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Bo Griffin, the former Hot 105 and Power 96 host and TV personality passed away today!
Reports at several sites say 3 weeks ago she complained of back pains, upon visiting a hospital Griffin was told she had cancer, she died today.
Griffin is survived by her fiance, father and two sisters.
‘Southeast Toyota Distributors’, a consortium of 173 Toyota and Lexus dealers has told their ad agency to pull all commercials from every ABC affiliated station in the Southeast region of the United States.
ABCNews.com Blotter Blog says the dealer group’s ad agency informed affiliated stations the ads were canceled because of “excessive” coverage of Toyota’s gas pedal problems. The dealers instructed their ad agency to divert the advertising to other local affiliates. ABCNews quotes a station manager as saying that the move is designed “as punishment for the reporting,”
According to their website, Southeast Toyota Distributors is the world’s largest independent distributor of Toyota and Scion automobiles. They represent over 173 dealers in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina. The company’s headquarters are in Deerfield Beach, FL in the same building as JM Lexus and accounts for about 20% of Toyota’s sales in the United States.
BossLady has turned the ship around and CBS is noticing. Dallas-based TV critic Ed Bark reports on his site that WFOR news director Adrienne Roark a.k.a. the @CBS4BossLady, is the frontrunner for KTVT’s vacant news director job.
Former KTVT vp/general manager Steve Mauldin, who was also the WFOR GM until 2003, was recently transfered again by CBS to their Los Angelis duopoly and he took KTVT news director Scott Diener with him.
Someone at CBS must have noticed BossLady plucked WFOR out of the ratings muck rather fast. Under her guidance the station has become a lot more consumer oriented and now has one of the largest investigative teams in the TV news business. WFOR is now often vying for the #1 ratings spot with WSVN we are told by some who have seen the latest ratings results.
CBS is also considering KTVT interim news director Scott Keenan, and KENS news director Kurt Davis
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’
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
We already told you WFOR is getting a new set, and going HD soon but now it’s official. During the news on January 11th they announced that changes are coming in the next few weeks. Newscast are now on a temporary set while the new one is being built
Hat tip to TMBtD for catching the video and sharing. Hit the jump to check out what the temporary set looks like.
I’ll bite and say the temp set looks better than what they had before. I somehow feels less cramped, hopefully the new one will, if anything, feel more airy. What do you think?
If you know what the set would look like we’d love to know more. Feel free to give us the deets we’re easy to track
In May 2009 we told you CBS-owned WFOR had decided not to renew their helicopter rental agreement with Helicopters Inc. which expires at the end of 2009. We are now learning that as Chopper 4’s final days are coming to a close, Sky10 is being repainted sans logos because WFOR and WPLG have entered into a helicopter sharing agreement.
As of January 1, 2010, CBS affiliate WFOR and ABC affiliate WPLG are entering into a helicopter pool agreement where the two stations will share video and dispatching responsibilities of what was formerly WPLG’s helicopter Sky10. A memo sent to WFOR employees announcing the pool agreement says the helicopter is now owned by stations and encourages them to treat WPLG as a partner and not a competitor. Sky10’s current pilot and photographer crews, supplied by Helicopters Inc., will be the ones working with both TV stations. Sky10 itself is getting repainted to strip away the WPLG logos from it. We have no information on what’s next for Chopper 4’s crew.
According to the memo, the “new” pooled helicopter will be available to both WFOR and WPLG daily from 6am to 6pm, though WFOR at least still has an agreement with Metro Traffic to use video footage from their helicopter.
Details of the pool agreement are after the jump Continue reading ‘First on SFLTV: WFOR & WPLG Enter Chopper Sharing Agreement’
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