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Monthly Archive for October, 2009

WSFL Morning Show Renamed to… The Morning Show

Author admin on 10/29/2009 in Local Media.

wsfl.the.morning.show.openSouthFlorida.com/Live is no more. Well, at least in name only. As of yesterday morning WSFL’s morning show is now called, aptly, ‘The Morning Show’!

Gone is the ’soundtrack’ that one of Tribune’s bosses thought was so very South Florida. It’s been replaced with a more newsier sounding music track along with a different open without a voice over. The lower thirds graphics are now reddish and lot more conventional looking versus the previous ’stacked shelves’ look.

Added also is a news desk area where I’m assuming Tisha Lewis, former WTVJ reporter, will be delivering the top news from now. Or at least she was on Wednesday. Very ‘Today’-like.Other than that the rest of the show seemed to be as before with in-studio guests, cooking segments etc.
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22 Comments Tags: graphics, south florida live, the morning show, wsfl.

WFOR and CBS 60 Minutes Team For Big Medicare Investigation

Author admin on 10/29/2009 in Local Media.

iteam_wildcard_2009The WFOR CBS4 I-Team has another whopper in the can and this one is went national last Sunday!

WFOR CBS4 teamed up with CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’ to conduct a 4 month long joint investigation into Medicare fraud taking place in South Florida.

During the course of the investigation WFOR’s iTeam ended up uncovering billions of dollars siphoned out of Medicare by way of fraudulent clinics located in the Miami area.

The iTeam found out South Florida is pretty much the testing grounds for Medicare fraud methods that end up being used elsewhere in the country. They managed to sneak py cameras into 7 clinics alleged to be billing Medicare for services they aren’t providing and recorded staff offering to pay people who have valid Medicare numbers to complete fake paperwork for treatments and equipment they don’t need.

‘60 Minutes’ aired their investigation this past Sunday. This Sunday, November 1st WFOR will air a 30 minute special at 6:30pm for a more in-depth look into Medicare fraud.

14 Comments Tags: 60 minutes, cbs4, investigation, iteam, stephen stock, WFOR.

WPEC Shifting Anchors Around; Emily Panteledes Moved to Daybreak

Author admin on 10/26/2009 in Local Media.

Update: Tara Cardoso will be pulling double duties – anchor weekends 6pm and 10pm on WFLX and 11pm on WPEC. Then Monday-Wednesday she’ll report for the 7pm and 11pm newscasts on WPEC and 10pm on WFLX

WPEC appears to be doing some changes to their anchor lineup

Anchor Emily Panteledes has been moved from ‘CBS 12 News at 7pm’ and will now be anchoring ‘CBS 12 Daybreak’ on weekdays alongside Ric Blackwell. She is replacing Tara Cardoso.

Tara Cardoso has been re-assigned to weekend evenings No info on waht Tara Cardoso’s status is or what position they’ve assigned her to.

Juan Carlos Fanjul (yes, former WSVN reporter) will likely be anchoring ‘CBS 12 News at 7pm’ by himself.

2 Comments Tags: cbs12, emily panteledes, juan carlos fanjul, tara cardoso, wpec, WSVN.

New WPTV Graphics: Noon Open Video

Author admin on 10/26/2009 in Local Media.

Very different than what they had until recently

WPTV New Graphics; Noon Open

WPTV New Graphics; Noon Open

Hit the jump to see the video

/hat tip GBMiami87/
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10 Comments Tags: broadcast design, graphics, video, wptv.

WPTV Launched New Graphics, Music Today

Author admin on 10/26/2009 in Local Media.

Strange but, WPTV launched a new graphics and music packages today with the morning news.

The last time the station got a makeover was in 2007 2008! when they became the first station in South Florida to get a package from one of our favorite broadcast design companies, Renderon.

Video soon

3 Comments Tags: broadcast graphics, graphics, Music, wptv.

WSVN and WTVJ Alum Buys His Own Radio Station

Author admin on 10/22/2009 in Local Media.
Barry Leffler Photo: @MediaLife

Barry Leffler Photo: @MediaLife

Here’s one for the old timers in Miami.

Barry Leffler worked in Miami in the 80s and 90s. First at WSVN from 1983 to 1990 as a producer and then as a creative services director from 1991 to 1992. He then moved to WTVJ and became the station’s VP of Creative Services and Programming from 1992 until 1996.

After 7 years as VP of Retail Operations and Consumer Marketing at NBC he became WNCN’s general manager in 2005.

Leffler recently bought a minority stake in WHCL-AM in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a talk radio station and also the flagship station of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He will be stepping down as WNCN general manager and will take over WHCL as the CEO and managing partner. Eventually he will purchase the station in full.

0 Comments Tags: barry leffler, nbc, wcnc, whcl, WSVN, WTVJ.

Poll: “Who do you turn to for national news on TV news?”

Author Alex on 10/21/2009 in Notes and poll.

Curiosity got the best of me…

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Former WTVJ Anchor Tony Segreto Joins Bank Atlantic Board

Author admin on 10/21/2009 in Local Media.
Former WTVJ Anchor Tony Segreto

Former WTVJ Anchor Tony Segreto

Former WTVJ NBC6 anchor Tony Segreto has accepted an invitation by BankAtlantic’s board of directors to become an advisory board member. According to BA’s press release Segreto will be attending all board meetings and will join the board of directors in governing and promoting BankAtlantic’s activities in the South Florida community.

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“I am very proud to become a part of the BankAtlantic family. BankAtlantic`s
passion, integrity, and ideals for customer care and community support are
exactly in line with my own personal beliefs,” commented Tony Segreto.
“BankAtlantic is a trusted name in South Florida and I hope my 40 year career in
television and commitment to community will further support its efforts to give
back to the community,” Segreto concluded.

Tony Segreto retired from WTVJ NBC6 at the end of 2008 after working there for 40 years.

18 Comments Tags: bankatlantic, nbc6, tony segreto, WTVJ.

NBC Takes On WHDH Launching NBCBoston.com Soon

Author admin on 10/21/2009 in Local Media.

NBC Local Media has a job listing posted for a city editor in Boston, MA indicating that the network maybe planning to launch NBCBoston.com and compete against their affiliate, and WSVN sister station, WHDH 7News on the web.

An interesting development considering how much NBC cried contracts and affiliate relationships when WHDH decided to have news on instead of Jay Leno at 10pm.

WHDH general manager Chirs Wayland told Nieman Journalism Lab they are not involved with the development of NBCBoston.com and won’t be providing content for the site. WHDH also have no plans of shutting down WHDH.com

Locally, Palm Beach NBC affiliate WPTV is owned by Scripps, which has a cluster of stations in several locations throughout the United States. They develop and maintain online presence on their own. It would be interesting to watch what happens considering WPTV is very strong NBC affiliate.  Things may or may not change when WPTV’s contract with NBC comes up for re-negotiation and which affiliate relationship tier Scripps chooses.

Isn’t it rather curious that NBC may go against an affiliate starting with Boston of all places!?
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3 Comments Tags: nbc, nbcboston.com, whdh, wptv, WSVN.

Charles Perez Marries Partner

Author admin on 10/21/2009 in Local Media.

Former WPLG anchor Charlez Perez and his partner Keith are now officially husband and husband!  And Charles Perez is now Charles Rinehard.

Just Married!

Just Married! Photo: miamiherald.com/gay

The two wed recently in Connecticut while house shopping so they can move there. Steve Rothaus from Miami Herald’s GaySouthFlorida has posted more wedding photos

Congrats to Keith and Charlez!

64 Comments Tags: charles perez, marriage, WPLG.