WTVJ recently rolled out their new “Be Glad You Live in South Florida” promos, featuring all of their meteorology team in “real South Florida situations” you can do with the “great weather we should be thankful for.” Take a look:
Here is the new WTVJ promo featuring Kevin Corke, getting mixed reviews among our readers.
What are your thoughts?
Special thanks to SFLTV.com Facebook friend Ray for the link.
In our recent exclusive post about WTVJ banning SFLTV.com from their newsroom, I wrote the following:
“Our writers, content producers, and administration are, in fact by definition, journalists.”
SFLTV.com stumbled upon this Tweet by a WTVJ morning producer named Tammy Delgado. You can follow her Twitter account here.
First (and let me make this very clear), we’re not saying this Tweet is about us. It would be rather cocky of me to think that Ms. Delgado even reads our site on a daily basis. But her disapproval for us is clear. Because our comments are un-moderated, and the sole opinion of the commenter AND NOT SFLTV.com, some unpleasant things have been said. The level of disapproval from her of our site is clear. In fact, she’s even blocked us from following her on Twitter: Continue reading ‘Tweets that may be applicable to SFLTV.com…’
Kevin Corke
The highly anticipated Kevin Corke is set to debut tonight on WTVJ. SFLTV.com told you about him last October when WTVJ announced Corke as Julia Yarbough’s replacement. Corke (pictured to the left) has anchored the news desk for NBC’s ‘Today Show’ as well as on MSNBC. According to the Sun-Sentinel, Corke will be hosting the 7 & 11 newscasts. This leaves the question as of who will host with Nespral on the 6PM show, or if she will continue to solo-host it. WTVJ is banking on Corke for ratings. Expect promos in the coming weeks about how experienced (at the national level) Corke is, and how trusted he should be. But is this enough to draw in ratings? Will Corke be enough to pull WTVJ out of dead last place? What do you think?
WTVJ (NBC6)
Informants at WTVJ notified us a few weeks ago that we were officially banned from being viewed by WTVJ employees. According to our source, a memo sent out station-wide allegedly banned (and threatened termination) for any employees viewing SFLTV, NewsBlues, or any other applicable “insider” news website. Although this isn’t uncommon for news stations to do, (especially to prevent viewing in the workplace) I still find it rather ironic. The bottom line is that SFLTV.com (and sites like it) is a TV station “insider” news website. Our writers, content producers, and administration are, in fact by definition, journalists. We are a news website that specializes in local TV station industry news. The fact that WTVJ is censoring their employees from viewing a news website is, in my opinion, rather ironic.
Note: I’m not just picking on WTVJ. WPLG we’re told has similar bans in place.
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.
Former WTVJ lead news anchor Joel Connable departed from NBC6 just over seven months ago, and soon, you’ll be seeing him back on the TV airwaves in South Florida and nationwide in a revolutionary new way. It’s called ‘Travel TV News,’ and as Connable described it: “his dream job.” What is Travel TV News (TTN)? Founder and CEO Joel Connable describes it as a revolutionary new way to offer their clients (usually hotel resorts, cruise lines, and tourism ministries) a new and fresh way to advertise. Connable says: Continue reading ‘Joel Connable Returns to South Florida TV’
Former WTVJ Anchor Tony Segreto
Former WTVJ NBC6 anchor Tony Segreto has accepted an invitation by BankAtlantic’s board of directors to become an advisory board member. According to BA’s press release Segreto will be attending all board meetings and will join the board of directors in governing and promoting BankAtlantic’s activities in the South Florida community.
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“I am very proud to become a part of the BankAtlantic family. BankAtlantic`s
passion, integrity, and ideals for customer care and community support are
exactly in line with my own personal beliefs,” commented Tony Segreto.
“BankAtlantic is a trusted name in South Florida and I hope my 40 year career in
television and commitment to community will further support its efforts to give
back to the community,” Segreto concluded.
Tony Segreto retired from WTVJ NBC6 at the end of 2008 after working there for 40 years.
iPhone App Screenshot
NBC Miami has joined the app bandwagon, and recently launched it’s iPhone Application.
The application will do what the website tries to do, and keep you both in the know, and connected to your community. The app will keep you updated with what is going on around town, local news, weather, sports, and many other things. It also has a feature allowing to also take a picture from your iPhone, post it on NBCMiami, and share it amongst other Miamians who are also using the app.
With this app, you will be able to continue using the same functions that you normally would use with other applications on the iPhone, such as: panning, zooming, and the option between landscape and portrait mode. Shaking the phone will refresh the stories, and constantly update you with new stories and images that are being posted. The app also integrates easily with your e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter accounts.
The NBCMiami app is available in the Apple App Store for free, but the iPhone/iPod 3.0 software update is required in order to be able to use this application.
Julia Yarbough - Photo Via: NBCMiami.com
Julia Yarbough joined the NBC6 news team in April 1998 as a fresh and talented face, stolen from WSVN. Since the time she joined WTVJ, she’s won multiple awards including ‘Best Female Anchor’ by the Broward New Times. One of her most recent and memorable assignments was her reporting from the Beijing Olympics. Now, over ten years and multiple co-anchors later, Yarbough is set to leave the TV news screens for good this week. SFLTV was the first to bring you the news of her departure two months ago, and today we were informed she is leaving this Tuesday.
SFLTV.com spoke with Ms. Yarbough about her departure, and future plans. Continue reading ‘Julia Yarbough Set to Leave WTVJ’
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