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Jim Berry Leaves Sports for News; New My33 Morning Show

Tom Jicha says Jim Berry is moving to ‘CBS4 News This Morning’ co-anchoring the newscast with Cynthia Demos.

From 7am to 9am Berry will be co-anchoring the CBS4 News on My33 with Jade Alexander.

The change takes effect June 16.

Little doubt this has something to do with WFOR’s ratings which weren’t so hot this past May sweeps. No word yet on the status of Jorge Estevez with WFOR

00:06 Update: Jorge Estevez stays with WFOR and will be reporting during the day Monday trough Friday. Marybel Rodriguez will solo anchor the weekend morning newscast.

Jim Berry and Jade Alexander will be anchoring a new My33 morning show that will be “essentially a show where morning radio meets morning TV. Viewers will still get the essentials: hard news, weather, and traffic.”

Almost Final May Sweeps Ratings

Someone posted these on Tvspy
17 out of 20 sweeps days. Thursday the 22nd Tomorrow the 21st is the last day of May sweeps

6pm
WPLG 7.2 / 12.3 share
WSVN 5.2 / 8.9 share
WFOR 3.4 / 5.9 share
WTVJ 2.6 / 4.5 share
7pm
WPLG 8.1 / 13.2 share – Wheel of Fortune
WSVN 4.6 / 7.6 share – Inside Edition
WFOR 2.5 / 4.1 share – Entertainment Tonight
WTVJ 2.1 / 3.4 share – South Florida Nightly News
Late news 11pm
WPLG 6.4 / 10.1 share
WSVN 5.7 / 8.1 share @10pm
WFOR 4.5 / 7.1 share
WTVJ 4.0 / 6.3 share
WSVN 3.7 / 5.8 share @11pm

Joel Connable Stays With WTVJ

A TVSpy On The Move says Joel Connable has joined the N.S. Bienstock talent agency and re-signed with WTVJ as an anchor/reporter. So the rummormill was half right I guess.

Now it is wait and see where and if WTVJ moves him to.
Given how bad their ratings are based on a recent TVSpy post, I think at 6 they averaged 2.7(?) ratings points, (my windows Vista ate the file I had with the ratings so I can’t post them) we’ll probably be seeing changes soon.

In the 13 of 20 days ratings average from that post, 4 and 6 were at the bottom, Channel 10 was very strong number one at 6pm followed by WSVN.

Bienstock also represents some familiar anchors and reporters such as Adam Williams who left WSVN for WHDH Boston and is now anchoring the weekday morning newscast there, Jose Diaz-Ballard at Telemundo, CNN’s John Roberts, ABC’s David Muir and others.

Rumor: Ratings Ultimatums for WFOR Bosses?

An anonymous tipster claiming to be speaking “on deep background” says alleges that if the current team at WFOR /the suits – ND, GM etc./ doesn’t nudge the ratings upwards by May sweeps one of the three in charge will get pink slipped. According to this tipster “most are saying that one of them won’t be there at years end…”.

/* sarcasm/ – WPLG must sucking away all the eyeballs.They’ll probably have a 30 rating at the end of sweeps this month. /* end of sarcasm*/

Sweeps Results: Good times for WPLG

The Sun Sentinel’s Tom Jicha summarizes the results from the November sweeps and it’s not looking so good for WTVJ.

According to Jicha WTVJ experienced a sharp drop in ratings in the 5pm to 6pm time slot compared to November 2006. Wich hurt their 6pm newscast. The relatively new South Florida Tonight at 7pm “produced only negligible improvement”.

WTVJ has also dropped at 11 p.m. coming in at sixth place, and lost 20% of its sign-on to sign-off viewers.

WFOR and WSVN are the only two stations, english anyway, that duke it out between 5pm and 6pm and 7 came on top.

Not surprisingly WPLG came out way ahead of everyone. Their ratings are so good they beat top Spanish station WLTV at 6 and 11pm. And were 1.1 ratings points ahead of WFOR during prime time.

Sign-on to sign-off WPLG was number one, WFOR and Spanish station WLTV tied for number two, with WSVN a tenth of a ratings point behind them in 3rd place. WTVJ came in fourth.

WBFS/My33 has lost a lot after the switch to MyNetworkTV they barely scratched the ratings. Their 10pm newscast is down to an average of 0.8 ratings points and 0.7 overall. Independent station WAMI beat them by 0.9 ratings points in prime time.

SunSentinel – WPLG dominates sweeps results
SunSentinel – Miami sweeps results

5pm Late News Sign-on to Sign-off Prime Time
WPLG – Dr Phil 7.8 WPLG 7.1 WPLG 3.8 WPLG 7.3
WLTV – News 5.8 WLTV 5.5 WFOR 3.4 WFOR 6.4
WSVN – News 5.1 WFOR 4.8 WLTV 3.4 WLTV 6.1
WSCV – News 4.7 WSVN * 4.5 WSVN 3.3 WSVN 4.5
WFOR – News 3.4 WSCV 4.4 WTVJ 2.4 WTVJ 4.3
WTVJ – Ellen 2.9 WTVJ 4.0 WSCV 2.1 WSCV 4.3
    WJAN * 3.6 WSFL 1.8 WJAN 2.7
    WSFL * 1.8 WJAN 1.0 WSFL 2.3
    WBFS * 0.8 WBFS 0.7 WAMI 1.9
            WBFS 1.0

* 10 p.m.

1 ratings point equals 15,386 homes

sign-on to sign-off is the time between 6am to 2am