Blip: Fox to Announce Their New Cables Sports Networks
/Fox is ready to announce that they are going to take of Sports Cable Giant ESPN at their own game.
Anchor Loses it over "Lap Ride"
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You got to love it when Anchors just lose it on air.
WUSA (Washington DC) news anchor Andrea Roane had a rough time getting through her on-air segment after a very misread sentence.
The video of the cracking up anchor is after the Jump
Read MoreLayoffs Coming to Fox O&O's
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Yesterday, FTVLive told you that budget cuts are being made at the Fox O&O's.
We reported that the usual steps are being taken, no overtime, no purchase of stringer videos, ect.
There have been no layoffs as of yet, but that may soon change.
Sources tell FTVLive that Betsy Swanson, the CFO for the Fox Stations is crunchiong the numbers and it looks like job cuts are a real possibility.
More after the Jump
Read MoreTamron Hall Not Leaving for CNN....Erin Maybe?
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Rumors are flying through the Internet tubes that MSNBC's Tamron Hall could be headed to CNN, anchoring the "new" morning show.
Sources at MSNBC tell FTVLive that is not the case and it's "not happening."
Word is that CNN Boss Jeff Zucker likes Hall a lot.... and of course since Zucker is only hiring people from either ABC or NBC, or would make sense that Hall could be headed to CNN.
Find out why this isn't happening after the Hop
Read MoreThe Girls on Fox News Song
/The Girls on Fox News can make a Liberal a conservative....at least that's what the song says:
Motown Anchor's Daughter Spots Craiglist Scam
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More often than not, Reporter have to go out and find the story.
But, sometimes the story comes to them.
Stephen Clark of WXYZ (Detroit) tells how his daughter Sophie (pictured), a WMU undergraduate student, foiled what could have been a costly Craigslist trick after she tried to sublet her Kalamazoo residence before leaving to study in Beijing. The newscasting dad tells what happened as a warning to others.
How the scam unfolded after the Bounce
Read MoreABC in Talks with Maria Shriver
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Maria Shriver had a pretty good longtime gig working for NBC. She gave that up when you Husband Arnold Schwarzenegger ran and become Governor of California.
That didn't end as well as she would have liked.
So, at 57 years old Shriver wants to get back to what she loves which is TV. Sources say that Shriver approached NBC about coming back to the Peacock.
More after the Jump
Read MorePink Slime Could Be Costly to ABC News
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Reuters reports that a year ago, Beef Products Inc. had four state-of-the art plants, more than 1,300 employees and was expanding aggressively.
The meat company was the leading maker of "lean finely textured beef," a low-fat product made from chunks of beef, including trimmings, and exposed to tiny bursts of ammonium hydroxide to kill E. coli and other dangerous contaminants. Few Americans realized the product was a mainstay of fast-food burgers, school lunch tacos and homemade meatloaf.
Today, the South Dakota company's revenues have plummeted from more than $650 million to about $130 million a year, and three of its plants are shuttered. Company officials blame the abrupt falloff on a series of ABC News broadcasts that began last March - stories that repeatedly called its product "pink slime."
More after the Jump
Read MoreDallas Station Fills Sports Job Quick
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Well that didn't take very long.
KXAS (Dallas) Weekend Sports Anchor Matt Barrie signed off from the station this past Weekend and he's already been replaced.
Pat Doney from WDRB in Louisville is headed to the Big D.
More after the Jump
Read MoreSweeping up in Tampa
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It used to be a two horse race in the Tampa ratings. But that's starting to change.
For a longtime, NBC station WFLA-Ch. 8 and Fox affiliate WTVT-Ch. 13 duked it out for supremacy in local TV ratings, with the Fox-owned station slowly growing more dominant as NBC's ratings woes multiplied.
The Tampa Bay Times writes that in February's "sweeps" ratings period confirmed a transition which hit home in November, as ABC affiliate WFTS-Ch. 28 has risen to compete with WTVT among key viewers aged 25 to 54, winning early evening and late night news time periods.
Read more in the Tampa Rating after the Jump
Read MoreEx-Houston Reporter to Run for School Board
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It might be back to school for a Former KTRK Reporter.
Former KTRK (Channel 13) reporterWayne Dolcefino, longtime scourge of public officials in his role as Channel 13's "Undercover" investigative reporter, is throwing his hat in the ring as a school board candidate in Katy.
More after the Skip
Read MoreEpidemic of Camera Robberies
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FTVLive has been telling you for months that thugs have been stealing cameras from Bay Area News Crews.
The NY Times has just figured that out.
The Times writes that in recent months, journalists covering crime and other stories here have themselves become victims of crime, robbed of expensive cameras, sometimes at gunpoint.
Read more after the Skip
Read MoreNebraska Anchor Returns after Illness
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KOLN/KGIN (Lincoln) anchor Vanessa Flowers will return to the air at 5 p.m. Monday after recovering from an illness.
"According to doctors, I've experienced paralysis to my left vocal cord due to a virus," said Flowers, who has been off the air for more than a month.
"It has definitely been a difficult and frustrating time for me," she added. "Luckily, I now feel I am on the downswing of the illness and can't wait to fully be back on the anchor desk once again."
More after the Hop
Read MoreCapus Wraps up 20 Years at NBC News
/Yesterday was NBC News President Steve Capus' last day at 30 Rock.
The staff got together for a party (yes cake was served) to say goodbye to the news boss.
Capus had been at NBC for 20 years, the last 8 as President of the News Division. NBC has not yet named a replacement for Capus, but word is that announcement is coming down very soon.
It is speculated that Capus will end up going to CNN to reunite with his old pal Jeff Zucker. It will also keep Zucker's streak of only hiring current or former people from either NBC or ABC.
You still might see Capus meeting with some NBC suits from time to time. Capus is named personally in a law suit by George Zimmerman against NBC News.
Reporter Job Open in Cleveland
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Do you want to live in Cleveland?
Let me rephrase that, would you live in Cleveland if you got a reporting job?
Well, there is one open at Fox Cleveland WJW.
The job posting after the Hop
Read MoreDid you Get Away with Murder?!
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We told you earlier that the Orlando stations are falling all over themselves because just like Puxatony Phil, Casey Anthony has come out of her hole for the Spring.
Anthony showed up at a Tampa Courthouse to face her creditors in her bankruptcy case.
And all the Orlando TV stations were there. Including WFTV Reporter Kathi Belich.
Read just what this Reporter did after the Bounce
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