Ekshit

WOWT's speech-impaired anchor/reporter Rachel Pierce closed out "Channel Shicksh Newzh UhLive Shunday" by announcing that she's leaving the station this week. Her last day is Wednesday, which will purge from the station's payroll yet another totally worthless employee. God help the poor folks in Des Moines, where she claims to be headed.

Fingered

It'd be hard to prove based on this site, but we really do restrain ourselves from pointing out every Channel Sux malfunction, miscue, and moronic comment. There are two reasons for this. 


First, a certain number of slip-ups are to be expected when you're doing live TV. 


Second, there are only 24 hours in a day.


We were going to overlook this next item, but since several alert readers

Speaking of Embarrassing Yokelism

Here's something else we’ve been meaning to complain about, even though it’s been running for a couple of months now: that embarrassing Channel 6 promo where John Kniceley and Pat Persaud pretend to be best friends with NBC's Brian Williams. It’s unclear how much time the pair got to spend with Williams, but we hope it wasn’t much, given the lameness of the footage that made it to air. If you

But Paul Probably Is the Walrus

Tipped off by an alert reader, we went to the KM3 website to see it for ourselves:Some might attribute the misspelling to error. We suspect otherwise. "Libby is not the leek"—could easily be read as, "Libby is not the onion," which sounds a lot like a secret coded message being sent by a KMTV staffer. Perhaps it's a signal to begin the long-awaited dismantling of "For What It's Worth."

Great Scott! Sunday Night's All Right for Fighting in KC, Too

Talk about convergence. We were just writing about the local trend toward placing primary anchor teams on Sunday night duty during sweeps periods (if two stations doing something constitutes a trend). And it wasn't too long ago that we mentioned former KETV and KMTV anchor Michael Scott.Lo and behold, Aaron Barnhart's article in Wednesday's Kansas City Star reveals that the Sunday night

Hallelujah! FWIW to Be Flushed

According to those in a position to know, KMTV has decided to restore sports to its newscast and to axe "For What It's Worth" commentary by Travis Justice. We're not sure when the change will take place, but at least there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

If They Exerted Any Less Effort, The Screen Would Be Blank

Because we write so much about the almost constant screwups on Channel 6, there is always the temptation to forego writing about them, feeling as if we're piling on. But ignoring glaring incompetence and unprofessionalism would really defeat the purpose of this little enterprise, which is to shine some light on our local television news outlets.Today's episode involves the "Live at Daybreak" gang

Sorry We Missed It

An alert reader fills us in on a Channel 7 moment we wish we'd seen:Didn't know if you saw it, and I was really hoping you would get screen capture, but on Thu night the 5 o'clock news they were airing a little clip on the "Uses of baby powder" and the clip ended and the shot went back to the anchors. OMG! They weren't prepared and Rob McCartney was sitting there, bored with his head sitting on

Worth a Thousand Words

We're having quite a bit of fun with the Carol Schrader Shrine we mentioned a couple of days ago. We particularly like the photo gallery, which features lots of screencaps of Carol during her days at Channel 7.A game that you might want to play with the kids and neighbors tonight is one we call "Name This Photo." The rules are simple: Look at the picture and give it a funny title. Funniest title

Early Morning News Means Money

Local stations are finding mornings to be rewarding in terms of dollars and viewers. No wonder WOWT and KETV have been shoring up their morning programs (although we're not sure adding Elictia Hammond shored 7's show up so much as it bogged things down). The interesting story is entitled Local News Wakes Up. [Broadcasting & Cable]

Shameless

Being Paul Baltes can't be easy tonight. Imagine going home at the end of your day, saying to yourself, "Today, I was able to exploit a woman's grief and get her to sob uncontrollably on camera. Then, to top it off, I managed to parlay all that sadness into a two or three minute story. Man, am I proud of my work!" If you didn't see it, WOWT's 6 p.m. newscast featured Baltes interviewing the

Monday Morning Miscellany

• Super Bowl viewers got an unexpected knock upside the head Sunday when KETV peppered breaks with a seemingly endless supply of promos for something it's calling the "I-Team." Yeesh. (Didn't KMTV have an "I-Team" back in the '90s?) The promos promise that reporters Carol Kloss, Mike Sigmond, Suzanne Deyo, and Farrah Fazal will be digging into "stories that matter" and "keeping you and your

Two front teeth

Channel Sux's Jimmy Thiedlecki is, indeed, the Ghost of Christmas Stupid.During Tuesday's morning program, Jimmy reported that New York EMS workers were facing questions after refusing to help a woman who "allegedly died." God bleth uth everyone!