Who Drained the Talent Pool at Channel 6?

Wednesday night at Channel 6, the 10 p.m. newscast featured a lineup that should've been billed as "Tracy Madden and the Dorks." Demonstrating just how bereft of male talent the station has become, WOWT subjected viewers to Brian Mastrebator, filling in for regular anchor John Knicely, Merlyn Klaus subbing for Dave Webber at the sports desk, and high-talker Jeff Jensen handling Ejacu-Weather

The Sweeps Are Coming! Quick! Let's Find Something to Investigate!

The madness begins. On Thursday night at 10, KETV's answer to Inspector Gadget, Carol Kloss, delves into the heretofore undiscovered topic of "Child Support Trouble." Why isn't there an emoticon for eye-rolling?

Viewer Mail

Here's an email we just can't do justice to without publishing it word-for-word. It's from a reader who identifies himself/herself as "Heartland Values." Enjoy.Dear Ted, You really are the fictional Ted Brockman brought to life. My goodness. About 3 hours after one of your readers asked you who your Dream Team would be you had it. 3 hours to assemble a dream team. 3 hours? Travis spends more

The Hits Just Keep on Comin': One Bad Decision After Another at WOWT

Place the barf bag near the bed. Come Monday morning, bloated oaf Brian Mastre will be weighing down the anchor chair next to Malorie Maddox on WOWT's "Live at Daybreak." (Trey Jones' last day is Friday.) It truly is raining crap over there right now.Speaking of Mastre, watching him stroll along a fence last night in his ridiculous looking sunglasses was quite a treat. He looked as if he should

Monster Mash

This picture even made our eyes cross. WOWT's talent-free anchor Sheila Brummer got hitched last Saturday. Read the engagement announcement here. (Sheila's the one on the right.)And don't stare at the photo too long. It'll burn your retinas.

Frida Lidwina Metro TV News Presenter

Frida Lidwina Metro TV News Presenter English-language weekly news program “Indonesia Now.” She also anchors programs in Bahasa Indonesia such as “Business Hari Ini” and "World News"



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Vindication

When we published our remarks regarding Wednesday's "tea parties," we were so inundated with vile comments that we had to shut down that feature on this site. The gist of most—which we suspect would've been in crayon, had they been written on paper—suggested that we were mischaracterizing the folks who showed up there. They were not crackpots and they weren't anti-Obama and they weren't partisan,

A Walk Down Amnesia Lane

What fortuitous timing. Just when Pat Persaud's impending grand sendoff was reminding us of the unceremonious dismissals of a couple of news legends—WOWT's Gary Kerr and KETV's Carol Schrader—what do we stumble upon but a site maintained by an, ahem, ardent Schrader fan? Dubbed, accurately if not creatively, the Carol Schrader Shrine, the site offers screencaps of Schrader going back as far as

Hope

Sometimes, dreams do come true. Well, half-true, at least.Within a day of our suggesting that KETVNewswatchSeven's One-Woman Disaster, Fubar Fazal, ought to be looking to get out of town, an alert reader goes to Medialine.com and finds this gift from the heavens.We especially like this line: "Proficiency in Spanish and French, and 4 East Indian dialects, some Arabic." You've gotta give her points

And Taylor Makes Two

If KPTM's promos are any indication, anchor Taylor Wilson is also outta there. The new ones feature Dave Hansen, J.J. Davis (we think), and Tracy Jacim. And if Pappas Telecasting knows anything about "synergy," it'll buy up every seller of revolving doors in Omaha. Do people who work at 42 (aside from departing uber-vet Matt Meyer) even bother to unpack when they get here? It's sad to see people

Same Old Fubar

An alert reader informs us that Fubar Fazal, KETV's one-woman incompetence squad, was reporting from Harlan, Iowa on Wednesday night, covering the drowning at a lake there. One of her interviewees was Harlan's fire chief, whose last name is Bissen. But Fubar, rather than calling him by his given name, decided to refer to him as "Chief Harlan."Just how bad do you have to be to get KETV management

Investigasms

It appears that local stations are no longer concerned with ratings, but with seeing who can "investigate" more than all the others. In just a few days time, we've seen the following investigasms:• KETV has sent Mike Sigmond out to check on carbon monoxide detectors and Carol Kloss to look into the lives of sex offenders. (One associate noted that Kloss removing her shirt for these creeps might

Does Morningside Offer Mail-Order Degrees?

If, as we've been told, anchors write their own bios for posting on the web, the one just posted for WOWT's Sheila Brummer goes a long way toward explaining why she can't pronounce Guantanamo. Read it here. We especially enjoy the fact that she misspelled John Knicely's name. Unbelievable.Embarrassingly bad writing skills aside, Brummer's career path looks eerily similar to that of recently "