Got anonymous tip today saying current WFOR news director was fired because of the recent mishap where WFOR put breaking news on saying Miami police director’s son was arrested which turned out to be false. The police director is now considering filing lawsuit against WFOR.
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Dude, Louis Aguirre was a host on FoxNews when it first started - something called “Fox News Now”! I had no idea!
He was invited along with his former co-host for the FNC 10th anniversary back to FoxNews for an interview
Johnny Dollar has the video including a blooper when Aguirre gets the giggles while reading a story about some woman’s need for clean urine or something /via TVNewser/
After weeks of speculation the chiefs at WHDH, WSVN sister station in Boston, announced Frances Rivera is the new lead co-anchor for the 5, 6 and 11pm newscasts alongside Randy Price.
She replaces Caterina Bandini who left WHDH recently expecting twins anytime this month. Until now Rivera co-anchored the 4pm, 4:30pm and 5:30pm newscast with Matt Lorch who joined WHDH in August from WPLG.
Rivera signed a new 5-year contract with the station and according to WHDH general manager Mike Carson the newsroom “roared” when the announcement was made.
Boston Herald - Frances Rivera tapped to anchor Ch. 7 news
/via TVNewser/CNN News Wall is part of a new state of the art studio at the CNN Time Warner center in New York City. Paula Zahn Now, 360 and American Morning will air from it. American Morning will begin airing from there on Monday.
Yesterday WFOR broke into programming with a story that Miami-Dade police director Robert Parker’s son has been arrested on armed robbery charges.
Turns out they had it very wrong and had to retract the story.
WPLG then did a whole story on the flub, sending Glenna Millberg to get a reaction from University of Miami journalism professor Sam Terrelli. And even called WFOR to get details on why they got it wrong!
The police director is said to consider civil action against WFOR
Local10.com
Police Director Fuming After Erroneous News Report
I had to forward my email for the tips but had no idea it won’t work with free email services.
I finally got around to fixing, hopefully the new format will end the flood of spam I have been getting for months.
If you have wanted to email me recently, or have sent me an email in the last few weeks that didn’t get answered you can try again
I caught some of Sports Sunday on 10 and they have tweaked it around too. Gone is the open with the red graphics open they introed not too long ago in favor of a short open with the same music as the news one. Actually the graphics are the same as the weather and sports bumps. Very streamlined almost like the show is meant to be an extention to the Sunday newscast.
They have also dropped the dedicated set and now Jimmy Cefalo and Will Manso are at the anchor desk.
The chiefs at 10 have streamlined things, even the bumps for weather, sports and traffic use the short jingles from the news open.
New Digs For ‘HDH
WSVN sister station in Boston WHDH just got a brand new weather set. Actually it’s more like a weather studio because it has the weather computers that the meteorologists use along with the stand up area for the newscast
photo link
By November WHDH should also have a new graphics and music package. And if the graphics and music gurus at WSVN had enough time, 7 should have a sexy new look and sound by November sweeps