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Monthly Archive for May, 2008

Steve Weagle’s 5-day Bike Ride Starts Monday

Published by admin on 5/31/2008 in Local Media.

This Monday, June 1st, WPTV chief meteorologist Steve Weagle will kick off his annual bike ride in support of hurricane awareness and support for the the North Treasure Coast Chapter of the American Red Cross.

The 120-mile trek from Sebastian to Boca Raton usually takes about two hours with a car but it takes 5 days with a bycicle.

He’s expected to stop at two area restaurants in Fort Pierce and Port St. Lucie where he’ll give the forecast and the businesses will each give the Red Cross a with $1000 check.

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Cop Attacks Photojournalist

Published by admin on 5/31/2008 in Videos.
A photojournalist from KOB-TV in Albuquerque New Mexico gets attacked by a cop when covering a story.

The cop told the photographer to move to a designated area for the media without specifying where that area was so the photog moved back a few feet.

The cop later returned telling the photographer where to move. As the photojournalist proceeded to put his camera back in the truck the cop can be seen pacing behind him then attacking him.

The KOB-TV photographer was arrested and cited for “disobeying a police officer” and released 90 minutes later.

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Comcast Raises Rates 2.5%

Published by admin on 5/30/2008 in Local Media.

Comcast will be raising rates an average of 2.5% in Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.

South Florida Comcast Public Relations Director Spero Canton gave the South Florida Business Journal the usual templated answer on why rates are going up again this year:

…the price adjustments “reflect the increased value of our services, including recent enhancements to our video-on-demand service across South Florida.”

Adding Comcast gave away $7.6 million in 2007 locally in the form of grants and in-kind services to schools and non-profits.

At least my $160 monthly bill is good for something if it can’t help fix over-compressed HDTV and schizophrenic DVR that goes nuts without warning.

Congrats to the winners!

/hat tip Joe/

update 5.31.08: The Sun Sentinel has a bit more detail on the coming rate incrase.

According to them, Davie, Lauderdale Lakes and Cooper City will now pay $16.99 for limited basic, up from $14.50 a 17.1% incrase

Digital Starter package is going up from $52.95 to $54.99 a 3.8% increase

Palm Beach Co saw increase of expanded basic in January from $47.99 to $50.95 a 6.1% increase and they are not part of the latest price changes.

Coral Springs and Hallandale Beach may see limited basic price decrease from $0.04 to $0.38 cents

Comcast insists the rate incrase has to do with add more content to Video-on-demand and “improved customer service initiatives”!

DVR cost won’t go up, it would’ve been asinine if it did, considering the issues these boxes have.

5 Comments Tags: comcast, comcast rates.

Two Fort Myers Stations in HD by August 8

Published by admin on 5/30/2008 in Local Media.

WBBH-NBC2 and WZVN-ABC7 in Fort Myers will flip the HD news switch by August 8 when the Beijing Summer Olympics begin.

Waterman Broadcasting owns WBBH and operates WZVN via a local marketing agreenment (LMA).

Both stations currently broadcast in 16:9 but not in high definition, they’ve broadcast network programming in HD since October 2002.

/hat tip Anonymous tipster for sending the link/

3 Comments Tags: hd, HD Transition, hdtv, wbbh, WZVN.

Friday Links

Published by admin on 5/30/2008 in Links.
2 Comments Tags: cbs retransmition, dr neil frank, free nbc shows, khou, les moonves, redlasso, wfsb.