Here are WFTV’s and WESH’s promos for their new morning newscasts on their sister stations. >> Click to watch
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The fine readers of Orlando Magazine have once again selected the choices for “Best of Orlando” in a number of categories. Alas, RogerSimmons.com didn’t place among best local Web sites this time, but here are the results for the television categories: Best Local TV Station: (1) WFTV-Channel 9, (2) WESH-Channel 2, (3)…
Adam West, the caped crusader “Batman” who helped change the ratings fortunes of ABC and WFTV-Channel 9 in the mid-1960s, died Friday night at age 88. West is best known as TV’s “Batman,” and the show’s three-season run made a huge impact across the nation and here in Central Florida on Channel 9
WFTV morning meteorologist Joe Smith is getting out of the weather biz … and the TV biz, too. According to NewsBlues.com, Smith has decided to enter the graduate engineering program at Cal-Berkeley this fall. After graduating from the FSU meteorology program, he started out at Tallahassee’s ABC affiliate before jumping…