FTVLive (and NY Daily News) says WTVJ’s hunky morning weather man Lonnie Quinn is headed for the Big Apple and CBS flagship affiliate WCBS.
NY Daily News
Wonder weather he’s coming
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WFOR’s GM Brian Kennedy is out at WFOR following the fiasco of that station’s wrong report that Miami police director’s son is arrested on weapons charges.
And insiders say he may not be the only person to go
An email from a reader yesterday says that Tom Doerr, currently news director at KTVT in Dallas, TX will be the new GM at WFOR
Today NBC announced they are firing 700 people and according to TVNewser and RadarOnline 220 will be from 11 local NBC owned and operated stations, of which WTVJ-NBC6 is part
RadarOnline’s John Cook says it’s unclear how NBC will distribute the cuts in staff, but even if they split it evenly across all 11 stations that’s 20 people per station.
Cook says the cuts will be made to news staff, no specifics if it includes behind the scenes people or also on-air. Not something NBC6 needs to hear right now when they’re hurting in the news department
NBC says the layoffs are part of “TV 2.0″ and the freed resources will be moving to their digital (read internet) ventures!
Tipster Derek wrote in to say CBS4 has “HOTTT” new bio photos for their talent bios.
Check them out - so much better over the previous headshots that were showing their age!
AJ from BTVN alerted me to this – John Molori from PatsFans.com says WSVN’s Larry Ridley will be moved to WHDH to replace Wendy Nix who left for ESPN.
He has already been offered the position and will start as soon as contract details are finalized
Ridley joined WSVN in October 2005 from WAPT Jackson, Mississippi
PatsFans.com Media Blitz
John Molori’s Media Blitz – Ridley To Replace Nix At 7NBC
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
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
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.
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
Stretchovision on 7 off
In the middle of Rosh Low reporting on the NY building crash, 7 suddenly stopped what some like to call “stretchovision”, stretching the image to fit 16:9 format.
The HDTV purists either won the battle or we’ll get a nice surprise soon with the special “stretchovision” that WPLG uses only for the corners of the pictures, which went haywire not long ago during a Deco Drive broadcast.
But then the could be getting ready to unleash true 16:9 format to go with the new eyecandy graphics!