Today was the first day Nathalie Pozo began her endeavor aboard the WTVJ sinking ship. Pozo comes to us from WPBF, a West Palm Beach ABC affiliate. Pozo will be on Today in South Florida doing traffic reports, and anchoring the 11 AM “South Florida Today” show. In addition to having someone do the traffic on camera again, there is some tremendous eye candy, also. Pozo was Ms. Cuban American back in 2002. Best of luck, Nathalie! All of us at SFLTV wish you the best!
Kevin Corke
The highly anticipated Kevin Corke is set to debut tonight on WTVJ. SFLTV.com told you about him last October when WTVJ announced Corke as Julia Yarbough’s replacement. Corke (pictured to the left) has anchored the news desk for NBC’s ‘Today Show’ as well as on MSNBC. According to the Sun-Sentinel, Corke will be hosting the 7 & 11 newscasts. This leaves the question as of who will host with Nespral on the 6PM show, or if she will continue to solo-host it. WTVJ is banking on Corke for ratings. Expect promos in the coming weeks about how experienced (at the national level) Corke is, and how trusted he should be. But is this enough to draw in ratings? Will Corke be enough to pull WTVJ out of dead last place? What do you think?
Photo Via: Gannett.com
Last night at around 4PM, the news broke that Lane Michaelsen has been named the new news director at WTVJ, NBC6. The fact that we didn’t find out about this weeks ago just goes to show you that it was sealed pretty tightly. Michaelsen comes from WUSA in DC. This article appeared in here TV NewsCheck:
“Lane Michaelsen is joining local NBC O&O WTVJ Miami (DMA 16) as its vice president news and content. Lane fills the role left vacant when Yvette Miley was promoted to MSNBC in New York earlier this year.
Michaelsen joins the station from his position as vice president of the information center at Gannett’s WUSA Washington. While at WUSA, and during his tenure with Gannett Broadcasting, he had oversight of multiple stations’ news operations, co-created and executed the company’s journalists in the United States and England, and implemented change in the focus of all news platforms.”
Shocking fact here: he has an inside connection at WTVJ. Ardyth Diercks, the current WTVJ general manager, apparently had worked with Michaelson at Gannett earlier (almost 10 years ago) in her career.
John Morales’ first on-air day was today at 6PM. He wasn’t doing the promos for the 6PM shows; oddly enough Ryan Phillips (the AM weatherman) was doing them. He seemed tense and stiff on-air, perhaps his nerves got the best of him.
Good luck, John!
Randi Goldklank at WHDH
Randi Goldklank has landed at WPEC as local sales manager. The Boston Herald outed her new job in an article yesterday titled Disgraced media gals get new gigs
Goldklank was the general manager of WHDH, WSVN’s sister station in Boston, but resigned last year after getting herself arrested at Boston’s Logan Airport for disorderly conduct. I’ll spare you the details but you can read them here Continue reading ‘Former WHDH GM Randi Goldklank Lands at WPEC’
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