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Tuesday, April 18, 2006
TVSpy.com founder Don Fitzpatrick dead
 Don Fitzpatrick, a TV news agent who started the website TVSpy.com, has died. Fitzpatrick developed an online community for the TV news business starting from the very early days of computers, with his e-mail newsletter Rumorville in the late 1980s. The newsletter provided gossip and newspaper articles about the industry and later was renamed Shoptalk and posted on the website www.tvspy.com, which added "The Watercooler" discussion board, a key venting place for TV news staffers. The website has been a part of the job website Vault.com for the past few years. Fitzpatrick's online ventures stemmed from his work of two decades as a headhunter for local news anchors and reporters based out of San Francisco. By 2000, Fitzpatrick had closed his company Don Fitzpatrick Associates. In 2005, he was given a special award at the annual Radio-Television News Directors Association conference. Fitzpatrick reportedly died after being released from an Alexandria, La., hospital where he was being treated for intestinal bleeding. He was 56.Posted by ECTVN on 4/18/2006 - 
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Quote of the Day "Mother Nature reclaimed the Mississippi Delta. If she wants to move the delta, or the city for that matter, then she will." -- WCNC-36 Charlotte weatherman Brad Panovich, working at sister station WWL-4, shared his thoughts on the state of New Orleans (WWLTV.com) Tomorrow Part 2 of a Special Edition The roof may have blown off its newsroom, but WLOX-13 is still fighting to provide information to viewers in the hard-hit Biloxi/Gulfport area. How other stations are helping out, plus a check on other media outlets affected by Hurricane Katrina. Previous Coverage Hurricane not good for TV trucks Mobile station also damaged WLOX update; reporter on roof Hurricane hits WLOX building New Orleans stations in high gear Quick Clicks Back to the home page TV news audio clips E-Mail East Coast TV News
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