Local coverage of the Casey Anthony saga continues to go beyond bizarre. On Tuesday, the day an Orange Count grand jury handed down a murder indictment for Casey Anthony, a crew from WFTV was thrown out of a press conference by Anthony’s attorney. At the office of attorney Jose Baez, Channel 9 reporter Steve Barrett…
Month: October 2008
Sorry WESH — NBC pulls plug on WeatherPlus
Anyone with concepts for a new weather slogan or ideas on how to program digital channel 2.2 should contact WESH-TV. NBC has decided to kill its WeatherPlus franchise and informed employees on Tuesday, TV Week reported. The operation will be phased out in stages over the next year. WESH is among approximately 80 NBC affiliates…
WHDO aims for ambitious local start-up
A new local TV station is signing on with a big mission: all local programming in nothing by high definition. That’s the goal for WHDO-Channel 38 (digital channel 42). The plan for the station is to produce a schedule of all local shows and to broadcast them in HD. Some very familiar Central Florida names…