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WPEC PGA Coverage Ratings Rock

Published by admin on 8/17/2010 in Local Media.

TCPalm reports WPEC scored well in the TV ratings race for the PGA Championship this past weekend.

The Palm Beach CBS affiliate placed third on Saturday with a 5.8 household rating and fifth on Sunday with  7.4 rating among 56 CBS affiliates nationally.

In comparison the national average household rating for the championship on Saturday and Sunday was 3.1 and 5.0 respectively with most CBS affiliates recording a drop in ratings versus last year. The average rating for the PGA Championship was 33% lower than 2009 according to USA Today

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Bryan Norcross Joins Weather Channel

Published by admin on 8/17/2010 in Local Media.

It’s not a comeback to TV per se but former WFOR hurricane specialist Bryan Norcross has joined The Weather Channel, with the same job description, for this year’s hurricane season. Norcross will work with the channel’s “hurricane expert” Dr. Rick Knabb

Bryan Norcross left WFOR in 2008 after an investor company bought his emergency communication company ‘America’s Emergency Network’. WPLG hurricane specialist and former Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield is the Sernior VP of Governmental Relations for AEN

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Breaking: WSVN Loses Marilyn Mitzel Age Discrimination Suit

Published by admin on 8/14/2010 in Local Media.

Update: The Sun Sentinel reports it took the jury two hours to come back with a decision. The jury awarded Mitzel $937,000 – $790,000 in lost wages, $50,000 in punitive damages and $97,000 in future pension losses. Mitzel initially asked for $2 million in lost wages.

WSVN as you might imagine intends to file an appeal

Our tip box has lit up with news that former WSVN medical reporter Marilyn Mitzel just won her age discrimination suit against the station. Mitzel was fired abruptly in 2005 and now a jury in Fort Lauderdale has decided age had to do with her dismissal

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TV News Caption of the Day

Published by admin on 8/11/2010 in Local Media.


Well in their defense they got no homes and the trees are burning. We say just enlist those people in the middle of the road to help put out the fires, two for one. /jacked from Julia’s tumbler/

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WFOR Debuting New Graphics Today

Published by admin on 8/9/2010 in Local Media.

WFOR is debuting a new graphics package at 5pm today. I’m told it will be the new O&O package other CBS-owned stations like KCBS in Los Angelis and WBBM in Chicago received this year. Videos after the jump

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