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Monthly Archive for July, 2008

WTPV Voice Over Guy Dies

Chris Clausen WPTV voice over, and also the voice over to WSVN’s segment sponsor passed away yesterday after suffering a stroke last week.

Clausen was the voice over for many stations across the country including WFTV in Orlando, stations in Memphis, St. Louis and others. He was 63

/thanks Adam/

Making Fun of Lame CNN Bumpers

Jon Stewart takes a look at CNN’s American Morning and their use of songs to introduce stories

Uh Oh WHDH Meltdown Again?

Tipster tells me WHDH’s video server crashed last night at 9pm and WSVN had help them by feeding them stories until everything was back on.

Couple years ago they had to scrap a whole newscast when everything crashed then

New WSVN Reporter

While keeping an eye on WTVJ’s on-again off-again problems this afternoon I notice that Blake Burman who joined WSVN from NBC2 in Ft. Myers, Florida is now at 7. He started July 7th.

Blake Burman WSVN

Blake Burman WSVN

WTVJ Off The Air

WTVJ has been knocked off the air. Nothing is being broadcast at the moment but snow

update: just a second ago they switched to MSNBC

update 4:12pm: WTVJ is in the middle of a meltdown. They keep going back and forth between MSNBC and Access Hollywood. When AH was on a while ago the sound kept cutting out then went back to MSNBC.

As of now Access Hollywood is on but the sound again keeps going out

Update: 4:15pm Paul Deanno is on audio keeps cutting out but he said it’s the weather causing the issues. AH is back on without sound