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Will Pipitone turn over Guetzloe files?

January 23rd, 2007

Local 6 Problem Solvers reporter Tony Pipitone has until 11 a.m. today to turn over the personal files he has for political consultant Doug Guetzloe.

Orange-Osceola State Attorney Lawson Lamar’s subpoena ordered Pipitone to turn over 80 boxes of Guetzloe’s business and personal records. The files were given to Pipitone by a man who bought them from a storage unit, where Guetzloe allegedly didn’t pay his rent for storing the items.

WKMG GM Henry Maldonado told the Orlando Sentinel late last week, the station had not decided what to do. "Right now it’s in the hands of our lawyers," he said.

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6’s Pipitone gets Guetzloe’s files

January 18th, 2007

Just when it seems the strange saga of political consultant Doug Guetzloe can’t get any more bizarre, it does.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that WKMG-Local 6 investigative reporter Tony Pipitone has obtained boxes of Guetzloe’s personal and business files, and Guetzloe isn’t too happy about it.

According to the Sentinel, "the records were being kept in a leased storage unit, and when Guetzloe apparently failed to pay his $55 monthly storage fee, the owner of the unit exercised his right to put the contents up for public auction late last year. A man paid $10 for the entire collection — and once he realized what he had purchased, he contacted Pipitone."

Guetzloe said he told Pipitone: "That’s dirty, dirty stuff . . . I can’t believe you involved yourself in something so underhanded and so sleazy."

WKMG GM Henry Maldonado defended the station’s ownership of the files. He also told the Sentinel, "We have been examining the documents — including copies of checks, invoices, memos and other materials dating back decades — to determine what they contain. We usually do not comment on developing stories."

What he didn’t say but probably wanted to: "Just wait until the February sweeps to see what we’ve uncovered!"

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Hispanic network to air on WKMG

January 16th, 2007

WKMG-Local 6 will soon be home to youth-oriented Hispanic programming on its digital subchannel.

Post-Newsweek, parent of WKMG, has signed a deal with LATV — Latino Alternative — to program the digital subchannels of P-N stations in Orlando, Miami, Houston and San Antonio, according to TVNewsday.com

LATV’s music-oriented programing targets 12-34-year-olds. The network was started four years ago by Walter Ulloa, CEO of Entravision, which owns Orlando TV station WVEN-Univision 26 and programs WOTF-Telefutura 43.

WKMG currently airs an automated Web-like page of news, weather and traffic on its digital 6.2 subchannel. Orlando is the 19th largest media market in the nation, but ranked No. 17 among Hispanic TV markets.

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