Maltard Word of the Day
(With Tracey Madden on vacation, SuxNews viewers are being treated to a dose of serial-mispronouncer Maltard Maddox on the evening newscasts.)jawn: J-Pa's first name
News from any source
Best of Google TV Series
Television is stil the main source for the daily news in the home, according to PEW research. Until lately, print and web news content have been absent from the big screen. We’ve been working with developers to enhance your TV news experience, optimizing both traditional and innovative news sources for Google TV.
On Google TV you can get breaking news from many sources: cable broadcast, the web, blogs, and even citizen journalists.
Posted by Olivia Ma, YouTube News Manager, recently watched Google TV Entry - Stop Motion Animation
Television is stil the main source for the daily news in the home, according to PEW research. Until lately, print and web news content have been absent from the big screen. We’ve been working with developers to enhance your TV news experience, optimizing both traditional and innovative news sources for Google TV.
- The New York Times offers daily TimesCast video-news updates alongside video blogs and featurettes.
- USA Today has improved reading for the big screen: you can browse through the day in photos, stay up-to-date on sports news, and track the world of business.
- The CNBC News App lets you watch the latest web videos in business news. Follow the markets as they happen and track your personal, customized stock portfolio.
- The Huffington Post brings together the best of traditional news, the blogosphere and opinion reporting in their sleek News Glide web-app.
- The Onion covers “the important stories lesser outlets fail to report” through their comedic style.
On Google TV you can get breaking news from many sources: cable broadcast, the web, blogs, and even citizen journalists.
Posted by Olivia Ma, YouTube News Manager, recently watched Google TV Entry - Stop Motion Animation
CWS Live Reports Hit and Miss
This weekend's live reports from the NCAA Men's College World Series were something of a mixed bag in terms of quality. None of the stations delivered any home runs. The most ambitious of the broadcasts was Channel 6's attempt to broadcast most of its 6 p.m. program from Rosenblatt Stadium. The result was mostly awkward and not particularly well executed. Anchors John Knicely and Tracy Madden
Traffic Face
According to the latest info, this will be the new face of KETV's morning traffic reports. If she looks familiar, it's because she is Miss Nebraska USA Jena Murrell. Murrell will apparently staff an in-studio traffic monitoring station, from which she'll deliver her reports.Pageant winners have had mixed results in Omaha. Channel 7's Brandi Petersen has emerged as something of a star at the
Samsung and Google TV
Earlier this week, we shared that Vizio is working on several devices powered by Google TV. Today, Samsung also announced that they’re building a 3D Blu-ray player and companion box with Google TV. Check out their press release for more details. We look forward to working closely with all of our partners to bring Google TV powered devices to more consumers this year.
Posted by Mickey Kim, Google TV Partnerships Team
Posted by Mickey Kim, Google TV Partnerships Team
Hope?
Read this article from the NY Times. It gives us reason to wonder if Channel Sux's dim-bulb anchorman John "J-Pa" Knicely might soon join the ranks of the unemployed amid a national trend of stations dismissing longtime, high-salary anchors.According to the aforementioned article,Across the country, longtime local TV anchors are a dying breed. Facing an economic slump and a severe advertising
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Ten Reasons to Prefer KETV news programs over those of Channels Sux and 3rd:
1. Little to no giggling among anchors.
2. Ability to develop talent.
3. FirstNews morning program.
4. Rob McCartney
5. They don't ask viewers to buy weather forecasts from them.
6. Melissa Fry
7. Nicole Berlie
8. Sports guys can pronounce names of players.
9. They don't call their webpage a "channel."
10. John Oakey.
1. Little to no giggling among anchors.
2. Ability to develop talent.
3. FirstNews morning program.
4. Rob McCartney
5. They don't ask viewers to buy weather forecasts from them.
6. Melissa Fry
7. Nicole Berlie
8. Sports guys can pronounce names of players.
9. They don't call their webpage a "channel."
10. John Oakey.
A Slow Week
An assortment of observation at the end of an otherwise uneventful week...• What the hell is Tracy Madden trying to do with her hair? During Friday's "Live at Five," it looked like a mullet as envisioned by KMTV's former stylist. Memo to Tracy: Ignore whoever is currently giving you hair advice.• KETV's weekday morning "First News" traffic reports were noticeably better this week in the absence
Faces, Old and Newborn
We didn't catch a lot of news this weekend (we were busy digging out from the 8-12 inches of snow Bill Randby warned us about), but a few bits and pieces did catch our attention...• Channel 6 weekend morning anchor Andrea McMaster returned from maternity leave looking rested and sharing video of her daughter, who was born in October. While we've been critical of McMaster's work, the baby really
Out of the Way, You Rubber-Necking Yokels
OK, so aside from sending Gary Johnson to cover the plane crash, WOWT did little to enhance its credibility as a newsgathering operation. According to Brian Mastre, anchoring at 5 p.m., weather "played a factor" in the crash. 'Nuf said. But the even bigger idiots of the day were those brainless morons who, upon hearing the location of the debris, went rushing to the scene with their home video
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