We continue our Blast from the Past series with this newspaper advertisement from 1978. It’s for weatherman Danny Treanor on WFTV. Back then, Danny did the weather on the noon, 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts. That was quite a long day! Here’s what the text says: “Rain or shine,…
DirecTV subscribers may lose WESH, CW18
When 2010 turns into 2011, local DirecTV subscribers may have to ring in the new year without a couple of Orlando channels. Hearst Television, parent of WESH-Channel 2 and WKCF-CW18, is locked in a disagreement with the satellite provider. Retransmission of Hearst station signals is at the heart of the…
Website problems for CW18TV.com, WESH.com
Looks like I’m not the only one who has been having problems with his website. On Sunday, when I went to WESH.com to check on something, instead of the homepage loading, I was greeted with a warning page from Google: “The website at www.wesh.com contains elements from the site www.cw18tv.com, which appears…
Bay News 9 joins Orlando lineup this week
The rumors are true: Bright House Networks will be adding its Tampa Bay cable news station, Bay News 9, to its Central Florida lineup this week. The sister channel for our News 13 is expected to go live as early as Tuesday along with a host of other new channels…
Is it the right time for Local 6’s 7 p.m. news?
While RogerSimmons.com was offline with technical difficulties last week, WKMG-Local 6 announced its new 7 p.m. newscast. And I have a couple of observations about that. First, the news: Channel 6 will ditch it’s hourlong news from 6-7 p.m. starting Jan. 3. Instead, it will offer a half hour at…
Anderson Cooper coming to WESH
Anderson Cooper may not be the next Oprah, but the folks at WESH are hoping he’ll at least be the next Dr. Oz. Cooper’s new talk show will be joining the Channel 2 lineup next fall. TVNewsCheck.com reported Wednesday that show distributor Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution added 21 markets,…
Now back to regular programming…
Paraphrasing Mark Twain, reports of RogerSimmons.com’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Your favorite Orlando TV website is back up and running after more than week of technical problems. Here’s what happened: RogerSimmons.com is one of several websites I have, but it’s the one with the most traffic. And with a…
SuperChannel 55 tower may be ready in ’12
Construction on WACX’s Majesty Building, the unfinished high-rise office tower along Interstate 4 in Seminole County, started in February 2001. Does it have a prayer of ever being finished? SuperChannel 55 President Claud Bowers told the Orlando Sentinel that he expects the tower to be ready for tenants by October…
Blast from the Past: Channel 9’s daytime in ’61
We continue our Blast from the Past series with this Orlando Sentinel advertisement for WLOF-Channel 9 from Nov. 1, 1961. WLOF? Yep, you read that right. When it signed on in February 1958, Channel 9 was known as WLOF (which stood for We Love Orlando Florida). It would not become…
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Spotlight on top Orlando TV advertisers
They’re what you watch — or maybe don’t watch — between the news, weather and sports on Orlando TV. Either way, you can’t avoid them. They’re the iconic commercials that dot the television landscape in Central Florida. Orlando Sentinel TV Guy Hal Boedeker takes a look at several of the…