Monthly Archive for July, 2006
Tipster says CBS4 has formally announced that CBS4 Bryan Norcross is stepping down as chief meteorologist but will continue to work at CBS4 as hurricane specialist and be the primary meteorologist during hurricane coverage. David Bernard is taking the chief meteorologist job and will now be seen doing all the weather segments on CBS4 News
Browsing CBS4.com I saw they’re offering to watch the latest video from CBS4 news, weather, sports and traffic on your cell phone. It costs $4.95 month and is only available from Sprint! Bummer for those of us who want to use only GSM phones.
One of the regular readers of the blog emailed to say that WPLG will be updating the design of their site – local10.com – as early as tomorrow! The design will be similar to what WKMG has.
You can preview the new site by clicking here
Update: new design is live already, I think they put it up Wednesday evening
Old Site:
7News have given their anchors the stretched weight gain too, like WPLG they’ve started stretching the video on their HD channel.
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It’s funny watching Phil Ferro doing the weather as he goes from normal looking to … I guess you’d call him stretched? LOL
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It broke. The video is gone, only audio and there’s a 4:3 screen with a beep showing up every few seconds
WESH have announced Martha Sugalski is coming to the station. On their site they’ve even posted videos of WESH’s 2 main anchors meeting with Sugalski who was at the station and apparently anchored the news!? Or at least she was at the anchor desk.
Follow the link below to watch the videos
In the latest Q&A with Sun Sentinel TV critic Tom Jicha one viewer says the WPLG HD feed has been turned off by Dish Network due to “contractual issues”. This has been confirmed by a WPLG spokesperson who says they’re working to resolve the issue in weeks and not months!
Ouch, sux if you pay them the extra $5 to get those, alleged, HD feeds!
They’ve refreshed the ‘Crisis in the Middle East’ bump graphics with the new font that 7 has been using lately.
The dumb senator who has no idea what the internet is and how it works, yet keeps cozy with the telecom industry was parodied about his now famous “series of tubes” remark during a hearing on net neutrality. A user on MySpace created a song singing out the senator’s words over a folksy ditty. According to Wired 2500 people listened to the tune.
But then MySpace, owned by FOX(News) censored the song by deleting the user’s account!!!
When Wired News ran the story, and the blogs picked on it, the account of the poster magically came back online with MySpace claiming they deleted it by mistake.
Yeah, and the internet is a series of tubes. Looks like someone needs to realize the internets aren’t Faux News
What Else is There Besides Cable Around Here?
I just took a look at our cable bill and at $159.69/ month or $1916.28 I’m a bit miffed. Especially with Comc/rap/cast internet connection being slow while I’m paying for top of the line speeds!
So what options do you have in your neck of the woods? Those in South Florida – how do you get your TV? Or are we stuck with the Comcast monopoly overcharging?