Catching up on news that happened while I was occupied redesigning Central Florida’s most popular local Web site (you know which one) … During the Orlando Magic’s amazing run to the NBA Finals, I heard from former WESH meteorologist Chris Castleman. He was with WESH-2 during the Magic’s first run…
Category: WOFL-35
Check digital channel 26 for “Local 6”
If you’re not getting WKMG on your HD receiver, you need to rescan you local channels. WKMG changed digital channels last week. After broadcasting on Channel 58, WKMG is now airing on Channel 26. Sure, thanks to remapping your receiver should always show WKMG on Channel 6, but that’s not…
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…
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….
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…
Who will jump into the pool with Fox 35?
As you may have heard, Fox O&O stations are teaming with other stations in their markets to create a pooled news service to feed news to both stations and cut costs. The latest examples came Wednesday when Fox announced a deal with E.W. Scripps stations to pool resouces. According to TVNewsday.com,…
Fox 35 shuffles anchor assignments
New Fox 35 news director Gavin Maliska is starting to shake things up at WOFL. This week he shuffled the station’s anchor lineup. Mike Dunston, who was on Fox at 5, is now the morning co-anchor with Jacquie Sosa and Heidi Hatch. Former morning anchor Tom Johnson has been moved…
Cabrera leaves WESH, Garofalo and Longo come to town
It’s been a good, long while since I’ve blogged about anything. Buy my resolution for 2009 is to write more — so I’m getting an early start. Here’s some of the stuff that’s been going on recently in O-Town’s TV Land … Meteorologist Ivan Cabrera has left WESH. Cabrera’s agent, Rob…