Piers Morgan's Show to Go Live

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​Piers Morgan has seen his ratings drop and it looks like CNN Boss Jeff Zucker is not going to sit on his heels.

Morgan will start doing his show Live Monday thru Thursday. The show will also get a new name "Piers Morgan Live."

Morgan is claiming that it was his idea.

"I actually prefer ‘Live,’ which is how Larry King did it all those years. I always wanted it that way but, when I began, I was under contract to ‘America’s Got Talent’ and couldn’t work out the schedules. Now that I’m not one of those talent judges anymore, I have the time," Morgan told the NY Post.

At least some inside CNN think that this idea was all Jeff Zucker. Morgan says “So, with Jeff Zucker  coming in, taking over, bringing up new ideas, I went to him and thought it’s a good idea to revamp.”

OK Piers we believe you.​

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Is This How Your Reporters Act?

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Is This How Your Reporters Act?

​JVC has a new camera out that sends video back to the station using Broadband stick. The camera looks like it's sweet, but the video the company made to show it off is awful.​

Watch the person that plays the Reporter. Have you ever seen acting as bad as this? Also, the Photographer is waaaaay to good looking to be a real News Photog.​

Watch the video and Chuckle after the Jump   ​

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How to Nail the Job Interview

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Back in my former life I was a News Director. I also worked at more stations than I can count (it's more than 10... I know that).

In all the jobs that I was called in for an interview, I got an offer for every one of them expect one. And to be honest, I know I wouldn't take that job if it was offered anyway.​

So, I'm here to give you some tips to nail the interview.​

​Read the rest in ScottLand

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Hey John Ferriter! Whatever happened to Kiran Chetry

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Hey John Ferriter! Whatever happened to Kiran Chetry

​Yesterday, FTVLive gave you the ongoing details of Erin Burnett and will she or will she not go to the new morning show at CNN?

We pointed out that CNN Boss Jeff Zucker had grown tired of Burnett's Agent... John Ferriter (pictured).​

It got us thinking about another Ferriter client that worked on the CNN morning show.​

After the Jump find out who and why haven't they been heard from since?   
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Piers Morgan's Ratings are Falling

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Piers Morgan's Ratings are Falling

​FTVLive has been giving you the inside scoop on the Jeff Zucker and Erin Burnett dance over the new CNN morning show.​

Zucker has grown increasingly ​frustrated trying to deal with Burnett's Agent John Ferriter from Octagon.

Well another Ferriter client at CNN is Piers Morgan.  Word is out that  “Piers Morgan Tonight” ratings are down 27% in total viewers since its debut on Jan. 17, 2011.

After the Jump Morgan says why his ratings have taken a hit.   ​

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Salt Lake News Director to be Announced Today

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Salt Lake News Director to be Announced Today

​Remember a couple of days ago when FTVLive told you who the odds on favorite was to be the next News Director at KTVX in Salt Lake City? ​

We wrote "don't be surprised if the next ND is George Severson."

Now, sources are telling FTVLive that it's a done deal and the station is expected to announce that Serverson is the new News Director. Word is that announcement could come down as early as Today.​

But that isn't the only change in store for the station. More after the Hop  

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Weather Folks Swing and Miss with Snow Predictions

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Weather Folks Swing and Miss with Snow Predictions

The Northeast was expected to get blasted with another snowstorm.

The Weather Channel is still coming up with stupid names for snowstorms blared ​"Get Ready for Saturn's Wrath." Yeah...this storms name was Saturn. But it should have been called "Uranus"... because the weather people  got their ass handed to them.

The "next huge storm" was a bust. ​

Joe Calhoun the weatherman at WGAL in Central Pennsylvania was honest about missing the mark on this storm.

More after the Jump  

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Judge OK's Subpoena for Erin Andrews Medical Records

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Judge OK's Subpoena for Erin Andrews Medical Records

​A Tennessee judge ruled that Erin Andrews’s “medical records, including mental health information” can be subpoenaed by the hotel chain the sportscaster is suing for invasion of privacy for allowing a peeping Tom to videotape her naked inside a room at a Marriott in Nashville.

In a March 4 order, Circuit Court Judge Hamilton Gayden granted a Marriott motion seeking to obtain Andrews’s medical records in connection with the $10 million lawsuit filed by the 34-year-old Fox Sports personality.

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Couric Wants to Knock off the Fluff

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It appears that ​Katie Couric wants to take her talk show Katie in more of a hard news direction.

The Perky one wants more news less fluff.​

The Hollywood Reporter reports that  Couric as experiencing what it called "increasing discomfort" with the fluffier segments, and wrote, "[Sources] tell THR that Couric held a staff meeting Feb. 22 during which she stressed that she would not compromise her journalistic brand and that she wants to have fun but also do meaningful work." Staffers received the move positively.

Read the Full story at the Hollywood Reporter ​

Building a News Department on the Cheap

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Building a News Department on the Cheap

WKPT Tri-Cities, Tenn.-Va. (Market 96), has brought it's News Deparment back to life.

The station, did a local newscast produced in house from 1969 until 2002. Now the station has rebuilt its news department using all local people (i.e. cheap labor that you don't have to move into the market).  

It's been done under the direction of veteran anchorman Jim Bailey, who joined Holston Valley Broadcasting in January of last year as director of TV news and public affairs.

​More after the Jump  

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DC Station Looking for a Director

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DC Station Looking for a Director

​WUSA in DC is looking for a Director.

Direct live newscasts, taped webcasts, cut-ins, local programs and commercial projects as required; determines camera angles, lighting and set arrangement, performs in Robotics, Master Control, Audio, Ingest.  Effective interaction with a control room team from multiple departments is critical to success.  Strong leadership and organizational skills are a must.

Full job posting after the Skip   ​

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Can Someone at Fox News Get Bill O'Reilly a Xanax?

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Can Someone at Fox News Get Bill O'Reilly a Xanax?

Remember when Alan Colmes was the token Democrat at Fox News. He was on the show Hannity and Colmes, before Hannity's ego blew up so big Colmes couldn't fit on the show anymore.​

Well Alan Colmes stopped by Bill O'Reilly's show last night and he he was expecting a happy homecoming, it didn't happen.

Bill O'Reilly flipped out on the guy. ​

The Video after the Bounce   ​

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