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Monthly Archive for May, 2006

Local stations prepare for Hurricane Season ‘06

An article in the Miami Herald explains what the local news outlets are doing to prepare for this hurricane season. WTVJ and WSVN have installed fuel tanks on-site for employees to re-fuel when needed so they can get to work, and for news vechicles.

According to the Herald 7 has spent over $1 million dollars on hurricane preparedness this year and have built a special broadcast transmission center on the 2nd floor in case the studios downstairs got flooded.

WTVJ are installing shutters on top of their hurricane resistant windows and WPLG has purchased a state-of-the-art weather computer programs. The Herald mentions WTJV’s “Weather Plus Hurricane Hummer” which is actually from last year, not this on.

7 has made arrangements to air it’s hurricane programming on Cox radio stations across South Florida, WTVJ has an agreenment with Beasley Broadcast Group.

The newspaper outlets are also putting gas tanks on site, and some are arranging with local gas stations who have generators to give them fuel when needed.

Miami Herald
Last year’s hurricanes taught news a lesson

The RSS feeds will be broken for a bit

I have to force the RSS feeds into a 404 trap for a little bit, maybe a couple days at most.

WB39’s subchannel adds The Tube

Someone emailed to say The Tube TV is now broadcasting on WB’s second subchannel, 39.2. The Tube is a music network much like MTV was in the old days playing music videos all the time. WFLX – FOX29 in Palm Beach County also broadcasts The Tube on their subchannel.

Tube TV Network site

Pumpcast news

Clearly a spoof on that NBC thing that’s about to annoy us all at the gas stations soon. It’s funny though :)



CBS Crew Attacked in Iraq, 2 die

Cameraman Paul Douglas, soundman James Brolan and correspondent Kimberly Dozier were attacked today while traveling with a U.S. convoy in Baghdad. The crew was covering American troops for Memorial Day. When they got out of their armored vechicle a nearby car packed with explosives detonated. Paul and James died, Kimberly is in critical condition. A US soldier was also killed in the attack and 6 others injured

CBSNews.com
Deadly Attack On CBS News Crew
CBS News Statement

Personally, I find it ironic this would happen with a CBS crew right on Memorial Day. And I’m not talking conspiracy theories here. More like it’s a sign, a reminder, a warning.

4 more years at 7 for Craig Stevens

In her ‘Talk of the Town’ column Miami Herald’s Joan Fleischman says 7 have just re-signed Craig Stevens for another 4 years.

Miami Herald
Staying Power (middle of the page)

John Stewart Makes Fun of Weather Promo

Jon Stewart pokes fun of WTWO for running a really stupid weather promo attacking WTHI’s weather team.
(WTWO internal promo and weather promo below)



/via LostRemote/

Tribune Star
VIDEO: Daily Show dogs WTWO weather commercial

Daily Show spoofs Indiana TV station

update: WTWO has responded, unoficially to The Daily Show with what’s supposedly an internal promo



That’s the weather promo:
Ok Jason I’ll let you have this on – it’s not that stupid, but I’m still not buying it. I like it in terms of pace and graphics, it’s simple, and not too cheap looking considering the market size. Good pace, not too slow. Still wouldn’t make me watch them more because of 15 years extra experience. I mean Brian Norcross is the shizzle here, and when I listened to him as Wilma was passing over he said the worst of had passed, 2 minutes later the roof tile started getting ripped one by one.



WPTV unphased by NBC woes

WPTV is the dream of probably every news director out there – beat the crap out of your competitor in ratings while your network is flunking in a major way. May sweeps are over with and WPTV is, again, number one as they have been since forever. Not only that, WPTV is the highest rated station in all of Florida sign-on to sign-off!

WFLX continues it’s funny streak in TV ratings, they mustered a #3 place in prime time thanks to Idol behind WPTV which was 2nd and WPEC 1st. WPBF should probably make at least some news because they have seen significant gaines in early morning and early evening newscasts.

Sun Sentinel
WPTV thrives in Palm Beach County, despite NBC woes

7 almost bumps WLTV for #1

Tom jicha from Sun Sentinel has a nice summary of the May sweeps ratings. WSVN almost bumped WLTV – Univision from the spot for #1 station but it didnt happen so 7 is number one among English language stations sign-on to sign-off. WSVN, WPLG and WFOR were .2 ratings point of each other. Now that’s close!

Sun Sentinel
WLTV edges WSVN for No. 1 in Miami-Fort Lauderdale

SciFi gets a Pulse

SciFi channel has gone live with their broadband video channel called ‘SciFi Pulse’. It will feature full episodes of original SciFi series and movies, deleted scenes and interactive programming.

Oh so close to dumping cable, so close. Now if MSNBC would just put Countdown in MSN Video and Comcast stops forcing me to buy basic cable so I can have HBO I personally would be a happy camper.

Gate World
SCI FI unveils broadband video channel