SoFlo Station Giving away $30,000 Wedding for Sweeps

/
Screen Shot 2013-04-30 at 6.19.43 AM.png

WPEC in West Palm Beach ​is giving away a $30,000 Wedding in their effort to get people to watch the morning show during the May book.

Screen Shot 2013-04-30 at 6.20.07 AM.png

The station says they "want to hear about the love of your life. Tell us why you deserve to win the Great Wedding Giveaway, a $30,000 Dream Wedding Package at PGA National Resort & Spa, by expressing your love in a love letter to your significant other.

Send us a photo and a short description of why you want to spend the rest of your life with your fiancé. Romance Counts!

They point out that viewers have until May 8 to send their essay and photo. Five finalists will be selected to appear live on CBS12 News this Morning to share their story, where our viewers will decide who wins the Great Wedding Giveaway!

We're guessing that WPEC will cover the couple's divorce in the November book. ​

He said, They Said... Glenn Beck Edition

/
He said, They Said... Glenn Beck Edition

If you listen to Glenn beck tell the story, he got out of Fox News to save his soul.​

If you listen to Fox News, Beck left to save his ass.​

Beck who left (or was pushed out) Fox News told the student body ​at New York University that he had to get out of Fox News. "I remember feeling, ‘If you do not leave now, you won’t leave with your soul intact."

If Beck hasn't learned by now, you don't take a swipe at Fox News, without expecting to get hit back. ​

What FNC has to say about Beck after the leap  ​

Read More

Matt Lauer Takes a Spin on His Yacht

/
lauer29n-1-web.jpg

If you're looking for another reason to hate Today Show anchor Matt Lauer, here you go.​

Lauer was spotted  taking a long float down Sag Harbor Bay in his shiny Yacht.

Yes Matt Lauer has a Yacht and you don't.​

The Ann Curry executioner was spotted Saturday riding the luxury Hinckley T38 yacht, which costs about $1.5 Million bucks.

Lauer does show he has a sense of humor, the boat is named "Resilient."

The TV celeb got driving tips from two instructors who tagged along during the daylong jaunt. 

So just when you might be feeling sorry for Matt Lauer and all the bad press he's getting.​

Remember, he has a yacht. 

H/T NY Daily News

​

Babs Agrees with FTVLive

/
Babs Agrees with FTVLive

FTVLive told you about how we turned down and invitation to the White House Correspondents Dinner that was held this past Weekend in Washington.

We wrote "Anyone that has read FTVLive over the years has known how I feel about the WH Correspondents Dinner. It used to be great.... when you know it was for correspondents.

But as I have written, it has become about which organization can bring the biggest celebrities."

Well, it looks like that the Grand Dame herself agrees with little ​old us.

After the hop, how Barbra Walters and FTVLive are on the same page. ​

Read More

Another Atlanta Anchor Busted for DUI

/
Another Atlanta Anchor Busted for DUI

What is up with the on air talent in Atlanta?​

Last week we told you that WAGA Anchor Amanda Davis announced she was "retiring" from the station. That news came following her arrest for DUI back in Novemner of last year.

​Now word comes that WXIA Traffic Reporter Elle Duncan was arrested on a DUI charge early Sunday morning.

What the cops say, the station did and what Duncan says about the incident after the jump  ​

Read More

Damn! That was Close!

/
Damn! That was Close!

Kelly Nash, who covers the Tamba Bay Rays for Fox's Sun Sports, was in Boston Saturday for the Astros-Red Sox game, and decided to pass the time during batting practice by taking a few selfies around Fenway Park.

Here's what she had to say about the picture:​

I was taking a picture of myself in the seats above the Green Monster during Red Sox batting practice.

Producer Art Dryce had called out 'heads up!' a few times while I was taking pictures around the left field section, but none of those balls actually fell close to me, so I took my chances turning my back on batting practice for a picture.

More plus a full size photo after the bounce  ​

Read More

The Nerd Prom

/
The Nerd Prom

ould it be that Washington does comedy better than the Hollywood movie studios? 

Conan O'Brien and Barack Obama provided more laughter Saturday night at the White HouseCorrespondents' Association Dinner than you're likely to find this weekend at the multiplex (Video of O'Brien's bit can be seen here)

The humor was often topical, sharp and elaborate.

Obama's speech contained an inspired film clip about Steven Spielberg's next film: "Obama." The clip presented Obama playing Daniel Day-Lewis playing Obama. Tracy Morganannounced he was portraying Joe Biden.

The correspondents' association turned to Kevin Spacey of "House of Cards" for help with its big spoof (See the video in the story below this one).

More after the bounce  ​

Read More

I'm Not Reading It

/
meredith_vieira_wireimage--300x300.jpg

Former “Today” show anchor Meredith Vieira won’t be reading Brian Stelter’s dishy new book on her old morning show, “Top of the Morning,” any time soon.

“I’m not interested,” Vieira, who’s included in the tome, recently told Page Six.

“I’m over it . . . I’ve kind of been-there-done-that, and I don’t know what the interest is.” She added, “I don’t want to get on a high horse, because I understand why people write it. I’m not trying to say he’s wrong to do it, but I look at it and it’s so personal to me. It’s my friends.”

Vieira also defended embattled host Matt Lauer, telling us, “Even if [NBC] blew it from a p.r. point of view, you’ve got to move on. I think what is happening to Matt is really wrong.”

Emails Show NBC was Looking to Bounce Jay Leno Months Ago

/
Emails Show NBC was Looking to Bounce Jay Leno Months Ago

It looks like NBC knew they were going to push Jay Leno out the door months ago.​

Emails show that several months before NBC announced on April 3 it was moving “The Tonight Show” back to New York with Fallon replacing Jay Leno as host, the network and the (NY Governor) Cuomo administration had talks about expanding the state’s film production tax credit program to cover talk and variety shows that relocate from other states.

The emails were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

More after the leap  

Read More

Philly Anchor has a Tweet Side

/
Philly Anchor has a Tweet Side

Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?

WPVI (Philly) anchor Jim Gardner has been on the air for years.

But he has also embraced Social Media and loves to hang out on Twitter.

When the Phillies had their opening day of the 2013 baseball season, Gardner Tweeted: "'Breathe in the smell of beer, mustard and funnel cake. Ah, we are reborn.' Quote from anonymous Mayan philosopher.#phillies."

Then he waited.

Nothing.

Huh? Why isn't anyone responding? C'mon! That one was funny, he thinks. Kind of, at least, right?

Why the Philly Anchor legend latched onto Twitter after the jump  ​

Read More

Norfolk Station Does it Again

/
Norfolk Station Does it Again

FTVLive told you on the first day of the May book, WTKR in Norfolk had interviewed the station's former Anchor Les Smith.​

Smith was the longtime anchor at the station until he disappeared from the airwaves without explanation. No one knew why. One day he just didn’t come back to work.

Now, WTKR is going back to the former talent pool to take another dip.

This time their going to use former weatherman Jon Cash to try and pull in some ratings.​

Cash made headlines back in 2010 when the station fired him after 20 years on the air. The rumors were that he was not fired because of his evangelical ministry. He sued the station for religious discrimination.

More after the hop  ​

Read More

Joan Rivers Pissed at the Perky One

/
Joan Rivers Pissed at the Perky One

It looks like Katie Couric got comedian ​Joan Rivers not in a laughing mood.

Couric and her show “Katie,” celebrated her show’s 100th episode with mother-daughter duo Joan and Melissa Rivers back on Feb. 22.

However, Word is the older Rivers was not doing much celebration. 

“Joan left the show furious with Katie and her producers, vowing to never return,” one WE-TV insider tells the NY Daily News's Confidential. “It was meant to be a funny, silly, Oscar-themed party, but instead Joan felt the usually perky Katie got nasty.”

​More after the bounce  

Read More

Eddie's Back....

/
Eddie's Back....

If you're like me, you've found it hard to sleep at night without Ed Schultz being on MSNBC.​ No one put me to sleep faster than this guy. 

Well, it looks like Eddie is going to be backing leaning left....errrr... forward soon on MSNBC.​

The scrappy host -- who once called Laura Ingraham "a right-wing slut" (he later apologized) -- will return to the MSNBC lineup with a weekend show starting May 11.

More after the hop  ​

​

Read More