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Posted on April 5, 2012 by Roger Simmons

Some updates for you on some former Orlando TV newsers who are making news … Mike Garofalo, who left Local 6 back in September 2010 to be closer to his reporter wife in Miami, has landed back on the anchor desk. TVSpy.com reports that he joined  WOAI-NBC 4 in San Antonio as morning anchor.  Garofalo…

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Mike Garofalo leaves Local 6; Erik von Ancken on desk

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Roger Simmons

In the summer of surprising changes at WKMG Local 6 continued Tuesday with word that main 6 and 11 p.m. anchor Mike Garofalo has left the station. This switch “started with Mike’s decision,” WKMG GM Skip Valet told Sentinel TV Guy Hal Boedeker. Garofalo was married in October to a reporter at Post-Newsweek sister station…

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You tell us: Eyewitness News or Local 6 at 6:30?

Posted on September 5, 2010 by Roger Simmons

Labor Day will mark the launch of WFTV’s 6:30 p.m. newscast on sister station WRDQ-TV 27. The new Eyewitness News at 6:30, anchored by Vanessa Welch and Josh Benson, will go head-to-head against WKMG-Local 6’s The 6 o’clock News with Lauren Rowe and Mike Garofalo. So Central Florida … which local newscast at 6:30 p.m….

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Bob Frier returns to air December 14 on Fox 35

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Roger Simmons

Some quick updates … Former WKMG-Local 6 anchor Bob Frier, who recently signed with WOFL-Fox 35, will make his debut on his new station Dec. 14, according to station promos. Still no word on how the anchor duties at Fox 35 are going to be shuffled with Frier’s arrival. But it’s great that he will…

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Bob Frier out as anchor at WKMG-Local 6

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Roger Simmons

Bob Frier is out as anchor at WKMG-Local 6. This last newscast will be tonight at 6. Orlando Sentinel TV Guy Hal Boedeker reports the station and the longtime anchor have “mutually agreed to part ways.” New arrival Mike Garofalo will become the main anchor along side Jacqueline London. Garofalo came to the station in…

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Cabrera leaves WESH, Garofalo and Longo come to town

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Roger Simmons

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 Jordan, told Sentinel TV Guy…

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