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The South Beach (Miami) club operator who part of the scheme that fleeced former Philly Weatherman John Bolaris out over over $40 grand was sentenced in a Miami courtroom.
Albert Takhalov cried when the judge sentenced to 12 years in prison for using a "bar girls" scheme that would separate patrons from their money.
The scheme also separated Bolaris from his job as weather anchor at Fox Philly. Bolaris was fired after he was taken by the "bar girls" scheme and then talked about it to Playboy magazine.
"I feel great, I feel relieved that all that stuff is paid off and they’re behind bars," Bolaris told the Philly Daily News. "If I didn’t [testify], that operation would be still be operating. It was very embarassing ... but I feel good. I’ve had a hardship since then, not working and really feel that I was blackballed from the TV news industry because of it."
Bolaris claims he is leaving Philly next month for New York City where he claims to have some job opportunities.
FTVLive has been telling you for years about the ongoing legal trouble for WFAA Anchor Shon Gables.
Twice, Gables did not show up to court to "testify under oath regarding her assets" in connection with a successful $35,000 slander judgment against her. The judgement was won by Richard Klamka, he's the brother of Gables' second and now ex-husband, Peter Klamka.
In 2011 a Detroit judge issued a bench warrant for Gables for contempt of court.
Now it appears that she is being sued again. This time by her ex-husband Peter Klamka.
FTVLive obtained video of where a Dallas area process server taped a copy of the lawsuit to the side of a WFAA live truck.
Yesterday FTVLive told you that WCPO Sports Anchor Dennis Janson announced that he was leaving anchor chair next Wednesday (last day of sweeps).
Janson is headed mainly to the station's website to write columns and will do some on air commentaries with a bit of "an edge."
We also pointed out in the story that Janson said that his leaving the anchor desk was "his call". Of course everyone says that and we questioned the fact if it really was his call?
Why we now think it really was his call after the jump.
Read MoreIf you want to score a free iPad you can do it by switching over to the DISH network.
The entire pay TV industry has hit a plateau in subscriber growth, and now these companies are upping the ante to get people to sign up.
Dish Network is now giving away free Apple iPad 2 (just the 2? Weak) to new subscribers who take its Hopper multiroom DVR. Alternatively, new customers can opt for monthly discounts of $25 to $35 per month on programming packages for the first year.
Dish had a very weak first quarter in terms of subscriber trends, as did DirecTV, and cable operator video losses mounted in the period. Dish added 36,000 net TV subscribers in Q1, compared with 104,000 a year earlier.
More on the promotion and the term after the jump.
Read MoreKENS News Director Kurt Davis is moving on up the food chain to CBS News.
Davis has been named Vice President, News Services for CBS News.
Davis will take charge of CBS News’ satellite newsgathering organization, which provides news and information to 200 CBS affiliates.
The appointment is effective immediately, and he will be based in New York.
Davis spent 10 years as the News Director at KENS in San Antonio.
Former KNBC Weekend Anchor Stephanie Elam is headed to CNN as an LA based Correspondent.
Elam worked at CNN, so this is a return back to the cable network for her.
Elam joined KNBC in October 2011 after nearly 8 years at CNN. She was the station’s weekend evening anchor and general assignment reporter until November 2012.
“Stephanie is an excellent communicator and tenacious reporter, and we are pleased to have her back as a part of the CNN family,” said Terence Burke, vice president of newsgathering for CNN US today in a statement.
This continues Jeff Zucker's hires of people from either ABC or NBC since he took over as the boss at CNN. Zuck has been trying to increase CNN's West Coast presence by increasing its emphasis on the business aspect of the entertainment industry.
Elam is the second LA hire by CNN in as many months.
H/T Deadline
Araksya Karapetyan, who started out during her college years interning at both KFI and KABC-TV, has been promoted to full-time anchor with the KTTV's FOX 11 Morning News.
She joined the station last year as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor, where she had been contributing to the 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. weekday newscasts as well as Studio 11 LA.
She will anchor weekday newscasts from 4:30 to 7:00 a.m. and again from 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., as well as continue to contribute to Good Day LA.
The obligatory quotes after the bounce.
Read Moret was like a scene out of Anchorman.
Karl Stefanovic, the legendary Australian TV presenter and co-host of Nine Network's breakfast show Today, decided to pull the old Anchorman Prank on his colleague Roz Kelly during this morning's broadcast.
While reciting her teleprompter script about a soccer match in Amsterdam, Kelly suddenly came across the line "how good are the [hash] cookies there," which, of course, she had no choice but to read.
"Karl, you've won the battle. The war has just begun, though," Kelly told Stefanovic, suggesting that viewers should expect the shenanigans to escalate quickly.
The anchors cracked up and now it looks like it's on.
The video after the jump.
Read MoreDirecTV is working on a way they won't have to pay your station or company a fee for carrying the station's signal.
Retransmission fess have become a big part of station's bottom lines and DirecTV wants to get away without paying that money.
DirecTV is considering testing a new set-top that incorporates an antenna allowing customers to pull over-the-air broadcast signals, which could allow the satellite giant to avoid paying millions of dollars per year in retransmission consent fees.
More after the hop.
Read MoreHere's a thought, when some anchor leaves their job and they say "it was entirely my decision" it most likely wasn't.
WCPO Sports Anchor Dennis Janson told viewers tonight he’s leaving anchor chair next Wednesday. Unbelievably that is also the last day a sweeps. What a coincidence!
The sports anchor says he is leaving the anchor chair to work primarily for the WCPO.com website writing a column.
Details of his new duties will be revealed later, he said, but “there will be a role for me on the air, with an edge.”
More often than not, stations staffers working on the website are just kids right out of school making next to nothing.
So the idea of taking the main sports anchor off air and having him work mainly for the station's website, shows a great commitment by the station and how much they realize that the Internet presence is vitally important.... Or they wanted to bump down the sports guy and replace him with someone new.
Janson claims the idea was all his. “This transition is solely – I say solely – my decision,” he tells Cincy Enquirer.
Uh-Oh!
Back in February the Chicago Sun Times newspaper came up with and idea to use popular Chicago Anchor Carol Marin to host an online newscast for the Sun-Times website.
The Marin Report appeared at noon Monday through Friday on the home page of suntimes.com. Marin hosted the show from studio in the Sun-Times’ newsroom. The Marin report was 90-second roundup of headlines and highlights of her colleagues’ work at SunTimes.
It didn't last long. Less than 3 months to be exact.
Today the paper announced that they have pulled the plug on The Marin Report.
The paper said: Calling it a "proud experiment," Carol Marin announces the demise of her "Marin Report" daily videocast for suntimes.com after three months. "Endless thanks to great subscribers!" she writes.
While NBC's Today Show seems to be most TV Critics target now-a-days, not everyone is loving the gang at GMA.
LA Times Media Reporter Joe Flint was watching Good Morning America and sent out this Tweet shortly after 8AM this morning.
KMGH in Denver did something that they admit is not normal for them.
The station was working on a story about Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey and how he refuses to prosecute a higher percentage of felonies and felony sex assaults than many other judicial districts in Colorado and several similar ones around the country.
The station had been working on the story for months, but they were having a problem getting DA Morrissey to appear on camera.
Reporter Keli Rabon finally caught up with the DA in public, but he refused to answer he questions on camera.
A number of times he told Rabon that he would talked to her off camera because according to him, Rabon and the station don't "tell the truth" and they distort the story through their editing of the video.
During the encounter Morrissey repeatedly predicts that none of his criticism being shot would be shown.
So the station showed the entire exchange when they posted the video on the station's website and it made the DA look like a pompous ass.
More plus the video after the hop.
Read MoreIt looks like we have officially run out of sweeps stunt ideas and we are now starting over again.
At least that is the case at KOBI in Medford, Oregon.
The station has gone back to the late 60's early 70's and is bringing back "Dialing for Dollars.".
For you people under the age of 50, Dialing for Dollars is where the station calls viewers up. If the viewer knows the "secret" word they win cash (in this case $60). If they don't know, the station adds another $60 bucks to the pot, and they next person has a chance to win $120 dollars when they call.
The reason for this stunt in the 60's and 70's? It would force people to be at home (no cellphones back then) and watching the newscast to see what the secret word is. The stunt basically forced you to watching the newscast from your house in case the station called your home phone.
You can see how in 2013, this might not work like it did in the past.
Then again, I've never been to Medford...maybe they don't have cellphones and the Internet there just yet.
Or they might just drive Deloreans with a flux compacitor.
MediaSource's Lisa Arledge Powell writes that as a communication professional, I know the importance of gaining integrity and trust from the audiences I try to reach. I also know that as an industry we are sometimes quick to point the finger at other communicators who report for a living. Due to the 24/7 news cycle of today, the spotlight on media inaccuracies is brighter than ever. In times like these, it is important to remember those key principles of journalism that most of us learned when we first began our core coursework in college.
When breaking news is in the hands of reporters these days, it always seems the emphasis is placed on being the first to distribute a story, blog, tweet, Facebook post, and every other kind of possible communication. Being first on the scene can catapult your story out of the cluttered media world and into the public eye. At times, however, the first person to report a story might also be the first person to miss key information. Luckily, even after recent inaccuracies in the media, some journalists are still doing well at being the first to report quality, factual stories.
So which Cleveland Reporter is getting it "right"? Find out after the hop.
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