Monthly Archive for August, 2008

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Formal Petition Against WTVJ Sale Filed

Author admin on 8/24/2008 in Local Media and WTVJ Sale.

Miami attorney JB Harris announced today that he would file a formal petition with the FCC to stop the proposed sale of Miami television station WTVJ (NBC6) by owner NBC Universal to rival Post-Newsweek Stations, which owns and operates Miami’s WPLG (Channel 10).

The petition is being filed on behalf of a Coalition of Concerned Citizens for Competition and Fairness in Broadcast Journalism, headed by William McCormick, former President of the Fort Lauderdale NAACP.

The petition is 14 pages long!

I guess when someone said there was a grassroots effort to stop the merger they were not kidding.

We wish them success.

Press release for petition filing

4 Comments Tags: petition, WTVJ, WTVJ Sale.

WPTV’s Big Olympic Numbers

Author admin on 8/24/2008 in Local Media and ratings.

The Palm Beach Post notes that WPTV ranked No.1 station in the country for the Beijing Olympics with an 8.0 rating 0.2 ratings points ahead of KFOR-Oklahoma City and KSL-Salt Lake City which tied for number 2.

Then from 11 to 11:15pm on Saturday when Michael Phelps competed for his 8th gold medal WPTV had 50 share! As in 50% of Palm Beach and Ft. Pierce counties were tuned to Channel 5.

Unfortunately there may not be much fire in the “money demo”. The article quoted WPTV’s programming director Bernadette O’Grady who attributed the big ratings to large number of “elderly retirees”, “kids at home” and people home from work due to Tropical Storm Fay.

At any rate though No. 1 in the nation and half of your viewing area paying attention to you is not bad. No station would turn that down regardless of demo numbers, if only for bragging rights. Besides, those “elderly retirees” got all the cash stash anyway

0 Comments Tags: kfor, kls, Olympics, ratings, wptv.

NBC6 11pm Exec Producer Leaves

Author admin on 8/23/2008 in Site News and Comments.

Chris Pena executive producer of WTVJ’s 11pm newscast is leaving for Chicago’s NBC-owned station WMAQ to become assitant news director.

Before heading the 11pm news newscast on WTVJ, Chris was WSCV Telemundo 51’s news director. /via MediaMoves/

1 Comment Tags: Add new tag, chris pena, WMAQ, wscv, WTVJ.

New WPTV Graphics Package

Author admin on 8/22/2008 in Local Media and graphics.

WPTV has new graphics. I believe they debuted it before hurricane coverage?

The logo got a minor update, now it’s white color even on the site. And there’s a a peacock logo on the bottom right side.

The open is flashy, the teasers also have a lot of swooshing graphics elements. In all the new look has picked up speed it seems.

I wonder if the change is the idea of the new chief, Steve Wasserman, who took over the helm of WPTV in early May. He headed KPRC-Houston and WDIV-Detroit. WDIV got a similarly faster paced more flashier make-over not long ago when he stepped in as a general manager.

I think the new look is pretty nice. It’s not too annoying although the logo transitions in the teasers are a bit overdone. And the lower 3rds are just huge!

Overall much nicer look than what debuted when WPTV went HD with the blue/white which looked very cold and sterile.

New Open:

New Teaser:

Previous Open (high quality):

5 Comments Tags: graphics, wptv.

Hi from Seattle

Author admin on 8/20/2008 in Site News and Comments.

I has arrived!
Sheesh, finally made it.

Sunday evening actually but Mariott apparently doesn’t give much love to their Courtyard digs so I had to leach WiFi from somebody with an open connection and didn’t want to type passwords that someone could be sniffing.

Continue reading ‘Hi from Seattle’

8 Comments

Tropical Storm Fay Ratings

Author Alex on 8/19/2008 in Local Media and ratings.

Tropical Storm Fay ratings – Monday

NBC WFOR WPLG WSVN

5am – 5:30am     2.0         1.7        1.0        3.5
5:30 – 6am          2.7         1.4        1.4       4.0
6 – 7am              5.5         1.1         3.3       9.4

Specials
4pm                  4.2          4.7         7.0      12.8
5pm                 5.2           5.8        7.0        10.5
6pm                  7.3         5.8         7.0        7.5
7pm                 6.1           4.8         8.0        8.5
11pm             Not on       4.7        7.0       6.6
12am           11.6 down from a 17.3 during Olympics

Thank you to my e-mail tipster, and commenter “Please”

15 Comments Tags: Monday, ratings, Tropical Storm Fay.

Live, From the Fear-Plex!

Author Alex on 8/18/2008 in Local Media.

Round up the kids, buy your 83-trillon gallons of water, stock up on the canned food, and fill your gas tank!…. a powerful thunderstorm is on its way? Well, South Florida is kind-of getting its first storm in two years. That means non-stop news. Great! Do you remember two years ago, tropical storm Ernesto? They went to 24 hour “Fear-Plex” style news… A live shot comes on from some anchor in Miami and….? It’s barely a sun shower. My advice to new Floridians, stay calm. The news (as you will soon find out) will lead you to believe the nuclear holocaust is here. Just stay inside, and you should be fine. For long residents of South Florida like me, this is good practice. Stock up on the water, and treat this with caution. Stay safe everyone!

43 Comments Tags: News, TS Fay.

SFLTV: Back Online!

Author Alex on 8/18/2008 in Site News and Comments.

SFLTV went down, for unknown reasons. Administration was able to get the site back up, and believe that it may have been a possible hack. Anyways, it’s good to be back. A lot has gone on with TS Fay, and I’ll be blogging all about it.

IMPORTANT!: If you e-mailed anyone at an sfltv.com e-mail, PLEASE re-send that e-mail. We we’re not able to receive e-mails while the site was down.

5 Comments Tags: SFLTV online, SFLTV site down.

WPBF News 25 at Noon

Author Alex on 8/12/2008 in Local Media.

WPBF News 25, ABC TV’s local affiliate in West Palm Beach, will enter the noon TV news market this Monday. They’re launching “WPBF News 25 at Noon.” The program will be 30-minutes, and will air weekdays at noon. It will be anchored by Kristin Hoke and meteorologist Felicia Rodriguez. The show will also be streamed live on www.wpbf.com. Read more at TCPalm.

5 Comments Tags: News 25, Noon News, wpbf.

NBC6 is number one?!

Author Alex on 8/11/2008 in Local Media and ratings.

Indeed they are… this week. NBC6 has been number one throughout the week with ratings between 15 and 26, thanks to the Olympics. On Friday night, NBC6 topped the ratings with a 26.0 rating. Then, at 11, NBC6 earned a 12.4 and beat everyone. The surprising thing is, the NBC6 weekend news did better. While NBC6 news at 11 with Jackie Nespral earned a 12.4 on Friday, and lost half it’s viewers, the weekend crew on Saturday went into the 6PM newscast with a 15.6, and came out with a 13.0. Then at 11, they did even better, starting the newscast off with a 17.0 rating, and coming out with a 15.0. I’m sure the weekend crew is very happy about this. Pat yourself on the back, John, Adam, and Joel. You deserve it.

28 Comments Tags: nbc6, Olympics, ratings.