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.
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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.
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
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Steven Stock currently an I-Team reporter at WESH, the NBC affiliate in Orlando will be joining the WFOR I-Team shortly. By all accounts very experienced he’s been at WESH since 1991 and has received numerous state and national awards for his investigative work.
RogerSimmons tv- Veteran WESH reporter heads to Miami
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Former WSVN health reporter Marilyn Mitzel has filed an age discrimination lawsuit against the station’s parent company Sunbeam Television. Mitzel says she was fired in December of 2005 even though she had 2 years left on her contract and alleges Sunbeam didn’t giver her a reason for terminating her other than that they were ‘changing directions’ in their health reporting. She also alleges that once she turned 50 the station stopped assigning her to fill in for missing news anchors and instead used younger talent.
Sunbeam’s lawyer says the case is without merit. In 2006 Marlyn Mitzel filed a complaint with the EEOC which was dissmissed after an investigation because the comission says was it “is unable to conclude that the information obtained establishes violations of the statutes.”
Mitzel worked at WSVN for 17 years and was the health expert for two segments – ‘Doc Talk’ and ‘Health Cast’. Since her departure Channel 7 has no medical reporter and they only kept the ‘Health Cast’ segment which now consists mostly of repackaged content from the CNN health unit reported by Judy Fortin.
Miami-Herald – Suit: Firing unhealthy for 50-plus health anchor
7’s Charles Billi got some bad news on Saturday. While he anchored the news at 10pm thieves broke into his home and took everything they could get their hands on. A neighbor tried to spook them and they dropped his HDTV on the front lawn and ran away. Other than trashing his house the thieves made away with close to 300 DVDs, some electronics, even a jar full of change and “boxes full of Billi’s belongings”.
They probably monitored his schedule and when they knew he won’t be around made their move.
Miami Herald – While on air, TV anchor’s home ransacked
7’s New Storm Center Thing is Flashy
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