Patsturbation

WOWT's "retiring" "anchor" Pat Persaud paid loving tribute to herself Monday evening, narrating a retrospective that was every bit as free of substance as most of her "career" has been.It's really amazing that someone could be at the anchor desk since 1992 and have so little to show for it. Based on the footage included, the highlight of her career appears to be one of the following: •

How to Cover TV w/o Really Trying

From what we can tell, the OWH has three types of television stories:• Rainbow Rowell grieving over Simon Cowell (accurately, if not politely) calling Omaha’s Maynard triplets “overweight” on “American Idol”;• Harold W. Andersen taking a break from his usual kvetching about form letters that misspell his name to complain about some writer’s reference to reality TV; and• Sunday’s “TV Q&A,” column,

Wee Wee, MAD-dam

Are we the only ones who watched Maladroit Maddox's "Sux on Your Side" spot in which she pronounced the name of the restaurant, Le Voltaire, as "Lay Voltaire"?It was a nice match of her partner Jimmy "Gomer" Thiedlecki's "Serk DAY So-lay" promo of 2006. Omaha viewers really owe Joplin, Missouri, a punch square in the face for sending us these two rubes.

Rethinking Scott Akin

Alert reader tóózy writes,Hey Ted:You got to give Scott Akin some props. Last week when he was filling in for the Pornstache, there was a forecast for a few inches of snow. Instead of on air Armageddon as is the usual, he was very relaxed with it, no hyperbole, no doom. He just went about his business, seemingly giving the audience credit for knowing about winter. He stopped just short of calling

Fake

Why were the SuxNews anchors delivering their drivel from in front of a green screen on Tuesday?Is their barely-a-year-old set being revamped already? Or did the bank repo it?It's bad enough watching their mostly pretend anchors deliver a pretend newscast. Seeing them do it in front of a pretend set is more than we can handle.

KETV to Lose "MNF," WOWT Will Get NFL Back

In a surprise development, NBC has landed rights to broadcast NFL Sunday night games beginning in 2006. As expected, ESPN picked up "Monday Night Football," which has been carried on ABC since its inception in 1970. Speculation had been that ESPN and ABC would end up swapping the two nights. The upshot of the new deal is that KETV will lose primetime NFL games after this season, while WOWT will

Al Jazeera on Google TV

Best of Google TV Series

Over the past two weeks, Al Jazeera has carried 24/7 breaking news coverage of the protests in Egypt. Live video of the protests from Tahrir Square, streaming from AlJazeera.net and English.AlJazeera.net, have driven a 2500% traffic increase to their website. The majority of this traffic has come from the United States, as U.S. viewers can’t access Al Jazeera’s broadcast on television.

This week, Al Jazeera released their Al Jazeera spotlight site where you can watch breaking news clips, scan headline news and dive into the breadth of their web content -- all on the big screen.

For the latest coverage on the protests in Egypt you can also visit Al Jazeera’s YouTube channels in both Arabic and English for premium coverage and CitizenTube for on-the-ground citizen reports.

- Posted by Daniels Lee, Developer Relations

Spooky

We normally can't tolerate the Channel 3rd morning program for more than about ten seconds, but today we were able to endure two minutes or so. What we saw reminded us why watching smarmy dimwit Sheila Brummer and tiny weatherman C.T. Thongklin is even worse than tuning in to watch the hayseed duo that squeezes out Channel Sux's morning dump.


Granted, we should've changed the channel when

Cause

An alert reader has asked us to spread the word that there's now a Facebook group dedicated to getting Channel 3rd to rid itself of Travis Justice.OK. Good luck.

WOWT Offers Live-Stream of Callahan

In a new twist on "Signing Day" hype, WOWT offered a live-streaming broadcast of Husker coach Bill Callahan's 3 p.m. news conference today. Check out the whole 47-minute event. As Pat Persaud would robotically say, "we've built a link" below...
Reloading NU

Another Thousand Words

We are without speech. Socially acceptable speech, anyway. All we can think of is an Onion headline: "Local Community Transformed By Television Station's Caring." We're pretty sure we'll go straight to Hell if we offer any further comment.