Sports anchor Al Keck says he is leaving WFTS, Channel 28, when his contract ends in August. ...more

July 14, 2009

As the result of dwindling advertising revenues, WFLA, Channel 8, plans to discontinue its 11 a.m. newscast at the end of May. The announcement to end "News Channel 8 Midday" and other changes involving WFLA and The Tampa Tribune were made to the newsroom staff this morning by WFLA News Director Don North and Managing Editor for Online Loren Omoto. ...more

March 31, 2009

The Florida Communications Group on Monday laid off 53 employees and eliminated 12 open positions because of continuing declines in the local advertising market, executives said. ...more

March 31, 2009

The Florida Communications Group Monday laid off 53 employees and eliminated 12 open positions due to continuing declines in the local advertising market, executives said. ...more

March 30, 2009

Sarasota's 24-hour cable television news channel will resume operation at 5 p.m. Thursday, station owner and general manager Linda DesMarais said. SNN, launched by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in 1995, went off the air in January after an attempt to sell the news operation to DesMarais and other investors fell through. A key investor backed out, but DesMarais, her husband, Douglas Barker, and other investors in LDB Media LLC have negotiated the purchase, which should close this week. ...more

February 25, 2009

What's your favorite Super Bowl commercial? Anyone remember the frogs - "Bud," "Weis," and "Er" - from the 1994 game? How about the Budweiser Clydesdales from any year? And there's the creepy talking E-Trade baby or the screaming squirrel (Bridgestone tires) from last year. The commercial with cowboys herding cats sticks in the mind, too. ...more

January 26, 2009

A young boy in a rural Southern town is dashing about on his bicycle, dodging oncoming traffic, when he suddenly drops dead of a heart attack. ...more

October 16, 2008

WTSP, Channel 10, sports anchor Justin Allen has been sidelined in a Boston hospital with a bacterial infection, but he expects to be back in action soon. ...more

October 15, 2008

TAMPA - Longtime WTVT anchorman Hugh Smith died Sunday at Palms of Pasadena Hospital of cancer. He was 73. ...more

December 17, 2007

Making fun of local television news is almost too easy. Since the days of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and on through "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," we've laughed at vapid anchors and reporters, egos run amok, flubbed lines and other embarrassing on-air moments. ...more

September 18, 2007