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Orlando TV news anchor Scott Harris passes away

August 29, 2011

Word came this morning that longtime Orlando TV news anchor Scott Harris had passed away. He was 64 and had been battling kidney cancer. “Scott died peacefully this morning at Hospice of the Comforter,” News 13 General Manager Robin Smythe told the Orlando Sentinel. Harris, whose real name was Vincent…

WKMG’s Tom Sorrells and ‘the most important story I’ve ever done’

July 28, 2009

WKMG is living up to its “Local” 6 moniker Wednesday night, taking an hour of prime time to focus on something that impacts Central Floridians nearly every day: Lightning. “Lightning Strikes,” which airs at 8 p.m., is a program that looks how we cope with living in one of the world’s lightning…

WFTV Eyewitness News won’t be going earlier

September 15, 2010

A couple of quick midweek notes… If you’re an early, early bird, don’t expect anytime soon to turn on your TV at 4:30 a.m. and find news on market leader WFTV-Channel 9. “It’s not something I’m doing this fall,” WFTV General Manager Shawn Bartelt told Orlando Sentinel TV Guy Hal Boedeker….

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