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Roger Simmons
Roger Simmons

Birds, Words, Pics + TV

More awards, more Guetzloe, more … fish?!

Roger Simmons, April 10, 2007

> 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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