The Video...
/Here is the first couple minutes of Fox and Friends this morning, where Elisabeth Hasselbeck made her debut and they unveiled their new set.
The New Studio 1A
/Fox and Friends wasn't the only one taking the wraps off a new set. Over at 30 Rock, the crew from the Today Show showed off their new digs.
Matt Lauer was not around for the unveiling, he was sent to Colorado to cover the flooding.
Al Roker posted a 6 second tour of the new set on Vine:
Is Sinclair Qualified to Own WJLA?
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Is Sinclair qualified to own WJLA (Washington)?
That's the question that people are not only asking inside the station, but outside as well.
The Rainbow PUSH Coalition wants the the FCC to reject Sinclair Broadcast Group’s effort to buy WJLA.
The petitioned the FCC, asking the agency to hold a hearing on whether Sinclair — which has proposed to buy all seven of Allbritton’s ABC affiliates, including the company’s flagship WJLA, for $985 million — is basically qualified to be an agency licensee.
They want the FCC to investigate in particular Sinclair’s long-time relationship with Cunningham Broadcasting — and into various Sinclair relationships with other companies — to determine whether Sinclair is using those arrangements to evade local FCC ownership restrictions that generally bar broadcasters from owning more than two TV stations in the same market.
More on what they have to say about the deal after the jump.
Read MoreCBS O&O's Get New Graphic Package
/The CBS O&O's are getting a new look graphic package. Here is a look at what some of them will look like:
H/T Newscast Studio
Reporter Turns to Twitter to Find Hit and Run Suspect
/Reporters use Twitter for many things. They use it to find stories, promote their stories and to blow off steam.
One Reporter has turned to Twitter to find the person that ran down his wife in a hit and run.
NFL reporter Jason La Canfora tweeted on Friday in an effort to spread the word about a hit-and-run suspect responsible for putting his wife in the hospital.
Shortly after 10 a.m., La Canfora tweeted: “Let me catch the scumbag who is trying to get away with the hit and run on York Rd in Towson from a half hour agao. You will pay.”
La Canfora has more than 330,000 Twitter followers, and his initial tweet received more than 100 retweets.
Hours later, he tweeted again, this time with a link to a news report from The Baltimore Sun.
His wife Lauren was seriously hurt in the crash, but was finally discharged from the hospital.
And while while no follow-up report has indicated a suspect has been located, thanks to the power of Twitter, people in the Baltimore-area will undoubtedly be on high alert for a “white four-door foreign vehicle” with “hood and bumper damage” and a temporary Maryland tag.
H/T CBS DC
We're Sorry You Had to Watch That
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While many of you get to sit down on Sunday afternoon and watch NFL professional football, we here in Jacksonville are stuck watch the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The Jags are so bad that I think a high school team could beat them.
But not only are Jacksonville residents stuck watching that awful excuse for a football team, Orlando viewers get stuck with the game as well.
And WKMG in Orlando actually apologized to the viewers because they were stuck watching the Jacksonville Jokes.
WKMG issued an on-air explanation for why it aired the struggling Jaguars while many NFL fans probably would have preferred seeing the Denver Broncos-New York Giants game, a possible Super Bowl preview featuring Peyton and Eli Manning.
WKMG TV issued the scrolled message on Sunday. It read that NFL policy states the station must carry all Jags away games. The end of the message said: "We apologize for any inconvenience.''
Viewers then took to Twitter to remark on what many saw as an apology from the station.
But WKMG vice president and general manager Skip Valet says the arrangement is nothing new. He says for nearly two decades Orlando has been designated the secondary Jaguars market and has carried all the away games. As he put it: "I know it's frustrating, but as a CBS station in this market you have to carry the away games.''
We can't blame Valet, anyone stuck watching that team. we feel sorry for them as well.
H/T ESPN
Fox Says Sorry for Bradshaw's F-Bomb
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Fox Sports 1 was trying the old sneak peak behind the scenes , which has become popular for networks.
It's where they comeback from a commercial break for a few seconds and you see the hosts preparing for the next segment, before they then cut back to another commercial break.
Someone forgot to Hall of Fame Quarterback turned broadcaster Terry Bradshaw that the mics would be hot.
Bradshaw threw down a big old F-bomb while talking with Jimmy Johnson.
Fox Sports 1 apologized in a Tweet “to Terry and viewers” for the slip which was unplanned and caught without Bradshaw’s knowledge, adding “We are reviewing our procedures to make sure this does not happen again.”
The F-Bomb video is up after the jump.
Read MoreThe Top 5 Most Read Stories for the Week
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Here are the Top5 Stories that you guys clicked on the most last week, which by the way was another record week for traffic to FTVLive.
Let's roll with the countdown:
No. 5 - SEX OR SLEEP? ABC'S NEWSMAN'S WIFE WILL TAKE THE LATTER
No. 4 - WHAT'S UP WITH YOU DUDE? VOL. 8
No. 3 - CANDY ARM
No. 2- I'M ON?! NOW?!
And the most clicked on story in the past week was: LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE
Back on in Jax
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Anchor Joy Purdy was on the air in Jacksonville. She left, then came back, then left again, then came back, then left again and now she is coming back again.
According to a station's news release,
Purdy is rejoining WJXT and will anchor weeknights at 5:30pm, 6:30pm and 11:00pm with Rob Sweeting.
Joy was a weekend anchor and reporter at WJXT from 1995-2000. She left WJXT in 2000 to anchor newscasts at WFOR in Miami. After leaving television earlier this year, she spent time with her young children and saw her stepdaughter graduate from the University of North Florida. Now Joy is returning to television news.
When Purdy came back from Miami, she was anchor across the street at WTLV in Jacksonville.
The interesting thing is that the WJXT release doesn't even mention the fact that she was a one time anchor at the competition. They have no problem using the call letters of WFOR in Miami, but not of their competitor. So the station just left out that fact.
Guess it's now time for the obligatory sound bites:
"We’ve been looking for just the right person to join Mary Baer, Tom Wills and Rob Sweeting in the evenings. Joy is like so many of us, trying to find the time to balance all the things important in life between home and work. To have her back with her original TV family at The Local Station and bring that perspective to our viewers who are trying to do the same thing is the perfect match," says Vice President and General Manager Bob Ellis.
Ms. Purdy commented, "I was able to spend important time at home with my baby. She is now a toddler, sleeping through the night, eating table food, and learning a lot from her older 3-year-old sister! Now that things have calmed down at home, I look forward to rejoining an incredible news team who are like family to me!"
Jodi Applegate: The Man that Raised Me was Not My Dad
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Longtime NY Anchor Jodi Applegate made a startling confession on WLNY's show 'on the Couch.'
Trisha Goddard was on the show and talked about how she found out that the guy she thoughts was her Dad, wasn't.
Goddard said that "after my mother passed away, the man I had been told was my father sat down with me and my husband and said ‘I’m not your dad, I’ve known from the minute you were born.”
The story hit home for Applegate.
“You know what? I have a similar thing,” Applegate said. “I was led to believe me that the man that raised me — and I found out after my mother died that [he wasn't my father]. But I feel like he’s my father cause he did the hard work of raising me. Ultimately it’s not about the DNA.”
The clip after the jump.
Read MoreSex or Sleep? ABC's Newsman's Wife will Take the latter
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ABC's Bob Woodruff's wife Lee defiantly enters into the world of too much information in an article she pens for Ladies Home Journal.
Woodruff says that after 25 years a marriage, sex just isn't the same and she rather sleep than take the time to do it.
She writes:
"Somewhere between the midnight feedings and work deadlines, the chasm grew between my husband's needs and my desire. He once joked that he has the strength of 10,000 men after sex, and it seems to be true. So, like many a wife before me, I am not beneath doing it even when I don't feel like it just so he'll use some of that postcoital power to get the household chores done. (Unclogged drain joke, anyone?) There have been times I've even faked my own pleasure (oh, please, we've all done it) so I can just go to sleep already. But honestly, when things get going, once the motor turns over, well, it's pretty enjoyable on my end, too. It's getting there mentally that's the problem. Many days my libido feels like a shrunken head."
But, Woodruff says that she did try some role playing games after Bob's serious injury while covering the news in Iraq.
Lee says one of her friends sent me a French maid costume with the message that it could help get better.
Lee writes:
"I was so unenthusiastic about role-playing it took at least a month before I got the nerve to show Bob the costume. I had been waiting on him hand and foot as well as caring for our children, all while trying to act cheerful and lift his spirits. Flouncing around in a lace-up, cleavage-baring mini was not on my list of care-giving duties. But when I pulled out the costume and a feather from the black mules got stuck in my mouth, we both giggled. And then there it was, the flicker of our old selves, ignited by the sexiest gift a long marriage has to offer -- a shared sense of humor.
"Put it on!" he begged with a smirk. So I did, and as I pranced around, half-horrified that a child might enter, we convulsed into genuine belly laughs. What happened next is strictly confidential."
Not sure about the ladies, but any guy reading the article has to cringe for Bob.
Just saying....
H/T Alissa Krinsky @TVNewser
Replacing Babs on The View?
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As the Deathwatch for Katie Couric's talk show continues to heat up, it looks like she may already have her next gig lined up.
The NY Daily News says that “Katie” will likely be canceled by ABC this winter — but viewers could soon see the peppy TV queen replacing Barbara Walters on “The View.”
“Katie,” which just started its second season, isn’t attracting a big audience despite efforts by network executives to make it more gossip-centric.
“They realize it will never be a success and ratings are down drastically from last season,” says our tipster. “The ABC development team has been working nonstop on new talk show pilots and are looking at high-profile names to replace her, hopefully by January.”
Talk about good timing — ABC heads happen to be in discussions to find a replacement on “The View” for soon-to-retire Walters.
“Katie may ultimately replace Barbara when she retires,” sources tell the Daily News.
It's 8:00... Do You Know Where Your Demos Are?
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Once again, viewers were not "All In" when it came to watching MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes.
In fact most of the demos tuned out on Wednesday night.
Haye's show ranked as one of the lowest across MSNBC in total viewers, with 418k, but he also fell below 100k in the 25-54 demo, racking up a mere 89k, the second-lowest in all of cable news.
Luckily for Hayes, Ed Schultz also works at MSNBC and he could pull in just 78K in the demo.
Thanks to Ed, Chris stayed out of the ratings basement.
But just barely.
H/T Mediaite
Fake TV Producer Busted by Police
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It was a good scam, right up until when she got caught.
Police say a Miami woman was posing as a television producer and duping customers into believing that their businesses would be featured in exchange for paying a one-time fee.
It's the same gamut that many TV stations around the country run. The problem in this case, the woman did not work for a station and the programs see sold, never aired.
Cops arrested Sandra Bullock look-a-like Jessie Alexander are charged her with on one count of organized scheme to defraud and four counts of obtaining property by false personation.
Palm Beach police said they received a complaint about Alexander in June from Linda Gary, the owner of a Worth Avenue real estate firm.
Gary told police that Alexander claimed Gary's business was chosen to be featured on a program called "Best of the Palm Beaches" on WFLX FOX 29. For a one-time fee of $3,500, Alexander told Gary, she would indirectly receive $47,000 worth of publicity from the show after it aired May 19, police said.
After the show never aired and Gary's request for a refund was ignored, she called police.
An investigation uncovered that several other Palm Beach businesses had fallen victim to Alexander, police said.
The general manager of FOX 29 said Alexander wasn't affiliated with the station and did not have permission to use the station's logo, which was on the agreements, police said.
It was discovered that almost $24,000 had been deposited into Alexander's bank account, police said.
H/T WPBF
Hartford Stations Can't be Happy with This Twitter Account
/It appears that someone is not really happy with WFSB in Hartford. The person(s) setup a fake Twitter account called @WFSBFAKENEWS with the tag line "Fake news from Connecticut's most watched news station. We fabricate stories better."
Then the Tweets take some shots at the station's coverage and the station's app with the Tweeter says bombards you with ads.
How long before WFSB is petitioning Twitter to get this account pulled?
3.....2.....
Sexting Hoda
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Today Show co-anchor Hoda Kotb has had to change her phone number after her personal number was accidentally broadcast on-air during a segment showing off the new Samsung smart watch.
Hoda told Page Six that she kept the phone, with more than 2,000 texts.
“I hope it’s not porn,” she said going through them randomly. “There was only one porn I saw. Someone had to text his junk because that’s what people do.”
Ummmmmm...... Sorry Hoda, I thought you and I had something special.
My bad.
