She's Baaack! Omarosa Returns, Frightens Early Risers

A station insider reports that KETV's Elictia Hammond was missing from the morning shift on Thursday and Friday due to an allergic reaction. We don't know what she's allergic to, but whatever it is, we want to get a truckload of it and smear it all over the doors and parking lot of the station.Referring to our enthusiasm for having Brandi Petersen anchoring in the mornings, the aforementioned

KETV Features Unusual Sunday Lineup

With regular weekend anchor Suzanne Deyo missing (and we're not complaining), Channel 7's Sunday evening newscasts found reporter Todd Andrews filling in. Reporting were Carol Kloss, who offered options for Husker fans planning to travel to San Antonio for the Alamo Bowl, and Laura Liggett, with a piece on the ongoing search for a missing girl in North Omaha. Kloss, sporting some specs that

The Ghost of Talent Exodus Future

Step right up and place your bets on how long 'til this one's outta here: Superb (especially for KPTM) weekend anchor Amanda Mueller is now listed among those searching for a better gig in the Medialine Talent Showcase.If she could be persuaded to stay in Omaha, we can think of a number of slots where she'd fit quite nicely:• KMTV's weekend anchor desk, which has an open seat (two if you count

Using Technology for Evil Rather Than Good

The website for Journal Broadcasting's BigSports 590 radio station is now making mp3 copies of KM3 "Sports Director" Travis Justice's "Big Show" available via its website. For those of you new to the world of mp3 players, this means that you can now download Trav's show to your iPod and listen to his voice for hours on end. If you don't want to go to all that trouble, you can simulate the

And the Downward Spiral Continues

Someone at KETV apparently decided that the station's descent into the gutter wasn't progressing quite fast enough, so who got to fill in for Julie Cornell on Thursday but FUBAR Fazal?! Not only is her delivery at the anchor desk every bit as bad as when she's reporting, her facial expressions fall somewhere between constipated and terrified. And then there's that voice. Fazal is the only person

At least it's not mouth sores

At Channel 6, there's no idea that isn't worth repeating until it has all the life beaten out of it. The latest example of this philosophy comes in promos for Mike McKnight's "Six on Your Side" "investigations." Rather than have McKnight cut a new promo for each story, the geniuses at WOWT have their announcer lay down a voice track describing the latest scam, roll a a graphic and/or a little

Name That Face

In addition to providing updates on a jillion former local newsers (see comments section of previous post), Sean Weide has suggested that we post this picture and see who can give us the name of this former Omaha talent (see below). The first person to post the correct answer in the Comments section of this post gets to buy Sean lunch.Meteorologist Juli MarquezBayNews9, Tampa/St.

Cost

Since KPTM is apparently willing to do anything to save a buck, perhaps instead of paying meteorologists, they can hire that octopus who predicted the World Cup winners. It'd probably be more accurate than Giggly Jim Flowers and his little sidekick, Seabiscuit, and considerably more watchable.

The Big Six and Holiday Cheer

Three quick observations about WOWT's PSAs for its canned food drive for the Salvation Army:• What's the deal with Malorie Maddox's hair? Did she lose a bet? It's not been like that any other time we've seen her on-air. And we'd like to keep it that way. Yikes.• Are we the only ones who want to bury the Ejacu-Weather "team" under about eight feet of that snow they keep getting a chubby over? In

Updating the Scorecard to Know the Players

Activity in the rumor mills and job postings...• Reporter Doug Walker is leaving WOWT for a job outside the biz. Is Channel 6 considering making someone a one-man band? Its ad for a "reporter/videographer" suggests it's possible, however unlikely. We've learned it's unwise to underestimate the Jonas/Clark braintrust's capacity for boneheaded moves.• Speaking of The Big Six, an alert reader