Former CBS4 lead anchor Maggie Rodriguez is expecting a baby! Here is her announcement on the CBS Early Show a few days ago:
Congrats to her from her former South Florida family.
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WFOR
The question has been asked for months as of when WFOR will finally make the switch over to High Definition broadcasting. WFOR is currently the only English speaking station still broadcasting in SD in the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale market. So, when exactly will WFOR go HD? The moment may finally be coming. According to SFLTV.com insiders in CBS management, WFOR is expected to go HD come February right before the Super Bowl. According to our sources, a new graphics package is also expected to follow with the HD Transition. SFLTV will pass more information on as we actively receive it.
What are your thoughts on WFOR going HD? Do you think this can create a ratings boost for the station?
Tri-County Chase
I’d like to offer my kudos to WFOR and WSVN today. In case you missed today’s top story, there was a huge car chase spanning 3 counties, with excess speeds of 130 MPH. But you wouldn’t know that if you were watching WTVJ’s or WPLG’s afternoon soap operas. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the basic duty of local news station’s to keep the public informed, safe, and out of harms way? WSVN broke into regularly scheduled programing to do just that; as did WFOR. This pursuit wasn’t a short chase. It went on for nearly a half-an-hour, gaining national coverage on cable news stations, and other affiliates across the nation. Yet there was no mention of it on NBC6 or Local 10, both on-air and online. Local 10’s site, which claims to be “Just News,” didn’t have a mention of it until the chase was over. As for the joke called “NBCMiami.com,” nearly 30 minutes after the chase ended, there’s still no mention of it.
I would expect this from WTVJ, but I expected better from WPLG.
So what are your thoughts? Who’s right in this situation? Was WFOR and WSVN right for cutting into programing?… Or did WTVJ and WPLG do the right thing in not covering the story. Vote below.
The WFOR CBS4 I-Team has another whopper in the can and this one is went national last Sunday!
WFOR CBS4 teamed up with CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’ to conduct a 4 month long joint investigation into Medicare fraud taking place in South Florida.
During the course of the investigation WFOR’s iTeam ended up uncovering billions of dollars siphoned out of Medicare by way of fraudulent clinics located in the Miami area.
The iTeam found out South Florida is pretty much the testing grounds for Medicare fraud methods that end up being used elsewhere in the country. They managed to sneak py cameras into 7 clinics alleged to be billing Medicare for services they aren’t providing and recorded staff offering to pay people who have valid Medicare numbers to complete fake paperwork for treatments and equipment they don’t need.
‘60 Minutes’ aired their investigation this past Sunday. This Sunday, November 1st WFOR will air a 30 minute special at 6:30pm for a more in-depth look into Medicare fraud.
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Apparently, the folks at WTVJ are under the impression that they’re winning in the ratings war… at least on weeknights at 11PM. According to multiple SFLTV.com tipsters, new WTVJ news director Lane Michaelson was allegedly boasting at the fact that (thanks to the new Jay Leno Show), their ratings are now number one at 11PM on weeknights.
Others claim that supposedly WPLG dropped to second place now that Charles Perez has left South Florida, and WSVN to number three (who’s 11PM ratings were never outstanding), and WFOR to dead last. The Jay Leno show made its debut to a strong audience of 18 million but on the second and subsequent nights ratings fell to below 8 million. And last week Leno’s ratings fell further to 5.7 million viewers.
…But before you get enraged by the apparent idiocy of the South Florida TV news viewers, a former WTVJ employee claims:
…The results are in, and after hundreds of votes, SFLTV.com readers think that WSVN (FOX-7) is the best run TV station in South Florida.
Winner: WSVN (FOX-7)
By a landslide, the winner is WSVN (FOX-7), with 51.9% of the votes . Coming in a not-so-close second, is WPLG (ABC-10)
, with 26.7% of the votes. WFOR (CBS-4) comes in at a rather lousy 11.5%, and from reading the comments, this is partially due to the lack of High Definition. Finally, WTVJ (NBC-6) comes in dead last (yet again) at 9.9% of the votes… and the reason for that? Well, you figure it out.
Maggie Rodriquez Auto-Tuned
Maggie Rodriquez has been getting lots of attention since she left WFOR here in Miami, for her new job on ‘The Early Show’ in New York. Not only was she promoted within the first few months that she was with CBS, but she has also been substituting for Katie Couric on the ‘CBS Evening News.’
A few months ago, we told you about the new YouTube series “Auto-Tune the News,” which put a new hip-hop spin on all forms of network news. Well now, it’s Maggie Rodriquez’s turn to get put to song. <i>Video after the jump.</i>
We’ve gotten tips from people at other stations that someone at WFOR came down with the flu. The swine flu!
The person works behind the scenes and is said to be very much alive and doing well/better. Supposedly said person will be going back to work next (this?) week.
Before everyone goes and freaks out over this, did you know 40,000 people die from flu every single year?
Photos Via: NBC Local Media Websites
How local is local news? We’ve already come to the obvious conclusion that the NBC “LOCALS ONLY” sites are far from local, but what about the content on the small screen? Look for my story soon on which local news station in the SFL Market is the most “local” when it comes to news coverage.
But what do you think?
What is your prediction on who has the most actual “local” news in South Florida?
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