Just as predictable as afternoon thunderstorms in the summer: WFTV and CBS were the big winners in Orlando in the just-completed May sweeps. The juggernaut that is Channel 9’s Eyewitness News showed no signs of weakness. WFTV’s newscasts won in all time periods — morning, noon, evening and night. According…
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Recent RogerSimmons.com Orlando TV News reports involving WFTV-Channel 9, the ABC affiliate for Central Florida. The station calls its newscasts Eyewitness News. Channel 9’s original call letters were WLOF (We Love Orlando Florida).
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Lost finale tonight: WFTV shifts regular programming
Good news for fans of ABC’s Lost, which has its series finale tonight. WFTV-Channel 9 is shifting some of its regular Sunday night shows to accommodate ABC’s big six hours of Lost programming. The series recap show will air from 7-9 tonight, followed by the 2-1/2 hour series finale. Eyewitness…
Who’s calling people, asking them to watch WFTV?
Interesting item posted on WFTV.com this morning… “WFTV has received several reports of Lake County residents receiving automated phone calls encouraging them to watch a story that aired Thursday night on Eyewitness News. “The story involved a Mount Dora doctor who posted signs on his office door asking people who…
Former Orlando anchor Rondinaro: ‘I’m a budget cut’
Former longtime Orlando anchor Steve Rondinaro has a new assignment: finding a job. Rondinaro, the former WESH and WFTV anchor who in 2007 became the lead anchor and managing editor for WWAY-ABC 3 in Wilmington, N.C., was dropped by the station earlier this month. “By now you may have noticed that…
Sam Champion’s underwater forecast at Epcot
We told you yesterday about Good Morning America weatherman Sam Champion’s plans to give his forecast underwater at Epcot for Earth Day. And that’s just what he did. It’s one part cool, one part distracting. Until you have to listen to someone giving a weather forecast in scuba suit, you…
GMA’s Sam Champion at Epcot for Earth Day
Good Morning America’s Sam Champion was Tweeting Wednesday about his arrival in Orlando and visit to Walt Disney World’s Epcot. The ABC News morning weatherman is at the theme park for Earth Day, and he’s taking a dive in the Living Seas exhibit. (That’s a Twitpic he posted Wednesday afternoon.)…
Switching channels: New faces on TV
Some new and familiar faces in new places on TV … Nancy Alvarez, former member of the Problem Solvers investigations unit at WKMG-Local 6, is returning to Central Florida. She’s the new weekend anchor at WFTV, according to Sentinel TV Guy Hal Boedeker. She left Local 6 in 2007 to…
Wonder why Bob Opsahl never left Orlando?
WFTV Eyewitness News anchorman Bob Ospahl opens up about his long career in Orlando in an interview with Sentinel TV Guy Hal Boedeker. For example, has Opsahl ever considered leaving Channel 9 and Orlando for a job in a larger market? Said Opsahl, “Like most folks in TV news, I…
No retirement plans yet for WFTV’s Bob Opsahl
There’s been a lot of speculation about vetran anchor Bob Opsahl’s future at WFTV. News director Bob Jordan has hinted at pending retirement for his star newsman, and that talk ramped up after new weekend anchor Josh Benson was hired. Well, what about Bob? He set the record straight on…
Not a fan of WFTV’s new weather channel
Some quick thoughts on recent Orlando TV News: Put me down as not a fan of WFTV’s revamped weather channel, 9.2. Sure, Severe Weather Center 9 has forecasts, temperatures and a radar — but just give me the radar. The former 9.2 had the live WFTV radar almost 24-7 —…