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• Matt Lincoln Joins WPEC, Takes Over for Pat Murphy

  Matt Lincoln is the new sports director at WPEC, he takes over for Pat Marphy who retired on Monday. Lincon comes to WPEC from WWBT NBC12 in Richmond, Virginia. He was that station’s sports director and weekday anchor.

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• WPEC Sports Director Pat Murphy Signs Off

  Yesterday was WPEC sports director Pat Murphy’s last day. He retired after 18 years at the Palm Beach CBS affiliate, almost 30 years on the air in South Florida if you count his tenure at WPTV. Murphy got a big a send off with staffers gathering to wish him well [...]

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• Kelly Blanco Joins WTVJ as Traffic Reporter

  Kelly Blanco is the newest WTVJ traffic reporter. Her debut was this morning. Blanco has been freelancing for a while before joining WTVJ, working as a field reporter for MSN, Visit Florida and also weekend sports anchor at WQAM 560 Sports Radio.

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• WFOR Not Renewing Shannon Hori’s Contract

  FTVLive reports this morning WFOR anchor Shannon Hori will be leaving the station soon. According to the report management have decided not to renew her contract. Hori has been with WFOR since June 25, 2007 when she took over for Maggie Rodiguez who left to anchor ‘The Early Show’ on CBS. [...]

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• CNBC Acquires Nightly Business Report, Lays Off WPBT Staffers

  CNBC acquired the rights to ‘Nightly Business Report’ in late January of this year and with that the formerly South Florida-based business news magazine seen on PBS affiliates across the country is now originating from the CNBC studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Since its inception in 1978 and until March 4th, Nightly [...]

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• The Sun Sentinel Highlights Recent News Anchor Changes. Mentions Us and Commenters Too. In Print!

  The Sun Sentinel’s Johnny Diaz has a story on the anchor shuffles taking place recently at several of the TV stations in Palm Beach and Miami. And along with taking a look at what’s prompting those changes and how viewers react to them SFLTV got a mention with quotes from two of our readers – [...]

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• WPEC Sports Anchor Pat Murphy is Retiring, Officially This Time

  Last May SFLTV told you that WPEC sports anchor Pat Murphy will be retiring. It took a while, as the station had him stick around for the Olympics and other sports coverage, but come this Monday Murphy will be signing off from WPEC for good. In a story published by [...]

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• Donna Rapado Departs WTVJ

  WTVJ reporter Donna Rapado is no longer with the station as of late last week. No exact info on why yet. Rapado has been reporting and anchoring for WTVJ since November 2010 when she joined from  the local ABC Radio bureau.

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• WPLG Adds Marjorie Mj Acosta to Reporting Team

  A new member has joined the WPLG reporting team, Marjorie Mj Acosta. If she’s looking familiar and you watch WTVJ NBC6 on weekends then you may have seen her anchor and report for Generation Nexxt, a youth sports network that partners with WTVJ. Acosta graduated Miami Dade College with an AA in Mass Communications and [...]

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• Exclusive: WPLG Making Changes to Anchor Lineup

  You know what I said about Jen Herrera being promoted to weekday mornings? Pretend it didn’t happen. Sources inside and outside WPLG tell me station management (and at HQ in Detroit) are testing different people as anchors on the morning team. So at least as of last week Jen Herrera is really in [...]

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