Helping out in OKC

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Yesterday, FTVLive FIRST told you that KOCO in Oklahoma City was getting help from fellow Hearst stations.

WDSU sent their website Managing Editor Clint Durrett and their 10PM producer to KOCO in OKC to help pitch in with coverage.

KOCO isn't the only station getting help from their corporate sisters.

Sinclair stations have also sent crews to help sister station KOKH with the coverage of the tornado damage. Here is a list of some of the stations pitching in to help KOKH: ​

Sinclair sent:

--A reporter and photographer from KEYE in Austin

--A photographer from KABB in San Antonio 

--A reporter, photographer and sat truck from WOAI in San Antonio

--A reporter and photographer from WKRC in Cincy

--A reporter and photographer from WSYX in Columbus

Tampa Anchor Ready to Walk

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Tampa Anchor Ready to Walk

Ginger Gadsden, morning and noon anchor at Tampa's CBS affiliate WTSP-Ch. 10, will be leaving the station when her contract expires on June 30.

But at this time of layoffs and cutbacks in media, Gadsden, who has tired of working the morning shift, has no other job lined up. And she’s still committed to leaving.

“You know that feeling you get when you’ve made up your mind and you’re at peace with it?” said Gadsden, who came to work at WTSP in 2006. “That’s what I’m feeling. For me, it’s not sad, it’s exciting.”

More after the bounce.   ​

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Longtime Philly Anchor to Call it Quits

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Longtime Philly Anchor to Call it Quits

"Rob has played a huge role in the success of Action News and 6abc for decades", says Bernie Prazenica  President & General Manager, 6abc. "I can't thank him enough for all that he has done. His talent and professionalism are unsurpassed in broadcast journalism. We will miss him as a colleague and a friend and wish him everything good in retirement."

Longtime Action News collaborator, Jim Gardner agrees, "He's been an extraordinary example of consistency, a great communicator, and a wonderful colleague all these years. We will miss him."

The obligatory quotes after the hop.  ​

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Pink Slips Fly at ESPN

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ESPN is sacking around 300 staffers and they have come up with a new term.​

The employees were not laid off, fired, sacked or bounced.

They were ​"smartly managed" out the door.

The sports net is looking to pink slip around 300 people and according to their mouthpiece Katina Arnold the network is "implementing changes across the company to enhance our continued growth while smartly managing costs," Ms. Arnold said. 

The last time ESPN "Smartly Managed" people out the door was in 2009. ​

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Police Bust Barbara Walters Daughter

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Barbara Walters' daughter Jacqueline Danforth was arrested for a DUI in Florida over the weekend.

TMZ, which broke the news Monday, reported that she was "taken to the ground" by police, who said they thought she would try to run into traffic.

Danforth and a male passenger were pulled over by cops around 1:30 a.m. in Naples, Florida on Sunday. When police handcuffed the man, according to the police report, Danforth tussled with cops and "began shouting."

"I was afraid that the suspect may run into traffic on the highway, so she was taken to the ground due to her unpredictable behavior, then secured in handcuffs," the arresting officer wrote in the police report. She was later released from custody after posting a $1,000 bond.

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The New Xbox is More than Just a Game Console

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The New Xbox is More than Just a Game Console

There was a time when you mostly played video games on video game consoles. But if Microsoft has its way, you’ll do much more than that on the upcoming Xbox One console – and watch a new “Halo” live-action show from Steven Spielberg, too.

On Tuesday, the company unveiled its entrant into the next-generation console war, showing off the Xbox One in an event in Redmond, Wash.  But this is no mere game machine. Three months after Sony first announced its own hyped PlayStation 4 console, Microsoft broke out big names like Spielberg and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for its hourlong presentation that brought forth a “powerful, all-in-one device,” according to the Xbox president of interactive entertainment, Don Mattrick.

More after the hop.  ​


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Now CBS Reporter Thinks she was a DOJ Target

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Now CBS Reporter Thinks she was a DOJ Target

Let's make this easier for everyone. If you're a TV Reporter and you have not been targeted by the DOJ, please raise your hand.​

If this continues the way it's going, it appears not many hands will be raised.​

Now, CBS Reporter Sharyl Attkisson thinks she might have also been a Department of Justice target. Attkisson says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation.

More after the jump.  ​

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Oh No! Not Again CNN...

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Oh No! Not Again CNN...

It just seems to that CNN can't win for losing.​

Today CNN’s Chris Cuomo interviewed Rep. Mark McBride about yesterday's deadly tornado. A few times Cuomo urged the “congressman” to do the right thing in Washington and bump the relief effort up on the priority list.

One tiny problem: McBride is not a congressman and he has nothing to do with Washington. He’s a state representative in Oklahoma.

Look for Jeff Zucker's memo praising CNN's coverage any minute now.​

The video of Cuomo interviewing the "Congressman" after the bounce.  

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Helping Out the OKC Stations

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WDSU in New Orleans is pitching in to help out their sister station in Oklahoma City.​

WDSU is sending their website Managing Editor Clint ​Durrett and their 10PM producer to KOCO in OKC to help pitch in with coverage.

OKC stations have been going wall to wall since the tornado hit and will be doing so for quite awhile.​

Both KOCO and WDSU are owned by Hearst. Word is other Hearst stations are also sending staff to help KOCO with the coverage and to help give some KOCO staffers time for well deserved rest. ​

It was a Hell of Story with a Capital "H"

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Watching the tornado coverage yesterday, brought me back to my first full time job in TV News.

I was a News Photographer at KTUL in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 

I covered more than my share of tornados and every time it was amazing to see just how powerful those twisters can be.

Of all the different video I shot over the years, there is still one shot I can remember to this day.

Read the full story in ScottLand

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