(from FTVLive.com) - Sources tell FTVLive that one SoFlo Anchor is soon going to be looking for a job.?
Word is that WFOR in Miami is not going to renew the contract of their ?main Anchor Shannon Hori.
Hori anchors the 5, 5:30 and 11PM newscasts ?at this CBS O&O. Sources tell FTVLive that the station is not renewing her contract….Cont….
(from WFOR.com) – Dave Game, a longtime member of the WFOR/CBS4 news family, passed away after a long illness on February 5, 2013. A veteran journalist with nearly four decades of experience in television, radio, and new media, he most recently managed South Florida internet operations for CBS, a position that found him playing a vital role in growing CBS South Florida internet properties to a dominant position.
In 1974, Mr. Game started his career in radio at age 18 by supervising the construction and FCC licensing process of a radio station for his college. After leaving college he spent a few years in commercial radio, first as a personality and later as News Director….Cont….
(from GossipExtra.com) – Antonio Mora, a weekday prime-time anchor at WFOR-Channel 4in Miami/Fort Lauderdale, was let go Monday after station honchos refused to renew his contract.
The happy-go-lucky Mora, 57, was the solo anchor of the station’s 6 p.m. news.
Mora didn’t return calls to his Coral Gables home, and his page on the station’s website was taken down first thing Monday morning.
While he refused to discuss personnel matters, CBS 4 spokesman Lee Zimmerman issued this statement: “Antonio has been a valued member of the CBS4 News team throughout his five years here. We wish him all the best in his future endeavors.”….Cont…
(from SFLTV.com) – WFOR reporter Gio Benitez is leaving the station and jumping ship to the ABC Network.
Benitez is joining as a correspondent for the network and according to the announcement sent out by ABC News president Ben Sherwood, he will be reporting on “all platforms” and will be based in New York City. He starts early in 2013….Cont….
(from MediaLife.com) – As one of the largest cities in the swing state of Florida, Miami is seeing a huge amount of political advertising. It is sold out on TV and radio ahead of the Nov. 6 election.
Even after the election the market will remain strong throughout the remainder of 2012 and into next year as advertisers who have been shut out of the cluttered and expensive political landscape return to the market
“This amount of political has caused many advertisers to look at inventory post-election, so demand will continue to be strong afterwards as well,” says Caitlin Zellmann, broadcast buyer at Haworth Marketing + Media…..Cont….
(from SFLTV.com) – Five years after leaving the local news scene Brian Andrews is returning to TV news and WFOR CBS4. A Friday afternoon email from WFOR news director Liz Roldan went out announcing Andrews is back with the station and will be reporting for the “special projects unit”.
Brian Andrews left WFOR in November of 2007 and moved to Bogota, Colombia where he lived for several years before returning….Cont….
(from MiamiHerald.com) – WFOR’s Al Sunshine — yes, that’s his real name — came to South Florida in 1968 to study marine biology at the University of Miami.
But after selling photos to the campus newspaper, The Hurricane, and taking journalism courses, he decided to swap fish and manatees for film and media.
By 1972, he was on the air with WTVJ as a reporter/photographer who could shoot, write and read his own stories. Among his first assignments: the tumultuous political conventions at the Miami Beach Convention Center — the Democrats in July, Republicans in August.
Between the two, he and Deborah Liscomb, the 17-year-old freshman he met on the first day of his sophomore year, went to New York and got married.
Forty years, a slew of awards and a stint with CNN later, Sunshine is still on TV in South Florida, an extraordinary feat in a notoriously fickle industry that favors youth, glamour and fabulous hair….Cont….
(from TVSpy.com) – Josh Benson is joining WFOR, the CBS O&O in Miami, as c0-anchor of the morning newscast.
Benson comes from WFTV, the ABC-affiliate in Orlando, where he spent two years as the station’s evening anchor. At WFOR, he will co-anchor from 5 to 7 a.m. alongside Rhiannon Ally. His first day will be August 27….Cont….
(from MiamiHerald.com) – The biggest change in the TV weathercasting business wrought by Hurricane Andrew when it roared across South Florida 20 years ago this summer? That’s easy to answer, laughs WSVN-Fox 7 meteorologist Phil Ferro: that a newspaper reporter would be calling him up to ask such a question.
“Before Andrew, meteorologists were mostly behind the scenes,” he says. “Now we are definitely right there on page one. If there’s even a little burp in the tropics, we’re up there leading the newscast.”
With another hurricane season about to start, TV meteorologists and their crews are gearing up, devising new graphics, stockpiling historical information, and — their greatest and most eternal challenge — trying to hone in on the fine line between warning their viewers and panicking them….Cont….
Entravision Revenue up 8% in 1Q – (including Tampa’s WVEA and Orlando’s WVEN)
LIN 1Q Revenue Climbs 15% – (including Mobile/Pesacola’s WALA)
Scripps 1Q Same-Station TV Revenue up 12% – (including West Palm Beach’s WPTV and Tampa’s WFTS)
CBS TV Stations Post 2% 1Q Revenue Gain – (including Miami’s WFOR)
Comcast’s NBC Broadcast TV Revenue Up 37% – (including Miami’s WTVJ)
Gray Reports 16% Boost In 1Q Revenue – (including Panama City’s WJHG and Tallahassee’s WCTV)
