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Monthly Archive for June, 2008

Early Show Surprises Maggie Rodriguez

In May ‘The Early Show’ surprised Maggie Rodriguez for their ‘Positively Prom Week’ segment with a performance by Gloria Estefan who appeared live from Maggie’s school ‘Our Lady of Lourdes’ in Miami.

Gloria sang a little bit of her song ‘Here We Are’ for Maggie and husband Mike.

Are they so cute or what!

Before I forget thanks to Brandon to sending the video

And here’s the whole segment from CBS News

Maggie talks about her prom

The Things Kyra Philips Sees

Kyra Philips compliments Zane Verjee

and here’s another Kyra classic.

WTVJ Sale: Announcement Soon

I’m told NBC6 staff have been sharing in conversations with people that they expect to know the outcome of the WTVJ sale by mid-July.

I’m thinking that one of three things will happen:
a) WTVJ is split – someone (Sunbeam?) buys the building; another company buys the station
b) The buyer is one of those investment companies. If they’re buying stations in Podunk, America why not get one of the big sharks in Florida?
c) WTVJ gets acquired by one of the bigger media companies like Media General, Belo etc., although I’d think a or b would be more likely considering how bad Media General, Gannett and the others are doing on Wall Street lately. Unless, one of them decides to pull one of those look at us and our confidence in the product type thing.

Orlando’s DTV Test in Pictures

Wayne who lives in the area sent a few shots from the DTV test most of Orlando’s stations performed in sync on Wednesday evening at 7:59pm. All stations except FOX affiliated WOFL and another smaller station turned their analog channels off for about 10 seconds in a bid to inform viewers about the impending TV doom transition to digital in February of 2009.

WKMG Chief Engineer explaining DTV transition:

WESH Chief Engineer explains dtv:

WKMG tells those watching the digital channel via antenna they passed the test

Honda’s Live Ad in the UK

Just saw this video today. It’s an ad that ran on UK’s Channel 4 on May 29th. A live ad. As in the action happening live on TV.

A dozen skydivers jumped out of an airplane and had to spell Honda by forming each letter while falling toward Earth within a 3 minute time limit. The ad is part of Honda’s UK campaign “Difficult is Worth Doing”.