NY Mayoral Candidate: TV is a Dying Industry

Anthony Weiner who became infamous for posting a picture of his weiner on the Internet is still a big fan of the information highway.

Not so much with TV news.​

Weiner is trying to make a political comeback by running for Mayor in New York City.​

It hasn't really gotten off to a great start and people can't get the images he posted online out of their mind. ​

At a local campaign stop Weiner was making his way through a thicket of boom mikes and video cameras to a waiting SUV. But before leaving, he had a dialogue with Jenesis Vaughn, an eight-year-old second-grader at PS 182 who told the candidate she wanted to be a journalist one day.

“What kind of reporter do you want to be?” Weiner bent down to ask the vivacious little girl. “A print reporter, for a newspaper, or a TV reporter?”

“I just want to be a TV reporter,” she answered eagerly.

Weiner bent down lower, as if to impart a confidence. “You might not want to go into TV—it’s a dying industry,” he told her. “The Internet is where it’s at.”

It's also the place you can find weiner pictures of Weiner. ​

H/T Daily Beast ​

Magic Mic

Fox Sports Network Reporter Sophia Minnaert was doing her report edge of the field during the Brewers-Pirates baseball game.

A baseball comes flying right at her, but lucky for her she was saved by the mic. ​

Good thing for her she wasn't wearing a lav.​

Here's the video:​

The Top 5 Most Read Stories for the Week

So what were the Top 5 Most Read Stories about TV News this week?

FTVLive has the list and we're counting them down:​

No. 5 -​ WABC Reporter Leaving for CBS News

No. 4 -​  If this Doesn't Bring a Tear to your Eye...Nothing Will

No. 3 -​ LA Anchors Appear on Price is Right

No. 2 -​ Flower Show Loses Big $$$ and Blames TV Weather Anchors

And the most Read Story the past Week on FTVLIve was:​

Wolf Blitzer Asks Atheist Tornado Survivor, "Do You Thank The Lord?"

Sweeping up in the Big Easy

Reversing an overall downward trend in television ratings in recent years, New Orleans CBS affiliate WWL added audience in every news time slot year-to-year during the May “sweeps” ratings period, which concluded Wednesday (May 22). The only nongainer for the market’s longtime news champ was its noon newscast, which stayed flat compared with its May 2012 performance.

NBC affiliate WDSU also showed year-to-year gains in every newscast but one, 4:30 a.m., where there was a decline.

Fox affiliate WVUE ’s May 2013 performance was up (5 a.m., 6 a.m., 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.) and down (8 a.m., noon, 4 p.m., 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.) The station’s 5:30 p.m. local newscast repeated its ratings performance of May 2012.

ABC affiliate WGNO showed slight audience growth at 6 a.m., but year-to-year decreases at 5 a.m., 11 a.m. and 10 p.m. The station’s “News With a Twist” broadcasts were up year-to-year

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Bomb Scare Knocks Newscast off the air (Updated)

A Bomb scare at WFSB Hartford has the newscast off the air right now.  

The station was evacuated around 4:45 p.m.  They is airing a rerun of their "Better Connecticut" program.

The picture shows police set up in the stations parking lot. ​

Update: By ​6PM the station was back on the air. They did not mention the bomb scare only saying "Thanks for being with us after this unforeseen interruption"

Why Gov. Christie Lost His Today Show Co-Host Job

Gov. Chris Christie was on the Today Show this morning and NBC had billed it as Christie was going to co-host the show.

He was on this morning, but NBC no longer called it "co-hosting the show."

​According to NBC, Christie sat down “for an extended interview.” 

The reason NBC changed Christie's appearance from co-host to interview is because Christie’s lesser-known primary opponent grounds for requesting equal on-air time. 

And God knows if we wanted to watch a news program hosted by someone we never heard of, we'd watch MSNBC. ​

“Gov. Christie will sit down with Today for an extended interview and he will be a part of a ribbon cutting ceremony to open the Jersey Shore for the summer season,” Today show spokeswoman Megan Kopf said in a statement. “He will not serve as guest co-host as we don’t want the ‘equal time’ rules to distract from the real focus of the show, which is to highlight the Jersey Shore.”

The federal rule aims to force broadcasters to afford equal airtime for legally qualified candidates.

But despite billing Christie’s appearance as an extended interview, a post on a Today show website still reads Christie will “co-host” the show for an hour.

By the way, we watched a bit of his interview and it was kind of boring. Maybe it was better that he didn't co-host after all.

 ​H/T politickernj.com

By George! What the Hell is Jeff Zucker Trying to Pull Here?

It appears that CNN Boss Jeff Zucker wanted to hire George Stephanopoulos away from ABC News and give him a show on CNN.

He couldn't get Stephanopoulos, so he has now hired George Stroumboulopoulos. We're guessing that Zucker is hoping the viewers won't notice that George Stroumboulopoulos is not George Stephanopoulos.

Hell...you never know it might work.​

George Stroumboulopoulos is a TV host in Canada and will now have his own show on CNN called "Stephanopoulos".....no wait.... it will be called "Stroumboulopoulos."

The interview show will debut on Sunday, June 9 at 10:00PM but then it will be moved to the hotley watched time slot of Friday nights at 11:00PM.

"Stroumboulopoulos" will tape before a live studio audience (or at least as many live people that can find) in Los Angeles. 

Anchor Shake Up in the Twin Cities

It didn't take long for one Minneapolis station to shake up the Anchor team after a bad May book in the Mornings.

WCCO is replacing morning and noon Anchors Angela Davis and Mike Binkley (pictured) with Jason DeRusha and Jamie Yuccas.

Davis and Brinkley have been doing the morning shift for the past 5 years. ​Both will remain at the station, co-hosting the Sunday-night news editions and filling in for other anchors.

The change comes after WCCO's 6 a.m newscast came in third in demo during the May book.  

In all the other time slots the station is 1st or second. ​

News Director Mike Caputa did his best to spin the demotions of ​Davis and Brinkley.

"This wasn't about performance," Caputa said. "But we want to be in a position to grow. Expectations are high here to do better in the morning."

The Anchor changes will take place June 2 

See What Happens

We'​re guessing (hoping might be a better word) that WXMI (Grand Rapids) Morning Anchor Mike Avery left his desk with his Twitter account open on his computer. 

This is the Tweet that Avery (more than likely a newsroom prankster) sent out around 6:45AM this morning:

Since his co-anchor Sarah Brodhead was very quick to retweet it, we're saying she is the prime suspect. Either that or Avery is the oldest Justin Bieber fan ever. And maybe the first male one at that. ​