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Poor sports and hunkiest hunks

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Orlando Sentinel sports columnist Jerry Greene reports that new WKMG sports anchor David Pingalore has been “delayed” in leaving Cleveland for his new O-Town gig. That has led to a further diminishing of the declining sports product on Local 6. For example, at 11 p.m. Tuesday night there was no sports anchor again — news anchor Bob Frier did a brief sports recap. And on the night the first major-league baseball game was played in Central Florida between the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Texas Rangers, WKMG showed highlights of a Devil Rays-Blue Jays game while Frier did the voice over. (Wow.) By contrast, WESH had sports guy Guy Rawlings anchoring from Disney’s Wide World of Sports stadium — with actual highlights of the Rays and Rangers. …

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Flying saucers! How did stations miss this?

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Actually that headline is a tease. We’ll have more on that later in this post. But first …

> Have you been seeing those promos on Local 6: "Ping! is coming" they proclaim. Yeah, I’m a little slow. I finally put it together with the impending arrival of new sports anchor David Pingalore. So, scratch that off your list of things to wonder about …

> We told you about WESH meteorologist Tony Mainolfi’s 20-day, 20-location trip along the Central Florida coast. In addition to doing his live shots, he’s also writing short stories about the experience. Read Tony’s Scrapbook here. …

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Cleveland anchor is 6′s new sports director

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David Pingalore, weekend sports anchor at Cleveland’s WOIO-CBS 19, has been hired as the new sports director at WKMG-Local 6. Sentinel TV Guy Hal Boedeker reports that Pingalore will join the station in late April.

Boedeker wrote: "David is a creative, aggressive and original sportscaster with a distinctive personality," news director Susan Forbes said in a staff memo. "I firmly believe he will be a factor in redefining the sports franchise not only at this station but in this town."

Pingalore graduated from Jacksonville University, where he played on the school’s Division I golf team through his college years. He interned with WTVT-Fox 13 in Tampa and also worked at WJKS, the former ABC affiliate in Jacksonville. Read Pingalore’s WOIO bio here.

At WKMG, Pingalore replaces Todd Lewis, whose contract was not renewed. If Pingalore needs any inside info on WKMG, he can ask David Wittman. The former Channel 6 anchor is the 4, 6 and 11 p.m. anchor at WOIO.

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Time to smell the money with Ping

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New WKMG sports anchor David Pingalore gets a profile in today’s Sentinel. We find out that GM Henry Maldonado likes Ping for his zany interaction at the anchor desk. "It brings the ensemble cast together," Maldonado told the Sentinel. (If you wonder about the state of TV news, just read that sentence again. )

So far I’m mixed on "Ping." He does bring a lot of energy to his reports (I’m not calling them sports reports), but I find one of his segments, where he insists on folks smelling a $100 bill, a bit obscene. "Here, smell it … Smell it again … Give it another whiff," he urges. Reminds me of that Spinal Tap album, perhaps.

What do you think of Ping? Leave comments below.

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