After spending 40 years in broadcasting — a good many of those years here in Central Florida on the radio and on Channel 6 — Mike Burger is calling it quits. The current weatherman at Dallas’ KTVT-CBS 11 has opted out of the final 19 months of a newly signed…
Category: Orlando Radio
King of Orlando TV? Tom Sorrells, of course
The Orlando Sentinel’s fun summer online contest, the Orlando Celebrity Smackdown, has its championship match up. The winner among all the local television personalities is WKMG chief meteorologist Tom Sorrells. He reached the finals by knocking out fellow Channel 6 weatherman Eric Wilson in opening round, then dispatching Fox 35 morning…
Real Radio’s Shannon Burke in jail after shooting wife, dog
Breaking Radio News: OrlandoSentinel.com is reporting that Shannon Burke of Real Radio 104.1 is in jail today, accused of firing a gun — the bullet from which injured his family’s dog and grazed his wife in the head. Burke, 43, is facing charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and…