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Sam Champion: Hurricane Irene Headed for The Empire State Building

Chris O'Shea — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:02:43 +0000

Check out this crazy video of Sam Champion detailing Hurricane Irene’s potential direction. He uses Google Earth to show all the various paths that the storm could possibly take, and one of them has it going straight through Manhattan and right over the Empire State Building.

He calls it “interesting.” We call it “We just bought six jugs of water, four packs of batteries and enough toilet paper to last three months.”

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One-time WABC-TV Anchor Charles Perez Blasts Former Colleagues In New Book

Jerry Barmash — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:09:16 +0000

Charles Perez, who only spent two years at WABC/Channel 7, was believed to be groomed for the main anchor gig.

In his new book, Confessions of a Gay Anchorman, Perez discusses his coming out and how his TV gigs were affected by it.

For the chapter on his stint at WABC, (lasting all of 12 pages), however, Perez’s focus was not on his sexuality, at least not on the surface.

But Perez, hardly a memorable name in the annals of Eyewitness News history, took one jab after another at his former colleagues.

“To me it’s not about any of the people I mentioned,” Perez tells FishbowlNY. “It was about how shocked I was to get to a place that I thought was going to be about professionalism and journalism. In my experience, it was about ego more than anything. It was a culture of inflated egos and inefficiency,”

In the book, Perez calls WABC’s shop “by far the most overstaffed facility I’d ever worked in.”

In response, Perez joked, “How many people does it take to put in a light bulb?”

Faced with breaking news, Perez says he was forced to be at the cameraman’s beck and call.

“I could sit down there waiting for a photographer for a freaking hour and a half before he would actually get in the truck and pull out,” Perez alleges. “Everybody was moving like snails.”

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Breaking: GMA Shuts Down Offices After Receiving Letter Mentioning Anthrax; NYPD Investigating

Dylan — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:19:36 +0000

Developing …

ABC News VP Dan Renaldo‘s memo to staffers at 3:02pm:

Today we received a letter at the offices of Good Morning America at 147 Columbus Avenue that mentioned anthrax. We immediately notified the NYPD and they are investigating the situation. Out of an abundance of caution we closed down the area around the office and are awaiting additional information from authorities. As we have more information we will provide an update via email.

Unconfirmed rumor: Letter addressed to Sam Champion.

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