WESH 2 anchor Martha Sugalski had some personal “live, local, late-breaking” news at her Seminole County home this morning when a bear broke into her screened-in pool enclosure. “Woke up to a MASSIVE bear in our pool area who broke thru screen and was trying to get into cabinets. Don’t need coffee to wake up,”…
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Recent RogerSimmons.com Orlando TV News reports involving WESH-Channel 2, the NBC affiliate for Central Florida. The station calls its newscasts WESH 2 News.
Malachi Rodgers leaving WESH for S.C., plus other O-Town moves
WESH-2 weekend meteorologist Malachi Rodgers looks like he’ll finally have some weekends off. NewsBlues.com reports Rodgers is heading home to South Carolina to be the new weekday morning meteorologist on WSPA-CBS 7 in Spartanburg. According to his bio on WESH.com, Rodgers’ hometown is Jonesville, S.C. He was “formerly a meteorologist at WIS-TV, WACH-TV, and WOLO-TV…
Catching up: WESH graphics, Jordan’s depature, new Fox 35 news
Catching up on stories missed while taking a summer break … In time for the Olympics, WESH 2 debuted some flashy new graphics and music for WESH 2 News. These graphics replace the standard Hearst TV graphics that WESH has been using for the past six years — and some suspect they will become the…
Bear wanders into downtown, Orlando TV news stations pounce
It was breaking bear news you can use on Orlando’s big four TV news stations Friday night. WESH, WFTV, WKMG and WOFL all spent nearly the first 10 minutes of their 6 p.m. newscasts waiting for a young black bear to fall out of a tree. Holy, Goldilocks! The bear was spotted in downtown Orlando…
WKMG’s newscasts go HD; WESH loses longtime employee
Posted by Roger Simmons Some quick Orlando TV news notes … For nearly three years, WKMG-Local 6 has been the only major news outlet in Orlando not broadcasting its local news in high definition. That apparently changed this week. Nearly six years after WFTV-Channel 9 became the first station in Florida to broadcast its news…
WESH 2, Fox 35 unveil new, improved websites
posted by Roger Simmons There are some new, improved websites in Orlando TV news, courtesy of WESH 2 and WOFL-Fox 35. The new WESH.com site rolled out on Thursday along with others in the Hearst TV chain. The Internet Broadcasting-powered site is a big improvement of the previous version, though the homepage is still a…
Miami anchor joining Fox 35 morning news team
Some news related to Orlando TV newspeople … LuAnne Sorrell will be joining WOFL-Fox 35 as a morning news anchor this summer, her agency — Napoli Management Group — announced. She’s arriving from Miami Fox affiliate WSVN-7, where she is a reporter and weekend anchor. According to her bio, she joined WSVN in 2005 after spending…
Orlando TV news anchors in the news
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…
Back to blogging … why I love Orlando TV news
Yes, I’m back blogging about Orlando TV news. What’s the deal, you ask? I’ve been very busy with my real job and also took some vacation time. Plus, it was good to take a blogging break. But now it’s back to chronicling the news that comes across your Orlando TV sets. Here’s one prime reason why I…
Jim Van Fleet, Guy Rawlings, Mike Dunston leaving Orlando TV news
Comings and goings in Orlando TV news … After nearly a decade with WOFL, meteorologist Jim Van Fleet presented his last forecast on Monday morning. The popular Fox 35 weatherman is heading to WTSP-CBS 10 in Tampa to become the station’s chief meteorologist. On Monday’s Good Day show, Van Fleet said, “It is bittersweet. Fox…