Prim Siripipat is joing the CBS4 sports team as a reporter. She comes from News14 North Carolina, a 24 Hour local news network, where she worked as producer/sports reporter.
CBS4.com – Prim Siripiat Joins CBS4 Sports Team
Monthly Archive for August, 2007
Maggie Rodriguez anchored the CBS Evening News this past Saturday. You can still download the newscast from iTunes and check it out
KNTV, NBC owned affiliate near San Francisco, is adding an online chat on their website that will be live during the station’s 5pm newscast. Viewers will be able to chat amongst themselves and the anchor, former WSVNer Jessica Aguirre, on stories they see on the air as well as on-air guests.
No indication yet on whether the chat will be added to other NBC O&O sites yet.
SFGate.com – NBC11 adds on-air chat room exchanges with news anchor Aguirre
Today is the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew striking South Florida and WTVJ is doing something extra to commemorate the anniversary. They’ve added a special section to their website with blogs from staff – reporters, anchors and producers – who worked during the storm coverage as well as videos and photos from on-air coverage that the day.
Included in the video section is the special report “As It Happened” produced by WTVJ to raise money for relief. Viewers were also given the opportunity to contribute their own photos and stories.
NBC6.net – Hurricane Andrew
NBC6.net – Hurricane Andrew: 15 Years Later
Someone pointed out to the recent news that Fox Interactive Media, the internet arm of Newscorp, were taking over the websites of 160 FOX affiliated stations. In the deal FIM will manage the websites, give them the O&O templates, switch the URLs to MyFOX(LocalTown) and split ad revenue 50/50.
According to an article in Variety though the “deal does not include some of the biggest owners of Fox affiliates”.
And that excludes Sunbeam/WSVN. They do link to FOX OnDemand and there is a MyFoxMiami.com domain that only has a working subdomain. Here’s why I think MyFoxMiami isn’t coming to South Florida
- WSVN’s brand is 7News, not FOX7, sending people to MyFoxMiami.com would be awkward.
- And I doubt Ed Ansin is stupid enough would let the dweebs at FIM have that much control over WSVN’s website. Putting your website on someone else’s domain name, which you don’t own, is like letting FOX broadcast the station onFOX-owned frequency from a FOX-owned tower. Stupid.
- Sunbeam also has a deal with WorldNow that started last year when wsvn.com was redesigned. A multi-year deal probably.
And can I just say it – FOX O&O template is horrendous. It reminds me of one of “those” working girls you see on a street corner with red lipstick caked on, running out their lips – way too much red and blue. The beveled buttons are circa 1999. Then there are the memory leaks in the code and the scrolling scripts on the page can put so much strain on a computer CPU just being on one of those sites is like trying to encode a video, eating 60-70% of cpu power! You’d think with all the money they have at least the site will look descent.
Variety – Websites get MyFox brand
With the local community responding in droves to help victims of the big earthquake in Peru WFOR is sending a crew to the country.
And again they’re adding original reporting to CBS4.com. In addition to web exclusive video and reports Brian Andrews will also be blogging the trip down there.
7 is spreading out for Hurricane Dean. They’re sending JP Hervis to Jamaica, Don Guevara to Cancun and Dave Kartunen to Texas to cover the hurricane
The powers that be at WSVN have decided the station will be investing $20,000,000 for a complete top to bottom high definition overhaul! The cameras, control room, wiring and field equipment will be high-def. The newsplex/set will get updates as well, but no complete replacement.
It’s official – Elita Loresca is leaving WSVN for the West Coast. She’s landed a job at KNBC and will leave WSVN sometime in October.
Hurricane Andrew Anniversary: CBS4 Special Section Online
CBS4 also dedicated a special section of their website to the Hurricane Andrew anniversary. It features a lot of video from WTVJ and Brian Norcross of the Andrew coverage as well as 2002 CBS4 one-hour special on the 10th anniversary of the storm.
CBS4.com – Hurricane Andrew Remembered