Keeping An Eye on Fay

Florida Prepares For Fay

Posted 8/18/2008 on mediabistro.com: TVNewser

Tropical Storm Fay is moving away from Cuba and heading toward the Florida keys. CNN and FNC carried live a news conference with Florida Gov. Charlie Crist this morning. He is telling Keys residents and tourists to prepare for the potential of a category 1 hurricane when it makes landfall in the next 24 hours. New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media

A Woman’s Wrath !! (sort of….)

Posted 8/17/2008 on GretaWire

Tropical Storm / Hurricane Fay is on her way!! She is likely to really whack Florida if she picks up speed on the warm waters as she spins towards the state. Already she has disrupted one candidate’s plans…read the email I just got from my colleague who is an embed producer with the McCain campaign: From: Oinounou, Mosheh To: Sent: Sun Aug 17 11:09:20 2008 Subject: ...

Fay Headed Toward LatinGossip Headquarters

Posted 8/18/2008 on Latin Gossip

Just a quick programming note… Tropical Storm Fay, which is expected to form into a hurricane soon, is headed toward South Florida. As you all know, LatinGossip.com headquarters is in Miami, but [...]

MyFoxHurricane.com covers T.S. Fay

Posted 8/19/2008 on Lost Remote

The MyFox team and the Tampa FOX station have been covering Tropical Storm Fay’s approach on a multimedia-heavy weather site at myfoxhurricane.com . The site has a ton of information, but I’m most impressed with the active live chat along the side. At the time I wrote this, nearly 2,000 people were chatting about the weather as the storm blew into Florida. Nice way to engage the ...

Fay, Fay — Go Away

Posted 8/18/2008 on afrobella

The good part of living in Miami? The weather! The bad part of living in Miami? The weather. Yeah, we might have sunshiny days when the rest of the US is shivering cold, but right around this time of year I inevitably wind up asking myself, what the heck are we doing in South Florida, where hurricanes are just a part of our lives ? The latest threat is Fay, who apparently is a killer .  ...

TV Blog Coalition: Aug 15-17

Posted 8/18/2008 on RTVW Online

Happy Monday, y’all! It’s time for the weekly TV Blog Coalition links plus a couple of friendly PSAs to start of the week. First, a pre-emptive apology. Posting may be even more sporadic than usual this week as it seems like Tropical Storm Fay is going to breeze through for a visit and I should probably spend some time getting my place ready. Plus I’m supposed to be ...

Sexy Michelle Kosinski Covers Tropical Storm Fay

Posted 8/19/2008 on TV Anchor Babes

She's not a stunning hottie, but you have to respect those reporters, male or female, that go into the eye of the storm to bring us the news. There's something about Michelle Kosinski on NBC reporting from Florida that's just really hot. Forget the mile-high club, imagine gettin' it on in the middle of a hurricane, that's hot... Michelle braces for impact, Screencaps courtesy of Sabrina at ...

Hurricane Fay Kite Surfer Candidate For Darwin Awards

Posted 8/19/2008 on Videogum

Um, you know that hurricane that's going on right now in Florida? Fay? Well this dude tried to kite surf in it, and as anyone could have told him and as he probably thought himself, it was an extremely bad idea: (Via RadarOnline .) You have to do something pretty stupid to be in critical condition but still have CNN put up the video of you doing the stupid thing. I mean, they're not a ...

Gone With The Wind

Posted 8/19/2008 on Infinite Ink

You know, some people just get what they deserve. I hate saying that, but in this case, I really mean it. 26 year old Fort Lauderdale resident, Kevin Kearney, was kite surfing on yesterday as tropical storm Fay was ashore in Florida. Have you seen the video footage of the accident? He is currently in critical condition. Forrest Gump would say, “Stupid is as stupid does,” so he ...

WTSP-Ch. 10 meteorologist Anna Allen leaving and forecaster Randy Rauch to be demoted as Tropical Storm Fay approaches

Posted 8/18/2008 on The Feed

As Tropical Storm Fay turns TV viewers’ attention to weather reports, WTSP-Ch. 10 plans to soon let go meteorologist Anna Allen and demote forecaster Randy Rauch from on-air work. So WTSP will be shuffling forecasters during hurricane season, when local stations compete hardest for viewers tracking storm systems. The moves come during a year of change on the local weather scene, ...