Helfman stumbled and Kelly laughed but all was good and they remained friends

part 2 – Swimming To Miami
-This part traces the coverage of the cubans who were trying to swim to the beach while the coast guard chased them. Two made it while people on the beach were yelling for him to run as cops were attemting to catch him before he made it to the beach.
-It is an old documentary. It’s all from the old building in Miami and Sky6 is the old chopper that crashed with the pilot and cameraman who were killed in that crash
-Ike Seamans, Andrea Brody, Ari Odzer are so far the ones featured
-Gerry Helfman anchoring the breaking news
-Very intense fast paced during breaking news
-Andrea Brody gets cought up in traffic on the way to the beach and by the time she arrives nobody’s there
- NBC6 news director wants to exchange video of coast guard spraying with WPLG’s video of the cubans being sprayed by water canons. WPLG declines and 6’s news director concludes Bill Pohovey is a “jerk”
- Andrea Brody’s tape gets lost and she has to talk to fill air time (a.k.a stretch). Martha Sugalsky nearby concludes at the end “that was a long ass stretch”

I dont know if this is new, but there’s a webcast anchored by Angela Rae called “CBS4 at your desk”. It doesn’t have advertising and it looks to be about 5 or so minutes long