We pause briefly from our coverage of Orlando TV News for something that follows the news: Saturday Night Live. If you caught Saturday’s show (following WESH 2 News — see, there’s a news reference), you know the host was Zac Efron. Anyone with a "tween" in their house (yep, I…
Top Orlando TV news videos on YouTube
If you’ve checked out the channel pages on this site, you’ll know I have lots of video of Orlando TV — past and present. But as much as I have, YouTube has more. (In fact, many of my videos have been posted by others onto YouTube.) I’ve created a YouTube…
Hawk terrorizes Fox 35 employees — again
You have to be tough to be in the TV news business — dealing with angry viewers, demanding bosses and overprotective hawks. Yep, hawks. Folks at WOFL-Fox 35 are making news themselves after an agressive mother hawk has been attacking employees outside the station’s Lake Mary studios. One recent high-profile…
Digital signals bring good news, bad news
When Orlando’s TV stations — and all others in the nation — finally turn off their analog transmitters on June 12, some Central Florida viewers might be in for a surprise. Because of tower relocations and the switch to a digital signal, many area stations will reach more households over…
News 13, WESH pick up awards
Central Florida News 13 took home three awards from the Florida Associated Press Broadcasters competition on Saturday. Chief met Jeff Day won first place for best weathercast for his coverage of Tropical Storm Fay. Scott Fais won second place for best short light feature about Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon. And the station took second…
New GM hints of changes at Local 6
Former Local 6 news director Skip Valet returned to WKMG last week as its new general manager. He’s replacing retiring GM Henry Maldonado — and it sounds like he’s ready to get to work to push WKMG out of the ratings cellar. In an interview with the Orlando Sentinel, Valet said, “I…
Fox 35’s singing anchors in video
We knew that Fox 35 weatherman Jim Van Fleet could sing, but who knew about some of the other anchors over at WOFL? This clip I stumbled across on YouTube is more than a year old, but still entertaining nonetheless. I believe it was produced by “John” aka Jhbmw007….
New morning show getting ready to air
There’s a new morning show that will go on the air in about a week. What’s different about it? Well, it’s being produced at a newspaper. SouthFlorida.com Live is the brainchild of Tribune Co., owner of the Orlando Sentinel and South Florida’s Sun Sentinel. In addition to owning the newspaper…
No March madness: WFTV still No. 1
The unusual — and basically meaningless — March sweeps ended on Wednesday. To no one’s surprise, WFTV-Channel 9 was once again the Nielsen powerhouse for Central Florida. The ratings numbers show 9’s Eyewitness News was the top choice in households and in the 25-54 demo in all the time periods. WESH…
Blago! WESH gets video of gov at Disney
Score one for WESH. Reports on Thursday had former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich spotted spending time at Walt Disney World — hours before an expected indictment over allegedly trying to sell Pres. Barack Obama’s senate seat. All the local media outlets were looking for Blago — and asking readers/viewers to…