BREAKING! FCC Boss to Announce He's Quitting Tomorrow

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Merely a day after FCC commissioner Robert McDowell announced his resignation, it appears that chairman Julius Genachowski is going to do likewise.

Citing an unnamed FCC official and industry official, The Wall Street Journal reports Genachowski is expected to leave -- presumably as his term ends on June 30th. Granted, the departure isn't a shock to anyone who follows the roller coaster ride of Washington, but it's bound to rekindle chatter about who is set to take his place.

H/T Engadget 

Next Week FTVLive Gives Away iPad Mini

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FTVLive is giving away a brand new iPad Mini next week!

If you want to get an entry in, here's something you can do real easy.

Just write FTVLive.com on a piece of paper and put in somewhere in your newsroom and take a picture of it with your phone (try to get the station's logo in the picture). Either post the pic to Twitter and tag @FTVLive or send it to us at ftvipad@gmail.com​

You can also take a photo of the sign while you're out covering a story. Have a Reporter hold up the sign before their live shot. In the sign is on the air during the live shot you get 5 entries to win. Tape it to the side of the live truck. Be creative and send us the picture.

That's my entry (although I can't win) in the picture.

Of course there are two other ways you can get your name in the entry pool as well. Details on that are right here. ​

More People Log onto YouTube Than Watch Network Newscasts

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YouTube claims that 1 billion people are now visiting its online video site each month to watch clips of everything from cute cats to newsrooms doing the Harlem shake. 

That is more viewers than the TV networks evening newscasts ​get combined in a month. 

YouTube crossed the 1 billion threshold five months after Facebook Inc. said its online social network had reached that figure for the first time. YouTube first hit 800 million monthly visitors in October 2011.

​I don't know about you, but I think this whole Internet thing is starting to catch on.

Full story from the AP ​

New Tribune Boss to "Fix" New York Station First

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New Tribune Boss to "Fix" New York Station First

Former WMAQ GM Larry Wert has left the Peacock for job overseeing the Tribune stations.​

From his office on the 17th floor of the Tribune Tower in Chicago, Wert is casting his gaze all the way to Manhattan. ​

Our man Robert Feder writes that Tribune's New York station WPIX has been without a permanent news director since October, when Bill Carey stepped down.

More after the Leap  ​

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Awful Buffalo Station Re-ups Anchor

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Awful Buffalo Station Re-ups Anchor

​WKBW in Buffalo has inked a new deal with both their main anchors.​

A few months after signing anchor Keith Radford to a new contract, WKBW has retained his co-anchor Joanna Pasceri.

WKBW News Director Polly Van Doren confirmed Pasceri’s deal and added both anchors have been upped for three years.

She said neither anchor took a pay cut, but said nothing about a pay raise either. 

How bad is the station? More after the Jump  ​

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Ft. Wayne Reporter Busted for DUI

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Ft. Wayne Reporter Busted for DUI

​If you read FTVLive regularly, and let's be honest who doesn't. You get the sense that TV News people like to drink a bit too much. They also like to drive after doing so.

The latest TV News person to get pulled over by police on a DUI charge is ​Megan  Reust a Reporter for WANE in Ft. Wayne. 

Coppers pulled Reust over near her home early St. Patrick’s Day morning.

More, plus what the station has to say about her arrest after the Leap  ​

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News Anchors Hack TV Critic's Poll

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News Anchors Hack TV Critic's Poll

Cincinnati Enquirer TV Critic John Kiesewetter was running a competition on the newspaper's website to find the top TV news anchor in Cincy.

He set it up like the NCAA tournament, making brackets with Anchors squaring off against each other, with the winner moving on.

His goal was at the end to find the top news anchor in the Natty.​

That didn't quite work out the way he planned.​

​Find out what the Anchors did after the Hop   

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4PM is the new 4:30AM

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4PM is the new 4:30AM

A couple of years ago, local TV stations were adding a 4:30AM newscast to their lineup. It seemed that one station decided to expand their morning show and start at 4:30 and like a bunch of lemmings, other stations followed. ​

Well the same thing is now happening in the afternoon. ​

Station after station are adding a newscast at 4PM. But at least their is some explanation for this. ​

Find out the reason and the latest station to jump on the 4PM bandwagon after the Jump  
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A Kiran Chetry Sighting

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A Kiran Chetry Sighting

On March 7th, FTVLive posted the story "Whatever Happened happened to Kiran Chetry?"

Chetry  was one of the anchors on one of the failed CNN attempts at a morning show. ​

She signed off from that show in July of 2011. She promised ​she wouldn't be gone long and had a "very special opportunity” elsewhere.​

Well, 20 months later we now know what that ​"very special opportunity” was.

​Find out after the Hop  

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18,000 Apply for Jobs at Al Jazeera

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18,000 Apply for Jobs at Al Jazeera

​Al Jazeera is having no problem finding job applicants, but they are having problems finding a star

The network says it’s received 18,000 resumes for 170 open positions.

By the time Al Jazeera America, as the new cable network will be called, launches this Summer, it will have 600 to 700 staffers on the editorial and technical side.

But they are still looking for someone the viewers already knows.​

Why that might be tough to find after the Jump  ​

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