Monthly Archive for August, 2006
Here are the ratings from the hurricane coverage for Tuesday from 5am to 8pm
Share/Rating points
WFOR - 13/7.3
WTVJ - 8/4.6
WSVN - 11/6.4
WPLG - 12/6.5
1 rating point equals 15,386 households
If you have not found them by now, here’s some straight links to the news stations. They’re all simulcasting live on the web. If you are obsessed enough and have strong internet connection you can watch all 4 stations at once 
WFOR - live stream - web site WTVJ - live tream - web site
WSVN - live stream - web site WPLG - live stream - web site
WPBF - live stream - web site WPTV - live stream - web site
WFOR and WTVJ have kicked off the hurricane marathon as of 4am from what I saw they’re only talking about the hurricane and not mixing in regular news too.
WTVJ and WSVN are airing regular programming until 5am rolls around.
Also, starting at 5am WPLG will be streaming their coverage on local10.com
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Even in the mornings 10 is doing the dual-weatherpeople thing! I fail to see the point why we have to have Megan Glaros and John Guaraldi talking about essentially the same thing one after another.
WFOR has brought in Craig Setzer to tag team with Pamela Wright.
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7 has brought in Phil Ferro for the morning weather! So far have not seen Elita Loresca
I have seen almost nothing of the local news but from the emails I got all things point to an already elevated coverage of hurricane-would-be Ernesto.
One emailer said WPLG started interrupting infomercials at 3:15pm with storm coverage and WFOR also began doing hourly updates.
For the 6pm news WPLG have Laurie Jennings anchoring with Don Noe and Trent Aric together, WSVN has brought in Phil Ferro.
>> 10pm: 7 is also doing the two-weatherman thing with Ferro and Cameron covering the Ernesto forecasts
4 is sending David Bernard to New Orleans for the Katrina anniversary. Starting Monday he’ll be reporting from the area on the news at 5pm.
There was some initial hesitation on sending him up there as Ernesto started to develop but on the 6pm newscast Brian Norcross led the hurricane update and my guess is he’ll be doing it during the week as well until David comes back
A tipster wrote in to say that 7News at 4pm will be headed by Tom Haynes and Lynn Martinez. Also, the promo has been tweaked to show the two of them.
The Nielsen people have updated the local market rankings for the 2007 ratings season. Miami-Ft. Lauderdale is now back to where it was in 2001, the 16th largest TV market down from 17th and growing allegedly by 15,660 households. In 2001 Nielsen demoted us to a 17 causing many to wonder how that’s possible with the growth South Florida is experiencing.
The big shocker would probably have to be Boston moving up to 7th largest from the 5th. Ironically in 2004 Boston was upgraded to the 5th largest TV market from 6!
Ft. Myers-Naples is now 64th, from 66th previously. Strangely West Palm Beach remains unchanged!
The new ranks go into effect September 23 2006
Nielsen Press Release /via LostRemote/
Nielsen Reports 1.1% increase in U.S. Television Households for the 2006-2007 Season
Freshly lunched in July WPBF’s ‘WPBF News 25 Weather First at 4′ (talk about a mouthful!) will be streamed live on the internet according to TCPalm.com
The newscast, hosted by WPBF chief meteorologist Mike Lyons and Felicia Rodriguez, features a lot of weather updates and news reports by WPBF reporters who the news director refers to as “Tigers” or television-internet general assignment reporters.
TCPALM.com
WPBF STREAMS TV NEWSCAST (bottom of page)
Calvin Hughes, currently a reporter and weekend anchor at KYW, the CBS affiliate in Philadelphia, will be replacing Mark Schumacher on 10’s morning newscast very soon. Before moving to KYW Hughes was the main anchor at WGCL, the CBS affiliate in Atlanta.
Tipster says - changes at WPLG have happened!
Schumacher is off mornings, he will take the place of Will Manso and Manso will go back to doing sports. Charles Perez has been oficially anonced as Neki Mohan’s new co-anchor
MSNBC has debuted a new graphics package today as expected by some. Not sure who did them, but they are very angular and look a lot like what CNBC had before they went 100% CGI on their lower thirds.
I saw the promo today for the new 4pm newscast on 7. Not surprisingly it’s called ‘7News First At 4′ and as previously mentioned on this blog it will be a half-hour newscast followed by ‘Geraldo At Large’. They doesn’t tell us what day in September they’ll debut or who will anchor it. And unlike the 5pm newscast, ‘First at 4′ will have traffic reports according to the promo.
I wonder if they are renaming the 5pm newscast to something else the way they did with the 11pm when it used to be ‘7 at 11′ before the red graphics makeover!?!
I think First at 4 should have been a whole hour newscast though, ‘Geraldo’ is useless. And they maybe should add news at 7pm when most all people are actually home by that time and not stuck in traffic.
Video after the jump
Continue reading ‘7News First At 4pm in September’
WTVX Channel 34 in West Palm has converted their web site to CW already. Looks like the old template on the UPN/CBS stations but very green!
34CWTV.com
First, KUTV have braved the new online world and posted a video with bloopers from their own newscast. Towards then you can even see former WTVJ chief met Roland Steadham goof off with his mic while live on the air
Then a talk show host gets the giggles because of his guest’s high pitch voice
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