Ileana Varela, photojournalists Rafael Murciano and Manny Alvarez, Michael Williams and Michele Gillen will be awarded the Silver Circle Award today by NATAS for significant contributions to television. Former UofM professor Carolyn Cefalo will also receive the award.
The even is taking place today at 7pm at the Doral Resort and Spa and will be streamed live online on CBS4.com
CBS4.com has a new online feature, actually it’s not brand new it started March 31st I think. You could call it a video blog, it is a daily video from CBS4 managing editor Alissa Merlo or assignment editor Lucho Duran (?) giving a short preview of what stories CBS4 is working on for their newscasts.
And you get to hear what a crazy place the CBS4 newsroom is. Scanners chirping non-stop. So crazy, they must hear them in their sleep too. [CBS4.com video: Merlo's Menu] /via Owenized/
/hat tip Anonymous/
WFOR: Doesn’t appear that they’ve sent any local reporters to follow the Pope. Online on CBS4.com has a special section on the Papal Visit featuring photo slideshows and video reports
WTVJ: Reporter Tom Llamas will be following the Pope’s visit for WTVJ with reports during newscasts. He is also blogging. NBC6.net also have a special section dedicated to the Pontiff’s visit with images and videos. Also a BlogBurst feed from
WSVN: Channel 7 has been hyping their Papal visit coverage for several days now. Dave Kartunen will be filing reports during 7News from DC and New York. WSVN.com no special section dedicated to the Pope’s visit but there are front page reports with video. Right side column features an Associated Press video feed that will also be live during scheduled events
WPLG: They too have not sent a dedicated reporter to cover the Pope. Local10.com has a similar section dedicated to the Pope’s visit with video and image highlights and reports.
It doesn’t appear that any of the Palm Beach stations have sent their own reporters and they aren’t doing that much online either. The Pope’s visit isn’t even on the front page of the station’s web sites as of this post.
Yomary Cruz, the CBS4.com web reporter has left the station. They’ve taken her bio offline
A CBS4.com story made it to the front page on Digg with 118 votes as of 6.44am.
Digg.com - Suspects In Sean Taylor’s Murder Burned Evidence
Saw this while browsing CBS4.com today. It’s a (new?) news section on CBS4.com in Spanish. No idea what it says but at this time the top story on the page has something to do with Toshiba, Sony and Blu-Ray disk.
This was on posted under ‘More from CBS4.com’ on the front page
Noticias en Español
Ahora CBS4.COM le trae las noticias más importantes del sur de la Florida y el mundo, todos los dÃÂas. Tenemos las noticias en su idioma. Haga Click aquàpara las noticias en español
Google’s translation: Now CBS4.COM brings you the most important news in South Florida and the world, every day. We have news in their own language. Click here for the news in Spanish
CBS4.com
Noticias
On another note CBS4.com received a minor refresh last week or so, as did most other CBS-owned O&O sites.
Power Outage Online Coverage
CBS4.com - frequent updates, on the front page, and video from on-air reports.
No live streaming that i can see- here’s live video linkNBC6.net - WTVJ is streaming their live coverage , you can watch it here
WSVN.com - 7News is streaming live at the usual address /must have Windows Media player or equivalent/ though it can be a bit slow due to the massive amount of people watching
Local10.com - WPLG is also streaming their live coverage on the web /under Related To story content/ - video
wsvn.com -
Grid problems cause Fla. power outages, shut down nuclear plant
local10.com -
FPL: Power Back On In South Florida
cbs4.com -
Fast Facts: Power Outage
nbc6.net -
Grid Problems Cause Fla. Power Outages, Shut Down Nuclear Plant
Overall if you were lucky to have power and internet at work, or got suck with only your mobile device in the middle of I-95, you would’ve gotten plenty of details regarding the power outage from the local news sites, the tv ones in this case.
CBS4.com as usual had pretty extensive coverage, and lots of information on their front page, updated frequently with text and lots of video. CNN.com gave them a nice visible link in the breaking news report. NBC6.net didn’t have much fanfare on the front page besides a link to an extended story and live video from the on-air coverage.
WSVN.com didn’t fare too well today. If the tipster was correct, their site crashed really hard from the sudden influx of visitors, probably everyone trying to watch the live stream. When I tried to hit them up around 3:15pm the page wouldn’t load at all, few minutes later only some parts of it did. And they probably couldn’t even update the site because when it came online it had nothing regarding the outage besides the flash player on the left with a screen shot of Mayor Alvarez presser but even that would show as not available when I pressed play.
Local10.com offered live streaming of their on-air coverage too, along with frequent updates on the site itself, and they too got a nice juicy link from CNN.com’s report.