CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk How Did 27 Stations End Up With Identical Scripts For a Story About Conan O’Brien? By Merrill Knox on Nov. 4, 2011 - 2:45 PM Conan O’Brien poked fun at content-sharing in local news this week, showing a clip on his show of several anchors repeating the same phrase — “push the envelope” — while reporting on the late night ho ...
ShopTalk | Weather WSBT Scrambles to Find Weathercasters as Two Meteorologists Give Birth By Andrew Gauthier on Aug. 24, 2011 - 5:28 PM This year, WSBT news director John Haferkamp was faced with an unusual problem: the station’s two meteorologists, Cari Peugeot and Abby Weppler, were both pregnant and had due dates within weeks of one another. “When Cari ...
CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk In South Bend, WSBT Promotes Haferkamp to News Director By Andrew Gauthier on Dec. 16, 2010 - 5:51 PM After a long search for its next news director, South Bend’s WSBT decided to promote from within. John Haferkamp, who has been an executive producer at the station since 2006, has been named news director. “We conducte ...