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Former WFOR anchor and reporter Art Barron is now headed to the web.
Barron was one of the casualties during WFOR’s layoffs in September 2007. In January 2008 he landed an anchoring job at KSTP, the ABC affiliate in Minneapolis-St. Paul. But now management there is giving him a new job description – web producer for KSTP’s upcoming neighborhood websites.
Hubbard Broadcasting is launching 80 to 90 hyper-local sites in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area covering specific neighborhoods and Art Barron will be working on those.
KOMO, the ABC affiliate in Seattle, launched dozens of neighborhood sites last year that have had great success both financially and in terms of attracting visitors. I used to visit some of them quite a bit while we lived in the Seattle area and found them quite informative.
/hat tip @allplatform/
You may remember that Larry King once did an interview segment for the Miami News, an evening newspaper that existed in Miami from 1896 until 1988. Upon the newspaper’s closure, Cox (their owner) moved their collections and assets to nearby sister publication, The Palm Beach Post. Because of that, we have uncovered this great interview with Channel 7 newsman Wayne Fariss that Larry King performed in January of 1978. This was just two years before Ansin did not renew Wayne Fariss’ contract in favor of using Steve Rondinero and Sally Fitz, despite Fariss having been at WCKT since the 1956 sign on. This move did not necessarily help WCKT. The soon to be WSVN would see success in 1988 by the very tactic that Fariss condemns in this interview.
Mr. Fariss is long gone from Miami and a lot has changed (he moved to WZVN in Ft Myers and left TV for Real Estate in 1986). I think many of you will find his thoughts on the business in Miami and abroad, as well as the idea of tabloid in 1978 interesting. Little did he know these very things and a lot of the things he said he was proud of would force him out of his job two years later!
Take a look at the interview after the jump.
On January 1, 1955, WEAT-TV signed on at Channel 12 (after a struggle to obtain that frequency) from their brand new studios in West Palm Beach, Florida as South Florida’s ABC affiliate (
WPEC Will Soon Have Multi-Platform App
There will also be an app for Palm’s webOS, so they are going all out at once covering pretty much all smart phone platforms save for Nokia’s Symbian which isn’t that popular in the US.