CBS News
A North Dakota TV station has fired an anchor who swore during his inaugural anchor desk broadcast Sunday night.
A.J. Clemente was being introduced by co-anchor Van Tieu when he swore audibly during the 5 p.m. edition of the KFYR-TV news in Bismarck. He then stumbled through an introduction while trying to recover from his flub.
Aereo’s honeymoon is over, as broadcast networks re-filed their petitions for an injunction this morning.
As The Wrap reports, ABC, CBS, NBC Universal and Fox Television Stations are among the parties who have asked judges to reconsider the 2nd Circuit District Appeals Court’s decision from earlier this month. The decision came down in favor of Aereo, whom the court ruled was not in violation of copyright law.
The networks’ complaints stem from Aereo’s business model. Aereo provides a live stream of broadcast television to its subscribers via a live Internet feed. The court’s ruling hinged on the fact that Aereo uses an individual antenna for each subscriber; the judges in a 2-1 decision said this constituted a “private” rather than “public” performance, which meant Aereo is in the clear.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A Milwaukee TV station's promotional video of morning show personalities doing the Dougie has been yanked from the station's website.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Duane Dudek noted that one reporter recorded her portion while on assignment at a fatal house fire. He said the video, featuring WITI-TV's Angelica Duria performing the hip-hop dance near a news van, was shot while she was a half a block from a fire that killed three children.
The video, which had the cutline “The Fox 6 WakeUp Crew has a blast doing the Dougie,” also showcased reporter Laura Langemo and anchors Kim Murphy and Shawn Patrick, Dudek wrote. The separate segments were edited together and posted on the station's Facebook page and website Friday. Duria had just finished a morning segment on the fire that day, and recorded her portion on the scene afterward. Duria was apparently listening to music through an earpiece, and was recorded by her station camera operator. (more...)
Columbia Journalism Review | TVNewser | Media Matters
MSNBC’s Christopher Hayes acknowledges that the lack of diversity in the media is a problem. Instead of just talking about it, though, he’s doing something about it.
His weekend morning show "Up with Chris Hayes" has been praised in recent weeks for being “a beacon of diversity.” Hayes, who is about to move into prime-time, tells Columbia Journalism Review's Ann Friedman that he and the show's producers rely on quotas and spend a lot of time discussing the diversity of the show’s guests.
"We just would look at the board and say, ‘We already have too many white men. We can’t have more.’ Really, that was it ... Always, constantly just counting," Hayes tells Friedman.
He has tried to look at diversity from a racial and gender standpoint. "Out of four panelists on every show, he and his booking producers ensured that at least two were women," Friedman writes. (more...)
If this is one of the first steps in rehabbing "Today Show" star Matt Lauer’s image, he’s in for a long, tough road ahead.
That’s the thought I had after reading New York magazine’s detailed look at the Today show, featuring an exhaustive account of the machinations behind the awkward, embarrassing replacement of former co-anchor Ann Curry last year and a tough assessment of how it may have affected Lauer’s future fortunes.
Featuring a group interview with the program’s four top anchors and lots of information gathered from unnamed sources, reporter Joe Hagan paints an account filled with telling details, sharp observations and money quotes.
“They were incredibly lucky to have stabbed in the back somebody who wasn’t in the least vindictive and had the interest of the Today show at heart,” said Pulitzer-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, described as a close friend of Curry’s, in the story. “Everybody at NBC, everybody at the Today show, everybody understood that Ann was kicked out of her position because Matt didn’t want her there,” said an unnamed “prominent NBC staffer.” (more...)
Despite his history as an aggressive and sometimes fiery advocate, outgoing CNN analyst Roland Martin is surprisingly reserved when discussing the cable newschannel’s decision not to renew his contract after six years as a high-profile analyst, often speaking on black … Read more
The National Association of Black Journalists says it’s saddened by KTBS-TV’s decision to fire meteorologist Rhonda S. Lee. In a statement, NABJ encouraged media companies to “allow greater latitude” when employees defend themselves against critics online.
NABJ believes Lee’s managers missed a golden opportunity to initiate a community dialogue about respect, identity and diversity, particularly as it relates to redefining standards of beauty, what is aesthetically acceptable in television news and the value of on-air journalists beyond appearance.
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CNN | Tampa Bay Times
On an election night, one thing you can always count on is CNN coming up with some new off-the-wall gimmick to jazz up its broadcast.
You may recall in 2008 it was holograms, with correspondent Jessica Yellin and musical artist Will.i.am appearing virtually on the New York set.
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