Chris Hayes (a guy you don't know) signed off from MSNBC's 'Up' (a show you never heard of) for a new show that you'll never watch.
Hayes is taking over Ed "I was Not Demoted" Schultz's 8PM time slot at MSNBC. 'Up' is being taken over by Steve Kornacki, currently co-host of "The Cycle" (you haven't heard of him or that show either).
More on what Hayes is promising for his new show after the Jump
Read MoreIn case you didn't stop by FTVLive this past Weekend (yes we update 7 days a week). Then you may have missed something we found very interesting.
CNN Corespondent Jeanne Moos did a story on the Huntsville News anchor that was proposed to on air during the newscast.
But in Moos's story she quotes FTVLive.com!
No shit...she really did.
The video after the Jump
Read MoreWKBW (Buffalo) News Director Polly Van Doren has monumental task before her.
It's kind of like being handed the steering wheel of the Titanic after it hit the iceberg.
Doren is the relatively new News Director of WKBW, a station that used to be one of the most dominate in the country.
But that was over a decade ago.
KBW went from First to Worst in the matter of just a couple of ratings books back in the early 2000's and it continues to live in the ratings basement ever since.
After the Jump, find out why Van Doren is moving a picture out of the station's lobby to try and help ratings.
Read MoreIn big markets it's not uncommon for stations to have news helicopters that have 3, 4, 5 or even more cameras on board.
But, when you're in a small market, you have to do it more economically, which is the fancy word for cheap.
WTXL in Tallahassee, Florida has teamed up with a helicopter school to get the market's first ever news chopper.
Don't look for 5 on board cameras in this baby.
More on Eggbeater 27 after the Hop
Read MoreOn Friday morning, FTVLive reported FIRST and EXCLUSIVELY that the axe was going to swing at WXXA in Albany, NY.
We wrote "Not sure what the total body count will be, but FTVLive hears that Morning Weather Anchor Jason Caterina is one of the names is on the hit list."
Well, we hate to say we told you so (actually we love saying that) but it went down just as we said.
The Albany Times Union writes that WXXA, which merged its news operation with that of WTEN, laid off meteorologist Jason Caterina and reporter Steve Flamisch on Friday.
Word is that the former executive assistant to WTHR GM John Cardenas has filed a lawsuit against him.
The former staffer is also going after WTHR's parent company, Dispatch Broadcasting Group.
She has filed an age- and sexual-discrimination lawsuit against Cardenas, the station and Dispatch.
Details of the Suit after the Bounce
Read MoreJay Leno has become the Rodney Dangerfield of NBC.
The guy gets no respect.
The NY Daily News writes that you’d think that by now, network brass would know how to deal with him.
They don’t.
It was only four years ago that they tried to push ol’ skunkhead off “The Tonight Show” to make way for Conan O’Brien.
More after the Skip
Read More30 Years ago Today Motown Records celebrated 25 years with a live TV special. It was there that Michael Jackson "Moonwalked" for the very first time.
It was one of those live TV moments that is etched in time.
Jackson came out and song his new hit "Billie Jean," while showing off some of the coolest dance moves anybody had ever seen. People just went insane. Especially when he did the "moonwalk" move - it only lasted a second but you can hear people in the audience suddenly scream - they had never seen anything like that.
That was 30 years ago Today, which makes me feel really damn old.
The video of the moment after the Hop
Read MoreAlec Gifford, a born newsman who had been on the local TV-news beat 51 years when he retired from WDSU in December 2006, with a career spanning Hurricanes Betsy and Katrina, and covering countless colorful newsmakers and political scoundrels, has died, WDSU reported late Friday night. He was 85.
“He was an incredible journalist, and a wonderful teacher,” said WDSU anchorNorman Robinson, whom Mr. Gifford, then WVUE’s news director, brought to New Orleans from Mobile, Ala., in 1975. “It was about writing. It was about being aggressive. It was about going to the source of the story, and not being timid about asking questions. That’s what I learned from him.”
More from The Time Picayune
There is no question that the Today Show is getting more and more desperate to get ratings.
Just how desperate?
They are willing to basically lie to get viewers to watch them.
OK...it's not a "Matt Lauer didn't do anything to get Ann Curry fired" kind of lie...but it's still pulling the wool over the viewers eyes.
“In an exclusive interview airing Monday on TODAY, former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky will speak out for the first time since he went to prison,” the show wrote in a story posted on Today.com.
Sounds like a hell of a "get".... The Today Show will sit down with the Pervert from Penn State.
Well, that's not exactly what is happening.
More after the Hop
Read MoreIt looks like Brian Williams has pissed off the Emanuel brothers and they are starting to push back.
At least hot shot Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel is.
The New York Post reports that uber-agent Ari Emanuel sent a fiery legal letter to NBC after he objected to a contentious interview he and his high-powered brothers sat for with Brian Williams for “Rock Center,” sources tell Page Six.
More after the Skip
Read MoreThey had Joan Rivers in the spot, but ended up firing her. Then Arsenio Hall replaced Rivers and he became very popular with the young audience. That went off the air in 1994.
And Fox has basically been a non factor ever since.
Well, Fox could get back in the game a big way and it would be thanks to the boneheaded bosses at NBC screwing things up once again.
Get out your brackets and see how well you did predicting the Top 5 mots read stories on FTVLive this week.
Here we go:
No.5 - A Kiran Chetry Sighting
No.4 - Ummmm... The Dogs are Doing it
No.3- Vegas Anchor Out after Just 8 Months
No.2 - The Worst Reporting Ever by a Network..... Ever
And the Number 1 most read story on FTVLive this week was:
If you asked how much we would bet that Jeff Zucker's CNN would quote FTVLive in a story? We would have bet the house.
And we would have lost.
CNN Correspondent Jeanne Moos (one the of the best writers on TV anywhere), did a story on the Huntsville News anchor that was proposed to on air during the newscast (something that we truly hate). Moos quoted FTVLive in her story about the on air proposal.
And by doing so....Jeanne Moos becomes our favorite CNN Talent.
Sorry Wolf.
The video after the Jump
Read MoreO-Town Weather Anchor Glen Richards is hitting a milestone in the Orlando market.
20 Years on the air.
The Orlando Sentinel says it's an unusual anniversary because it is split between two stations: WFTV-Channel 9, where he worked 10 years, and WOFL-Channel 35, where he has been chief meteorologist since 2003.
When a station doesn't renew a contract, TV talent usually moves on. But when WFTV dropped Richards in January 2003, he was determined to stick around.
Find out why and how he did after the Jump
Read MoreHere's what on the scheduled for TV's Number 1 News Magazine:
CRACKDOWN IN RUSSIA – Female punk protest band Pussy Riot piqued the ire of Russian authorities after they staged an anti-Putin rally in Moscow’s largest cathedral. The subsequent viral video of the stunt and stiff prison sentences for some of its members made the band a cause celebre. Lesley Stahl reports. Shachar Bar-On and Alexandra Poolos are the producers.
BLINDSIDED – Brian Banks may yet play in the NFL. But he knows it’s a longshot, after spending five years in prison for a rape charge he was exonerated of. James Brown reports. Peter Radovich is the producer.
THE NILE CROCODILE – Anderson Cooper finds out that underwater, the man-eating Nile crocodile can look graceful, even beautiful, as he swims with the dangerous predators and the researchers studying them. Michael Gavshon is the producer.
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