Monthly Archive for February, 2006

7’s sat center tweaked

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When in doubt fiddle with it. That’s what the powers that be are doing with the satelite center. Someone emailed to say they’ve gotten a bigger TV screen. Twice as big. They are so reading this blog :D
Also, the chroma key/green wall was moved and on it’s place they’re building what “looks like a standup area for talent”.

They probably are, in the renderings of the newsplex I saw there’s an area that will look like similar to what the WHDH has to the left of the anchor desk with a huge screen, probably projection and some round tables in the middle that look like mushrooms with flat tops.

On another note, live video on WSVN.com is back so feel free to go and use their bandwith.

If I don’t forget I might post some screenshots of the tweaked satellite center tonight.

That CBS4 video is like everywhere

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Yeah I’m talkin’ about that police investigation thing. If that cop who’s suing CBS4 thinks the judge will save his snarky ass from being seen acting like … ummm … asshole maybe? /no pun inteded, really/ he can just forget about it.

In the last few days I’ve come accross a lot of blogs linking to the story, Consumerist being the latest I came accross, proves you can tell CBS4 to shut up but that doesn’t work on the internets. There are quite a few other blogs linking to the video, too bad it’s not on YouTube or Bittorent yet

Guess it’s safe to say Mr. Cop is now world famous. Maybe he can join Comcast for that “ruin your reputation faster” ad for their high speed internet. See here if you haven’t seen the ad

New face coming to CBS4 mornings

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NewsBlues reporting WFOR has found a replacement for Susan Barnett who left for KYW CBS in Philly. His name is Jorge Estevez currently anchoring weekend mornings on WFTV, the ABC affiliate in Orlando. He’ll probably start soon, definitly before May sweeps

Laurie Jennings and husband Josh proud parents of two boys

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on 2/23/2006
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As of Sunday night Laurie and her husband Josh are mom and dad :)

Laurie and her husband Josh are the new parents of twin boys named Luke and Jake. The babies were born weighing a pound and a half each on Sunday night and were in critical condition for the first 72 hours. Doctors say the boys are now doing very well at this point despite being so small and coming so early. All of the tests are showing positive results. Laurie says the twins will most likely spend the next three months in the hospital. Laurie sounds great. She says her boys are very handsome and she's looking forward to letting us see pictures at some point in the near future.Laurie can't take phone calls in the neo natal intensive care unit, but says if you want to send her a message, you can email her on her outlook email address and the messages will be forwarded

Miami Herald - Jennings delivers

Judy Echavez gone from WPLG

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Anonymous tipster says Judy Echavez has been let go from WPLG. She joined WPLG in 2003. Her contract was not renewed.

CBS 4 sued by officer filmed in their undercover investigation

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A reader emailed me few mintes ago to say that CBS 4 ran a tease saying they are being sued by one of the cops filmed in the investigative report “Police station Intimidation”.

Update: the officer apparently isn’t happy with the video and wanted a judge to issue injunction against CBS4 and prevent them from playing the video. The request was denied, but another hearing is scheduled for early March.

7’s Adam Williams signed to weekends

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Keep forgetting to post this. Adam Williams has been signed by 7 to anchor the weekend edition of Today in Florida. His contract has been extended by 1.5 years. Thanks to the anon emailer who sent me this tip

Promo: Local10 Breaking News

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Saw this a while ago. Kind of flashy for 10

640×480, MPEG-1 format, 6.6MB - download video

7’s updated sat center sneak peak screens

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The original post got borked, sorry.

Here’s some screencaps from yesterday and noon today. Best viewed with a monitor resolution @ 1024×768
I personally like it, except that red paneling looks cheap in HD. The logo and text should have been 3D like the original CGI graphics, and the flat panel is too small

Almost forgot — notice the new font next to the 7 logo. I think that will be the font they use in the new graphics

7 took the video feed offline - maybe Olympics related

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on 2/12/2006
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Several readers noted the live video from WSVN’s site was offline untill February 26th, the day the Olympics end. And the Olympics just may be the reason why both WSVN and WHDH unplugged their video. That or site redesign which is happening right now, at least for WHDH.com

7’s sat center redo is over.

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Anonymous emailer says 7’s satellite center makeover is completed and it will debut on Monday

NBC6 does 11pm web-only newscast

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Due the Olympic games opening ceremony pre-empting the NBC6 news at 11pm, they will have a special web-only edition at NBc6.net from the 9th untill February 26th.

NBC6 site goes yellow for GM

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NBC6 have their whole site, or the background of it, in yellow for GM’s “Live Green, Go Yellow” ad campaign promoting their flex-fuel platform.

Permanent adios to 7’s weather set

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Anonymous tipster says 7’s weather set a.k.a. weather center is no more. Torn down completely and hauled out, just an empty void in it’s place that will probably be filled in by something else soon. Probably a standup area/weather set.

4 goes undercover, catches intimidating police officers

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Bag this as another Emmy for 4, “Police Station Intimidation” in two parts. They sent someone to local police departments wired with cameras and mics wanting to get a form and file a complaint about a cop. First video, cops wants to know what happened, undercover 4 person refuses to say keeps asking for a form to fill out. The cops gets pissed off and starts asking for his name, address and ID. This is going to be huge.

Watch part 1 and 2

I have to wonder, is 4 in for some tough time with the cops after this aired. The day after the racial profiling test, Mike Kirsch and crew were surrounded by cops claiming someone complained Kirsch and the others were harassing them, except there was no one nearby that could have complained!

Those unmarked news vechicles will come in handy right about now.

10 doing webcasts - “Local10 News On Demand”

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on 2/6/2006
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Looks like WPLG have gotten on the webcast wagon. They have a web-only newscast, hence the webcast moniker. Unlike WTVJ which have NewsNet but that airs on TV as well. The first edition was on February 3rd at 4pm.

It runs 4 minutes with a few headlines at first, then follows a tease of a 11p segment, then a quick weather look, then a longer tease about the 11p special report.

There will be 3 webcasts throughout the day — at 9am, noon, and 4pm. I have to say I won’t be surprised if that 4pm webcast gets expanded into longer than 4 minutes when WPLG drops their 5pm to 6pm newscast. At 4pm people are still at the office working and getting ready for the dreaded rush hour traffic, so being able to stream the 4pm traffic reports and such would be great.

It would be nice to see WPLG make this into a video podcast with RSS for people to subscribe to and download on their iPods or whatever and take it with them anywhere they wish.

Local 10 Webcasts: News On Demand