News update just ran
For a moment they had the empty anchor desk in 16:9 HD before putting the sidebars up and tossing to Tony Segreto, something went bad but there was HD for a second.
Reader Alain says the previous news update around 4pm ran in full HD
/hat tip reader Alain/
update 6p: false alarm, no hd, they still have the sidebars up
Miami Edison High students went on a protest today and police in riot gear was called. Info is sketchy at this time
Oddly CBS4 has soaps on TV but their website has live video from the chopper and another live feed with raw video with Jorge Estevez interviewing Jayne Seymour!?
WSVN.com is streaming everything online as usual, and today without any problems at all. They’re also live on the air.
WPLG and WTVJ are also live on the air and online too
WSVN keeps having to pull the live shots because of cursing. So far according to someone keeping score there were 2 - Fbomb, 2 - Shit Bombs, 1 - Ass
LuAnne Sorrell walked up to a lady near the school to interview her and as soon as the shit word came up they went back to the studio.
12:50p - LuAnne Sorrell before interviewing a student “You’re not going to use any curse words right?”
12:58p - 7’s going back to rregula programming. Christine Cruz apologized on behalf of station managers for any foul language during the live shots
12:59p - 6 and 10 are back to regular programing too
wsvn.com - WSVN-TV - Local News - Police put down disturbance at high school
local10.com Protest May Have Turned Violent Inside Miami School
Univsion issued a press release yesterday touting their 4th place in 18-34 demo beating CBS and CW. They finished number one in 18-34s on 25 out of 27 nights.
February sweeps ended yesterday and there are already rumors WPLG has come on top of even the Spanish stations, again, which are supposed to be unbeatable!
The bigger frenzy and hype though will kick off during May sweeps which begin on April 24th and end May 21st
HispanicBusiness.com - Univision Has Been No. 4 Primetime Network for Entire February Sweeps
WPTV meteorologist Dean Tendrich signed off yesterday for the last time. After 10 years at NBC5 Tendrich decided to leave the TV business and join his father at the family business.
wptv.com video - Dean Tendrich says bye
CBS4 and My33 were presented with the Corporate Responsibility Award during the annual Beacon Awards ceremony Wednesday night. WFOR prez and GM Shaun McDonald accepted the award on behalf of the stations.
The Beacon Council is Miami-Dade county’s development partnership tasked with working to bring investments to the county that generate jobs and assist existing businesses to expand. The awards are given out to leaders and companies in recognition of their contributions to the community
Shannon Hori and Antonio Mora emceed the event.
CBS4.com - CBS4 & MY33 Honored For Corporate Responsibility
beaconcouncil.com - Beacon Awards 2008
MediaBistro.com sat down with former CBS4 News anchor Maggie Rodriguez to talk about her new job as the newest CBS Early Show co-anchor and what sets The Early Show apart from its competitors.
Rodriguez was promoted after CBS snatched her away from WFOR May 2007 with an offer to host The Saturday Early Show.
MediaBistro.com - So What Do You Do, Maggie Rodriguez, Co-Anchor, The Early Show?
Jack Shafer from Slate mag says NY Times plagiarized two lines from a story about Argentina’s drug “paco” that ran in the Miami Herald 18 months ago. Shafer says that the author of the story Alexei Barrionuevo admitted to borrowing the two passages.
NY Times:
Paco is highly addictive because its effect is so shortâ€â€a couple of minutesâ€â€and so intense that many users resort to smoking 20 to 50 cigarettes a day to try to make its effects linger. …
Paco is highly addictive because its high lasts just a few minutesâ€â€and is so intense that many users smoke 20 to 50 paco cigarettes a day to try to make its effects linger.
More below…
Slate - A New York Times story helps itself to two lines from a Miami Herald piece
That would be WHDH’s version of News Never Stops. They are getting WSVN-ified more and more:
Weird how even a sister station can’t copy the original … WSVN’s version is much better, I think. But they have the sexier newsplex which WSVN didn’t copy that well either.Boston Globe writer Johnny Diaz takes a look at the psychology behind tv news promos and polls a marketing expert, a design student and a writer on what they think about the promos of 5 Boston area stations.
Says one of the people about WHDH’s News Never Stops promo:
“Oh my God, it’s a hip-hop video! It’s newshizzle! It’s local TV talent trapped inside a giant rave! I love the total idiotic shamelessness on display here. And I happily admit that I’ve been chanting ‘News Never Stops’ at my wife all day. Can I get a copy of the single on iTunes?”
Yeah, that about sums it up
Is the newshizzle working for you?
Spot on - The Boston Globe
How effective are the promo spots airing on local TV? - The Boston Globe
CBS4.com - frequent updates, on the front page, and video from on-air reports. No live streaming that i can see - here’s live video link
NBC6.net - WTVJ is streaming their live coverage , you can watch it here
WSVN.com - 7News is streaming live at the usual address /must have Windows Media player or equivalent/ though it can be a bit slow due to the massive amount of people watching
Local10.com - WPLG is also streaming their live coverage on the web /under Related To story content/ - video
wsvn.com -
Grid problems cause Fla. power outages, shut down nuclear plant
local10.com -
FPL: Power Back On In South Florida
cbs4.com -
Fast Facts: Power Outage
nbc6.net -
Grid Problems Cause Fla. Power Outages, Shut Down Nuclear Plant
Overall if you were lucky to have power and internet at work, or got suck with only your mobile device in the middle of I-95, you would’ve gotten plenty of details regarding the power outage from the local news sites, the tv ones in this case.
CBS4.com as usual had pretty extensive coverage, and lots of information on their front page, updated frequently with text and lots of video. CNN.com gave them a nice visible link in the breaking news report. NBC6.net didn’t have much fanfare on the front page besides a link to an extended story and live video from the on-air coverage.
WSVN.com didn’t fare too well today. If the tipster was correct, their site crashed really hard from the sudden influx of visitors, probably everyone trying to watch the live stream. When I tried to hit them up around 3:15pm the page wouldn’t load at all, few minutes later only some parts of it did. And they probably couldn’t even update the site because when it came online it had nothing regarding the outage besides the flash player on the left with a screen shot of Mayor Alvarez presser but even that would show as not available when I pressed play.
Local10.com offered live streaming of their on-air coverage too, along with frequent updates on the site itself, and they too got a nice juicy link from CNN.com’s report.
The massive power outage we are having today has hit WSVN’s website.
They’re hosted by WebUnited based in Deerfield Beach and it appears that the data center is offline at this time.
update:a tipster says WSVN.com wasn’t affected by the power outage. Simply the traffic they received was too much and they couldn’t handle it.
update2: a reader was told that WSVN.com was getting 30,000 visitors per minute during the outage and that made the site barely, not at all, accessible. They they’ll be looking into adding more capacity. Unlike the other stations 7 handles their own hosting using a local provider in Boca Raton, formerly WebUnited.
Dwight Lauderdale announced during the 11pm newscast last night that will be retiring at the end of may after 32 years at WPLG. He said he made the decision 3 years ago and joked that management and everyone kept telling him he’ll change his mind, but he has made up his mind.
As predicted Charlez Perez takes over after May next to Laurie Jennings, who as you’ll see in the video did her best to keep it together as Dwight announced he’s hanging it up.
Local10.com Video - Dwight announces retirement
Local10.com -
Anchor To Retire After 32 Years At Local 10
SinSentinel.com -
Dwight Lauderdale’s word is real: He’ll retire
Sunsentinel.com -
Channel 10’s Dwight Lauderdale to retire in May
The Miami Herald is reporting WFOR and WFOR reporter Gary Nelson have been hit with a defamation lawsuit by Miami-Dade police director Robert Parker.
The suit stems from an October 3, 2006 report in which WFOR claimed Parker’s son, Robert Parker Jr., had been arrested for armed robbery.
The lawsuit alleges that even after police told WFOR their story was wrong they continued to report it. And when a police spokeswoman told Gary Nelson the story was wrong, when he arrived at Miami-Dade police headquarters demanding interview with Robert Parker, he called WFOR and said there was a cover up going on.
”Nelson then proceeded to get on his cellular phone and told someone that he felt that there was some sort of cover-up,” according to the lawsuit, filed by firm Martin, Lister, Alvarez & Genovese.
Some say that this report was the catalyst that lead to all the changes at WFOR that have been happening for a while now - the new management which brought in all the new anchors and reporters.
Last year Parker’s attorneys made an offer to WFOR to settle the case for $500,000 apparently they turned it down. The lawsuit does not ask for a specific money damages.
As they say, there is no bad publicity and news like that might remind some viewers to tune in but it’s still a lawsuit about false reporting.
MiamiHerald -
Police director sues WFOR over false report
Local10.com -
Police Director Fuming After Erroneous News Report
After WFOR’s flub, WPLG did a scathing editorial lambasting them for trying to be first to a story without checking the facts. Surely this would help the police chief, no?
The internets have spoiled the suspense. Other than this blog, the Miami Herald today gave out WPLG’s secret … Dwight Lauderdale is joining Don Noe in retirement!
And he’s only 56! Way too early to retire, no?
And he too passed through WSVN, then WCKT, before landing at WPLG in 1974. His contra expires June 1
Miami Herald -
Veteran anchor Lauderdale will sign off in spring
There is a promo runnin on WPLG, with Don Noe almost knee deep in water and he says someone at channel 10 also has a secret like he did back in November! Come Monday we’ll know who’s taking their shorts and galoshes and heading down to join Don and his boat in the Keys!
Who will it be? Could it be……?!
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