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	WTVT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		WTVT is an atypical FOX station as it focuses on news coverage and not off-network sitcoms and syndicated shows like many other FOX stations.
		In 1958, WTVT became the second station in the country to introduce daily editorials, and the first Florida station to run an hour-long news block: 45 minutes of local news combined with the then-15-minute CBS Evening News.
		WTVT began to adopt its current logo, which is similar to that of the Fox News Channel, in December 2005 as part of a new 11:00 newscast, although it did not completely switch to it until February 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/WTVT (1834 words)

	Monsanto rBGH
		That, according to Florida TV station WTVT, was why it hired the husband-and-wife team with much fanfare in November 1996 to head the station's news investigative unit.
		In a news release, WTVT has attributed the firings to "journalistic differences" that "could not be resolved despite the station's extraordinary efforts to complete this story.
		In court filings, WTVT says that its "editorial discretion and judgment should not and cannot be the subject of second-guessing by a judge or jury, consistent with the First Amendment."
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Environment/Monsanto_rBGH.html (1871 words)

	March/April 2001
		Akre and Wilson were convinced that a frightened and intimidated WTVT was forcing them to make misleading alterations and gut their stories to protect Monsanto.
		At the end of 1997, WTVT terminated Akre's and Wilson's contracts and the two filed a novel, and for journalists unprecedented, lawsuit against the station.
		A month after Akre and Wilson filed their suit, WTVT did broadcast what seemed to this observer to be a strong and effective three-part investigative series on the subject, produced by a different reporter, Nathan Lang.
	archives.cjr.org /year/01/2/grossman.asp (1071 words)

	Tampabay: Reporters sue WTVT, say story suppressed
		WTVT officials denied the couple's claims, issuing a two-page news release that said, in part, "The station categorically denies that it ever asked Wilson or Akre to include false information in the piece.
		The couple maintains WTVT eventually fired them for fighting attempts to water down the stories, which repeated criticism of the rBGH product Posilac and cited concerns from some experts that milk from such cows raises risks for breast cancer, colon cancer and tumors in women who breast-feed.
		The couple's lawsuit maintains WTVT executives and a Fox network attorney encouraged inclusion of statements from Monsanto representatives that the reporters knew were false and later offered to pay their salaries for the balance of their two-year contracts -- an amount topping $120,000 -- to buy their silence on the issue.
	www.foxbghsuit.com /spt0403.htm (835 words)

	Tampabay: Reporter quits TV job, keeps radio gig
		Alexander hasn't appeared on WTVT since a May 31 incident in which she was cited for careless driving after leaving the scene of an accident in St. Petersburg.
		Officials at WTVT declined to comment on whether Alexander was asked to leave the station or whether her recent personal troubles contributed to her departure.
		WTVT also featured her in brief announcements outlining the station's daytime and prime-time programming.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/06/25/Tampabay/Reporter_quits_TV_job.shtml (725 words)

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		WTVT represents that the average increased to 9 stories per week in 1993.
		WTVT, WFLA-TV, and WTOG have demonstrated that the communities here in question are logically part of their ADI markets under the factors specified in the 1992 Cable Act, while WFTS has not met its burden in this regard.
		WTVT has a 15 total share and a 79 percent weekly circulation figure for cable viewing and a 20 total share with a 65 percent weekly figure for noncable coverage.
	www.fcc.gov /Bureaus/Cable/Orders/1996_TXT/da960761.txt (1918 words)

	WTVT
		In 1958, WTVT became the second station in the country to introduce daily editorials.
		By 1962, WTVT had overtaken WFLA, also owned by a newspaper (the Tampa Tribune) as the highest-rated station in Tampa Bay, a position it held for over a quarter-century.
		By 1993, WTVT was pre-empting CBS News This Morning for local newscasts, as well as all but one hour of Saturday cartoons.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/w/wt/wtvt.html (1588 words)

	Steve Wilson and Jane Akre: "Cheap, false martyrs"? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A WTVT lawyer, Greg Jones, testified in the last week that at least two station news executives had become concerned over the originality of the Wilson-Akre report after the first draft was submitted in February 1997.
		As I learned with some disgust, the whole purpose of the meeting was to prep me for when they ejected from WTVT so that the Weekly Planet could carry their water.
		WTVT lawyer Jones remarked at the trial that Wilson didn't want to do journalism, but "wanted to tell viewers what to think." Similarly, Wilson wanted to tell me what to say, and I wouldn't.
	www.milkismilk.com /wilson-akre-cheap-false-martyrs-aug2000.htm (1219 words)

	Creative Loafing - Weekly Planet Tampa: Talk Of The Town: News Feature: Bogus Crusade, Deceitful Crusaders
		All WTVT wanted was to include Monsanto's position, for fairness and to protect the station from a libel suit -- standard operating procedure in investigative reporting.
		WTVT has had a long and strong reputation for investigative reporting, which is why Wilson and Akre were hired.
		Instead of gut-punching news, WTVT and its former reporters ended up in court.Each reporter could have won on two whistleblower points -- that the station had fired them for complaining about news distortion, and that the station had fired them for threatening to go to the FCC.
	www.weeklyplanet.com /2003-10-16/news_feature.html (2536 words)

	Artsandentartainment: WTVT No. 1 in key TV viewer group
		Among viewers 25 to 54, WTVT ranked No. 1 from sign-on to sign-off with a 3.1 rating, followed closely by WFLA's 3.0 and WTSP's 2.3.
		In addition, WTVT emerged as the leader among newscasts aired between 5 and 6 p.m., ahead of WFLA and WFTS-Ch.
		From 6 to 6:30, WTVT's news posted a 3.7 rating, followed by WFLA (3.6), WTSP (2.5) and WFTS (1.5).
	www.sptimes.com /2003/12/16/Artsandentartainment/WTVT_No_1_in_key_TV_v.shtml (398 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> WTVT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		}} WTVT is a television station in Tampa, Florida.
		http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/pages/Weather/Detail?p16Params=56420@@1@@EN-US@@TSTY@@30004@@/Weather/Detail@@/Weather/Index&pageId=9.1&p21Params=c@@4@@30004@@Top%20Weather%20News@@/Weather/Detail@@/Weather/Index WTVT was also one of the first to use computer graphics in weather forecasts in the late-1970s, which they originally called "Weathervision" (no relation to the weather reporting company of the same name).
		The station was the first Fox O&O to use this logo style, which is gradually being adopted by its sister stations in other markets.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/WTVT (1656 words)

	Role reversal (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Wilson and Akre claimed they were fired by WTVT because they threatened to tell the Federal Communications Commission that station management had distorted the news in violation of federal regulations.
		Wilson and Akre’s beef with WTVT grew out of their attempts to report on bovine growth hormone (BGH), a controversial substance given to cattle.
		The journalists piqued the interest of other journalists, and their conflict with WTVT and Fox was featured in articles and broadcast reports.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=5682 (1464 words)

	WTVT TV 13 - TV station in Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida USA covering Tampa/St. Petersburg general entertainment at ...
		WTVT TV 13 is a TV station in Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida, USA covering general entertainment.
		WTVT TV 13 is an affiliate of the Fox television network.
		WTVT TV 13 contact information is available to Mondo Times Advanced and Professional Members.
	www.mondotimes.com /1/world/us/9/553/1534 (120 words)

	New Radar System Lets Fox 13 Reign In Weather Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sitting atop the 250-foot SkyTower outside the WTVT studio on Kennedy Boulevard is a dish that's 20 feet in diameter and spins around every 30 seconds, sending out an intense radar beam to bring back high-resolution images.
		It also may give WTVT an edge in local bragging rights and something that can be promoted during hurricane season.
		WTVT General Manager Robert Linger declined to say how much WTVT paid for the megawatt installation.
	www.tbo.com /entertainment/tv/MGB9IFCOXNE.html (785 words)

	foxBGHsuit/Update Page
		WTVT Anchor Kelly Ring: The Hillsborough County jury took nearly six hours to return the verdict in the case.
		According to court testimony, Akre told WTVT management she’d notify the Federal Communications Commission of the airing of an invest report which she felt was untrue and against an FCC policy banning the intentional falsification of the news.
		WTVT Anchor Kelly Ring: Jane Akre’s attorneys are undecided about appealing the first part of her claim denied by the jury.
	www.foxbghsuit.com /transred.htm (878 words)

	Unsigned Letter From Fox 13 News to a Listener of Lutz Community Radio Indicates Collusion With FCC
		Please be advised that there were four (4) news stories broadcast by WTVT.
		WTVT's policy is to assert its privilege under the Florida Shield Law, and to decline to produce any such out takes requested.
		In any event, we have checked and WTVT does not have any out takes as described in and sought by your request.
	www.criminalgovernment.com /docs/wtvt_to_pk.html (160 words)

	Suing The Boss - Controversial Tampa TV Story Goes to Court (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		They sued WTVT for allegedly asking them to lie on air, then dismissing them when they refused.
		WTVT executives deny they ever asked the reporters to lie and maintain Akre and Wilson were shoddy journalists who refused to or were unable to substantiate their report.
		She was troubled by allegations that the hormone was "cancer-causing" and "crack for cows," says Kawalerski, who left WTVT in October 1997 and now owns a Miami agency representing television managers.
	www.milkismilk.com /suing-the-boss-march1999.htm (1290 words)

	WTVT News1
		WTVT was committed to covering the news in a professional, responsible manner.
		There was barely a news department when Walter Tison's Tampa Television Company launched WTVT in 1955.
		Teletypes and facsimile machines feed a non-stop stream of headlines and stories, which were edited to length and read by Channel 13's original 6pm anchor, attorney Landis Wilkinson.
	www.big13.net /news/wtvt_news1.htm (473 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In September 1997, WTVT notified Akre and Wilson that it was exercising its option to terminate their employment contracts without cause.
		The jury rejected all of Akre’s claims except her claim that WTVT retaliated against her in response to her threat to disclose the alleged news distortion to the FCC.
		While WTVT has raised a number of challenges to the judgment obtained by Akre, we need not address each challenge because we find as a threshold matter that Akre failed to state a claim under the whistle-blower's statute.
	www.electricarrow.com /CARP/agbiz/224.htm (3279 words)

	foxBGHsuit/May21Release:WTVT Notes Suit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		For the first time on the air last night, WTVT Channel 13 acknowledged a lawsuit by two of its former reporters and those journalists have responded with a demand for a retraction or clarification.
		It was that story at the heart of a year-long dispute that led WTVT to fire its investigative reporters Steve Wilson and Jane Akre last December.
		Fox 13’s new investigative reporter Nathan Lang was assigned to report on the controversy just earlier this month, nearly two months after his predecessors filed suit and established an Internet web site about the case which reveals details of the BGH story and how it was handled by Fox.
	www.foxbghsuit.com /jasw0521.htm (425 words)

	The Animals' Agenda Online: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Secure with the journalists' expertise from 48 years of cumulative experience, WTVT blitzed the Tampa Bay area with radio ads, urging viewers to tune in to the four-part series that was scheduled to begin on February 24, 1997.
		WTVT management then offered the reporters $250,000 to leave the station quietly, something that Akre says she could not do.
		In May 1998 WTVT finally aired a series on rBGH that was assembled by its new investigative reporter, Nathan Lang.
	www.animalsagenda.org /articledetail.asp?menu=News&NewsID=455 (828 words)

	Corporate Predators / The More You Watch, the Less You Know
		The journalists say they were fired from the Fox-owned WTVT in Tampa after completing a four-part series on BGH in the Florida milk supply.
		According to Wilson, on April 16, 1997, WTVT's vice president and general manager, David Boylan, told Wilson and Akre "you will either broadcast this story the way we are telling you to broadcast it, or we will fire you in 48 hours."
		In a two-page statement, WTVT said that it "ended the employment of the Wilson/Akre team when it became apparent that their journalistic differences could not be resolved despite the station's extraordinary efforts to complete this story."
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Book_Excerpts/MoreYouWatch_CP.html (738 words)

	A WHISTLE IS HEARD. \| Information > Publishing Industries (except Internet) from AllBusiness.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		If you're Jane Akre, late of Fox-owned WTVT in Tampa, Florida, you win a $425,000 jury award in what many believe to be the first whistleblower case ever brought by a reporter against a media company over news content.
		WTVT later opted not to renew their contracts, and ran its own piece on the hormone.
		Their claim: WTVT had fired them because they'd threatened to go to the FCC.
	www.allbusiness.com /periodicals/article/680535-1.html (503 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Akre and her husband, Steve Wilson, were fired from Tampa, Fla., FOX affiliate WTVT in December 1997 because the two refused to broadcast a story they knew to be false and misleading.
		When Steve and Jane were hired by Tampa, Fla., FOX affiliate WTVT in December 1996, Steve was to be a part-time investigative reporter providing programs for key ratings periods known as “sweeps,” and Jane was hired full-time as an investigative journalist and weekend anchor.
		According to Wilson, WTVT promised that when their stories generated the inevitable heat and pressure from the subjects of their investigative reports, station managers would stand up and support them and ultimately broadcast the truth.
	www.mediabypass.com /archives/jan-01.htm (1027 words)

	Artsandentertainment: Ch. 8, Ch. 13 in fight for top ratings
		And this time around, they told much the same story as the more general household ratings released a few weeks ago: that much of the local news race in key age groups was a competition between NBC affiliate WFLA-Ch.8 and Fox affiliate WTVT-Ch.
		WTVT came in a close second in both categories, followed by CBS affiliate WTSP-Ch.
		Among newscasts, WTVT did best in the morning, beating WFLA among viewers age 18 to 49 and tying the NBC station with the 25 to 54 crowd at 5 a.m.; WTVT took first place at 6 a.m.
	www.stpetetimes.com /2002/12/17/Artsandentertainment/Ch_8__Ch_13_in_fight_.shtml (307 words)

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