New promos featuring Bob Mayor and Pam Giganti in New York with the Today Show hosts is running on 6 already. They have Bob and Pam talking with Vieira and Matt Lauer on the interview couch talking as if they’re getting to know each other and then at the end all four are standing up with the Today set behind them with Matt and Meredith mentioning NBC6. I guess it’s pretty generic and probably same or similar promos are on the other NBC stations.
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Starting September 5th WPEC News 12 in Palm Beach County will launch the area’s first 7pm newscast right after Catie Couric. The same team that anchors the 6pm will anchor the 7pm. WPEC which also produces newscasts for WFLX will add an hour to that station’s morning news program from 7am untill 9am.
News12Now.com
Newscast to Launch
I missed it, but got a note from a tipster saying 7 debuted the promo for the upcoming 4pm newscast.
Thanks to the tipster who sent me this.
The Boston Herald’s Inside Track reports Sunbeam TV owner Ed Ansin might be making a move to buy Boston’s WB56, owned by Tribune, in case NBC decides to make a move and aquire a station of their own in the area and drop the NBC affiliation with WHDH. If Sunbeam were to buy WB56 it would create a similar situation like WTVJ and WB39.
Sunbeam TV are the owners of both WHDH in Boston and WSVN here in South Florida
The Boston Herald Inside Track
Ed’s out to thwart Peacock with channel change
BTVN says WHDH’s GM has denied the rumor and that WHDH has more than 2 years left on their contract with NBC
Right when WHDH’s 11pm newscast was to kick in a computer glitch knocked out the graphics and video material forcing the anchors to and ad-lib for at least 5 minutes, which probably felt like an eternity, while control room was desperately attempting to fix the glitch. Ultimately they could not resolve the problem quickly so control room switched the broadcast to MSNBC.
It’s important to note that both WSVN and WHDH have been adding new hardware behind the scenes recently in move to digitize both stations’ news broadcast. Worst nightmare for newsies for sure.
Boston Herald
Glitch knocks Channel 7 off air
Update 8/18: Boston Herald’s business section has more on WHDH’s problems video from the newscast
The NY Daily News had more on the Charles Perez return to South Florida yesterday. Nothing new other than saying he’s expected to show up on WPLG’s airwaves about a week after he leaves WABC on September 9th. That means come September 16th Perez will be on with Neki Mohan, or probably reporting from somewhere first during the week.
That bit at the end of the article was interesting
Sources say the bilingual anchor/correspondent will get prominent play in Miami, where he’s well-versed in local history and politics, having covered the region extensively when he worked there last at WSVN-TV.
NY Daily News
It’ll be Miami twice for Ch. 7’s Perez
Someone sent me this link, it’s the new WBFS/UPN33 site for their new network MyTV. 33mytv.com. My33.com is already taken by some chinese or japanese portal
7 have gone back to the bad ass promos. This one either debuted on Sunday during the 5pm newscast, or it’s just new to me. Whoever does the graphics now 7 are coming up with some pretty interesting concepts.
There’s also another promo for Phil Ferro and the rest of the weather team that’s not as swooshy as this one, it looks more like the Phil Ferro promo that had no voice over on dark background.
So what do you think - hot or not? I vote hot, when it came on it made me turn and look at the TV just as I was looking to change channels. Cool stuff
This one starts off with a classic - a reporter tells people to stay indoors because of lightning, when mother nature suddenly makes an appearance
Sometimes during live shots funny things can happen - like old ladies flashing your camera, look what she can do!
Charles Perez will be the new weekend anchor at WPLG. He’s replacing Matt Lorch who left for WHDH and who was moved to weekends after anchoring WPLG’s weekday 5:30pm newscasts and occasionally substituting for Dwight Lauderdale. No idea when he’s starting at 10 but he’s leaving WABC September 9.
Bruno Moore, a former traffic reporter for WPTV was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly soliciting sex from a 13-year-old girl online. He was slated to teach at a psychiatric treatment facility in Tequesta when on Tuesday detectives showed up at his workplace and arrested him. He gave full confession admitting he had sexually explicit conversations online and on the phone with the girl.
Bruno Moore worked for Metro Traffic and appeared on WPTV, has worked at WSVN as a writer and most recently as a disk jockey at WIRK 107.9FM
Palm Beach Post
Ex-radio DJ, teacher accused of soliciting 13-year-old girl -
Sun Sentinel
DJ, former Palm Beach County TV personality charged with soliciting a child
WPTV.com
Bruno Moore Goes Before a Judge
A tipster sent me this NY Daily News story that says Charles Perez who left WSVN two years ago for a job at New York’s Channel 7, WABC, is coming back to Miami. His last day at WABC is September 9th. No info yet at which Miami news station Perez will be working
NY Daily News
For Ch. 7’s Perez, it just didn’t click
Jennifer Santiago is in West Africa to report on the fight to end child slavery. She’ll be there for 8 days with a Florida group of activists not only filing video reports from there, but she will also be blogging the whole experience.
Well it was a matter of time before it happened again.
7 have started stretching the 4:3 feed on the digital channel again, but this time it’s not anamorphic like WPL, leaving the center of the picutre normal and stretching the sides, it’s just a 4;3 stretched to fit 16:9 format.
