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Southeast Toyota Pulls Ads From WPLG, All Other ABC Affiliates

Author admin on 2/8/2010 in Local Media.

‘Southeast Toyota Distributors’, a consortium of 173 Toyota and Lexus dealers has told their ad agency to pull all commercials from every ABC affiliated station in the Southeast region of the United States.

ABCNews.com Blotter Blog says the dealer group’s ad agency informed affiliated stations the ads were canceled because of “excessive” coverage of Toyota’s gas pedal problems. The dealers instructed their ad agency to divert the advertising to other local affiliates. ABCNews quotes a station manager as saying that the move is designed “as punishment for the reporting,”

According to their website, Southeast Toyota Distributors is the world’s largest independent distributor of Toyota and Scion automobiles. They represent over 173 dealers in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina. The company’s headquarters are in Deerfield Beach, FL in the same building as JM Lexus and accounts for about 20% of Toyota’s sales in the United States.

0 Comments Tags: abc, jm lexus, southeast toyota, WPLG.

WPLG Airing Haiti Special Tonight

Author admin on 1/29/2010 in Local Media.

WPLG is pre-empting ABC’s Supernanny at 8pm tonight to air a special one-hour program titled ‘Haiti: In Our Own Words’.

The program will feature WPLG staffers sharing what it was like to cover the devastating aftermath of the Haiti earthquake. It will also be commercial-free. Instead of ads, WPLG will encourage viewers to contribute to the Haiti relief effors.

5 Comments Tags: haiti coverage, local10, WPLG.

First on SFLTV: WFOR & WPLG Enter Chopper Sharing Agreement

Author admin on 12/9/2009 in Local Media.

In May 2009 we told you CBS-owned WFOR had decided not to renew their helicopter rental agreement with Helicopters Inc. which expires at the end of 2009. We are now learning that as Chopper 4’s final days are coming to a close, Sky10 is being repainted sans logos because WFOR and WPLG have entered into a helicopter sharing agreement.

As of January 1, 2010, CBS affiliate WFOR and ABC affiliate WPLG are entering into a helicopter pool agreement where the two stations will share video and dispatching responsibilities of what was formerly WPLG’s helicopter Sky10. A memo sent to WFOR employees announcing the pool agreement says the helicopter is now owned by stations and encourages them to treat WPLG as a partner and not a competitor. Sky10’s current pilot and photographer crews, supplied by Helicopters Inc., will be the ones working with both TV stations. Sky10 itself is getting repainted to strip away the WPLG logos from it. We have no information on what’s next for Chopper 4’s crew.

According to the memo, the “new” pooled helicopter will be available to both WFOR and WPLG daily from 6am to 6pm, though WFOR at least still has an agreement with Metro Traffic to use video footage from their helicopter.

Details of the pool agreement are after the jump  Continue reading ‘First on SFLTV: WFOR & WPLG Enter Chopper Sharing Agreement’

33 Comments Tags: chopper 4, helicopter sharing, sk10, WFOR, WPLG.

Death Of Local TV News

Author admin on 12/8/2009 in Local Media.

The @StandupKid a.k.a. Mark Joyella, also former WPLG reporter, interviews Michael Rosenblum on the death of local tv news.

If you don’t know who Michael Rosenblum is, he helped create New York’s all news cable station NY1 and also Current TV

3 Comments Tags: death of tv, mark joyella, WPLG.

Image of The Day: Larry King at Dolphins Game

Author admin on 12/7/2009 in Site News and Comments.

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Larry King at the Miami Dolphins vs Patriots game yesterday.

He joined former WPLG sports director Jimmy Cefalo and WTVJ NBC6 sports director Joe Rose for their radio broadcast on WQAM

King was a Dolphins radio analyst from 1969-1971 and in 1977

/via TVnewser/

6 Comments Tags: cnn, jimmy cefalo, Joe Rose, larry king, miami dolphins, WPLG, wqam, WTVJ.

Why WTVJ and WPLG failed at being a News Station

Author Alex on 11/24/2009 in Local Media.
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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.

25 Comments Tags: 7 news, car chase, cbs4, local 10, nbc6, WFOR, WPLG, WSVN, WTVJ.

Former WPLG & WSVN Reporter, Blasts Liberal Media

Author admin on 11/5/2009 in Local Media.

Several weeks ago someone on Twitter posted a picture showing WFOR being picketed by a small group of people. Last week while poking around the interwebs I found out WPLG got picked also. The small group of people, about a dozen or so, can be seen standing on the grass and sidewalk next to WPLG’s building holding sings saying “Media won’t ask so we will. Where’s the birth certificate”, holding signs that promote a popular right wing website etc…

Photo: Flickr@beleaveme

Photo: Flickr@beleaveme

Olga Bichachi, a former reporter at  WSVN and then at WPLG, appears to have been at the protest as well. In a video recorded at the protest, and posted on Youtube, Bichachi criticizes the media for covering trivial stories like house fires and shootings and for being run by “liberal people”.
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“…the good citizens of the US are protesting the changes that are being made in our nation, in our liberties, in our schools and no one is listening to us… and we’re not going to stop trying to get this nation back on its right track until its on its right track”

“…the people who control the media are very liberal. There’s no doubt about it. I’m not making this up. These people are liberal. They’re following their own agenda”

The complete video of Bichachi’s statement after the jump
/photo credit: Beleaveme on Flickr/ Continue reading ‘Former WPLG & WSVN Reporter, Blasts Liberal Media’

19 Comments Tags: olga bichachi, WFOR, WPLG, WSVN.

Charles Perez Marries Partner

Author admin on 10/21/2009 in Local Media.

Former WPLG anchor Charlez Perez and his partner Keith are now officially husband and husband!  And Charles Perez is now Charles Rinehard.

Just Married!

Just Married! Photo: miamiherald.com/gay

The two wed recently in Connecticut while house shopping so they can move there. Steve Rothaus from Miami Herald’s GaySouthFlorida has posted more wedding photos

Congrats to Keith and Charlez!

64 Comments Tags: charles perez, marriage, WPLG.

John Henry Smith Lands at WVUE

Author admin on 10/7/2009 in Local Media.
John Henry Smith Photo: JustNews.com

John Henry Smith Photo: JustNews.com

John Henry Smith, former WPLG sports anchor and reporter, is joining WVUE, the FOX affiliate in New Orleans.

He will replace Sports Direct Eric Richey who is leaving the station to focus on his morning sports show at WIST-AM.

John Henry Smith’s contract with WPLG wasn’t renewed and he left the station in July of 2009.

His first day at WVUE is sometime next week.

12 Comments Tags: eric richey, john henry smith, wist, WPLG, wvue.

Results: “Poll: Which TV station is run best?”

Author Alex on 9/28/2009 in Local Media and poll.

…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.

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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.

14 Comments Tags: 7 news, cbs4, local 10, management, nbc6, poll, WFOR, WPLG, WSVN, WTVJ.