Adrienne Roark assistant news director since January at WFOR is now CBS4’s new news director. She is replacing Shannon Bassalik who left the station recently
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The Miami Herald is reporting Dade police director Robert Parker is ready to take on WFOR because of their ‘erroneous and reckless broadcast’ in which the station broke into regular programming and announced Parker’s son was arrested for armed robbery. Parker wants CBS4 to preserve all notes and documents relating to the October 2 2006 incident and according to a letter from his attorney he is considering a lawsuit for slander and defamation and seeking $500,000 to settle out of court.
Looks like he’s pretty determined, question remains will CBS4 pony up or risk what could be a very nasty public trial. And probably a lot of coverage from WPLG
Miami Herald - Dade police director wants CBS4 to pay
Dwight Lauderdale slamming WFOR for their blunder:
WFOR sportscaster Jill Martin is leaving the station for a job in New York. She will be a sports and entertainment reporter for the Madison Square Garden Network (MSG-NY). Martin will co-anchor a 10pm sports entertainment program weeknights and do celeb interviews during Knicks games halftime.
Miami Herald - WFOR’s Martin to leave for N.Y.
WPLG 11pm open from 1988 back when Channel 10 was Eyewitness News.
An 11pm open from 1990 when WTVJ was Channel 4 and somewhat dramatic
WSVN 5pm open from 1988. Rick Sanchez hasn’t changed one bit 
Ken Rosato left his morning anchor job at WFOR in 2003 to report for WABC. Now after a long search WABC has just named him the new morning co-anchor. Rosato received rave reviews when he got temporarily paired up with Lori Stokes in mid June after WABC’s studio fire. The NY Daily News gushed about his chemistry with Lori Stokes as did viewers and people at the station which must have helped the stations suits to make the obvious choise.
7Online.com - Ken Rosato named Eyewitness News morning co-anchor
NBC6 is adding another member to its team. DeMarco Morgan is joining WTVJ as the new anchor of the weekend edition of ‘Today In South Florida’ and he will also report during the week for the evening and late news. He’s currently at WISN, the ABC affiliate in Milwaukee also anchoring the weekend morning news and reporting.
Morgan may be familiar to some outside of the Milwaukee market, he is the spokesperson for the United Negro College Fund and he seems to be heavily involved with the community - from the YMCA, Big Brothers/Big Sisters and American Cancer Society Sankofa Project to serving on several Milwaukee community boards.
Look for him on NBC6 starting August 20th.
WISN - DeMarco Morgan
I do not completely trust these online stats tools. They only sample from a limited number of internet users and use some fancy shmanzy mathematics to come up with an average but nonetheless here’s how the local news station sites stack up against each other according to Compete. Compete says their sample is from users using the Compete toolbar and from clickstream data from 2,000,000+ internet users.
Short of peeking at each station’s traffic logs we’ll never know who’s truly the most visited local tv news site.
The number of people visiting the sites monthly from 05/2006 to 05/2007:
cbs4. com - 150,206, NBC6.net - 103,524, wsvn.com - 84,768, local10.com - 108,498
It appears CBS4.com had a pretty nice traffic surge due the Anna Nicole story.
Update:
I decided to compare what this service says about this blog vs traffic logs. They say 3,251 visitors per month when in fact it’s 3 times that. So I guess someone’s math is off
NBC6 has a new meteorologist. Her name is Jennifer Gray and she comes from KTSB an ABC affiliate KTBS in Shreveport, Louisiana. Gray is anchoring the weekend editions of ‘Today in South Florida’.
/Thanks to John for the tip/
Server move and downtime around 10pm
Server change will be happening tonight around 10pm as such the blog will probably be offline for either a few minutes or hours depending. I’ve answered all emails so far but since the server will be completely offline anything you send me will bounce and will have to be resend.
Hopefully nothing breaks again!