Monthly Archive for June, 2006

KYTV news crew arrested during a live shot!

Author admin on 6/29/2006 in Local Media.

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

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Oh No She Didn’

Author admin on 6/28/2006 in Media Headlines.

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

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Ten Things To Hate About Local TV News

Author admin on 6/28/2006 in Local Media.

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?

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Local HD on The D*

Author admin on 6/28/2006 in Local Media.

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

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WSVN’s Lynn Gordon

Author admin on 6/26/2006 in Local Media.

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!

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NBC6 On Demand

Author admin on 6/23/2006 in Local Media.

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

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WFTV in HD on June 29!

Author admin on 6/22/2006 in Local Media.

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

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

Author admin on 6/22/2006 in Local Media.

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

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