You just know that actors hate nothing more than doing the satellite press tours with local TV stations to pimp their movies.
Michael Caine and God himself Morgan Freeman were talking to KCPQ in Seattle about their new movie Now you See Me.
Freeman did not seem very excited and fell asleep a number of times during the interview.
The video after the jump.
Read MoreKIRO in Seattle has parted ways with Reporter James Schugel.
Schugel as you may remember was the Reporter that made news back in late 2011 while working at WCCO in Minneapolis. It was the dog/duck story where Schugel reported that a Minnesota "puppy mill" sending dogs to a Chinatown meat market in New York City.
It caused an uproar in the Asian American community and was a major embarrassment for WCCO.
By the end of 2012 Schugel was gone from the station and landed a job at KIRO in Seattle at the first of the year.
Now....just 5 months in he's gone from the Seattle station.
Sources tell FTVLive that Schugel was fired.
KIRO News Director Bob Jordan says that Schugel wanted to go back to Minneapolis and "we were able to accommodate him."
Jordan says Schugel is already gone from the station and that he left last week.
No word on his future plans in TV news.
The May Sweeps wrapped up Yesterday and the ratings spin machine will start turning out press releases later Today.
But, as stations work hard to come up with sweeps stunts ideas for the entire month, by the end of ratings you start to scrape the bottom of the barrel.
Take WLNS in Lansing for example.
It appears the station was headed into the last week of ratings and had run out of stunts, until they figured out one more.
Find out what they did after the jump.
Read MoreSinclair's station buying spree is moving them up the ladder in the Top 30 ranking of TV station groups.
The company vaulted over three other major TV station groups to land in the No. 3 spot in TVNewsCheck/BIA Kelsey's annual Top 30 ranking of TV station groups.
The ranking is based on advertising revenue estimates for 2012 provided through an exclusive arrangement with BIA/Kelsey.
To land in the third position, the Baltimore behemoth — with 112 TV stations under its belt — catapulted over ABC/Disney, NBCUniversal and Tribune, which found themselves planted in the fourth, fifth and eighth slots, respectively, after the dust settled on this year’s audit. ABC had been fourth the previous year, while NBC had been third and Tribune, fifth.
More after the bounce.
Read MoreAs FTVLive told you yesterday, KMOV in St. Louis has parted ways with longtime Anchor Larry Connors.
Connors was canned after he went on Facebook and suggested that he was a target of the IRS after his sit down interview with President Obama.
Connors then admitted that his IRS trouble started well before that interview.
Connors was then pulled from the air and yesterday the station announced he was fired.
Now, Connors is no longer gagged by the station and he is trying to tell his side of the story.
See what he has to say after the jump.
Read MoreForget banks, liquor stores or jewelry, in Oakland, CA the thieves target of choice is TV news crews.
Bay area crews have been robbed so many times that the stations have hired security guards to tag along with the news crews on stories.
But even that hasn't helped.
Thugs broke into a KGO news van outside an Oakland art gallery on Tuesday.
Not only that, these idiots also broke into the private security vehicle assigned to protect the news van.
The news crew was taping a news segment in broad daylight when the brazen thieves broke the van's windows and helped themselves to whatever iPhones and other little stuff was easily to swipe. Then they busted into the security guard's car.
The guard was inside the art gallery protecting the crew, instead of protecting the van.
The team of four crooks hopped into a green Jaguar and sped away.
No arrests have been made.
KTVX Weatherman Curtis Ray predicted a bit of rain for yesterday morning.
What he didn't predict was a big rainstorm would break out in the newsroom right over his desk.
It appears that the fire sprinklers went off in the newsroom sending a whole lot of water inside the studio.
The video that Ray shot of it pouring inside the KTVX newsroom after the jump.
Read MoreThe first 26 minutes of WJW Channel 8's 6 p.m. Wednesday newscast were pretty much business as usual. Then sports anchor John Telich wrapped up his segment by telling the retiring Wilma Smith, "It has just been an absolute pleasure working with you."
A smiling Lou Maglio, Smith's 6 p.m. co-anchor for the last eight years, promised more emotional tributes were on the way.
"Oh, my," Smith managed to say, a catch in her usually carefully modulated voice.
The tributes were in honor of Smith's final newscast after almost 36 years on the air in Cleveland. They ranged from a taped message by Gov. John Kasich to the last installment in Fox 8 reporter Bill Sheil's series on Smith's life and career.
"I hope I left a positive mark on people," Smith told Sheil. "I hope I'm not forgotten. Who wants to be forgotten?"
More after the leap.
Read MoreAs you read in the story above, longtime WJW Anchor Wilma Smith signed off from the station last night.
Competitor WOIO decided they would do a live shot of them delivering a cake to say goodbye to Smith.
WOIO Reporter Jason Hammond stopped by WJW with a cake in hand. But, WJW also made a cake for WOIO.
So why did they give a cake back?
See how they turned into a promo for a new newscast coming to the station.
See what their cake said to WOIO after the jump.
Read MoreKLBK Anchor Bill Maddox signed off from the station Yesterday.
Maddox had worked in TV News for 47 years and at one time he had a news writer named Scott Pelley.
I wonder whatever happened to that Pelley guy?
"I've waited all this time to say thank you," said Pelley. "You were my first example in life of what an anchor man should be."
"I am just thrilled to death that he has been able to make it through with the CBS network and is doing what he is doing today. If there was anyone who was qualified I would say Scott is," said Maddox.
So what is Maddox looking forward to most about retirement? "Not getting up at three o'clock in the morning would be one of them," said Maddox.
Oh...he also has plans to write a book.
Doesn't everybody?
You might have been wondering what the hell HLN was going to do with the Jodi Arias circus......errr trial just about wrapped up?
Say hello again to George Zimmerman.
Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin.
HLN promises to cover the trial from start to finish (and more than likely even past that) and that means that unfortunately, Nancy Grace is going to be hanging out here in Florida. And she's bringing her cast of characters with her.HLN's on-air team including Nancy Grace, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Dr. Drew, Vinnie Politan and Ryan Smith, who will provide "expert" commentary."
In a statement, HLN honcho Scot Safon said: "At HLN, we engage with our audience daily, and the relationship has grown even stronger during the Arias trial."
The goal is to keep that going with the Zimmerman case.
HLN anchor Mike Galanos has vowed of the Zimmerman trial: "We'll be all over that case."
Oh boy.
Madison's WISC won a round in court yesterday over some raw video.
A judge ruled that the station does not have to give prosecutors unaired footage of its interview with the victim of an alleged rape.
District Attorney Ismael Ozanne sought a subpoena to force the station to turn over the video, saying it would help him decide whether to file charges for the incident at the Cinco de Mayo restaurant on Aug. 3.
In late August, Cross Plains police recommended first-degree sexual assault charges against a 23-year-old man who has since fled the area.
WISC reporter Andy Choi interviewed the 42-year-old woman, who described being given a margarita to drink until her food was ready. In the Nov. 2 story she said she felt “cloudy in the head” and was taken to a bed in a back room where she was raped by several men.
More after the hop.
Read MoreNapoli Management Group is proud to announce the following client placements:
Shannon Hori will join WAVE in Louisville as primary weeknight anchor. Her husband is a Louisville native and Shannon will go by her married name of Cogan when she starts in July. She has been the primary weeknight anchor at WFOR in Miami for the past six years.
Andrea Fujii becomes a full-time staff reporter for KCBS in Los Angeles. Andrea has been freelancing at KCBS for the past seven months.
Alexandra Limon returns home to Los Angeles and joins KTTV as a reporter. Previously, Alexandra was a reporter for KIRO in Seattle.
Julie Luck moves across town to become the primary anchor for WFMY in Greensboro. She left WGHP last October where she was the primary anchor for five years.
Matt DeLucia is happy to move back to Philadelphia where he graduated from La Salle University. He moves up 36 markets to join WCAU as a reporter. Matt leaves KVVU in Las Vegas where he has been a reporter for the past four years.
Julie Fine jumps to a top five market as she joins KXAS in Dallas as a reporter. For the last three years, Julie has been lead nightside reporter for WPXI in Pittsburgh.
More Napoli clients changing channels after the jump.
Read MoreIt's not like we all didn't see this one coming.
KMOV Anchor Larry Connors was suspended by the station, even though they never called it a suspension, now he has been fired.
Connors claimed they he was a target of the IRS after he did an interview with President Obama. But he then admitted that his IRS troubles were happening before he ever sat down with the President.
Connors was barred from posting on his Facebook page and hired a lawyer. It was obvious that this wasn't going to end well.
His almost 30 year career at KMOV ended with a brief paragraph from the GM posted on the station's website:
We regret to announce that Larry Conners is no longer a KMOV news reporter. Larry was a valued member of KMOV for a long time, and we will miss him.
For KMOV, there is no higher cause than unbiased, objective news reporting. It is what our viewers expect and it is what we work very hard to deliver. We can accept no less. Larry is certainly entitled to his opinion, but taking a personal political position on one of the Station’s Facebook pages creates an appearance of bias that is inconsistent with important journalistic standards. Larry’s departure has nothing to do with the particular position he took, but it does have to do with our belief that his actions made it impossible for him to report for KMOV on certain political matters going forward without at least an appearance of bias. Bringing you accurate and unbiased reporting is the reason we exist.
Mark Pimentel
KMOV TV President & GM
Reporter Nancy Zambrano joined KRIV in Houston just 4 months ago.
On Friday she is leaving the station.
Word is that Zambrano is leaving the TV news business and getting the hell out Houston.
Mike McGuff hears that she maybe going back to Austin for a PR/marketing job.
She is not commenting on her lasting such a short time at the Fox O&O.
It is said that Oklahoma is God's country, but that doesn't mean an Atheist or two doesn't live in the state.
And CNN's Wolf Blitzer just happened to interview one and ask her if she thanked the Lord for being safe?
Oops!
The video of the awkward moment after the jump.
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