OMA News Unveils New Feature

Instead of "For What It's Worth," KMTV should call Travis "The Tool" Justice's nightly waste of time "Travis Justice Grasps the Obvious." Until the folks at Channel 3 make that move, we will, from time to time, highlight some of the more idiotic pontifications by the guy better suited to serve as poster boy for the Setliff Clinic.In today's edition, we present Trav's teaser for his Tuesday night

Nova Rini Beautiful SCTV News Presenter

Nova Rini SCTV News Presenter Liputan 6 Nova Rini Born: Surabaya, 24 February 1982 Hobies: Reading, Swim, Music Email: nova_rini[at]sctv.co.id

Comments Go Bye-Bye

You've heard it since elementary school: It only takes a few idiots to wreck things for everyone. Not content to cloak their inaccurate guesses in hints, the morons this morning posted the name of their latest target in the comments section of this blog, along with his home address and phone number. Shame on you nimrods.So the comments feature has now been turned off. Now all you get is the

Bad

An alert reader, unable take it anymore, writes,
Been reading this site for as long as it's been up...But I finally have to bag on 6...Pretty sure UNO's news cast isn't near as bad as tonight's 6 o'clock cast... Dundee murder, they've been hyping it as a new international twist...John Chapman never said a word about anything international...Come on!Do they have any idea bad they have gotten?If

KETV Claims Sweep in Sweeps

Channel 7 is claiming victory in all major newscasts in a statement released Friday afternoon.

So Much for Protected Identities

An alert reader sends us this:"At 5 p.m., Kathy Sarantos-Niver of KMTV interviewed the girlfriend of the homicide victim from last night. Kathy said "she asked us not to show her face" yet we kept seeing shots of Kathy and the woman standing next to each other. There was one shot of the woman's hands, but the other four times they showed the pair, you could clearly see the woman was a 20-

Google TV giveaway update

Last week we announced that we'd be giving out 10,000 Google TV devices over the course of the next several weeks. As part of those efforts, today we sent an email to thousands of U.S.-based web developers in the Google Code community to offer them a free device. This program, combined with last week's Adobe MAX Conference giveaway and our Google TV Giveaway Contest for Web Developers, is going to allow us to realize our goal of getting these devices into the hands of web developers so they can start building optimized websites for TV.

We're also excited to share that our Google TV Giveaway for Web Developers had an overwhelming number of entires prior to last night's contest expiration and we'll be reaching out to notify winners soon.

Thanks for your continued interest and support of Google TV.

Posted by Amanda Surya, Google TV Developer Relations Team

And You Thought Your Job Was Depressing

Imagine being in charge of programming at a television station and thinking that Travis Justice is the answer to your problems. Or knowing that he is you best hope. Then again, when you've been recruiting your talent from KPTM, it all probably just seems like one really long bad dream. Honestly, can you imagine how weird this meeting must've been? "Umm, yeah, I've decided that what people really

Thurfathe Featureth (Surface Features)

It's a question as old as Barbara Walters: Why do TV outlets hire people with speech impediments for on-air positions that involve speaking? In a medium where image and appearance are supposedly so important, there appear to be a disproportionate number of local reporters and anchors who exhibit lisps. We'll avoid naming names, but it brings up two questions: (1) What makes someone with a lisp

Things We've Been Meaning to Post

• KMTV unveiled its new "weather lab" last week. It's an improvement over the old "weather center," if only because the meteorologists no longer appear to be working in a windowed broom closet. The "lab" also appears to have a ceiling that's more than six feet high. (If only they could apply this principle to the rest of 3's claustrophobia-inducing set.)Perhaps it's just the camera angles, but