Comcast wants to put body form recognition in your cable box so it can see who’s in your living room (or bedroom) and serve you tailored ads. In the bedroom too much? More than one body there? How ’bout that PlayBoy channel special we got on now eh? newteevee /via consumerist/
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“Slightly used TV station for sale. Please contact GE corporate offices in NY for info”
Craigslist isn’t only for selling your junk. Or is this clever poster’s definition of junk …
the Craigslist ad WTVJ NBC6
WTVJ turns 59 today.
If you ever wondered who is that guy you always hear on WSVN but never see there is a nice profile of him from yesterday’s Boston Globe courtesy Johnny Diaz.
Scott Chapin is the voice over for WSVN and its two sister stations in Boston WHDH and WLVI. He got his start when WSVN was transforming itself into what it is today after NBC dumped them and bought WTVJ. Chapin worked at the radio station next door to the newsplex. Today he’s the voice for 20 stations in four time zones, works 10-hour days from a little studio at his home in New Mexico thanks to modern technology and says he has no plans to hanging up any time soon.
BostonGlobe - The Voice
image courtesy - Beantown Cuban
Tribune announced on Wednesday they are moving WSFL’s “broadcast and interactive operations” in the main Sun Sentinel building in Fort Lauderdale.
Sun Sentinel’s president and publisher Howard Greenberg becomes the station’s general manager, and Allyson Meyers will be the station’s manager. She was most recently the GM at WCWJ the CW affiliate in Jacksonville and before that general sales manager at WSFL from 2004 to 2007.
Tribune president Ed Wilson said the following in his memo:
…It will give us the chance to develop new content, programming and sales opportunities in such areas as fashion, food, travel, entertainment and lifestyle.
and this from their press release:
South Florida’s leading source for news and information, the Sun-Sentinel, will serve as a new and innovative content engine for WSFL’s on-air and online programming.
WTVJ currently produces and airs a newscast for Tribune, the CW News 10, from their studio in Miramar.
Tribune Press Relase - Tribune Creates Multimedia Powerhouse in South Florida
LA Observed - LA Observed: Zell’s Tribune starts to tinker
Editor&Publisher - Tribune Moves Miami TV Station Into Fort Lauderdale Newspaper’s Building
What will happen with the WTVJ sale?
update: NBC Universal will be keeping WSCV Telemundo 51 in the fold but sell WTVJ NBC 6.
just announced NBC Universal has put WTVJ for sale!
the memo that went out little over an hour ago from John Wallace head of NBC owned stations
From: Wallace, John (NBC Universal) Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:15 PM
To: @NBC Uni TVS All Users
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENTAs you know, our business is going through a period of tremendous change. We’re in the process of re-engineering the way we think, shifting our focus from a traditional stations business to becoming full-service local media production centers. We started that transformation in November by changing our name to NBC Local Media, sending a signal to the marketplace about our new direction. We’ve also made two major investments, acquiring LX.TV and Skycastle Entertainment, and significantly increased the resources behind NBC Everywhere, our digital Out of Home operation.These growth investments are an important part of ensuring our long-term viability. They also need to be self-funded. As a result, we’ve taken a hard look at our portfolio and made some difficult decisions about what’s best for our business going forward. To that end, we are putting two of our NBC stations, WTVJ in Miami and WVIT
BroadcastingCable - NBC Puts Two Stations on Block
MediaBistro TVNewser - NBCU Puts Two Stations Up for sale
CBS4.com - NBC Puts Historic Miami Station Up For Sale
MiamiHerald - NBC puts South Florida’s WTVJ up for sale
Word’s coming down the pike NBC 6 management promoted DeMarco Morgan to a co-anchor of South Florida Nightly News at 7pm. They’ve been sampling him alongside Jackie Nespral for a while now and just made a decision to keep him there.
DeMarco joined WTVJ in August of 2007 from WISN, the ABC affiliate in Milwaukee, Wis. as a weekend mornings anchors and weekday reporter.
DeMarco Morgan bio at NBC6.net
Jackie Nespral bio
Previously:Another New Hire at NBC6
Yomary Cruz, the CBS4.com web reporter has left the station. They’ve taken her bio offline
Richard Jordan who is no stranger to the the newsplex is joining WSVN as a reporter from WKRC Local12 the CBS affiliate in Cincinnati, Ohio.
the memo:
I’m pleased to announce the hiring of a new reporter. Many of you might remember Richard Jordan from his days as a writer and associate producer for us back in 2003. Since leaving the Plex, Richard has been a reporter in El Paso, Texas and Cincinnati, Ohio. Richard grew up in Miami and his family is all here…he’s thrilled to be coming home! His first day is April 14th. Please make him feel welcome!
Someone at 7 isn’t paying attention today. Christine Cruz just read the market update as everything being down when in fact they are all up! Unless they were seeing into the future…
Reader Wayne from Orlando was kind enough to drop me a note that WKMG in Orlando has gone HD. The station is doing something similar to NBC 6 turning on the hi-def and not saying a word about it for a while.
WKMG is owned by the same company as WPLG Local 10, Post-Newsweek.
WPLG however will not broadcast their newscasts in HD until they move to their new building in Pembroke Park this or next year. And I’m hearing that when it happens they’ll be HD in the studio and in the field i.e. photogs, copter, ENG trucks will be HD-capable
tcpalm.com looks behind the scenes at the Palm Beach stations on what they’re doing to stay competitive and attract viewers
tcpalm - Making the news: What goes on behind the scenes at your local TV stations
WPBT Channel 2 has ventured into the video sharing realm with a brand new site called uVu (You View).
But you won’t see any farting cats, cursing parrots or the other fare typical of the mainstream sites, uVu’s twist is all about local art, culture, education and events. Anyone can upload their own video and organizations such as the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Miami-Dade College and others are also participating by adding content.
Naturally the uVu also includes PBS programs as well, including Frontline, Nova, Bill Moyers Journal.
WPBT’s digital channel also broadcasts a program called uVu TV which highlights the most watched clips from the website and a shorter podcast-like version for the web called uVuPulse.
All in all the site is pretty good, unfortunately does not have video embedding available and the videos are in Quicktime format, which the Mac fans will probably appreciate.
One of my favorites so far - The 4-part series ‘The Future of Television‘
uVu - An online video portal for the South Florida community powered by WPBT Channel 2
Scott Padgett currently the chief meteorologist at KOKH FOX25 in Oklahoma City is replacing Megan Glaros. Glaros is leaving WPLG next month for a weekend weather and entertainment job at WCBS in New York City.
Padgett’s first day on the air at WPLG should be around April 18 just in time for May sweeps.
KOKH.com Scott Padgett bio at KOKH FOX25
Local10.com Megan Glaros bio at WPLG Local10
Chopper 6 HD
Here’s what this baby is made of.
* Six HD monitors.
* Two up front on the passenger side
* One up front on the pilot, Dean’s, side
* Three in the back with me.
* HD receiver for my on air reception
* HD encoder to switch our signal from analog to HD
* DVC Pro HD recorder
* HD talent cam in the back but can be moved up front if necessary
* FLIR HD CAMERA with a TOUCH SCREEN display on the laptop controller
several photos after the jump below
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