Blip: Soledad Signs Off
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The end to the starting point.
Soledad O'Brien signed off from CNN this morning.
Here is a link to her goodbye.
The App that Can Tell when You're About to be Fired
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Do you wish there was an App that would let you know when you are about to be fired?
Well there is!
The app “Fire Me!” tracks your Twitter account for tweets aimed at how much you dislike your job or boss. It even sends you updates when it thinks you are close to being fired, only after aggregating tweets that include curse words along with the words “kill,” “boss,” “job” or any other potentially problematic phrase.
The app also comes with a “FireMeter” that rates how close you are to being fired, and includes a “leaderboard” where users rank amongst other job-haters.
More on the app after the jump
Read MoreAfter Stroke, Anchor Sues Station, Sinclair
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Doug Rafferty, a former longtime news anchor for WGME-TV (Portland, Maine), is suing the television station and its parent company, claiming they discriminated against him after he suffered a stroke on the air by removing him from his job and cutting his pay.
Rafferty's attorneys, David Webbert and Matthew Keegan, filed the lawsuit on his behalf in Cumberland County Superior Court on Feb. 15. The station has yet to be served with official notice and has not yet responded to the lawsuit, which claims disability and age discrimination.
See how much they cut his pay after the skip
Read MoreFired Entertainment Reporter Says Local TV Needs more Entertainment Reporters
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Here's a shock... a former Entertainment Reporter that was let go from WNBC says that local TV needs more Entertainment Reporters.
Former WNBC/Ch. 4 entertainment guru Jeffrey Lyons tells the NY Daily News that he thinks viewers are suffering from a lack of local critics on New York stations. He thinks station brass blew it when he was dumped from the NBC flagship in 2009.
Did anyone expect him to say "Yeah the station let me go and it was the perfect move from them. I was just taking up space"?
Why FTVLive thinks WNBC's dumping of this guy was a good move.
After the jump
Read MoreO-Town Ratings Race is This/Close
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FTVLive has told you in the past how close the news ratings race is in Pittsburgh. We said it is one of the most competitive markets when it comes to the News numbers.
Well, move over Pittsburgh, because her comes Orlando.
The March ratings race is a tight one in O-Town.
See just how close it is after the Skip
Read MoreWe Wish Our Career Tanked Like That
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Alessandra Stanley has a story in Today's New York Times on the disaster that is the Today Show.
The story doesn't really report anything new, it just kind of rehashes all the Lauer reports in the past few days.
The piece talks about how this isn't the first time there has been controversy over a Today Show anchor, but it is first time for it to be the male anchor that's being talked about.
Stanley then goes on to talk about all the female anchor changes and some of the swings and misses in that slot.
But there was one paragraph that we think Stanley missed the mark. By a lot.
More on that after the hop
Read MoreUmmmm....
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KUTV in Salt Lake City rand a story about a lawsuit filed by Gay couples against the state of Utah.
The graphic used showed a "gay couple" with the tagline "Gay Couples Sue Utah."
The couple in the graphic were very handsome and had smiles on their faces.
But there was just one little problem.
Find out after the leap
Read MoreScary Larry Gives His Take on the Matt Lauer Saga
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Scary Larry Mendte gives his take on the Lauer backlash and the only thing that can save him.
Mendte says that Lauer's image has been tarnished by one uncomfortable moment (Mendte is kind of an expect in this area).
Larry says there is only one person that can save Lauer now.
The video after the hop
Read MoreWebsite: ABC Ambushed Barbara Walters
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Did ABC pull a Hasselbeck, Lauer, Leno on Barbara Walters? Or then again maybe not.
The gossip website Showbiz411 says that ABC News may have done to Walters what they did to Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and what NBC just did to Jay Leno and Matt Lauer. My source says that Walters had only discussed retiring officially from ABC News, not “The View.” She actually owns a piece of that show.
The website says that ABC may have decided that the only way to make Walters retire was to announce it and see what happened.
More on this site's conspiracy theory after the hop
Read MoreLeno Ratings Continue to Rise
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While the Today Show implosion is not really drawing curious viewers to the mornings, it sure is working at late night.
Jay Leno ratings are at a seven week high as more viewers to tune it to watch Leno lambast his bosses at NBNC.
The past week The Tonight Show had 3.52 million total viewers (Leno's best since the week of Jan. 28-Feb. 1) and a four-week high in the 18-49 demo with 982,000 viewers (his best since Feb. 18-22).
The ratings bump for the week of March 18-22 came as Leno began taking nightly jabs at his employers — like referring to them as snakes — as news hit that a succession plan was in the works to replace him with Jimmy Fallon.
More on this story after the bounce
Read MoreB-Ball Coach Suing ESPN After Report
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We're guessing you can say it's not a "Fine" day at ESPN.
The AP Reports that Fired Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine has filed the initial paperwork in a defamation lawsuit against ESPN for reporting two former ball boys' claims that the longtime coach sexually abused them.
A yearlong federal investigation that followed accusations that Fine abused team ball boys ended with no charges. Fine was Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim's assistant for 35 seasons.
ESPN reported the allegations on Nov. 17, 2011. Fine was fired 10 days later when a third man made similar claims.
Cleveland Station to Add 4:00 Newscast
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Following along with just about everyone else, WJW in Cleveland is getting into the 4PM news game.
The station says they will be adding a 4 p.m. newscast this fall.
And they have already made a hire for the show.
WBZ (Boston) meteorologist Melissa Mack, who is returning to Northeast Ohio and WJW.
More after the jump
Read MoreThe Funniest Video You will Watch Today
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News Bloopers are fun to watch and all, but sometimes you just need more.
It's not often you watch a video of a crime being committed and and up laughing your ass off. But that will be the case with this video.
The Redding, California police released this surveillance video of a bumbling and oddly dressed burglary suspect who threw a rock earlier this month at the glass front door of Market.
It doesn't seem that funny, until you watch it. The video after the Leap
Read MoreJenna Wolfe: Matt nor Lester are the Dad
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NBC's Jenna Wolfe shocked some people when you came out announcing that she was gay on the Today Show.
She then piled on by saying that she was not only gay, but she was also pregnant.
On Wednesday's Today Show, Wolfe said she was pregnant and in a relationship with fellow journalist Stephanie Gosk (also and NBC staffer).
It didn't take long for the questions to be asked as to who the father of the baby is?
More on that after the Hop
Read MoreIs Babs Just about Ready to say Bye?
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137 year old Barbara Walters maybe finally ready to call it a day on her historic television career.
Walters, 83 (we were kidding about the 137 thing) has been in television over 50 years and has been a trailblazer in the industry.
Deadline reports that a plan has been put in place for Walters to announce her retirement, eyed for May 2014.
More after the Jump
Read MoreSorry Today...GMA Again
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You know when you see a car accident in the southbound lane, yet traffic is going just as slow in the northbound lane?
We all know why that is, the northbounders want to slow down and look at the accident and see if they see some blood.
Many thought that's what would happen in the morning show ratings game.
You sort of expected that NBC to maybe pull out a win, while people slowed down to look at the spectacular crash that is the Today Show.
And at first.... it look like Today was going to pull out a win at least in the demos.
But sad to say, there just might not have been enough blood (yet) at the scene of the crash.
The sad story for Today after the Jump
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