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
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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.
Janine Stanwood is in Cancun with ABC News crew to report on Hurricane Dean. She will be reporting live for Good Morning America and ABC News as well as local ABC affiliates.
Her name is Cynthia Demos and she’s currently at WFTV Channel 9 in Orlando. I’m told it’s all but confirmed she’ll be taking over for Joy Purdy who’s leaving to be with her husband in Jacksonville. Thanks tipster
Cynthia Demos bio on WFTV.com
Not sure why but CBS4 has dispatched Brian Andrews and crew to Houston to cover the tropical storm there. He’s filing reports today. I think so far they’re the only local news crew sent there.
And of course if Dean stays on track for the Yucatan look for everyone to send their crews there.
Update: WFOR’s crew is in Texas to cover the storm for CBS Newspath because their correspondents are in Utah. Also, CBS Newspath will be relying on CBS4 for Hurricane Dean coverage - they’ll be providing live shots and reports to CBS affiliates across the country.
Also look for a lot of web exclusive reports and video on CBS4.com in the days ahead and during storm coverage.
They debuted this at 4pm today.
Calling a state of the art “Storm Center”. I’m not so sure whats so state of the art about it - a green chroma wall with lots of eye candy simulating a large screen for the map and a juicy 7 logo on the “floor” for Phil to walk on. On the other hand being able to see more of the map with Ferro further away from the camera is better.
What else?
It does looks nice although the fake monitors and off center map squished on the left gets annoying after a while.
i’m too busy to encode videos or post photos but you can head on to wsvn.com and watch the live feed to see it
Anchor gets the giggles while reading a vasectomy story, camera comes back things get worse as his co-anchor attempts to keep things going …
They have awakened and seen the internets. Better late than never. NBC6 will be broadcasting live online their newscasts, except sports segments. Finally, what took them so long? 7 has been doing this since the Internet pretty much started walking and by the looks of it they are getting lots eyeballs from all over the world as their stream is hotlinked or listed on just about every site that lists live TV on the web. I think Mirror-Image said wsvn.com did something like 2 million streams a month! Too bad they’re missing some of that ad revenue!
NBC6.net - Watch NBC 6 Live Online
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