If you’ve ever wanted to be on Deco Drive this is your chance.
They are running a contest for a new reporter and anyone can apply. Just send them a video tape of your make-believe entertainment reporting.
Great opportunity to see your mug on Deco Drive and all the (local) prestige that comes with it.
Shaun McDonald is the new Vice President and General Manager for WFOR, WBFS, WTVX, WWHB and WTCN
Miami Herald
WFOR-CBS4 hires new general manager
Sad but true – 7’s Natalie Solis is leaving WSVN. I have no other details at this time as to which station she’s moving to.
Update: a tipster says Vanessa Medina from WKMG in Orlando is one of two new reporters that will be joining WSVN soon, possibly as a replacement of Natalie.
As for Natalie’s move, word is she’s going back to her hometown of Dallas, TX to be closer to her family.
With the redesign of WSVN.com the station also moved it’s video streaming to content delivery powerhouse Mirror-Image, the same guys who have been handling WHDH.com’s video delivery for several years now.
Some interesting bits from the article – 7’s online audience is “two million viewers” (doesn’t specify if this is yearly or monthly, uniques or not. Huge if it’s monthly!)
The article hints at a possible American Idol promotion with supplemental video content.
The Whir
Miami TV Station Expands Online
For those that follow - TV couple Phil Lipof and Juli Auclair who left WFOR-CBS4 in 2001 for WSVN sister station in Boston, WHDH, are moving to New York.
WHDH did not renew Juli’s contract and Phil was offered an anchoring position at WABC who’s morning anchor was moved to weekends to replace Charles Perez who came back to South Florida at WPLG.
They’ve started having reporters there but it looks very unfinished, at least to me.
It has very little to do with the concepts that I saw which in my opinion were many times better. The only original ideas they kept is the small monitors and large screen the red stripe and blue/red columns are obviously taken from the Weather stand up area, minus the blue walls, instead they have grey brushed metal with the monitors hanging on what looks like pipes coming from the wall.
If it’s finished, I hope not, it’s just so ugly. It looks like the doors of those big freezers stores have to store meat in but with flat-panel monitors hanging on them.
//Update 10.27 – added screencaps with a couple different angles
Screenshots after the jump
Newsblues says Doug Dunbar may be returning to WPLG , WFOR soon. He left in 2004 for a morning anchor position at CBS11 in Dallas.
// Update: My bad, Dunbar may be coming with Tom Doerr to WFOR, not WPLG
According to one insider, the Newsdesk is finally getting some love. It’s new look is debuting probably Monday or sometime next week.
If they keep to the original plan it should be very blue , with the dotted mesh background, some red vertical stripes, a big flat panel on the wall surrounded by smaller LCD tvs, reflective top, and 3 rows of blue neon lights on the side like they have behind the anchor desk.
The Miami Herald reports Nielsen plans to unroll their electronic ratings measurement system called Local People Meters (LPM) next year in October just in time for the 2007 November sweeps.
Actually having LPMs would probably mean no sweeps for Miami/Ft. Lauderdale at least not as much hype as there currently is during that month
From the article though it’s apparent that WPLG’s GM Dave Boylan isn’t so happy about the Nielsen plan even though LPMs track viewer’s watching habits much better than the current, and very flawed in my opinion, diary system.
Miami Herald
Nielsen to track local TV ratings electronically
According to the Miami Herald the chiefs at 7 have found a replacement for Shireen Sandoval. Ellie Rodriguez a local girl who is now hosting some show called ‘18 and Over’ is taking the reigns from Shireen
Someome emailed me Monday I think and said she was on Deco so some of you have probably already seen her
// Update: Here’s a clip from ‘18 and Over’ from reader Matt. The new gal is hot. As expected.
Miami Herald
‘Deco Drive’ change
Just when you thought you would never get over Shireen Sandoval marrying and leaving town for New York to do who knows what boring thing, along comes a nice new entertainment reporter to replace her on WSVN-Fox 7’s Deco Drive and pretty soon we’ll be like “Shireen who?”
Plus, unlike Shireen, who came from the wild and somewhat unsavory plains of western New Mexico, the new girl — or, as they call her around the studio, Ellie Rodriguez – comes from right here in Miami. She even graduated from the University of Miami with a double major in broadcast journalism and theater, and there is no record of her ever hitting somebody with a helmet during a football game.
Lately you may have seen her hosting 18 and Over, a news and entertainment show on the bilingual cable channel mun2. Deco Drive, where Rodriguez will report and be the relief anchor, airs Monday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
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