Vegas Anchor Breaks Down in Tears on the Set

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Vegas Anchor Breaks Down in Tears on the Set

It wasn't a good day for KLAS Anchor Paula Francis.

On Tuesday's 6PM newscast, Francis broke into tears five minutes into broadcast and couldn’t continue after “something upsetting happened,” she said.

“Sometimes women have tears,” she told Las Vegas Review Journal. 

“I was having a bad day that started with two hours at the dentist,” she said.

Word in the newsroom was that she had read some hate mail just before going on the air.

More after the jump  ​

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Anchor Shake Up Complete in Salt Lake

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Anchor Shake Up Complete in Salt Lake

FTVLive was the FIRST to tell you about the Anchor shake up that was going to go down at KTVX in Salt Lake City. ​

We told you that new News Director George Severson was making a number of moves to try and prop up the station's struggling ratings.​

According to an internal email ​obtained by FTVLive, Severson has completed the changes for the station's morning show with naming of a female anchor.

Emily Clark ​becomes the becomes the new Co-Anchor of the morning show. Clark joined the station in 2010 as a reporter. 

The ND's internal email after the skip   ​

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Lauer Wanted NBC to Hire PR Crisis Team

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Lauer Wanted NBC to Hire PR Crisis Team

Matt Lauer wanted NBC to hire some experts to deal with the Ann Curry debacle, but Comcast would not do it.

Page Six says that the embattled “Today” host urged NBC to bring in a crack crisis p.r. team to help stem seemingly unending bad press in the wake of Ann Curry’s dismissal.

But sources say that the Comcast-owned network refused Lauer’s request. As a result, Lauer has been “taking matters into his own hands,” a source close to the show said, with a more active role in helping oversee p.r. plans.

“Matt’s wanted to bring in an outside p.r. agency,” explained a source close to the morning show. “He lost faith and has wanted a crisis team in place. Since they haven’t hired an outside agency, he’s taking matters into his own hands.”

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CNN May Put Newt in the Crossfire

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CNN May Put Newt in the Crossfire

Because no one seems to have an original idea in TV news anymore.

Struggling CNN has been looking at bringing back the show Crossfire.

Which begs the question, if the show was so good...why did it get canceled in the first place?

For you kids out there, Crossfire was a debate show that pitted two pundits -- one liberal, one conservative -- against one another on the political issues of the day. Sounds so exciting doesn't it? 

Who CNN is talking to about killing both roles after the bounce  ​

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Fox News Tops Cable Ratings for First Time in 10 Years

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The Boston Marathon bombings and the search for the suspects ​that followed, helped Fox News win  top of the cable rankings for the first time in nearly a decade.

In both total day and primetime for the week of April 15-April 21, the News Corp-owned news network pulled ahead of usually top-ranked USA Network.

Excluding election coverage last year, the last time Fox News was in the top position was August 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. In primetime, FNC garnered 2.874 million viewers on average for the week compared with No. 2 USA’s 2.621 million. 

CNN also climbed the cable ladder to finish No. 3 with 1.985 million viewers overall on average. History Channel was in fourth with 1.937 million viewers and A&E was fifth with 1.928 million.

H/T Deadline ​

Leaving the TV Business

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Leaving the TV Business

It seems more and more, people working in TV News are looking to get out of the business altogether. ​

The latest one to kiss TV news goodbye, WBBH (Ft. Myers-Naples) Weekend Anchor 

Jennifer Trammell.

Trammell signed off this past weekend, but she's not leaving Southwest Florida.​

“In TV it’s all about bumping up to the next market,” says Trammell. “I want to be settled for a while.”

“It was a hard decision,” says Trammell, of leaving broadcasting, one, she says, that she didn’t take lightly or make overnight.

Find out what she had to do as the Weekend Anchor after the jump. It's shocking...shocking I tell you.

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New Greensboro Anchor Bumps Andy Griffith

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New Greensboro Anchor Bumps Andy Griffith

It looks like the "Luck" has run out for the Andy Griffith show at 5:30PM on WFMY in Greensboro.​

The Andy Griffith Show, a staple at 5:30 p.m. on WFMY Greensboro for about a half-century, is being moved to 3PM to make room for what WFMY is calling an “investigative/consumer news program” that launches Thursday.

WFMY has hired anchor Julie Luck from WGHP; her start at the station coincides with 2 Wants to Know’s debut April 25.

WFMY’s promotional materials call Luck “The Piedmont Triad’s most popular news anchor.”

After the hop, viewers are not happy that Luck has killed off Andy Griffith at 5:30

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Do you Work at a Gannett Station? Ask for a Raise

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Do you Work at a Gannett Station? Ask for a Raise

f you work at a Gannett station, Today is a good day to go into your boss and ask for a raise.​

Gannett reported first quarter results that included television revenues of $185.5 million, 8.5% higher compared to $170.9 million in the first quarter a year ago.

An increase of 58.7% in retransmission revenue and a 2.3% increase in core advertising revenues more than offset lower advertising associated with the move of the Super Bowl broadcast to the company's six CBS stations from its 12 NBC stations and a decrease in political spending of $3.4 million.

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John King Admits He Screwed Up

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John King Admits He Screwed Up

CNN's John King was DC radio station WTOP talking about the coverage of the Boston Marathon ​bombings.

When he was asked about his report there was an arrest in the case that turned out to be totally wrong.​

"Well I was involved in that. It's not walking back, it's correcting it. You have to do that, and it's embarrassing," King said. "I've been at this for nearly 30 years gentlemen. I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations. I've got a pretty good track record, but when you do something like this it's embarrassing."

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Fired F-Bomb Anchor to Appear on the Today Show

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Want to know how to get on the Today Show?​

Just go on TV and throw down an F-Bomb or two and you'll make it.​

Former KFYR Anchor A.J. Clemente, who held his job for about a hour sent out a tweet saying he is going to be on the Today Show.

Clement was fired after he said "fuckin' shit" on the first show he ever anchored for the station.

Now, he'll be on Today. WTF?! ​

John Bolaris Says He's Leaving Philly

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John Bolaris Says He's Leaving Philly

Not sure how this is news, but the Philly Daily News thinks it is.​

The paper reports that Former Philly Weather John Bolaris who has been out of work for for well over a year is leaving Philadelphia and will now be New York's problem. ​

"I tried for a year and a half to get something here in Philly, but I knew that wasn't going to happen after a year and a half," Bolaris said. "I'm a little bit embarrassed that I couldn't land a job in Philly. I'm frustrated, but having to leave sometimes comes out better than having to stay."

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AP's Twitter Account Hack, Stocks Drop

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AP's Twitter Account Hack, Stocks Drop

The Associated Press Twitter account posted "Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured."

The news wire has since confirmed its account has been hijacked, referring to the tweet in question as "bogus."

But effects of the major hack — not the first to impact a news agency on Twitter were being felt. The Dow plummeted nearly 100 points following the worrying tweet, though stocks have largely bounced back from the dive.

​Who's behind the hack? More after the jump  

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Winners and Losers of Boston Bombing Coverage

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Winners and Losers of Boston Bombing Coverage

Just about everyone would agree that the Boston Marathon Bombing and the coverage that followed was not exactly TV News's finest moment.​

A number of bad reports, wrong information and just plain not very good reporting, gave TV news a bit of a shiner. ​

But there was some good to be had out of Boston.​

FTVLive breaks down the winners and losers for last week's coverage.

Who was a winner and who was the losers, after the jump   ​

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