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Monthly Archive for February, 2006

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CBS 4 sued by officer filmed in their undercover investigation

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

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

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

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

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