According to my KRON spy, management determined that this was not an outside hack but an internal job by a disgruntled employee. (Well no shit, Sherlock)
Says the spy: "Morale could not be worse."
No word yet on who did it but it was someone that morning. Ashley Medina, the GM is said to be really pissed about this but ND, Aaron Pero is surprisingly calm.
I noticed KRON made you remove the shot of the 415 degree's screen shot you had posted.
ReplyDeleteI never did see the BS shot. Just a jpg.img.
Put the screen image up. It was broadcast and in the public domain.
DeleteThe director of the morning news program will take the fall as well the graphics person who put it up, the director in the control room couldn't have missed it.He's probably still laughing because he already had another job lined up at another station.
ReplyDeleteKRON should forward the info to the new station to let everyone know what to expect when the guy gets disgruntled again. Thanks to Google search, the days of relocating away from a bad reputation are long gone.
DeleteThere is no graphic person anymore and hasn't been for years. The Directors are doing about 5 jobs, including graphics, and have very little opportunity to actually see what they're putting on air. Same with master control - they are timing shows, dubbing commercials, tuning in live shots, etc. The ticker gets updated by news staff. It's no surprise it was not noticed by people working on the show for 6 minutes. They are a skeleton crew limping along best they can.
DeletePutting info. about an alleged disgruntled employee on Google will not keep anyone from getting hired. From what we all know about KRON these days, that comment on the crawl was born of someone's sheer frustration with a horribly run station. Not saying it was a smart thing to do, but people have their breaking point. People have done all kinds of things there that you might think "Oh, they'll never work in this business again!," then they turn up at a station across town or doing PR for some big company, etc. Even Pero will probably wind up with another job once KRON decides they want him out.
DeleteNo local TV stations have studio graphics workers anymore. It is all automated. The crawl information is and always been typed up by someone inside the newsroom. My guess is that it was one of the writers or producers.
ReplyDeleteDoes anybody know what time this incident occurred?
ReplyDelete7:30 am on Friday..ran for awhile
DeleteThe one person we know for sure didn't do it...Erica Kato
ReplyDeleteProbably someone who wanted to get back, (and with good reason), at that sick little
ReplyDeleteweasel Aaron Pero. How does that guy manage to keep his job Rich? He must have compromising photos of the big wigs who hold the purse strings over at KRON.
Karma is a powerful thing.
ReplyDeleteAll Medina & Pero know is a Zip Shit & a Fuck You Charlie.
ReplyDeleteSUM TING WONG AT KRON
ReplyDeleteI suspect Brian Shields from the grave!
ReplyDeleteAn FCC complaint works, of course, but it is slow. For faster results, email the screenshot to:
ReplyDeletecguertin@mediageneral.com
Easy for the Director not to notice the crawl content. Probably goes in via a DSK device, not from the control room, and only visable on the OTA display. With all the things a Director has to keep up with due to automation the OTA is the last thing to look at!
ReplyDeleteWhen pepole are treated like slaves and paid similarly it is no surprise that something like this happens
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