Producer Opening in Savannah

If you're looking for a beautiful place to live, a producer job has opened up in Savannah, Georgia.

We're fairly certain ​you're not going to get rich on this job (Savannah is the 96th market) but you could find a lot worse places to work. 

Here's the job posting:​

WJCL/WTGS is looking for a strong Newscast Producer to supervise the production and execution of daily newscasts. WJCL/WTGS is located in beautiful Coastal Georgia.

Experience:
Candidates must have two (2) years of newsroom experience. Producing experience preferred.

Requirements:
Candidate will be responsible for management of writing deadlines and supervision of our branding position.  Strong news judgment is a must.

Additional Information:
We are an aggressive newsroom located in the historical city of Savannah with a wide viewing area that includes South Carolina.

Contact:

Please send resumes to: hr@wjcl.com. No phone calls.

The Best Person I Ever Worked With...

People often ask me in all the years I have worked in TV news, who is the best person I ever worked with.?

I have said before that the first person that pops into my head is Robin Meade. Robin is the morning Anchor at HLN and she and I worked together years ago in Miami.

Robin was great on air, professional off air and just one of the nicest people that I ever met. ​

But, after thinking more about it, I think Robin might have to move down to the second spot on my list of best people I have ever worked with. ​

Sorry Robin.​

​Find out who moves to the top of the list and why? It's posted in ScottLand

Larry King Has New Show on Russian TV

146 year old Larry King is coming back to TV, but not CNN

King will host a new TV show on Russian network RT.

“I have interviewed every US president since Nixon (we could have sworn he also talked to President Lincoln once), and lest people forget, I helped usher Ross Perot into the national conversation during the 1992 presidential contest. I appreciate the importance of providing a platform to those with real alternative visions for our country’s future,” said King.

RT says that the "mold-breaking political talk show" will go on the air next month.

We can hardly wait. ​

MSNBC Sinks in the Ratings

After a strong February book, MSNBC Boss Phil Griffin boasted that his network was taking aim at Fox News.

He said he expected MSNBC to pass Fox News in the ratings by the end of 2014.​

So how is that race for the top going for Griffin and MSNBC?​

The cable network finished the May book in 4th.​

Ouch!​

"Phil Griffin is either, Very confident,  very optimistic , or he's smoking crack,"
FTVLive wrote back in March when Griffin was making his predictions of passing Fox News. ​

As FTVLive predicted, Chris Hayes show "All in" is leading the charge to the bottom of the ratings.​ Hayes show reached a ratings low during the May book. On May 14 the show pulled in just 396,000 and its second-lowest demo audience of just 88,000.

It might be time for ​Griffin in the gang at MSNBC to take their focus off of Fox News and worry more about getting out of the ratings basement. Maybe try focusing on getting to number 3 in the ratings, before worrying about number 1.

Just a thought. ​

Former Cable Anchor Now Commercial Actor

Geico has the gecko. Progressive has Flo. And Allstate has…Nicole Lapin?

Cable and business news viewers know Lapin as a former anchor for CNN and CNBC. For a brief time in the summer of 2011, she was also one-half of what the New York Observer deemed to be a “New York media power couple” with the Times’Brian Stelter.

Lapin left CNBC in 2011 to start Nothing But Gold Productions to create content, as she told Adweek, to “demystify Wall Street and personal finance for a younger generation.” She currently hosts a show called Recessionista for Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s Ora TV and, according to her website, “regularly appears as a financial expert on CNN, Entertainment Tonight, and talks shows, including The Wendy Williams Show.”

She also does ads. In this one, Lapin plays a financial expert who advises a couple on ways to save money on their insurance.

“Energy-efficient appliances, you can get a tax write-off for those,” she says before adding, “A programmable thermostat. Very smart, saves money.”

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Ummmm....That's the Guy!

WMTW News 8 in Maine was doing a story on a 73-year-old Limington man who had been missing for more than 14 hours.

Reporter Norm Karkos was doing live hits on the story while authorities were searching for Robert McDonough, who they say who suffers from dementia.

The camera was rolling on Karkos between live shots and a man can be seen walking about behind the Reporter.

Karkos looks the man right in the face and says hello to him. Even though Karkos had been reporting on the missing man all morning, he doesn't realize that THIS IS THE GUY!

They finally did figure out it was the man the authorities were looking for and they contacted them. 

Watch the video of the guy walk right up to the crew on the station's website.​

New Anchor named in the Big Apple

Fox O&O WNYW has named a new anchor of their Good Day Wakeup program that runs from 4:30 to 7AM.

Ben Simmoneau gets the gig and will start on the air on June 5th, alongside Juliet Huddy.

Simmoneau comes to the NY station from KYW in Philly, where he was the Investigative Reporter. ​

Sorry Jay.... But that's Kind of How TV News Works

Jay Plyburn quit his job last week as a Reporter at Hearst Duop  KHBS-/ KHOG (Ft. Smith)  because he was sent out in bad weather to cover a storm. 

Plyburn says that he was sent out to cover possible tornado damage and he as he wrote in an email to his co-workers "lightning was striking all around us. This was the single most frightening experience of my life."

Then when he got back to the station, no one even took the time to say "thank you."

In his email, which also doubled as his resignation letter, Plyburn wrote "When the day was done and we finally got back to the station, it was business as usual. No managers had any sort of feedback...just a new list of things they wanted done."

He then use the email to say he would not be coming back into work and no story was worth losing his life over.​

We say welcome to TV News Jay....or maybe it should be "don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out."​

If you got into TV news thinking every story was going to be a city council meeting or a puppy wash, then you picked the wrong business. ​

TV News can be dangerous and you should have known that going in.​

In FTVLive's 20 plus years in TV news, we have almost been burned to death in a California wildfire, made an emergency landing in the news chopper, shot at in the LA and Miami riots, covered our share of bad weather, including Oklahoma tornados and been threatened more times than we can count. Hell, some of the threats happened while still in the newsroom.​

Oh and many times after almost dying ​on the job, no one said a simple "thank you." 

Guess what? Who gives a shit....if you wanted a job that was safe and including a lot of thank yous, Target or McDonalds might be a better option for you Jay. ​

I know you were working in a station outside the top 100 in markets, but shame on your teachers in college for not warning you that TV ​News might be and most likely is a dangerous job. 

My thought Jay, is no real News Director is going to hire you again. If you're going to bailout every time your sent on a dangerous story, or you get upset that no one said "thanks" you are not cut out for the business. 

Sorry to burst your bubble, I'm just telling you the way it is.​

I wish you like in your future career, but please do everyone a solid and give up on TV news.​

You're just not cut out for this business. ​