Browsing Tag WPBF
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22 April 2013 at 10 : 15 AM
VIDEOS: It’s Dancing With The Stars — West Palm Beach-Style!
The Palm Beach Post can't win a Pulitzer Prize -- but it sure can deliver a song and a dance! Two Post employees placed in the Top Three of the yearly Reach for The Stars dance competition and fundraiser April 20 at the Kravis Center for The Performing Arts! (Click on the slide show above for more!) Gwen Berry, the paper's fleet-footed ...
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25 February 2013 at 14 : 40 PM
WPBF’s Oscars Moment: Gotta go to News!
Call it Channel 25's no-no Oscar moment! WPBF-Channel 25 may have violated its contract with ABC last night when the West Palm Beach/Treasure Coast station cut out of the live broadscast of the Oscars a tad early! By some accounts, the station shaved off up to two minutes from the show's credits and last commercials -- a definite no-no in the ...
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7 February 2013 at 14 : 07 PM
TV Big to Woman: There’s no Job — But Let’s Date!
An email sent to nearly a dozen officials at WPBF-Channel 25 has the busy newsroom of the ABC affiliate buzzing. The note is supposed to be have been written by the unhappy husband of a party-loving job candidate! The writer accuses WPBF Assistant News Director Steve Boyer of rejecting his wife for a gig -- then ending up in a romantic ...
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29 November 2012 at 16 : 10 PM
Should Hope be Going Solo?
U.S. soccer Olympic hero Hope Solo's husband is in hot waters -- again! Jerramy Stevens, 33, was arrested in Tampa and charged with violation of probation. Solo is in Ireland with the U.S. National Team and was not with Stevens at the time of his arrest. He spent the night in a Hillsborough County jail and was released this morning on his own ...
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10 October 2012 at 12 : 05 PM
WPBF’s Tiffany Kenney Gets New On-Air Partner
WPBF-Channel 25 has found a replacement for prime-time news anchor Victor Blackwell, who recently left town for a gig at CNN. The West Palm Beach/Treasure Coast ABC affiliate has hired Pittsburgh's WPXI anchorman Todd McDermott to work alongside veterans Tiffany Kenney and weatherman Mike Lyons at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. weekdays. While coming ...
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17 August 2012 at 13 : 37 PM
Curt Fonger to Replace Channel 25′s Victor Blackwell?
Could it be back to the future for WPBF-Channel 25? TV insiders tell me former WPEC-Channel 12 anchorman Curt Fonger, whose contract wasn't renewed at the CBS affiliate last year, has been talking to rival WPBF about a gig. Fonger, who logged in at least 7,000 hours of prime time news in the West Palm Beach/Treasure Coast television market ...
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25 July 2012 at 17 : 18 PM
Victor Blackwell Headed to CNN!
As Gossip Extra reported yesterday, WPBF-Channel 25 prime-time anchor Victor Blackwell is leaving the station. Now we know Blackwell's found a nice landing pad: Blackwell has been named weekend anchor and correspondent for the Atlanta-based CNN! -- Keep up with local news: Click to register for the Gossip Extra alerts By this fall, ...
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24 July 2012 at 11 : 36 AM
Top WPBF-Channel 25 Anchor, Newsroom Boss Skipping Town
Big changes in store for WPBF-Channel 25. Gossip Extra hears that prime-time anchor Victor Blackwell is so desperate to exit the West Palm Beach/Treasure Coast ABC affiliate that he didn't renew his contract. What's more, News Director Kyle Grimes is expected to be gone by mid-August. Several newsroom sources confirm Blackwell is so public ...
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14 June 2012 at 15 : 15 PM
Video: Does Palm Beach Police Officer William Eaton Act Like a Bad Cop?
Gossip Extra's unique look at the firing of Palm Beach Police Officer William Eaton continues with this dashboard-cam recording of Eaton writing speeding tickets to motorists near a Palm Beach school. Neither Eaton nor the motorists are visible, although everyone can be heard. That's because that day, Feb. 10, Eaton was doing his speed checks from a ...
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30 April 2012 at 11 : 36 AM
TV’s Erin Guy, Kait Parker: The Battle of the Belles
The Young Friends of the Kravis Center's yearly Dancing With The Stars-like contest turned into a nail-biter between two competitive TV personalities Saturday night at the West Palm Beach performing arts mecca. WPBF-Channel 25 newbie Erin Guy did a rousing souped-up waltz in which she was ripped out of her basketball outfit by pro partner Greg ...
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19 March 2012 at 11 : 56 AM
TV War: Channel 5 Firmly at No. 1 — Even After Jim Sackett’s Retirement!
Jim Sackett's gone -- and could it be? -- already forgotten? While WPTV-Channel 5 honchos delayed anchorman of 20-plus years Sackett's retirement for months because they feared a steep drop in viewership, the always-tanned Sackett's departure late last year barely showed on the most recent local TV ratings! WPTV-Channel 5's registered a minimal ...
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