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Dave Aizer Pranks Food Network Show

Published by admin on 7/31/2009 in Local Media.

Found this via the Broward New Times.

The last four contestants from ‘The Next Food Network Star’ competition recently paid a visit to Miami and each of them filmed a cooking segment with WSFL anchor Dave Aizer. Except that the cooking segments were set up to test how each contestant handles unexpected issues while the cameras are rolling.

The first contestant found out that instead of catfish she’d have to prepare chicken. There were no utensils save for a knife so she ends up having to use her bare hands. The second contestant is introduced by Dave as Debbie instead of Melissa, and she has to listen to how much he hated olives. Dave even took the liberty of adding hot sauce to her dish! The last two contestants had to deal with timing cues and technical issues.

I have to say I am disappointed, I hoped for more nefarious pranks. Like maybe dropping that Nickelodeon goo on the contestants as they prepared the food? Big Youtube moment for sure but the Food Network people would’ve been mad. WSFL would have gotten tons of free press though. Continue reading ‘Dave Aizer Pranks Food Network Show’

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Former NBC Exec: NBC May Put ‘Leno’ at 10:30pm, Move Late News to 10pm

Published by admin on 7/31/2009 in Local Media.

Stop the presses!

Garth Ancier former NBC programming exec thinks, thinks!, NBC may put Jay Leno’s upcoming show at 10:30pm and have local affiliates move their 11pm newscasts to 10pm! Leno’s ratings according to WaPo’s Lisa De Moraes drop after his monologue and Leno himself has said publically they’re thinking of ways to make the audience stick long enough for the late news so the station’s newscasts won’t be hurt.

Meanwhile Conan’s ratings are hovering at around 2.5 million viewers a night, lower than what Jay Leno had and lower than Dave Letterman’s. In the money demo however Conan has 1.3 million viewers while Letterman has 1 million.

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SunSentinel Celeb Smackdown Enters Round 3

Published by admin on 7/31/2009 in Local Media.

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Another week another round of voting for SunSentinel’s South Florida Celebrity Smackdown to find out who newsrooms readers think is South Florida’s biggest media celeb.

Still left standing are:

Shannon Hori/Antonio Mora WFOR vs Lynn Martinez/Louis Aguirre WSVN
Pam Giganti/Bob Mayer WTVJ vs Joe Rose (!) WTVJ
Paul & YoungRon vs Jimmy Cefalo WIOD (formerly WPLG sports director)
Michael Yo vs Ryan Lieber WPTV

You have until Monday August 3rd to vote for your favorites

Who got canned in round 2? Jump and have a look
Continue reading ‘SunSentinel Celeb Smackdown Enters Round 3’

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NBCMiami is Locals Only, Sometimes

Published by admin on 7/31/2009 in Local Media.

Can you spot what’s off with this tweet from NBCMiami?nbcmiami.notsolocal.FiosStory

Verizon Fios is available to Florida residents … at limited locations in Tampa. Granted the story does mention other cable companies at the end, but this tweet looked a bit odd and not so local to me when it popped up on my screen a last night. I did some googling and found out the author of the story is at WVIT WCAU, the NBC-owned affiliate in Philadelphia where Fios is available.

And there is a lot more sharing going on too. Continue reading ‘NBCMiami is Locals Only, Sometimes’

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Team 7News Storms Twitter

Published by admin on 7/30/2009 in Local Media.

update 10:40pm pst: to clear something up, WSVN is keeping Facebook. Twitter will be used more for on-air talent to stay in touch with viewers directly

On Wednesday word came down from atop the ‘Sunbeam’ that the WSVN troops must join twitter, en mass. Everyone! As in everyone down to the newscast producers (unless they suddenly decided to join the fray)

Not sure what prompted the sudden orders but Wednesday and Thursday 7Newsies have been creating accounts and figuring out this twitter thing. @luannesorrell tweeted someone that

the station is doing a big push on twitter so we’re suppose to get everyone to follow us this site not facebook ne more

and answering another question she adds:

@blopez426 we are all getting new accounts as a way to correspond with our viewers

The main WSVN Twitter account now also relays tweets by 7Newsers.

4 Comments Tags: 7news, Twitter, WSVN.