Monthly Archive for June, 2006

KYTV news crew arrested during a live shot!

A Missouri TV station crew was arrested live on the air while reporting on a building collapse. Apparently the cops didn’t like the media disobeying their orders and going to the media-designated area. Instead the KYTV crew decided to set up their live shot from the public side of the police yellow tape! The photog was detained while the reporter was live on the air before she too was arrested!

Talk about dumb cops overstepping their boundaries.

/via LostRemote/
News Leader
News crew reporting on building collapse arrested

Oh No She Didn’

Here’s the link to the video of Barbara Walters smacking down on Star Jones.

TMZ has audio of Star Jones giving her version of evens on radio

Ten Things To Hate About Local TV News

Someone at CraigsList made a post about 10 things they hate about local tv news.

/via Lost Remote/ ten things I hate about local TV news

What are 10 things YOU hate about TV news?

Local HD on The D*

DirecTV has officially turned on HD local channel service for the Miami/Fort Lauderdale market. If you subscribe to the local stations package, the HD feeds are free

Business Wire
DIRECTV Activates HD Local Channel Service in Miami, Florida; Local Channels in HD Have More Vivid Colors, Wider Images and Clearer, Crisper High-resolution Digital-quality Pictures

WSVN’s Lynn Gordon

A reader sent me a note saying 7’s Lynn Gordon is not on the WSVN News Team page anymore, and she hasn’t appeared on-air in a while, which would indicate she’s left the station!

NBC6 On Demand

NBC6 news are now too available On Demand on Comcast under the News & World section of the menu. WFOR was the first local station to have all it’s newscasts put OnDemand and updated daily

WFTV in HD on June 29!

Leave it to market TWENTY to have a station going HD!
According to Roger Simmons WFTV-9 in Orlando is starting their High Definition broadcast on June 29th, just in time for July sweeps.
WFTV will be only the 10th news station in the country to go in full HD format. They’re also building a new studio as well as a graphics package (probably done by Giant Octopus) specifically created for HD broadcasting. Even their doppler radar will be high definion.

I am so jelaous! Now back to watching my upnconverted super-compressed news for this morning

Roger Simmons
Eyewitness news Going HD

North Bay Village plan: replace WSVN with a public park!

I missed that somehow, but a story in the Miami Herald about the Kennedy Causeway upgrades that are being proposed as well as North Bay Village’s plans to deal with high-rise buildings and beautification plans.

North Bay Village is where WSVN’s main studios currently reside, just to the side of the Kenney Causeway. North Bay Village residents have proposed that a community center or public park be made where WSVN buildings currently stand. They want a place where the community can meet and also to preserve Biscane Bay views as new high-rise buildings are about to get built. The 360 Condos project is right to the side of the WSVN studios - Imagine paying $800,000 for a 1/1 condo and having 7Skyforce take off and land every day. Ahmazing!

Can’t wait to see what’s going to happen.

In other news, rumor has it WPLG have sold, are about to sell or think of selling their current studios near downtown Miami for a condo project or something else and move west!

Miami Herald
Kennedy Causeway facing upgrade

Bob Weaver has passed away

South Florida’s first TV weatherman, Bob Weaver, has passed away.

Sun Sentinel
South Florida TV pioneer Weaver the Weatherman dies

NBC6.net
South Florida Loses A Legend

10 changed their hurricane gfx too

Theirs look very nice too. As someone in the comments mentioned they do look like they were made by Giant Octopus. I’ll get the video asap

7 changed the Hurricane Graphics

And they look very cool, at least without sound. I’m working now but I’ll try to muster some screen caps in a few minutes

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They’ve got new music too, IMO the previous theme was much better. Working on the video now

Update: here’s the video. Im experimenting a bit at the moment to see how it goes with flash. The music is not as bad as I thought, but still the previous theme was much cooler. Oddly they didn’t change the “Surviving a storm” graphics and music.
Continue reading ‘7 changed the Hurricane Graphics’

Downtime tomorrow

Changing servers tomorrow. Some downtime might occur because of all the gigs of data and settings that need to be moved over. It all starts at 13:00 EDT and might go as long as 48 hours. So if things feel flimsy wait before you curse your ISP

Bob Weaver hospitalized with cancer

South Florida’s first weatherman has been hospitalized at Cedar Medical Center suffering from cancer. He has been ill for several weeks, according to a tipster Weaver had hip replacement surgery last Thursday but has not fully recovered.

Sun Sentinel
TV Weatherman Weaver hospitalized with cancer (mid page)

TV weatherman Weaver hospitalized with cancer

Bob Weaver, Miami’s first TV weatherman, has been hospitalized at Cedars Medical Center, suffering from cancer. Weaver, 78, has been seriously ill for several weeks, according to professional acquaintances.

Weaver joined WTVJ (then Channel 4), Miami’s first TV station, shortly after graduating from the University of Miami in 1949. He followed his friend and fellow UM graduate Ralph Renick, who had become the station’s original news anchor.

Weaver initially was a jack of all trades at the station, pasting pictures on cardboard to be displayed on screen as well as reading commercials and station identifications before becoming the weather forecaster. He stayed with WTVJ for more than 50 years before going into semi-retirement three years ago.

The Beeb is coming to America!

The BBC has announced it’s bringing BBC World News to the US starting this July! They have already gone live on Cablevision systems in New York but no word on which other cable and satellite cariers will pick up BBC World News and when.

I for one would like to get them even online, something similar to CNN Pipeline

Reuters
BBC starts World News broadcasts in US

Hurricane season promos

Some of you have already seen them but I just saw the 7news one a few minutes ago. It’s very calm and surprisingly un-hypey. Overall a very nice promo though.

Wonder who’s doing 7’s promos lately because the 7 logo in the hurricane one and in the “See it on 7″ looks very weird.

When I get some time I’ll see about figuring out the encoding issues and will post all 4 station’s promo videos