Sources are saying that Aaron Sorkin will be writing a movie about Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, the Variety is reporting. Though not yet approved by Zuckerberg or Facebook, the story will be about of how Facebook was started. They story will take place during the time when Zuckerberg was in Harvard in 2004 and created Facebook as a school project; including the story of how Facebook is in legal trouble with ConnectU.Sorkin has written screenplays for “The West Wing.”If approved, Columbia pictures will film the production.

KNTV, or known as NBC 11 in San Jose, California, is the first television station to use Wind Power for electricity. This is part of GE’s move to going green, KNTV is owned and operated by NBC which is owned by General Electric. The station is using 3Degrees for purchasing and studying methods for the movement.

Facebook, owned by 23-year old Mark Zuckerberg, successfully lured away one of Google’s top advertising executives. Sheryl Sandberg will begin as a Chief Operating Officer for the social network website on March 24. Sandberg played a huge role of building the Google empire to one of the world’s most prized companies.

WABC Sends Out Reporter to North Korea

WABC, once again sent a reporter (Jim Dolan) to do a report out of the viewing market, this time in North Korea for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s trip to the country. Other New York stations used the Associated Press, network content or obtained material from PBS (WNET). The last story was the California Wildfires that made the station send out their reporters; instead of using the power of a “network” to report the story. WNBC and WCB,S for example, used reporters from the local affiliate station (KNBC and KCBS) to report the story. What WABC-TV is doing is that they are reporting national and international with their own local reporters going to the scene but the question is “is it good for the viewer?” My answer is that it might be good to see a familiar face reporting where the story is happening, but sometimes it might not be necessary. For example, back to the wildfires, the local reporters are more familiar with the landscape and have seen many wildfires in the past, but a New York reporter may have never seen a California in the past and is most likely not familiar with the landscape.

WABC “Eyewitness News” Is Number One Again, Sadly

WABC’s Eyewitness News is still number one in the New York market for the 39th survey ranking. With the old looking graphics (which looks worst in HD), 80’s music, and sending local reporters to other parts of the world; the question is “how can you watch this?” Lately, they have been reporting many car accidents and house fires (just like how sister station KABC covers every car chase in Los Angeles) which viewers have been complaining about. They have also been trying to create the next “rat” story that happened at a KFC last year that was first discovered by WNBC and became a national headline and yet they’ve been failing it since. In terms of awards, WABC is usually on the bottom of the list of the New York News Emmy, and critics say that the news reports are worst than what you watch on News 12.

WPIX Tops New York Emmy Nominations

WPIX topped WNBC with nominations for the the New York Emmy’s. We will be seeing the results by the spring! Here are the nominations:

WPIX - 30 Nominations
WNBC - 27 Nominations
WCBS - 22 Nominations
WABC - 16 Nominations
WWOR - 12 Nominations

Dan Forman Out of 4

This may be a good sign for WNBC fans (News 4 Junkies), Dan Forman is leaving WNBC at the end of March. Forman has been responsible for the crash of the ratings on the local newscasts on WNBC with changing anchor slots, changing timeslots for the evening newscast, and for removing consumer report Asa Aarons with the many budget cuts of the station.

In a memo to staff, station President Frank Comerford called Forman “an important part” of the station’s history. Forman joined NBC in 1993, and was a news director at WABC from 2000-2002 and joined WNBC as a news director in 2002.

Chang Goes To MY9

Ti Hau Chang, reporter for WCBS, is now moving over to WWOR as a general assignment reporter. Previsouly, he has been with WNBC, ABC News, and WNYC.

As we have reported to you on WRAJ Internet Radio’s website, Starbucks will be closed on Tuesday between the hours of 5:30pm and 8:30pm (some stores are from 5-9pm) (not including kiosks such as supermarkets, airports, malls, etc.). During the hours of closure, all of the employees will be retrained.Competitor Dunkin’ Donuts have announced specials of all coffee products, such as espressos, cappuccinos, lattes, etc., are all 99¢. The special goes in affect from 1pm to 10pm.

WCBS-TV’s newscast anchor Chris Wragge is moving to CBS’s Saturday Early Show. He will continue to be on WCBS-TV 5:00 and 11:00 local newscasts. Chris Wragge, a former sportscaster for WCBS who joined in 2004 coming from NBC Sports, replaced Jim Rosenfield for the 11:00 pm slot in late 2006.

Coney Island’s very own Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs will soon be at a vending machine near you, and yes it will be a kosher product. Nathan’s and Kosher Vending Industries, LLC., said it will be reaching a growing audience of kosher products. Each of the vending machines will grill the hot dog and burn the burn for about 34 seconds upon pressing the button. Kosher Vending has also released similar machine that sells pizza and knishes. 

It’s going to be a crazy 3 hours for coffee manics as Starbucks will close all of their stand-alone locations (not including kiosks such as supermarkets, airports, malls, etc.). On February 26, Starbucks will be closing all of its stores at 5:30 - 8:30pm so that the employees — about 135,000 of them — can be retrained. Starbucks spokesperson Valere O’Neil said:

“We will have all new standards for how we create the drinks. They will be trained in creating the perfect shot, steaming the milk, and all the pieces that come together in a drink.
It’s really about ensuring that the customer experience that we provide is the best that it can be”

As some of you may know, Starbucks have been in trouble for the past few months. Nearly 180 Starbucks is already shutting their doors because of a budget crises at Starbucks, in which most of them are closing because of a popular local coffee shop near the closing Starbucks. Overall, some say its because of the raised prices that went in effect last year that rose the price of coffee up 9 cents because of the price of milk.
Some say that they have stopped going to Starbucks because of the “commercializing of the cafe.” When Starbucks started, it was like going to a Cafe Nervosa from the tv-series “Frasier,” it was a place to relax from your daily lives. Now, Starbucks is becoming a shop for music CDs, souvenirs, and food and consumers are upset about it.

If you have been watching WNBC lately, you might notice something different with the opening cards in the beginning of each newsbreak. Just like the the Today Show newsbreaks used in the past, the anchors are no longer announced. One reason is that now the WNBC news music performed by Edd Kalehoff in 2003 is now on NBC O&O station in San Francisco KNTV NBC 11.

KNTV plays their opening just like how most O&Os that WNBC is now doing by not announcing the anchors.
But the music is not only the same as a WNBC look and feel. For the past three years, KNTV has been using the previous graphics package used on WNBC that was launched in 2003. Its the only station left out of 5 O&Os and affiliates that used the graphics. Stations included WPMI, WTVJ, and WVTM.

There have been rumors that KNTV will be using the similar HD graphics as WNBC when the station moves its newscasts in high-definition. The last time I watched KNTV in April while I was on a trip in San Francisco, I’ve witnessed the WNBC HD graphics on the lower thirds during a special investigation piece of an 11 O’Clock newscast.