update 9:33pm: so far it looks as though we’re the only ones with this info. WTVJ usually reports local newsies getting in trouble but this time nothing. WFOR hasn’t done it either. WSVN passes on other station’s public personnel matters and has for a while.
And to the best of our knowledge WPLG had no mention of their reporter getting arrested at 6pm.
Anonymous tipster just alerted me that WPLG’s Rob Schmitt was arrested yesterday.
According to the booking info on the Metro-Dade corrections site, Schmitt was booked at 10:29 this morning yesterday on alleged battery/domestic violence charges.
He has been released on his own recognaissance with $1500 bond
more after the jump
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Insider started off the predictions for 2009, I thought I’d give it more prominence with its own post.
So given the developments in the overall TV business, what do you think 2009 holds for local stations in South Florida?
Sound off in comments
update 12/29 12pm: no HD yet but they keep putting up a loop from the new open on the projector screen. Looks very blue with new font which has been used in recent promos and a little similar to the 1998-2001 tube open.
update 10:11pm: couple shots for those who didn’t see it. Sorry about the bad quality don’t have my firewire cable yet for better quality shots and video
see the new look after the jump
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So now that the sale is off, and things are looking up for WTVJ, (kind of…) apparently, Mr. DeMarco Morgan himself wants back in. Here’s the scoop. He algedly made a phone call late Tuesday night to the NBC 6 executive producer, and get this… allegedly wants back at WTVJ to host the 6, 7, and 11 PM news. Ha! Now, the contract details allow for trading of on air talent between NBC O&O stations, but i would be shocked if they let him. He bails out when the times are tuff, and then when everything is all better again, he wants back in? I don’t think so. DeMarco, as of now, is scheduled to started at WNBC a few weeks back.
CBS4’s Shannon Hori gave birth yesterday to twin boys.
The boys named Colton and Caden came out at 6 pounds 4 ounces and 8 pounds 6 ounces! Both well fed and healthy from the get go, nice! And, they’re Capricorns, rock on!
Hori will be back at CBS4 early March 2009
Congrats to Shannon and her husband.
CBS4.com Video: Last night’s newscast
Tony Says Goodbye
Tony Segreto joined the WTVJ news team when he was just 18 years old. Now, 40 years later, Tony Segreto is saying goodbye to the South Florida airwaves after a lifetime of dedication to TV News. In a written statement released on nbc6.net, Tony talks about how working in TV news has always been a dream of his.
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