Jeff Brogan, currently assistant news director at Cincinnati ABC affilite WCPO, will soon take over WPTV’s news director position. Scripps owns both stations and is moving him down here
WPTV’s previous news director Peter Roghaar left the station late last year for a job at ABC affiliate WTSP in Tampa, Florida
Jeff Brogan’s first day at WPTV will be on or around February 23rd
WPLG is pre-empting ABC’s Supernanny at 8pm tonight to air a special one-hour program titled ‘Haiti: In Our Own Words’.
The program will feature WPLG staffers sharing what it was like to cover the devastating aftermath of the Haiti earthquake. It will also be commercial-free. Instead of ads, WPLG will encourage viewers to contribute to the Haiti relief effors.
WSFL/Sun Sentinel reporter got into a scuffle today after a press conference by the wife of self-admitted scammer Scott Rothstein.
As Kim Rothstein left for her SUV one of her bodyguards, identified by the Miami Herald as former Plantation police officer Joe Alu, and a WSFL reporter got into a scuffle for allegedly getting too close to the entourage.
Video recorded by a WFOR photog shows the Sun Sentinel reporter running toward Kim Rothstein to ask her a question when her bodyguard puts his hand on him and both start to fight.
Another man in a black shirt then rushed toward them and was seen pushing, shoving and threatening Sun Sentinel’s reporter yelling at him what sounds like “you’re dead”. When another cameraman tells the man not to touch him again he yells back “he’s a fucking a cop, there’s a cop behind you, he’s a fucking cop” presumably referring to Kim Rothstein’s bodyguard.
In September 2009 a Sun Sentinel/WSFL reporter was hit, and WTVJ and other crews, were shoved and blocked as a crooked politician and her family tried to run away from the cameras.
A few days before that incident, a WSFL/Sun Sentinel reporter Alex Zequeira was kicked in the stomach while covering a story
SunSentinel’s vantage point of what happened is after the jump. WFOR also has video of the scuffle showing better who did what Continue reading ‘Sun Sentinel Reporter Scuffles With Rothstein Bodyguard’
Kinda.
Chief Meteorologist Pete Bouchard of WSVN’s sister station, WHDH, is getting a lot of unwanted attention the past few days around YouTube, because of an off-color joke he made. While presenting the weather, Bouchard made a joke that came off as comparing his penis size in relation to the 9 inches of snow that fell. View the video after the jump.
New CBS4 Open; Credit to TMBTD; CLICK to enlarge.
WFOR is now broadcasting in High Definition and from their newly built set. They premiered it on a delayed version of their 6:30PM news. Updates and video soon…
Update: This looks like a soft-launch of a type. According to this article on CBS4.com, they are not broadcasting weather in HD.
“More work has yet to be done. In the coming months, you will see CBS4’s weather department broadcast in high definition. Eventually, the reporting done throughout South Florida communities will be in high definition as well.”
Update: WFOR has posted a video about the switch to HD here.
After the jump, an HD video montage by TMBtD.
Just as SFLTV.com told you FIRST, the long-awaited CBS local news affiliate, WFOR, is finally going HD… Tonight! According to multiple anonymous tipsters, and finally confirmed by CBS4 reporter Gio Benitez via Tweet, “CBS4 News goes HD tonight at 6:30!” This not only means that they will be transmitting in HD, but will also debut their new graphics package and news studio. Check out the new CBS4.com logo; a possible hint to the on-air graphics.
CBS4 is the last English news affiliate in the Miami/Ft.Lauderdale market to make the switch to High Definition. View Gio Benitez’s Tweet after the jump.
Long-time WSVN investigative reporter Carmel Cafiero and producer Anthony Pineda have won a DuPont award for their 5-part investigative series called “Pill Mills”.
The investigation uncovered prescription drug abuse enabled by Miami-Dade area pain clinics. WSVN’s hidden cameras captured video of addicts legally buying and abusing prescription pain killers on the parking lots of area shopping centers.
Carmel Cafiero and Anthony Pineda’s excellent work helped pass a bill into law to control these pill mills. Previous efforts to control these clinics had failed.
Other winners are CBS and Katie Couric for her Sarah Palin interviews, HBO, WGBH the PBS affiliate in Boston and others
NBCMiami.com
Kinda. Damn “Miami Locals” and their close minded views. Though, this isn’t the first time something controversial has been posted on the “Locals Only” websites. Countless times these opinionated websites have shown locals laughing about animal abuse, murders, and reckless driving. The moods feature is a cool idea for a gossip website, not for a “credible” news source.
Edit: I’m aware that NBCMiami.com is not homophobic. Just satire.
According to reports on FTVLive.com, layoffs may soon be on their way to all NBC O&O’s, including WTVJ. According to sources, NBC O&O’s are being asked to pay in excess of 10 million dollars together to help cover the reported nearly $40 million dollars being given to Conan O’Brien and his staffers as a severance payment. The alleged problem is there is simply no way to raise the money without layoffs. FTVLive says that in other words, more layoffs are expected to hit the owned and operated stations.
“The only way the O&O’s will be able to raise the money will be through layoffs.” A source tells FTVLive’s Scott Jones.
So what’s next to go at WTVJ? Better yet, what exactly can go at WTVJ? The once glorious station is running a skin and bones operation as it is; already dissolving it’s weekend morning news and sports. What more can they get rid of? What (or who) do you think is next to go?
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Tisha Lewis, the former WTVJ reporter, has left her reporter position on WSFL’s “The Morning Show” for WXIN, Fox 59 in Indianapolis. You can follow Tisha on Twitter: @TishaLewis
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