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Annual Study: Cuba Has the Worst Press Freedom in the Americas

By Kyle Munzenrieder Thu., Jan. 26 2012 at 1:55 PM

Categories: La Habana, Media Watch

The annual Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index is out, and Cuba continues to have the least freedom of the press in our part of the globe. No other country in the Americas even comes close to Cuba's lowly ranking. Meanwhile, the United States fell 27 places in the rankings in a worrisome development.
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The Miami Herald Announces Its New Home: Former U.S. Southcom HQ in Doral

By Kyle Munzenrieder Thu., Jan. 26 2012 at 10:55 AM

Categories: Media Watch

The Miami Herald has officially found its new home. The newspaper is moving to the former headquarters of the United States Southern Command in Doral. Publisher David Landsberg sent out a memo to staff this morning announcing the move. The Herald has sold its current headquarters, right off Biscayne Bay in the Omni area, to Malaysian casino developers Genting Corp., and will have to move by May 2013.
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Miami Herald Might Move to Doral

By Kyle Munzenrieder Mon., Jan. 23 2012 at 3:59 PM

Categories: Media Watch, Unreal Estate

Sure, Doral seems like a decent place to run the United States' military operations in South and Central America, but is it a good spot to headquarter a once-proud metro newspaper? The Miami Herald might soon find out. The South Florida Business Journal reports the Herald is now in negotiations to move its headquarters to the Doral location that once housed the U.S. Southern Command.
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WSVN Still Fighting with DirectTV, but Subscribers Will Get to See American Idol and NFL

By Kyle Munzenrieder Thu., Jan. 19 2012 at 5:04 PM

Categories: Media Watch

If you're a DirectTV subscriber in South Florida you haven't been able to see Fox since last weekend. That's because Sunbeam Television Corp., the owners of Fox affiliate WSVN, are locked in a battle with DirectTV over the amount of money the satellite provider pays the station. That means you may have missed some of the NFL playoffs and last night's American Idol premier.

While a settlement hasn't been reached, there's good news: you will be able to get the NFC Championship game and America's favorite fading singing competition through your satellite.

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Where Will the Miami Herald Move? Somewhere in This Inner-City Box

By Kyle Munzenrieder Fri., Jan. 13 2012 at 1:24 PM

Categories: Media Watch

The Miami Herald have sold their bayside building to the Genting Group, the casino-happy Malaysian conglomerate, and today publisher David Landsberg sent out a memo to the staff confirming that they'll vacate their current digs by May 2013.

Random Pixels has obtained that memo, and in it Landsberg lays out a very general area of potential sites for a new Herald HQ. It certainly ain't prime real estate.
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Miami DirecTV Costumers Could Miss NFL Playoff Games Thanks to Argument With WSVN

By Kyle Munzenrieder Thu., Jan. 12 2012 at 4:53 PM

Categories: Media Watch

It's well known that if it bleeds it leads on South Florida FOX affiliate WSVN, but local DirecTV costumers could be missing all that blood and a lot more if the station doesn't come to an agreement with the satellite provider. Channel 7's parent company and DirecTV have until midnight tonight to come to an agreement over retransmission fees or the channel could be blacked out starting this weekend. Yes, the NFC divisional round playoff games are on FOX this weekend. Yes, American Idol premiers next week.
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Plum TV Files for Bankruptcy, Agrees to Sale

By Kyle Munzenrieder Wed., Jan. 4 2012 at 11:06 AM

Categories: Media Watch

Apparently Jerry Power wasn't joking about Plum TV's sad financial state. The company, which produces local television in luxury markets such as Miami Beach and the Hamptons and for a short while was in the magazine business, announced it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Meanwhile, a group of investors has stepped forward to buy most of Plum's assets.
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Cheetah the Chimp Died in Florida, But There's Little Evidence He Was Actually in Tarzan Movies

By Kyle Munzenrieder Wed., Dec. 28 2011 at 12:35 PM

Categories: Media Watch, WTF Florida

To hear the story repeated from fine bastions of journalism like the New York Times, NPR, and CNN, you'd be lead to believe that the chimpanzee who played Cheetah, Tarzan's ape companion in the famed 1930s movie series, recently died in an animal sanctuary in Palm Harbor, Florida. Don't believe everything you read because there's actually little to no evidence that this chimp ever starred alongside Tarzan.
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Miami Herald Has Less News Aggregation Ethics Than Huffington Post Miami

By Kyle Munzenrieder Thu., Dec. 22 2011 at 3:45 PM

Categories: Media Watch

There's a media fight brewing in Miami between the old paper giant and the new local iteration of a quickly growing Internet media monster. Random Pixels blogger Bill Cooke, ever the keen-eyed instigator, noticed that the recently launched Huffington Post Miami was cribbing quite liberally from Miami Herald stories. Cooke reports that quite a few Herald insiders seem to turn their nose down at these "news aggregating" shenanigans. They might have a higher horse to sit on if the Herald didn't aggregate so damn much itself.
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Sid Rosenberg Allegedly Suspended From WQAM for Trying to Sell On-Air Plugs for Cash

By Kyle Munzenrieder Mon., Dec. 19 2011 at 1:05 PM

Categories: Media Watch

The sports radio airwaves beaming through South Florida have certainly been a bit more tame over the past few weeks while shock jock Sid Rosenberg has been suspiciously missing from his WQAM show. The official word was he was taking personal days, which seemed awfully strange considering it's the middle of the NFL season.

Now, Jose Lambiet reports for the Miami Herald that Rosenberg is actually serving a suspension for trying to sell on-air promotions behind the station's back.
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