If you think you're seeing less sports reported by fewer people on South Florida television, you're absolutely right. My Miami Herald pal Barry Jackson writes Friday that a 30-percent drop in the TV advertising market has triggered layoffs and cutbacks at almost every station. The industrious Barry also has an item on the shuffling of ABC/ESPN's college-football crews. Now, if he'd just review Miami Social, I could go home for the day.
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When I had this wild idea that I wanted to pursue a career in broadcasting(I studied at Miami-Dade and interned at WINZ when it was still a middle-of-the-road or "MOR" station and at WSVN when it was still known as WCKT and racked up local and national Emmies and the Peabody award for its news coverage), I remember when Ch. 7 had a two-member sports department. Morris McLemore, who was this giant man with a big voice and a pleasant demeanor and used to write for the Miami News, read the sports on the 6 p.m. news and Al Gordon was sports producer and film camera operator, IIRC. That was about 1973. With all the sports coverage on broadcast and cable TV, i.e. ESPN, that may be why, on the national level, Keith Olbermann is now hosting the progressive news analysis show, "Countdown" on MSNBC, and, locally, Jim Berry anchors "CBS4 This Morning". (They saw the handwriting on the wall?)
Posted by: Jeff | July 17, 2009 at 09:41 AM