Right now on Discovery Times channel a documentary called “Breaking News” giving viewers a “behind the scenes look at the news department at Miami’s NBC affliate WTVJ and the reporters covering news stories”
The first part is “Breaking News: Live from Miami”, it’s followed by “Swimming to Miami” at 2pm to 3pm also behind the scenes in WTVJ and their coverage of a confrontation between the US Coast Guard and 6 cuban refugees and their alleged mistreatment
3p-4p an unnamed Denver station gets profiled
then at 5p-6p a repeat of “Live From Miami”
“Live From Miami” looks to have been filmed at the old WTVJ building.
I liked how Kelly Craig proof reads a teleprompter copy and finds errors in the script and leaves it to see if Gerry Helfman would would stumble on the air or catch the error :). Gerry Helfman stumbled and Kelly laughed but all was good and they remained friends 🙂
part 2 – Swimming To Miami
-This part traces the coverage of the cubans who were trying to swim to the beach while the coast guard chased them. Two made it while people on the beach were yelling for him to run as cops were attemting to catch him before he made it to the beach.
-It is an old documentary. It’s all from the old building in Miami and Sky6 is the old chopper that crashed with the pilot and cameraman who were killed in that crash
-Ike Seamans, Andrea Brody, Ari Odzer are so far the ones featured
-Gerry Helfman anchoring the breaking news
-Very intense fast paced during breaking news 🙂
-Andrea Brody gets cought up in traffic on the way to the beach and by the time she arrives nobody’s there
– NBC6 news director wants to exchange video of coast guard spraying with WPLG’s video of the cubans being sprayed by water canons. WPLG declines and 6’s news director concludes Bill Pohovey is a “jerk”
– Andrea Brody’s tape gets lost and she has to talk to fill air time (a.k.a stretch). Martha Sugalsky nearby concludes at the end “that was a long ass stretch”
Live from Miami its my favorite; just because of Kelly i love her, in Swimming to Miami you can see a very long stretch of a female reporter i don’t remenber her name but she’s not at the station anymore, and Martha Sugalsky quotes “That was a long ass stretch” because the guys at the mobile unit didn’t have the video ready for the story, i saw both programs almost a year ago when it aired on Discovery Times, but both were produced on 2000.
Kelly Craig rox. I liked the talking napkin with lipstick on it lol
I like when she and Lonnie Quinn are on together, they make the news on 6 a lot more watchable and less boring.
Please, Quinn is a dip-sh*t. A person who cannot be taken seriously at all.
The shows were well done. I wish it were a series.
ib, just because Lonnie is a joker; doesn’t mean he’s a “dip-sh*t”, yes, he acts pretty jerky all the time but that’s what makes the mornings @ TVJ different from other stations, since some of TVJ’s reporters and anchors really suck, he’s original, he’s not a bad Weatherman and when he gets serious you can really tell he’s doing his job corectly the way it is, like this and last year hurricane seasons the one Weatheman i had to see in the mornings was Quinn, hey that guy busted his a$$ at the Weather Plus desk, i agree w/ Admin; Kelly and Quinn make a great team, i prefer watching them than Elita’s triple 7 boobs!
i will give that elita’s illustrious 7 boobs (as you called) give her no credibility. She has no credibility. Is she not in college to get her met degree?
sorry, I don;t watch news to get some “blonde” bimbo actor jumping around on the set, talking to people off camera. – Just give me facts not all the chit chat and drama. The last time I checked, it was a news show not a bad day on sat. night live. In those regards, he truly qualifies as a dip sh*t.
How can anyone take him seriously?
this is OLD! discovert rebroadcasts this and another one they did at WTVJ…. this is NOT news
Whatever happened to the old studio anyway?
It was destroyed when the old building was demolished to make way for the new courthouse addition and 6 moved to Miramar several years ago.
There’s no question that Lonnie knows not a lick about weather. He’s really there for the look and I guess his personality. I think he holds back what that show can do b/c Bob and Pam are so awesome – what a team. 6’s weather team is a mess as it is…Lonnie sure isn’t helping. Weak link – but every station weather team down here has one….
One thing’s for sure . . . Martha Sugalski looks totally different now.
i couldnt agree with frank more….
lonnie is great!
he wasnt on all last week and the show sucked soo much
he’s back tomorrow morning though!!
lonnie is a love-or-hate kind of guy. i hate him.