Watch below as WTVT reporter Charley Belcher gets knocked down and then falls onto a kid during a live shot. Belcher was reporting a story about autism and the benefits of skateboarding, at a local Tampa skate park. He wasn’t fast enough to get out of the way of one of the skater kids. A kid runs right into Belcher, knocking the nearly 300lb reporter right on top of him. Belcher and the kid are fine. Enjoy the carniage from WTVT and a third party perspectives.
(from OrlandoSentinel.com) - WKMG-Ch. 6 will be the setting for two political debates to be broadcast statewide before the August primary, the Orlando station announced today.
Democrats Jeff Greene and Kendrick Meek, who are running for the U.S. Senate, will meet Aug. 10.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum has agreed to an Aug. 11 debate. But WKMG said Rick Scott hadn’t confirmed his participation yet.
The debates will be carried by WKMG, WPLG in Miami, WJXT in Jacksonville, WPTV in West Palm Beach, WFTS in Tampa, WCTV in Tallahassee, WJHG in Panama City and WINK in Fort Myers. WKMG said that stations in Gainesville, Sarasota and Pensacola are likely to air the debate.
Scott and McCollum have agreed to an Aug. 2 debate in Miami hosted by Univision and to an Aug. 5 debate in Tampa hosted by Fox station WTVT….Cont….
(edited from SFLTV.com) - West Palm Beach’s WPBF petitioned the FCC and won exclusivity rights against Miami’s WPLG in Belle Glade, Delray Beach, Greenacres City, Palm Beach Gardens, Riviera Beach, Wellington and West Palm Beach to carry the ABC network.
WPLG was available in those markets on the Comcast system (on channels between 20-30) alongside WPBF but WPBF sought a waiver from the FCC that prevented cable operators from deleting duplicate programming of “significantly viewed” stations. The FCC granted the waiver because no opposition to the petition was received (did any one out there even know of it?) and because it found that WPLG was no longer “significantly viewed” over the air.
According to FCC rules for a TV station be considered significantly viewed it must have 3% share of total weekly viewing hours in the market and 25% net weekly circulation share….Cont….
