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Bryan Norcross Joins Weather Channel

It’s not a comeback to TV per se but former WFOR hurricane specialist Bryan Norcross has joined The Weather Channel, with the same job description, for this year’s hurricane season. Norcross will work with the channel’s “hurricane expert” Dr. Rick Knabb

Bryan Norcross left WFOR in 2008 after an investor company bought his emergency communication company ‘America’s Emergency Network’. WPLG hurricane specialist and former Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield is the Sernior VP of Governmental Relations for AEN

Jennifer Herrera: WPLG Anchor And Soccer Player

Some moms are soccer moms just because they drive a minivan full of kids and seats covered in fries but WPLG anchor Jennifer Herrera really is a soccer mom.

Turns out Jen started kicking the football at just 6 years old and aspired to compete in the women’s World Cup. The Herald has a blurb about her in the sports section of MiamiHerald.com and how her internship at WPLG made her choose TV news as a career

FCC Grants WPBF Exclusivity Agains WPLG

WPBF petitioned the FCC and won exclusivity rights against WPLG in Belle Glade, Delray Beach, Greenacres City, Palm Beach Gardens, Riviera Beach, Wellington and West Palm Beach to carry the ABC network.

WPLG was available in those markets on the Comcast system (on channels between 20-30) alongside WPBF but WPBF sought a waiver from the FCC that prevented cable operators from deleting duplicate programming of “significantly viewed” stations. The FCC granted the waiver because no opposition to the petition was received (did any one out there even know of it?) and because it found that WPLG was no longer “significantly viewed” over the air.

According to FCC rules for a TV station be considered significantly viewed it must have 3% share of total weekly viewing hours in the market and 25% net weekly circulation share. Hears-owned WPBF submitted a special Nielsen survey that showed WPLG had 1.861% of total viewing hours and 29.66% net weekly circulation share.

What is baffling to me is that nobody knew of this so that they could comment if they wanted to, and the data they used to decide WPLG over-the-air viewership was sometimes based on as few as 2 households! The most households they sampled were 17 – in West Palm Beach, in 2008

Don Guevara Now Reporting For ABC News

Don Guevara Photo:Twitter

Rumors in the WSVN newsplex had it that former reporter Don Guevara landed a reporting gig for ABC News in LA. A reader also tells us they spotted Don on Friday on Miami’s ABC affiliate WPLG during the noon news.

After some checking around we can say that yes, Don Guevara is now reporting for ABC news and its affiliates throughout the country out of Los Angelis

WPLG Bumps Calvin Hughes to Evenings Permanently

No surprise there, WPLG has bumped morning anchor Calvin Hughes to the evening and late news, after Laurie Jennings anchored those newscasts by herself since August 2009.

Calvin Hughes, Laurie Jennings Photo: Facebook.com