That’s right! WSVN being the first in the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale market to do this. They are now introducing video biographies of some of their TV personality. The four main anchors on channel 7, which are Belkys Nerey, Craig Stevens, Lynn Martinez, and Charles Billi, are the ones with video bios. In these bios, they are asked questions such as “How did you get your big break?” or “What was your first job?” and other questions along those lines. They throw in some cute and funny questions into each video bio. Go check them out at WSVN.com, click news team, and click on those four anchors, or you can click here.
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Tipsters alerted us former WSVN reporter, and I believe also WSVN Bureau manager, Lynn Gordon has returned to the tv news business. She’s now reporting for Palm Beach CBS affiliate WPEC as of last week I believe. Follow this link to see one of her recent reports
Happy to see her back on the airwaves, she was always one of our favorites
Cesar Aldama Photo: CBS4.com
Cesar Aldama has been named news director for WFOR CBS4. He replaces Adrienne Roark who is being transferred to CBS-owned KTVT in Dallas as that station’s new Vice President and news director. Currently he is the assistant news director of KYW, the CBS-owned affiliate in Philadelphia. Yes, the station that brought you Larry Mendte and Alicia Lane (who worked at WTVJ and WSVN)
Cesar Aldama is no stranger to Miami TV stations and WFOR in particular. According to WFOR’s statement on his hiring and Aldama’s LinkedIn profile he cut his chops staring at WSVN in 1985 and worked there until 1995 as a video editor, photographer and assignment editor. He was also managing editor at WFOR from 1999 until 2003 before moving KYW and has served as assistant news director at the CBS duopolies there since then.
Aldama was born in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and his parents and siblings all live in the Miami area, so he is also a local.
No word yet on whether he’ll be known as CBS4BossMan on Twitter yet.
But in the mean time you can follow me on Twitter instead, where I am known as the @SFLTVBossMan
funny stuff. Daily Show pans Rick Sanchez and CNN’s coverage of tsunami warning after Chilean earthquake
I am hearing trough the grapevine from people in the know that News Corp is interested in Palm Beach FOX affiliate WFLX! Other info is speculative as to what News Corp wants to or plans to do with WFLX.
It’s an open secret Murdoch has been wanting a FOX affiliate of his own in South Florida for some time. WSVN owner Ed Ansin is said to have rebuffed every advance by Newscorp to sell so short of swiping WBFS from CBS, WFLX seems like News Corp’s best bet for a station in the SFL
Currently WFLX doesn’t have a news department. For about twenty years the station’s news have been produced by WPEC CBS12 trough an agreement with owner Raycom. Though they have their own studios on Blue Heron in West Palm Beach where many FOX News guests visit for appearances via satellite. West Palm residents Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter being just two of them
News Corp already owns the FOX affiliates in Tampa and Orlando and FLNewsCenter says Newscorp is showing interest in WTLH in Tallahassee as well
Now that every english speaking television station in the Miami/Ft.Lauderdale market has made the switch to High Definition, I decided to check them all out and see what’s different from when they were all doing news in SD. Read my personal opinions after the jump. Continue reading ‘Review: Finally, All Our Local News in HD’
Photo Via: "Lyrikill" Myspace
If you watch South Florida local news on a regular basis, you’ve no doubt seen the live shot-interrupting asshole who goes by the name of “Lyrikill.” Well, according to a NewsBlues.com tipster, WSVN is allegedly being sued by the music legend for alleged ”mental distress;” after he claims he was chased by a baseball bat-wielding live truck operator, after screwing up and interrupting a report by Dianne Fernandez. How much is he asking for his severe “mental distress?” A modest 35 thousand dollars. Funny; I always thought you needed brain cells in order to claim “mental distress.”
Check out his MySpace page for multiple videos of him nearly getting his ass kicked by reporters, live-truck operators, and cameramen.
The music superstar… rapper… performer... Errrr, “Lyrikill,” who prides himself on preforming at local South Florida middle schools, can be seen chasing down and interrupting live shots on your local South Florida station of choice.
Check out one of his forced and free advertisement after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Live Shot-Interrupting Asshole Sues WSVN?’
Kinda.
Update: …Or was he?
Chief Meteorologist Pete Bouchard of WSVN’s sister station, WHDH, is getting a lot of unwanted attention the past few days around YouTube, because of an off-color joke he made. While presenting the weather, Bouchard made a joke that came off as comparing his penis size in relation to the 9 inches of snow that fell. View the video after the jump.
Long-time WSVN investigative reporter Carmel Cafiero and producer Anthony Pineda have won a DuPont award for their 5-part investigative series called “Pill Mills”.
The investigation uncovered prescription drug abuse enabled by Miami-Dade area pain clinics. WSVN’s hidden cameras captured video of addicts legally buying and abusing prescription pain killers on the parking lots of area shopping centers.
Carmel Cafiero and Anthony Pineda’s excellent work helped pass a bill into law to control these pill mills. Previous efforts to control these clinics had failed.
Other winners are CBS and Katie Couric for her Sarah Palin interviews, HBO, WGBH the PBS affiliate in Boston and others
On this day in SFLTV: Cox’s own Larry King interviews WCKT-7’s Wayne Fariss for The Miami News
Mr. Fariss is long gone from Miami and a lot has changed (he moved to WZVN in Ft Myers and left TV for Real Estate in 1986). I think many of you will find his thoughts on the business in Miami and abroad, as well as the idea of tabloid in 1978 interesting. Little did he know these very things and a lot of the things he said he was proud of would force him out of his job two years later!
Take a look at the interview after the jump.
Continue reading ‘On this day in SFLTV: Cox’s own Larry King interviews WCKT-7’s Wayne Fariss for The Miami News’