New Face at Channel 3

KM3's website indicates a new reporter is on board. Devon Patton joined the staff in January. A Syracuse U grad (and track captain), Patton has reported previously for stations in Charlotte and Philadelphia.

There Are Some Things a Station Shouldn't Want to Be #1 In

Proving, once again, that KETV thinks that it must beat WOWT at everything, meteorologist Bill Randby will try to beat Jim Flowers to the punch by delivering a winter forecast today (Thursday)— a full day ahead Hysterical Jim's pointless, meaningless, worthless, hopeless, useless "Precision Winter Forecast."

Another Reason to Get Rid of Travis Justice

While we're on the subject of people who seemingly can't get themselves fired, there's new evidence that KMTV's bloated, nasal-voiced sports director is incompetent (as if anyone needed more).Sean Weide's blog details how Channel 3 missed the boat on a quintuple-overtime state football playoff game between Lincoln Southwest and Millard North last Friday, while its two competitors aired the finish

Backwards

We can remember a simpler, gentler time: an era when there were only three or four stations to choose from, when professionally-produced national newscasts were delivered by trained, serious journalists. In those days, national news was a once-a-day treat, and most of the really stupid stuff we saw on TV was produced by rubes at local stations—stations that were on the air maybe twenty hours a

Franda Presenter Lensa Olah Raga AnTV

Franda, or Efranda Stephanus is a former MTV VJ and now presenter for ANTV Sport Program "Lensa Olahraga". She host the program show almost everyday, on 00.30 AM. I like Franda hair style, short and bob style. :)

Franda also starred in Rexona advertising. She became a nurse and interviewed one of the school student about using Rexona.

Franda has a nice smile, beautiful eyes, white skin and oriental face as she is a chinese born. Franda even is more beautiful than another Indonesian celebrities who has an oriental face "Sandra Dewi". But everyone has it owns idol. Franda is just as cute with An TV presenter Fitri Ekawati or Metro TV Sport TV Host Lucia Saharui.

Want to see Franda cute face, just watch An TV sport show "Lensor" or Lensa Olahraga.

Some foto or Photos collection of Franda, including her sexy FHM hot photos :


















Watch Franda Presenter AnTV Video here

Info

Note to the folks at the Channel Sux morning show, in response to your insipid promos: You don't have any information that anyone needs "as they step out the door" or "go about their day." People made it well into the 1980s without two monotonous hours of yammering, fourth-rate hacks with broadcasting degrees telling them that traffic was running smoothly or that they should allow a little extra

Kayla Thomas Must Be Stopped

Wednesday night's report by Kayla Thomas on KMTV pulled off a rare feat—it made "For What It's Worth" look good by comparison.It was bad enough that Thomas was doing the obligatory Thanksgiving turkey story, replete with idiotic puns like "gobbledy-gook." But what made us want to kick in the TV screen was the image of the clumsy Thomas tromping awkwardly across an open field, screeching

Wichita Station Flirts With Sanity

In a move that should be emulated by every local station on the planet, Wichita station KSN has stopped using consultants for its newscasts.That's what it says in this Wichita Eagle story.Our two favorite lines:• The new GM is quoted as saying, "'We're not going to do the same old stuff. We're just not going to do it.'"• "He's told his consultants that their services are no longer needed."Can you

McMaster Defends Her Turf

Signaling that it intends to defend anchor/reporter Andrea McMaster's title as Omaha's expert in stupid reporting, Channel 6 dispatched her to give us the lowdown on "Helping Kids Cope" with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Employing her best robot-like pronunciation, McMaster informed us that it is "im-por-Tunt" to discuss the events in New Orleans with our kids, but that we shouldn't show

Channel 3 Still Employs Reporters

It's not often you turn on the TV in Omaha and find that a TV reporter has actually done a real investigation. (We're not counting the "Welfare-Abusing, Chain-Smoking Extra-Ginormous Legumes" stories we get during sweeps as "real.")But that's what Channel 3 viewers saw on Monday at 5 p.m. when Kathy Sarantos-Niver delved into the topic of battered men. If the veteran reporter is to be believed,

Chintya Sari Presenter Bukan Empat Mata Trans 7

Chintya Sari was born in Surabaya, December 24, 1982 was the Indonesian dangdut singer. But recently her face is frequently appeared on Trans 7 talk show "Bukan Empat Mata". She is a co host with presenter Tukul Arwana.

Although she is a Dangdut singer and already became a famous host, who knows that Chintya Sari has a S2 title majoring in Ekonomi Manajemen. She studied at Unitomo University at Surabaya.

Chintya Sari became to famous while she replace Vega as a Co Host in talk show Bukan Empat Mata. While Vega looks like more lively and better in humor sense, Chinthya Sari is more feminime and beautiful.

As a singer, Chintya Sari favourite songs are Perahu Layar, Penasaran, Gula Gula, Lautan Madu,

Chintya Sari Profile :

Real Name : Nungky Chintya Sari, MSi
Born December 24, 1982 (age 27)
From Surabaya, Indonesia
Genre Dangdut, Pop, Pop Java
Singer, Presenter
Years active 1998-present

Album Chintya Sari

* Sudah Biasa (Pop 1998)
* Konco Becak-Becakan (Pop Jawa -1999)
* Lautan Madu (Dangdut-2000)
* Cinta dan Air Mata (Dangdut-2001)
* Tsayat Jatuh (Dangdut-2003).

Chintya Sari Photos :

































Watch Chintya Sari at Bukan Empat Mata Video here

Nay

It was another splendid weekend for Channel Sux "Weather Authority" Ejacucasters.Despite Chief Guesser Jim Flowers' Saturday morning promise of a Sunday morning "festive snow," Omahans woke up to sunny skies and nary a hint of precipitation. Good to see the ol' hair-trigger is still functioning.On Saturday night, we thought for a minute that maybe Jim's chief deputy, Andrea Rich, was horsing

Riddle

Q: What's more painful than listening to a dietician? A: Listening to WOWT's Andrea McMaster interview two of them. Such was our misfortune Saturday afternoon when we stumbled onto Channel 6's "Heartland Focus" public service program. Apparently recorded before she went on maternity leave, McMaster's little show focused on eating disorders and allowed the vacuuous anchor/reporter to ask two

Brummed Out

Cross-eyed afternoon anchor Sheila Brummer is no longer a Sux News employee. She was let go late last week.Well, it's a start. However, until the boneheads running that station stop hiring the inept, nothing will change.Look at Six's recent hires: over-inflated KM3 retread Jodi Baker, E.T. lookalike Justin Joseph, blissfully ignorant Brian Latham, mop-headed weathergirl Andrea Rich, congenitally

Unchanging

KETVNewswatchSeven's gaffe-master Fubar Fazal was at her usual level of excellence on Tuesday's 10 p.m. newscast, delivering an unnecessary live report on Omaha's efforts to lure a second minor league team to the area.When anchor Brandi Peterson threw it to her, Fubar was standing in front of a big earth-mover of some sort, which was fine...until she had to speak."Workers have already started

Dumb

If there were Laws of Omaha Television, one would be "John Knicely + Unscripted Live TV = Unspeakably Bizarre Conversation."God help poor Jim Flowers. As if it hadn't been a bad enough week already. He's two weatherguessers short of his usual contingent (and the one that's left considers sun-glare a weather event), and then he had to simultaneously keep tabs on a horrendous outbreak of tornadoes

On the Take

What was once called "The Tiffany Network" is trying to figure out a way to charge cable operators for carrying its signal.CBS May Seek Signal Fee [LA Times]

Stretching for a Local Angle

Thank God for Joe Jordan. Were it not for the KMTV reporter's amazing investigative skills, no one would have known the awful truth: OMAHA DOES NOT HAVE AN EVACUATION PLAN!Honest-to-God, this was his story at 5 p.m. today.Yeah, Joe. When we're hit by that Category 4 hurricane, our elevation inexplicably drops to 20 feet below sea-level, and the storm surge causes levees to fail and flood the

They're BAAAAAAAAACK: Sweeps Start Next Week

We approach each sweeps period as one might a train derailment: with a mix of dread and excitement: dread at the horrors we expect to witness and excitement from the adrenaline rush that accompanies moments of tremendous stress.What might we get from consultants' local puppets this time around? More giant vegetables? Carol Kloss interviewing yet another senior citizen who has been conned into

Knicely Extends String of Idiotic Remarks

Perhaps enjoying seeing his name mentioned in these posts and oblivious to the uncomplimentary remarks, WOWT anchor John Knicely on Wednesday's 5 p.m. newscast followed up yet another live report with a totally imbecillic comment.After Gary Johnson and Rebecca Kleeman rolled tape of remarks by several of the Lincoln factory workers who won the Powerball jackpot, the two veteran reporters threw

Scott Fired in KC and Speculation Abounds

Former KETV and KMTV anchor Michael Scott, who had spent the past four years anchoring at KCTV in Kansas City, was abruptly dismissed this week. TV critic Aaron Barnhart delves into the rumors surrounding Scott's departure in this posting.

"People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks."

Alert reader Bandit75 sent us the following email this morning regarding a Channel 6 "Live at Daybreak" moment we're sorry to have missed:"Something I witnessed this morning needs to be addressed . . . . While getting my daily Malorie [Maddox]-fix, they cut to Scott "No Bantering Skills" Akin for our morning forecast. I think he used fifteen different colors on the screen to illustrate how awful

Torturing Oakey

KETV's long-running effort to surround John Oakey with as many dolts as possible took another step forward last week, when someone at the station decided that it would be a good idea to keep fill-in traffic babbler Veronica Todd around now that regular airhead Jana "Index Card" Murrell is back.Todd's new role is to show up every half-hour or so, often dressed inappropriately, and share some

Maybe It's Some Kind of Dress-Up Day at the Big Six

We'd vowed to give our remarks about WOWT guest anchor Pat Persaud a rest for a while, but we can't resist pointing out that tonight, she appears ready to audition for the role of Rizzo in the road company of Grease.

Round Three

Start the office pool on the latest Ejacucast Authority: Online forecast as of 5:30 p.m. Monday: 3-4 inches of snow on Tuesday.How much lower will the total actually be?

Techmaginary

It may be cold outside, but in Omaha's TV newsrooms, idiotic gimmicks are in full bloom.

Exhibit A: KETV swung into action on Monday evening with Brandi Petersen breathlessly introducing a "7 Mobile Live" report from Lincoln, which ended up being no more than a reporter on a cell phone in a car.

Exhibit B: SuxNews's 5 p.m. Tuesday "I On the Metro" found charisma-challenged reporter Gary Smollen

I don't know if you heard me counting. I did over a thousand.

First, several alert readers have corrected our identification of KHGI as a Grand Island station. Depending on whom you believe, KHGI (a.k.a. "NTV") is in Kearney or Axtell. Whatever. It's out there in the middle of the state somewhere.Second, another alert reader pointed out that new KETV weekend sports anchor Matt Schick's bio seems to suggest that he was the play-by-play announcer for

Happy Holidays: KETV Dethrones WOWT

Ratings from November sweeps are in, and if the ones we've been provided are accurate, it appears viewers may finally have tired of SuxNews.In the morning, KETV scored a 28.6, compared to 26.7 for WOWT and just 3.4 for KMTV.At 5 p.m., the next time period in which all three stations go head-to-head, it was KETV 28, WOWT 22, AND KMTV 6.Same order of finish at 6 p.m., with KETV at 23, a 17.5 for

Crutch

First, there was the "polar plunge."


Then came the "sun glare" craze.


Now, Giggly Jim Flowers and the Ejacuweather Hour-by-Hour Forecast Authority team have settled on their latest jargony obsession: "snow grains."


If he said it once during Wednesday's 6 p.m. Suxcast, he said it 20 times. (In the midst of all this, dimwit anchor J-Pa Knicely couldn't stop talking about cracker crumbs he

The Ant's Eye View

We appreciate creative camera work, especially in a market where there is seemingly so little of it. And no photographers seem to work harder at giving viewers interesting shots than those at KM3. However, too much of a good thing can be, well, too much of a good thing. Several times in the past week, the station has run stories featuring shots from ground-level looking up at the subject. It was

Tipperary

Remember when, at the end of the Mary Tyler Moore Show's run, everybody got fired except bumbling anchor Ted Baxter? Remember when, after owning Channel 3rd for one sweeps period, Urinal Broadcasting dismissed anchors Greg Peterson and Deb Ward, but kept insufferable toolbag Travis Justice?What happened at KPTM on Friday wasn't quite like those scenarios, except for the fact that J.J. Davis

Embarrassment

Goober Congressman Lee Terry, Jr. (not to be confused with bitter-sounding right-wing nut-job Lee Terry, Sr.) must know he's about to lose an election. Why else would he be saturating the airwaves with ads accusing challenger Jim Esch of being everything except a sex-offender? And why else would he be trying to latch onto Barack Obama's coattails?More interesting would be an ad explaining why

The News Starts NOW: Sweeps Edition, Week 3

Let's admit it: there aren't that many things we'd rather see on TV than John Kniceley getting tasered. And, God love 'em, the kids at the Big Six are promising us just that on Tuesday night's 10 o'clock cast. But think how much better it could be if they'd only take the idea a step or two further. What if, for instance, they allowed viewers to choose which reporter, anchor, or weatherdude got

Test?

Is John Knicely mentally retarded?During Wednesday's 6 p.m. newscast, Channel Sux's lead anchor read a story about the death of Walt Disney nephew Roy Disney. J-Pa actually said that Roy "was seven years younger than his father and uncle."Really. Can't anyone in management come up with a better way to allocate SuxNews salary dollars? Based on a report from an alert reader, at least something's

Tutoring

Would someone at SuxNews please sit down with gooberish morning weatherguesser Rusty Lord and explain to him that through and throughout are not synonyms?The poor boy can't seem to get through a Guesscast without invoking the phrase, "as we move throughout the day," when he intends to refer to moving "through" the day.Maybe slick hick Jimmy Thiedlecki could counsel him on-air, opening with

Snow

Let the wagering begin. Snowfall predictions from Omaha stations, as posted on their websites at 9 p.m. Wednesday...Channel 3:  4-8"Channel 6:  5-10"Channel 7:  4-8"Channel 42:  No guess

Tan, Rested, and Ready

We're back from our self-imposed hiatus and ready for action. Some random notes, just for warm-up:• There's nothing like a trip to the panhandle to renew one's appreciation for the news operations in the 76th largest market in the US. Take KDUH in Scottsbluff, for example. There's an anchor there who must be at least 17 and who has all the charisma of chalk. Her delivery is so stiff, she makes

Flooded By Bad Reporting

What the hell is happening? There are so many instances of horrible reporting that we can't keep up...• An alert reader reminded us of KETV's Owen Lei, who kept referring to the engineer of a train as "the conductor."• On Friday's "Action 3 News" at 5 p.m., reporter Kayla Thomas was sporting a green coat with matching hat, the latter of which looked like the hats worn by the "Wild and Crazy"

Alphabet

"Reporting live" this morning from 80th and Dodge, SuxNews reporter Nadia Singh warned "Daybreak" viewers of slick conditions on I-80, I-480, and "I-JFK."


Has anyone ever advised this woman to think about what she's going to say before she's on the air? It might be worth a shot.

Retractable Stadium Info

Okay, so it turns out that WOWT's John Knicely was citing one of several available figures regarding the number of tickets being sold for next Monday's Cotton Bowl game.Knicely put the number at 68,000 on a Tuesday newscast, which we took to be yet another sign of his ineptitude, considering that the official Cotton Bowl website lists the stadium capacity at 71,252. According to several alert

KM3 Now Back in HD on Cox

KMTV, in an abrupt about-face, announced during Sunday's Pittsburgh-Denver AFC Championship game that its HD signal is now available via Cox Cable. The announcement, made via a scroll at the bottom of the screen and reiterated by a more formal announcement during Monday's Todd 'n' Tyler show on radio station Z-92, reverses a policy instituted by KM3's previous owner, Emmis Communications. Emmis

Incomplete

Wednesday's 5 p.m. SuxNews "Live at Five" broadcast opened with another vintage performance by the crack squad at 35th and Farnam.


Reporting on a fight at "Millard High School" in which an administrator was apparently tasered by a student, reporter Justin Joseph, with assists from anchors John Knicely and Tracy Madden, managed to deliver the entire package without bothering to mention which

Aren't KPTM and KXVO Doing This Already?

Read all about Pappas Telecasting's latest "innovation" here.

Blowing

Credit KETV's Chuck McWilliams with being the only area meteorologist to be on the air early Sunday morning when Omaha was being hammered by a fast-moving storm system that produced tornado-like winds and damaged homes in Millard.A calm, collected McWilliams deftly shifted among various radar tools at his disposal, identifying the center of the storm and warning viewers in its path.The more

Crash

Oh, SuxNews, you claim to be so hip to technology, what with your connections on "Facebick" and what-not.Why, then, is this story on your "web-channel"? Ann McIntire's repeated references to an Omaha-born "iTunes app," suggest that one of the station's youngest on-air hipsters doesn't realize that there's no such animal. There are iTunes—songs and videos—sold on the iTunes store. And there are

Even Ten Minutes a Day Is Too Much Channel Sux

Unable to bear the sight of cross-eyed Sheila Brummer in the afternoon/evening or the thound of a solo, loud-talking, know-it-all Jim Thiedlecki in the morning, we've avoided Channel 6 this week. Unfortunately, we twice made the mistake of not changing the station when we got in the car after someone else had left the radio on 87.7. During Wednesday's "Live at Five" broadcast, when corpse

Since When Do Anchors Take Days Off During Sweeps?

Just when we were ready to propose a "Free John Oakey" campaign to get the KETV anchor released from his obnoxious co-anchor, Elictia Hammond, the gods gave us a respite Monday morning. The Omarosa lookalike was nowhere to be found, leaving Oakey to deliver the news to us without her shrill babble sending viewers scrambling for their remotes. If Channel 6 had the wherewithal, it would have been

Unsolved

Just received this from an alert, inquisitive reader. 

I am trying to do some research on Omaha television news from back in the early 1960s and I am hoping you may be able to give me a helping hand or point me in the right direction. As I recall, there was an on-air newscaster, possibly on KETV, in the early 1960s. It turned out that he had abandoned his family and previous life in Minnesota (

Arf

The crackerjack news team at WOWTard slapped together quite a series of stories for Tuesday night's 10 o'clock newscast.Ann McIntyre reported on a man who tried to get a ball out his dog's gullet, only to be bitten by the dog. J-Pa Knicely even held up a ball to show us what the ball looked like. It was round. And yellow.Then Mike McKnight used his sharply honed journalistic instincts to reveal

WeatherHype

lather over the possibilities that lurk just beyond the horizon. Off all last week, Flowers burst back onto our screens this week looking giddy about each forecast and doing some serious jonesin' for his new graphicsSpring is here and with it comes the annual ritual of watching WOWT Chief Meteorologist work himself into a package.Nearly every weather segment now features the excitable Mr. F.

About Those Ads

Several of you have commented on the ads that have begun springing up on these pages in the past few weeks. We have adopted the ads in an attempt to support our humble effort here without being obnoxious. In all cases, we try to keep the ads from interfering with the content. We despise it, for example, when sites interrupt content with giant ads that force readers to scroll down the page to keep

Sad

SuxNews has never looked quite as pathetic as it did during Friday's 4 p.m. newscast. Among the problems...• the debacle was anchored by morning fire-chaser Nadia Singh, who seems as ill-equipped for the task as anyone at the station;• Singh showed up for work wearing a trowelful of blue eye shadow, an inappropriately short skirt, and a pair of dominatrix boots, all of which were on full display

Monkeys Seize KPTM Control Room

Either that, or it was "blindfold day" at Channel 42. Viewers trying to catch the end of the Red Sox-Orioles game and the Fox postgame show were treated to at least four interruptions in a span of about ten minutes. The interruptions included a couple of 20-second clips of "Friends," a station ID, and part of a commercial. What's going on there? Are they just letting people come in off the street

Mal-Tard Word of the Day

Words, actually...kawlidge hewps: focus of March Madness

Gambling

We put it off as long as we could, but last night, we finally broke down and watched "Jim's Winter Forecast." After lots of yammering about a "La Nina" and water temps and jet streams, WOWT Chief Ejacucaster Jim Flowers got around to his prediction: early "ice events," and a winter snowfall total of between 28 and 32 inches. Guess what the average annual snowfall total in for Omaha is.Yep, 30

Better than FUBAR, But...

We thought it was bad enough when KPTM hired Calvert Collins straight out of college last May. However, it seems that Channel 7 has now sunk to hiring people who aren't even out of college yet, as is the case with reporter Laura Liggett. She graduates from UNL in May. Granted, she is better than FUBAR Fazal, but that's not exactly a huge bar to leap over, is it?The Channel 7 website features

Graphics Envy

We didn't catch Channel 7's 5 p.m. newscast, but two alert readers tipped us off to the station's new graphics package, a new sans-serif font in an obtrusive white and red stripe that consumes nearly a quarter of the screen. (We were able to see it on the 6 p.m. cast.) The new look is incorporated into the entire program, and isn't, at first blush, all that impressive. The unveiling comes on the

Now This Is How to Respond to a Critique

Harry Flansburg from KM3 posted this in the Comments section in response to our remarks about his Independence Day story/camerawork. It's so honest and free of ego that we thought it was worthy of posting on the main page. My name is Harry and I'm the one who shot the story about the flags at Ashland Cemetary with Niver. You're right, I did go a little overboard with the "low angles" but it was

Fund Established to Pay Late Meteorologist's Medical Bills

Friends have established a fund for the family of KHGI weatherman Bob Geiger, who died recently following a long illness. Apparently, he died without health insurance, leaving thousands in medical bills from his multiple heart surgeries and extended hospitalization. What's unclear is how a beloved personality who was with the station for 22-years ends up without medical benefits. We've heard a

Ten things to try on Google TV

We’ve just posted these tips to our Help Center and we thought our readers would find them useful too.

1. Search using the Quick Search Box
The Quick Search Box (QSB) makes scrolling through channels a thing of the past. Press the search key and harness Google’s search power to discover TV offerings and web content. Navigate anywhere you want to go-- type in a URL in to surf the web, or type in a channel name to go there instantly. With the QSB, you can:

• Quickly search for online videos. Try typing “Lady Gaga” to find a music video.
• Navigate to all of your favorite websites. Try typing “YouTube.com.”
• Easily find your favorite TV shows. Try typing in the name of a series like “The Office” or “Colbert Report” and view the series results page to see where you can find episodes across TV, the web and apps. Click on an episode and watch directly from Amazon Video On Demand®.
• Surf directly to a channel by typing its name. Try typing “CNN.”
• Search the web. Try typing “Google TV” and selecting “Search the web.”

2. Discover something new with Spotlight

Home Screen > Spotlight

Google TV Spotlight features websites that have been optimized for viewing on Google TV. Use the Spotlight folder for quick access to great content on the web, including streaming music videos on VEVO®, cooking tips on CHOW® TV and illustrated children’s books on MeeGenius!®. Click the link icon to open the website in Google Chrome, or click on “All Sites” to view the full selection of websites optimized for TV viewing.

3. View a photo slide show using Google Gallery

Home Screen > Applications > Gallery

No more crowding around the computer screen to see your vacation pictures: Google Gallery lets you easily view photos on your TV screen. View photo albums uploaded to your Picasa account, or simply plug a USB storage drive directly into your Google TV device.

4. Explore apps

Home Screen > Applications > NBA Game Time

Home Screen > Applications > CNBC Real-Time

Check out NBA® Game Time to view game information, standings and high-definition video highlights from the current NBA® season. When the game’s on, press the Dual View button to watch in a picture-in-picture box while you check scores or stats in NBA® Game Time-- and don’t miss a moment of the action! Or try out CNBC® Real-Time, where you can keep track of a customizable list of stock quotes while watching video clips on hot topics in the world of finance. Expect many more applications after we open the Android Market on Google TV in early 2011.

5. Subscribe to an audio or video podcast using Google Queue

Home screen > Google Queue

Google Queue keeps track of all your favorite online series, podcasts, recorded video and RSS feeds. Browse, search for and subscribe to new video and audio podcasts in Queue, or use press the Bookmark (Star) button while browsing to add a video or website to your Queue to view later. Your Queue will automatically update with new content from your subscriptions, so you won’t miss an episode of Jake and Amir or an update from NPR’s Talk of the Nation. Try out something new, like a high-definition underwater video podcast from Marine Channel HD.

Check out our Google Queue tutorial video

6. Find out What’s On-- the simpler way

Home screen > What’s On

You’re in the mood for a comedy show, but don’t want to waste time scrolling through an endless list of channels. Navigate to “What’s On” and click on Comedy to see what shows are playing now and how much longer they’ll be on, as well as what shows are coming up in the next few minutes. Browse Movies, News and information, Sports, Home and garden, Reality and game shows and many more categories.

7. Watch videos on YouTube Leanback

Home screen > Spotlight > YouTube Leanback

Not sure what to watch? Let YouTube entertain you! Leanback selects videos based on your YouTube viewing preferences and plays them in full-screen high definition-- just like watching TV. Leanback’s interface lets you easily browse or skip ahead in your video queue, and pressing the Down arrow will allow you to rewind, fast-forward or open the video in the YouTube.com website. Press the Up arrow or start typing at any time to search YouTube for something different.

8. Stream a movie

Home Screen > Spotlight > Amazon Video on Demand

Home Screen > Applications > Netflix

Visit the Amazon Video On Demand® service to stream top movies and TV shows directly to your  TV. Browse a wide selection of premium content offerings and only pay for the movies and TV shows you want to watch. If you’re a Netflix® subscriber, use the Netflix® app to access your Instant View queue.

9. Coming soon: Use your phone as a remote

No more fighting over the remote! Control your Google TV device from your Android phone or iPhone.

10. Multitask!

Use the Pandora® or Napster® app to create a soundtrack for your photo albums in Gallery, or to listen to music while browsing the web. Use Dual View to check player stats online while you watch football, or update your friends on Twitter® while the news is on. Be creative! More apps are coming soon, and as Google TV continues to grow, the possibilities will multiply.

**Learn more at our Google TV Help Center.

Posted by Daniel Pickens-Jones, Consumer Operations Associate

Is This Guy Colorblind?

On one hand, we wish we had a screen cap of Brian Mastre anchoring today's 4 p.m. news on Channel 6. On the other hand, it's probably just as well that we don't.Mastre appeared wearing a blue blazer over what may be the most hideous shirt-tie combination we've ever seen. Now, we're not talking garden-variety ugly; we're talking about the sort of unsightliness normally only associated with old

Andrea Lee Presenter Bola ANTV

Andrea Lee is a presenter usually in sport and travelling programme such as Koper & Ransel (Trans TV), Highlight Otomotive (Trans TV), and World Football (AnTV).

Although her name is not like an Indonesian Girl's name, but her fans stil believe Andrea Lee is a pure Indonesia Girl, as she has a face like Indonesian.

Her exotic brown dark skin reminds us with Trans TV Ala Chef sexy presenter Farah Quinn, although Farah is sexier.

Andrea Lee Profile Biodata :
Nama: Andrea Lee
Tanggal Lahir: 27 Maret 1983


Presenter:
- Koper & Ransel (TRANS TV)
- Highlight Otomotive (TRANS7)
- World Football (AnTV)

Photos of Andrea Lee Exotic and sexy Photos here :































Watch Andrea Lee in program Koper Dan Ransel 25 Aug 07 Video here

Makeup

What can we say about the amazingly over-hyped new set that Channel Sux "unveiled" for its 10 p.m. Thursday newscast?It's not horrible, but it's not the eye-popping, jaw dropping overhaul we'd been led to expect, either.In fact, it looks like a cross between the station's old set and the one that Channel 3rd has been using for a couple of years now. The biggest changes are the addition of about

Bring Me the One They Call "Kreskin"

We left work Wednesday around 4:30 in the afternoon, fully prepared to battle the two inches of slushy snow that WOWT Ejacuweather meteorologist Jim Flowers spent so much of Tuesday's broadcasts warning about. So the dry pavement surprised us, as did the sunshine.What was especially great was the way empty-headed anchor John Kniceley had given Jumpy Jim a premature pat on the back the night

HDTV Ugly Stick?

Check out this article on the effects of HDTV on various stars' appearances. Some look better, it says, but in other cases, the increased clarity reveals some scary features on famous faces. Our question, of course, is what it does to local personalities. (Insert a name and shudder here.)

Hot Weather in June?!! What a Great Story Idea!!

With temperatures reaching the upper 90s last week, Omaha TV-types just couldn't talk about it enough. We'll not pick on any one station, because every outlet in town has done at least one "How People Are Coping with the Heat" story in the last seven or eight days. One particularly annoying instance came on Friday, when a reporter was dispatched to cover the Summer Arts Festival and, instead of

Thanksgiving made easy with Google TV

Best Of Google TV Series

It’s that time of the year again - the time when your kitchen and house are buzzing with family, friends and food. The holidays are of course all about spending time with loved ones, but for many, it’s also a great time to experiment with new recipes. This year Google TV has made discovering new recipes and ideas for fun decorations much easier.

This past weekend, a few friends and I were watching "Boy Meets Grill" on the Food Network on my Google TV powered TV and Bobby Flay was showing how to make a delicious modern day turkey. It got us to thinking about our own thanksgiving menus, so we put the TV into Dual View mode (which lets you browse the web while you watch TV in the smaller window) and we scooted on over to FoodNetwork.com to browse other recipes. There are more than 1,400 Turkey recipes on Food Network's site alone, and we now had access to them al on the big screen to browse together. The possibilities for how to prepare this staple main course are endless and we found recipes that suited each of our tastes - from Black Pepper-Pomegranate Molasses Glazed Turkey to Deep Fried Turkey.

Next we hit Epicurious.com where we found categories of recipes for more Thanksgiving staples like stuffing, veggies and pies - with a truly beautiful imagery of each recipe so we could see what the finished dish would look like.

We didn’t stop there. We then navigated over to Chow’s optimized site for Google TV where we were met with a slew of educational videos to help prep us for our feasts. We learned how to truss a chicken or turkey, how to roll pie dough with a wine bottle and how to make a quick and easy holiday centerpiece. 

Before we knew it, our holiday menus and decorations were planned - from the comfort of my living room - and we could get back to watching TV. For the cooks out there, Google TV is a great way to help you plan your next celebration! Happy Thanksgiving.

Posted by Gina Weakley, PR Team

KETV Makes Sunday-Monday Night Adjustment

As it has for the past several sweeps periods, KETV is deploying anchors Rob McCartney and Julie Cornell on Sunday nights in an effort to boost ratings on what is one of the most-watched evenings of the week.What's new this year is that they're givng Rob and Julie the post-Monday Night Football newscast off. MNF ordinarily ends around 11:30, too late for the pair to go head-to-head with the other

If They Get Her Off the Air, Perhaps She Can Do Something About This

When we suggested the other day that KETV purge its 5 o'clock newscast of webmaster Shiloh Woolman's ghastly "Online @ Five" appearances, we were looking at it only from the perspective of irritated viewers. But as we browse Channel 7's staff bios, it occurs to us that she could devote that recovered time to her real job and do a little editing.First off, from an entirely aesthetic standpoint,

One Woman's Crusade to Give Back to Her Community

Our vote for "Out-of-Context Quote of the Week" goes to this, from KETV's Thursday night story on an anti-prostitution measure:"I've always thought we could make a difference with prostitution. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing this." —"Neighborhood Leader" Jan Quinley

The Tube, It Is a-Changin'

If you want a sense of where TV is headed, a Sunday Chicago Tribune article provides some interesting clues. TV, it says, will change as much in the next five years as it has in the past 50. We wonder what impact this will have on local broadcast outlets. 6 Ways TV is Changing Your Life> [Chicago Tribune]

A Blog After Our Own Hearts

She isn't local, but Today Show news reader Ann Curry easily could be. She's as self-absorbed as Elictia Hammond, as brainless as Andrea McMaster, as able to botch copy as Suzanne Deyo, and as prone to break into a smile at inappropriate times as Sheila Brummer. Seeing all that ineptitude oozing out of one person is quite a sight. Check out the "I Hate Ann Curry" blog by clicking here.Another

Gone

Action 3rd News is two veterans lighter with the departures of midday anchor Mary Williams and political reporter Joe Jordan. According to an email sent to an alert viewer by the station, Williams's part-time position was cut for economic reasons. No word regarding the circumstances of Jordan's exit.Williams had been with the station since the early '80s; Jordan since the late '70s. Somehow,

Upgrade

An alert reader informs us that the work on the SuxNews set is being done in preparation for the station's plan to go HD with local programming in time for the November sweeps.Seeing some of the SuxNews team do their jobs badly in HD may be more than most viewers can stomach. For instance, will we be able to see the spit fly out of Jimmy Thiedlecki's mouth as he lisps his way through the morning

"...and he promotes like hell"

You'd think the story was about someone who'd actually contributed something valuable to his business.We're referring to Broadcasting and Cable's profile of Harry Pappas, whose company owns KPTM, KXVO, and 28 other "stations."Our favorite line: "Pappas concluded independents needed 'The 4Ps': Quality programming, top-notch people, savvy promotion and strong transmitter power."KPTM has been on the

Ditz

From an alert reader...

How about that Malorie Maddox and her unwavering, hardscrabble sense for journalism? She’s done a story on the internet fashion police, complete with scenes from Sex and the City.  Click here to view.If this doesn’t finally get her that long-deserved Emmy, then she’s truly laboring in vain.

Optimizing your site for TV is now easier

As the Google TV platform continues to launch across more devices, developers are probably searching for an easy way to bring great content to Google TV users. We’re happy to announce that we have an answer.

Google TV enables developers to build powerful websites using the same technologies they already work with. These include HTML5, JavaScript, CSS and Flash. While existing websites can be displayed in Google TV, the user experience isn’t always ideal within the context of a living room. We previously provided a guide for optimizing websites for TV, and today we’re releasing several templates and a UI library to make it easier for developers to build optimized sites.

We’ve created two template designs that are focused on delivering video content, but equally suitable for photos or other multimedia. We recognize that some developers prefer using open web technologies, while others prefer Flash. So we’ve created two separate versions of each template.





All templates are open sourced under the Apache 2 license, so developers can make modifications to these templates and customize them to fit their brand and desired functionality.

One important optimization for browsing websites on TV is ensuring that D-pad navigation works well. The JavaScript-based templates utilizes a new library we’ve developed for this purpose-- the Google TV Web UI Library. This library has been open sourced as well.

To get started, you can download the template you want and visit our Google TV Web Developer Forum to get help. We look forward to seeing all the great sites developers will build using these templates.

By Steve Hines and Daniels Lee, Google TV Developer Relations Team

Nuggets

• Mike Kelly's column in the local paper gets just a little more pathetic with each installment. Saturday marked a new low as his lead "from the notebook" item celebrated the fact that comedian Groucho Marx—who has been dead since 1977—once performed a song which mentioned Omaha.Really, Mike? This is all you've got left in the "Look How Hip Omaha Is" file? Aren't there any editors left at the

Let's Not Quibble Over Details

This alert reader sends what he calls a "WTF":Action 3's Mary Wee Yums teased the Noon news by saying "a man was shot atthe Qwest center in broad daylight." Then they go to Kathy Sarontos Niver who tells us she was 3 BLOCKS WEST of the Qwest center, at THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS office where the man was shot. So he was not shot at the Qwest center at all. Same song, different station. At

Spilling

Add spelling to the list of things they can't do right at Channel Sux.A new blood drive promo starring "Daybreak" dimwits Jimmy Thiedlecki and Malorie Maddox flashes a graphic urging viewers to help "replinish" blood supplies.Perhaps they spelled phonetically, using Malorie's pronunciation as their guide.

Hope

We were sorry to read in Sunday's local paper that former WOWT reporter Jim Fagin is battling pancreatic cancer. Fagin's TV work was some of the best Omaha has ever seen, and it has been sorely missed since he left the station a decade or so ago. He now works as an aide to Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson.According to the newspaper story, the circumstances surrounding Fagin's cancer give him somewhat

If We Didn't Know Better, We'd Swear He Attended Morningside

During Sunday's 5:30 p.m. newscast on KMTV, did Devon "Lockjaw" Patton really say that a plane was registered to someone in "Illinoise"? After further review, the call on the field stands; fifteen yard penalty, loss of down, and lots of questions about how someone with an anchor gig can get to this point in his life without being able to properly pronounce the names of all 53 states.

He he he

Sean Weide Jim Minge reports that KETV continued blowing WOWT out in the May sweeps. Sux's numbers are down 17 percent from a year ago.Check it out here.

Media Biz Clippings

Finally, A Place for Great Radio Faces: Check out this story about a Detroit TV station whose reporter remains off-camera. Always. Do you think we could get Travis Justice to do stories in which neither his face nor his voice get into the story?Channel 4 Mystery Reporter Is Intriguing [Detroit Free Press]Wherever They Can Get It: A firm that tracks ad spending, oxymoronically-named TNS Media

Terminology

Ejacucast Authority Jumpy Jim Flowers' Wednesday night prediction: a "snowburst" around midnight Thursday will bring the area "a quick two inches." Isn't "a quick two inches" how Mrs. Thiedlecki describes a night with her husband?

Thud

With no snow likely between now and the start of spring (which SuxNews Weather-Authority-Ejacucaster Andrea Rich on Sunday said "will sprung" by Friday), let's see how "Jim's Winter Forecast" and "Bill's Winter Forecast" held up.Back on November 17, Jumpy Jim Flowers went out on a limb and predicted that we'd receive between 28 and 32 inches of snow during the winter (the average winter snowfall

A November Tradition

Electricity is in the air tonight all over town as neighbors and friends gather around the television to receive "Jim's Precision Winter Forecast"—that magical moment when WOWT meteorologist Jim Flowers works himself into a lather and tells us what to expect for the next five months. For the Brockmans, this is better than Thanksgiving and Christmas combined.As is the case with other holiday

It Really Blows Out There

The arrival of winter weather sent TV stations into its usual frenzy of idiotic stories. After the early morning exhortations to "allow yourself extra time" and "bundle up," all three of Tuesday's 10 p.m. newscasts featured the obligatory "let's have a reporter show us what snow looks like" package. KETV sent Brandi Petersen out to tell us that it was so windy that a station engineer had to hold

Nature's Viagra

Why is this man smiling?After a quick check of the WOWT website Thursday evening, we've got a hunch:Will you be ready?

Sorry for the Inconvenience

We're turning the comments feature off for the time being due to a wave of spam that's hitting blogs right now. We have neither the time nor the energy to weed this crap out. We'll turn them back on once blogspot plugs whatever hole is letting these things through. Feel free to email your comments to us at omanews@hotmail.com; we'll post what we can.

The News Starts NOW: Sweeps Edition

When we wade into what passes for TV "news" this month, we're always excited by the hype that accompanies a sweeps period. Tune in on virtually any night of the week and you'll see people who make slick streets sound like the crash of the Hindenburg take their schtick to the next level. Our two favorites at the moment: Sporting his trusty radar gun, Doug Walker proves that speeders are poised to

Embarrassment

Remember how, when he was first trying to get himself elected to Congress, Lee Terry promised to term-limit himself and only serve eight years? Why don't we hear more about that as he runs for his eighth term?

Anyway, here's what we see every time we look at one of his TV ads:















Eerie, isn't it? Hearing him speak causes roughly the same reaction.

A Mid-Year Resolution

After much thoughtful consideration (or what passes for it here at the OMAnews offices), we've decided that for the month of July, we're going to totally ignore the Big Six. No, you're not hallucinating. We've decided to take a break from the Six-bashing. The plan is that no matter what happens in the Kingdom of Jonas and Clark, we're keeping our thoughts to ourselves. To give you a sense of what

And the Award for Best Nickname of a Local Newscast Goes to...

An insider at one of Channel 6's rivals tells us that, in his newsroom, they now refer to WOWT's "First News Live at Four" as "Dumb and Brummer."

Chantal Della Concetta Presenter Seputar Indonesia

Chantal Della Concetta is back. This beautiful girl finally comes back again and appeared in Seputar Indonesia RCTI, after a long time take a maternity leave.

Chantal Della Concetta, born in Bandung, 27 July 1980, is a news anchor for RCTI, especially in Seputar Indonesia News Program.

Chantal Della Concetta started her news presenter in Metro TV, and usually appeared in Suara Anda, Public Corner, Headline News, Breakfast Club, Metro Pagi, Metro Siang, dan Metro Malam.

Now Chantal has married with Hans Lazuardi, and has 2 children : Nathaniel Trevor Lazuardi and Mazel Peach Lazuardi.

Many fans like her face on television. Chantal has a chinese oriental face, and her name is a mix from other language. Chantal (France) means song, Della (Latin) means kind hearted, dan Concetta (Italia) means pure.

She is smart, beautiful, white skinny face and cool. A quick glance, Chantal face is similar to TVOne princess Grace Natalie. Both of them are white and bening.

Foto Chantal Della Concetta, Koleksi Photos and gambar Chantal Della Concetta.



















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