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”.

WSVN.com Video Embedding

So it looks like WSVN.com will be getting a new flash player that WorldNow is working on which has an option to embed videos on web sites.

Visitors will also have the ability to add the video link to Facebook, Digg and other social networking sites.

Brian Norcross Leaves WFOR

Brian Norcross is leaving WFOR to focus on new business. WFOR VP/GM Shaun McDonald:

“Bryan Norcross informed us today that due to the demands that
accompany his role with his new company, he has decided not to renew
his contract with CBS4 when it expires at the end of this month,”

Norcross teamed with former Hurricane Center director Max Mayfield to create AEN, America’s Emergency Network, which was bought in March. Bryan Norcross was named president and CEO and Mayfield the senior executive vice president of government relations.

David Bernard will now lead WFOR’s weather team. Bryan Norcross was CBS4’s chief meteorologist from 1996 until the end of July 2006 when he stepped down but remained the hurricane specialist during hurricane coverage.

Previously: Bryan Norcross and Max Mayfield Sell Warning System

Previously: Formally announced: Bryan Norcross Leaves Chief Met Job at CBS4

RCN News In English, the Promos

So RCN’s English newscast with Brian Andrews is on and the promos are ready. It July 1st. I think the newscast will be updated twice daily.

From Brian’s blog post it looks like they’ll be using the very nice FlowPlayer which has a video embedding feature.

And he’s staying in Colombia, so that’s all cleared up.

RCN News in English with Brian Andrews

English promo

Spanish promo

English promo from newsroom

Newsroom Spanish promo

The Lights Go Out on Paul Deanno

Lights go out on Paul Deanno as he delivers the weather tease

Watch the video

Who Makes 7News So Pretty?

Someone by the name of BK who works at WSVN’s graphics department. Well, him and a couple other people but he posted this behind the scenes video from his day at work creating one of the gajilion transitions, bumpers, and teases seen on 7News every day.


Work With BK! from bk on Vimeo.