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Recent RogerSimmons.com Orlando TV News reports involving WKMG-Channel 6, the CBS affiliate for Central Florida. The station calls its newscasts Local 6 News. Channel 6 was the first TV station in Orlando and has previously used the call letters WDBO-TV (Way Down By Orlando) and WCPX

Mowry’s delivery leaves Weech all alone

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The 5 a.m. hour of Tuesday’s Local 6 First News could have been renamed "The Marla Weech Show."

The station’s traffic reporter position is vacant, co-anchor Lauren Rowe was out because she was ill, so it was supposed to be just Weech and meteorologist Larry Mowry on the show. But Florida Today reports that just about 15 minutes before going on the air, Mowry received a call that his pregnant wife was about to give birth. Station management gave him to OK to rush to the hospital, so Weech handled the news, traffic and weather on the show until fill-in weatherman Jerry Steffen was able to arrive about 30 minutes after being called for emergency duty.

But who had the tougher day, Weech or Mowry’s wife? Rowe said this morning that Mowry’s wife gave birth around 7:30 p.m.! But Mom, dad and their new daughter are doing fine, Rowe reported.

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WESH’s ‘bland newscasts’ cited

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"Bland newscasts [that] lack a distinctive style."

That’s how Orlando Sentinel TV Critic Hal Boedeker characterizes WESH 2 News. It was part of a Sunday feature on the state of the city’s newscasts. He says top-rated WFTV "delivers fast-paced Eyewitness News with businesslike determination," and WKMG "has hit on a formula of offering reports that make viewers switch away from WFTV or stay up at 11."

It’s an interesting read. Click here to find out what else Boedeker said about local news.

More notes to start the week:

> Traffic reporter needed, no experience necessary.


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‘Nappy Ho’ ad on Local 6 Web site

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While cruising the Internet on Sunday night looking for items for this week, I came across a slideshow on Local6.com about the "world’s largest Great Dane." While viewing the photos, I noticed the "sponsored links" on the right side of the screen.

Under the label "Ads by Google," the advertisement reads: "Nappy Ho for President. This Ho needs money for 08. Contribute to Bills [sic] ho today!" Then there’s a link to hillaryclinton.com — which did indeed go to the candidate’s Web site.

Now, I don’t blame WKMG for this bit of tastelessness or even Internet Broadcasting, which produces the Local6.com site for the Orlando station. The blame likely falls on the folks at Google, who apparently allowed this to go through on their ad network.

But it does highlight a problem with many Web sites, which essential turn over their national advertising slots to groups like Google — who then program ads for specific topics or locations without the Web site’s control.

It’s just that since we all know the origin of the "nappy ho" comment, it seems an even more egregious mistake for allowing this to show up on a broadcaster’s Web site.

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Wilson says goodbye on Local 6

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WKMG traffic reporter Secily Wilson signed off Friday morning, acknowledging her three years at the station and also former co-worker Jacquie Sosa, who was also recently dropped from the morning show while on maternity leave.

"Today is my last day after being here on the air with everyone here at the Local 6 family. I’m saying goodbye," Wilson said. "I just want to say to those of you who have embraced me over the three years and who have seen me out in the community and just told me what a wonderful job I’m doing, thank you. And for those of you who didn’t embrace me, thank you as well. We always need that in our lives, and I appreciate it. Now, I’m going to spend more time with my girls and go shopping with Jacquie Sosa."

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Can Dr. Phil be a Problem Solver?

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Some quick-hit notes for you today …

> WKMG Problem Solver Mike Holfeld appears on the Dr. Phil show tonight on Local 6 to talk about the case of former Lockheed engineer Allison Quets, who kidnapped her birth twins from their adoptive parents. Not familar with the story? Click here for what Holfeld reported back in February.

> The Don Imus saga had a profound effect on Orlando broadcasting. The Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell reports that a on-air discussion of the New York curmudgeon’s racist comments led to one local radio personality storming out of the studio, quickly followed by another — which left the station scrambling to fill the dead air with a "best of show." Who’s involved? Read all about it here.

> Local stations are required by the FCC to file annual reports on how well they do hiring minorities. These Equal Employment Opportunity reports have been posted on the area stations’ Web sites. Are they doing enough to try to hire minorities? Read the reports for yourself here on WESH/WKCF and WKMG (2007 reports), and WFTV/WRDQ and WOFL (2006 reports).

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More awards, more Guetzloe, more … fish?!

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> More AP Florida broadcast award info has been forwarded. Central Florida News 13 picked up two awards. Scott Fais and Neil Petagno won for best hard news feature for "Miracle Family" and for best sports feature for "Major League Colin." …

> WKMG would love to air another edition of The Guetzloe Files — just in time for the upcoming May sweeps, of course. "If the injunction is lifted, there is stuff in there that’s explosive," Local 6 GM Henry Maldonado told the Sentinel’s TV Guy. Read all about it here. …

> Maybe another good sweeps series would be, When Fish Attack! Central Florida News 13′s David Waters reported the story this week of a 50-something-pound fish jumping into a Brevard County man’s boat and biting him. Ouch! CNN.com picked up the video nationally. Click here to watch this big fish story.

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