WPLG announced on their Facebook page they’re looking for fans of morning meteorologist Scott Padgett who want to be in an upcoming promo about him.
So if you want to tell the world, or at least South Florida, who’s the hottest awesomest morning weather guy send them an email to WxPromo1@justnews.com and hope they pick you
No mention of pay, but something tells us hugs will be enough for whoever is chosen
Hey remember how last year former WPLG anchor Charles Perez first got pushed to weekends, but then they fired him as he talked a lot to the media about it all, even adding allegations that station management wasn’t comfortable with him becoming so openly gay? And then Bill Pohovey the news director said it’s all bull crap, the changes are for economic reasons and the plan was to have Laurie Jennings anchor by herself.
Yeah, well plans have changed. Morning anchor Calvin Hughes appears to have been plucked out of the early morning doldrums and put on the 6pm and 11pm newscasts, right next to Laurie Jennings! And allegedly for now a new man is being brought in that will sit next to Kristi Krueger, in the morning.
We noticed this morning Jacey Birch anchoring alongside Kristi so who knows
David Damian Photo: Facebook
David Damian who at one time worked for WTVJ is back at the station doing the weekend weather on freelance basis according to his LinkedIn profile. Damian is taking over now former WTVJ meteorologist John Gerard’s duties who recently left.
Dave Damian worked as a meteorologist at WTVJ from March 1993 until January 1998 when he moved to WPLG where he remained until 2004. Most recently he was a geographic analyst for NAVTEQ.
Welcome back to the South Florida airwaves
/hat tip the tipster ninja for dropping the link/
Last week WPLG gave away an iPad after they hit 14,000 Facebook fans in a couple of days or so after announcing the contest. But now they want even more. They’re keeping the bribing contest going with a new goal of 25,000 fans. Once they hit that, another fan will get an iPad. As of this writing WPLG’s Facebook fan page had a tad over 18,363 fans, so there are over 14,000 who didn’t care enough to fan WPLG until they got a 1:14,000 at winning a single iPad.
And how amusing and cringe inducing is all the begging and buttering up of the WPLG crew going on the wall by people who want to win? You can see the comments people are leaving yourself if you’re sure you need the time spent back!
Fan begging aside, isn’t it rather odd that a big TV station, who brings in some major bacon from ads, and whose signal can be picked up by literally millions in South Florida can’t get more than 4k people to hit the ‘Like’ button on their Facebook fan page without bribes? If offering an iPad for fans is genius why is giving away gas cards during sweeps to viewers who watch a station’s 11pm newscast called a stunt? Many people harped on some Palm Beach stations who gave away gas cards a while back and some even called it low.
I don’t know what WPLG does or did to get the word out about their Facebook page on the air, but I noticed WSVN has a (somewhat lacking) reminder they’re on Facebook and Twitter in rotation during the newscasts and even that just tells people to ‘log on and search’ (I think showing people the actual URL would be much more productive but what do I know?)
So what do you think? Stunt or genius?
If you can’t beat them bribe them.
WPLG has decided they want 10,000 Facebook fans so bad they’re willing to give one person an iPad. According to a post on their site, when their Facebook page reaches 10,000 a winner will be picked during the following day’s 9am newscast. The fan who appears on the upper left position will be the winner and will get an Apple iPad
We can’t figure out why the number 10,000, could be because it’s a nice round number or because they are Channel 10, who knows. But we think WPLG is being kind of cheap. Just one tiny iPad? Come on Channel 10 you can do better. How about 10 iPads? It only seems fitting, 10 iPads for 10,000 followers, plus it goes well with your channel number. Not to mention how much better it would look to viewers having a theoretical 1:1000 chance to win versus 1:10,000.
As of this writing they have 4,941 followers. The TV station with the most followers though is WSVN, with 11,515 and no bribes. Their sister station in Boston, WHDH has 27,895!!
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