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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WFOR anchor Erika von Tiehl is leaving the station for a morning anchoring job in Philly. Come August she will be waking up at 2am in the morning every weekday to co-anchor the morning newscasts on KYW, the CBS-owned affiliate in Philadelphia and their CW station.
Quite the change, considering Erika has anchored the 5:30pm news on CBS 4 as well as the 10pm newscast on sister station WBFS My33, for the last three years
Erika von Tiehl joined WFOR in October of 2007 from WKBW in Buffalo, New York where she anchored the morning and noon newscasts.
Interesting development when you consider that new WFOR boss Cesar Aldama just came from KYW to head the station when Adrienne Roark left for KTVT in Dallas where CBS owns a station
Cesar Aldama Photo: CBS4.com
Cesar Aldama has been named news director for WFOR CBS4. He replaces Adrienne Roark who is being transferred to CBS-owned KTVT in Dallas as that station’s new Vice President and news director. Currently he is the assistant news director of KYW, the CBS-owned affiliate in Philadelphia. Yes, the station that brought you Larry Mendte and Alicia Lane (who worked at WTVJ and WSVN)
Cesar Aldama is no stranger to Miami TV stations and WFOR in particular. According to WFOR’s statement on his hiring and Aldama’s LinkedIn profile he cut his chops staring at WSVN in 1985 and worked there until 1995 as a video editor, photographer and assignment editor. He was also managing editor at WFOR from 1999 until 2003 before moving KYW and has served as assistant news director at the CBS duopolies there since then.
Aldama was born in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and his parents and siblings all live in the Miami area, so he is also a local.
No word yet on whether he’ll be known as CBS4BossMan on Twitter yet.
But in the mean time you can follow me on Twitter instead, where I am known as the @SFLTVBossMan
Adrienne Roark Photo:CBS4.com
update: FTV Live says Cesar Aldama who is the assistant news director at KYW, the CBS-owned affiliate in Philadelphia, is replacing Adrienne Roark
The suits at CBS really liked what WFOR news director Adrienne Roark, a.k.a. the @CBS4BossLady, did to turn the station around. The Dallas Observer is reporting Roark will soon be KTVT’s new News Director and Vice President.
Last month we told you Roark was the front-runner for the KTVT job after the previous ND (and former WFOR boss) left for the CBS duopoly in Los Angeles.
Since taking over the news director job at WFOR in 2007, Adrienne Roark has made the station more consumer oriented, emphasising so called “advocacy journalism” and giving a lot more attention to the I-Team. Most recently it was WFOR who broke the news Jackson Memorial Hospital, mired in budget cuts and huge layoffs, paid nearly $100,000 to a crisis/public relations firm. And just after the Haiti earthquake it was the WFOR team who uncovered information that Wyclef Jean used money from his charity Yele Haiti to pay himself.
Now that every english speaking television station in the Miami/Ft.Lauderdale market has made the switch to High Definition, I decided to check them all out and see what’s different from when they were all doing news in SD. Read my personal opinions after the jump. Continue reading ‘Review: Finally, All Our Local News in HD’
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