TONIGHT: Channel 3 Set Moves Into the 21st Century

After receiving a couple of tips from alert readers, we've done some digging and learned that KMTV will unveil a major overhaul of its newscasts tonight at 10. Among the changes will be a new name (Action 3 News) and a new set—said, by those who've seen it, to be very "contemporary."We highly doubt, however, suggestions that Channel 3's "improvements" will include pixelating the face and

Sign Her Up!

KETV should probably consider signing Drake University student and part-time Channel 7 reporter Kailyn Reid to a contract ASAP. Reid has been winning awards left and right for her series last summer on the bullying and murder of a mentally handicapped student in South Omaha.Not only has she captured $1500 in Hearst Scholarships, the senior broadcast journalism major has been named a Radio

Just So We're Clear About This

We've received more than a few emails from readers unhappy with our comments about Channel 6. We've been accused of, among other things, having a "vendetta" against spritely anchor Pat Persaud, and of favoring Channel 7 and/or Channel 3, and/or Channel 42. Some have also suggested that our comments are unfairly directed at reporters who are just doing their jobs. With that last comment, we mostly

Shouldn't He Be at a Star Trek Convention Somewhere?

What's the deal with the TV ads for doofus Congressman Lee Terry, Jr.? (Besides the fact that he looks and sounds like a grown-up version of Milhouse from The Simpsons.)For the second or third of his campaigns in a row, Terry mangles the legally-required "I approved this message" tag on his TV commercials. Instead, our boy Lee says "I approve of this message."Does he have his nose so far up the

Contagious?

Sloppy proofreading seems to have spread to "Your Newspaper."


Another moonlighting Suxer, perhaps?

Weekend Leftovers

• The June issue of Her magazine, a local freebie, is on newsracks around town and carries a feature on KM3 anchor Deb Ward.• Information surfacing now suggests that, indeed, WOWT anchor Pat Persaud's "retirement" was at least partially instigated by the station. Apparently, management approached her about taking a pay cut. When she balked, the station refused to budge, and, yadda yadda yadda,

Coal

Acting on a tip from an alert reader, we subjected ourselves to the 10 p.m. Christmas edition of KETVNewswatchSeven, achored by KETVNewswatchSeven's Brandi Peterson. Just as we'd been warned, there was no shortage of stupidity.In what has become the station's standard holiday story, reporter Owen Lei apparently stood around Eppley Airfield looking for idiots and was not disappointed.One

Deb Ward Hops on the Excrement Express

It just wouldn't be summer in Omaha without someone in local news mentioning the term e coli. Last Thursday, it was Deb Ward's turn as she delved into the seedy world of free makeup-counter samples. Just for fun, it seems, Ward dropped in at a few retailers around town and got them to submit some of their "free sample" applicators for lab testing. As it turns out, in addition to free makeup,

Rethinking Malorie Maddox

When she first arrived on the scene a little over a year ago, WOWT's "Daybreak" anchor Malorie Maddox was a breath of fresh air. Paired with Trey Jones, Maddox helped make Channel 6's morning program much better than it had been during the tenure of the obnoxious and undeservedly arrogant Thom Knight. Not only did she look great, she also seemed not to take herself too seriously and avoided the

Talk about taking one for the team...

So many potential cheap jokes, so little time. KM3 anchorman Greg Peterson offers himself up for probing tonight, but not in that way. In fact, it's pretty admirable: He begins a two-part series on colon cancer and, in the process, undergoes a colonoscopy himself. Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S., and experts contend that many of those deaths could be

Pat's back and—gack—still a hack!

Pat Persaud returned to the anchor desk at Channel 6 Monday afternoon, dashing hopes for thousands who wanted to believe that she had decided to embark on an earlier-than-planned "retirement." For those of you scoring at home, the magic number is 50.

Backbreakers

OK, we're shallow, but are we the only ones who think WOWT weekend anchor Jaime McCutcheon is displaying the largest mammaries in memory for a local TV personality?


Not even 1970s KMTV "weathergirl" Carol Scott could match McCutcheon's post-pregnancy attributes.

Kloss' Poop Scoop

Just as promised, Carol Kloss waded bravely into the seedy underworld of the restaurant and found the poop, literally. Some of our favorite lines from her "Restaurant Inspections" report:
• Kloss: "Are these still mouse dropping back here?"
• "Pest Expert" Dennis Ferraro (describing the aforementioned turds): "You have the white ones, which means they're very old, and the black here, shiny,

Weide: The Missouri Edition

In this week's Reader, media columnist Sean Weide devotes his attention to two University of Missouri alums: KPTM reporter Calvert Collins and former KETV reporter Amy McLard. Not coincidentally, both are "hot," as the kids say.Collins joined KPTM in May, just days after meeting news director Doug Crary at the Radio & Television News Directors Conference in Las Vegas. As you can see from the

Weekend Wandering

• Several readers have written asking why WOWT weekend anchor Courtny Gerrish was missing from the desk this weekend. We have no idea, but we agree with those who've suggested that it seems she's been absent quite a bit lately. For lack of a better explanation, we'll assume she's just catching up on vacation time. But given that she appears to have been passed over for the "Live at Four" anchor/

Fox42 Follies

• KPTM reporter/beauty pageant contestant Suzy Stark noted idiotically that after a local bar patron died of lung cancer recently, owners of the bar decided to do whatever they could to make sure "that doesn't happen again." Aren't most people limited to just one death? • New reporter Julie Hong co-anchored Sunday night's Nine O'Clock News with Jo Giles and the result was not in any way an

If At First You Don't Succeed...

Today's ratings update comes via someone who identifies him/herself as "whatever1." (Based on a number of factors, we're pretty sure "whatever" is a certain "talent" who has found himself on the sharp end of our critiques on several occasions and, thus, has an ax to grind.)He posted this info in the Comments section yesterday and included lots of other nonsense that we've chosen to edit. But he