Darrel Lieze-Adams, news director for NBC affiliate WBBH and ABC affiliate WZVN in Fort Myers, Fla. is going after a competitor again on twitter.
Using the Twitter hashtag #tellthetruth, one of Lieze-Adam’s tweets shows a collection of radar dishes on a tower and asks what is missing? We wrote about it when he did the same thing last year. His claim is that competitor CBS affiliate WINK is exaggerating when it says it has live doppler radar.
What is missing in this picture? #tellthetruth pic.twitter.com/bgTm1BRnxq
Advertisement— Darrel Lieze-Adams (@NBC2END) September 16, 2016
Last year’s tweet about the same subject with the same picture:
I am confused. Where is the LIVE Doppler Radar touted by my competitor? Exaggeration got Brian Williams fired. pic.twitter.com/ExHjXlIhle
— Darrel Lieze-Adams (@NBC2END) July 16, 2015
Now he’s going after WINK’s use of a drone.
Flying their own drone without an FAA license would be illegal! Or is this simply a drone for hire? #tellthetruth pic.twitter.com/qDlqZ0mmQW
— Darrel Lieze-Adams (@NBC2END) September 15, 2016
SW Florida’s ONLY drone owned and operated by a local news station! Some TV stations rent, we buy. #tellthetruth pic.twitter.com/fuzGzoX27m
— Darrel Lieze-Adams (@NBC2END) September 15, 2016
“We typically ignore competitors social media comments,” a WINK spokesperson told TVSpy. “Our focus is delivering the best news to Southwest Florida viewers.”
We asked also asked Lieze-Adams about it. We’ll update when we hear back.
Last year Lieze-Adams also claimed WINK was copying his station.
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery: Apparently WINK likes the “Count On Us” campaign we created in 1997 for NBC2!
— Darrel Lieze-Adams (@NBC2END) July 27, 2015
About the same time his news director was going after WINK, WZVN chief meteorologist John Patrick questioned the CBS affiliate’s claim that it is Southwest Florida’s Most Accurate Forecast and posted about it on Facebook.