While We Were Sleeping
Thanks to our many alert readers for pointing out what we had somehow missed: that empty-headed KETV traffic tracker Jana Murrell is off to Washington for a physical therapy internship. (Believe it or not, Murrell is working on a doctoral degree in P.T. It must be easier to get one of those than we had thought.)Meanwhile, back at the Newsplex, moronic Murrell's moronic fill-in, Veronica Todd
KETV's Buckeyewitless News
Time for Channel 7 news director Rose Ann Shannon to have yet another long closed-door talk with her worst on-air employee.Shannon and fellow KETV management-types may tell everyone that perpetual screw-up reporter/desperation-fill-in-anchor Fubar Fazal is improving, but you have to think they're more than a little miffed that Fubar keeps pooping all over their misplaced confidence in her.Fubar's
Flummoxed
A severe thunderstorm rumbled into Omaha on Monday evening around 9, and Ejacucaster/Weather Authority Jim Flowers looked lost. He talked and talked and talked and conveyed close to no comprehensible information.The problem with Jumpy Jim, along with his mostly-departed Ejacucasting sidekicks, is that he's so busy trying to show how much theory he knows and how his gizmos operate that he largely
Randby Encroaching on Flowers' Territory
We stumbled onto KETV meteorologist Bill Randby's 5 o'clock weather segment on Monday and found him in a pretty agitated state about a storm out over the Pacific that he said could result in 'EIGHT TO TWELVE INCHES!" of snow on Friday or Friday night. Randby then added, in more controlled tones, that the aforementioned totals were likely to accumulate...in Des Moines. Over on Channel 6, WOWT
Pat Left Her Ad-Libbing Skills at the Station and Guess Who's Using Them Now
You gotta wonder if Channel 6 meteorologist Scott Akin thinks or talks about anything that doesn't involve weather. This morning, Akin displayed his weather fixation during a short banter session with anchor Malorie Maddox. Faithful reader "Bandit 75" describes it: Malorie did a story on the new Batmobile and remarked that it was a lot different than the one her dad knew, and then commented that
Big Six Weekend Mornings to Get New Faces
Anyone who has seen Sean Weide's Reader "Media Notes" column for this week knows the good news: Andrea McMaster is leaving the station to take a part-time gig with the University of Nebraska Medical Center. McMaster, who just became a mom last fall, wants to spend more time at home. Her last day is March 31st, which happens to be the first day on the job for new anchor Mike Cronemeyer. Weide also
Perlman Auditioning for Knicely's Job
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman has now proven himself clueless enough to qualify as a replacement for John Knicely or Andrea McMaster. According to the local daily newspaper, Perlman offers two astoundingly foolish quotations:(1) "We'd like to be playing for the national championship. We're not," Perlman said. "Would I be more pleased if we were? Sure. But I think these
McMastering the Language
Perhaps thinking it was somehow related to the term "pap smear" Channel 6's Andrea McMaster alerted viewers to this weekend's coverage of the papal installation service by pronouncing "papal" as if it rhymed with "apple." Then again, at least she didn't call it a PayPal service, so maybe this is a sign of growth.But rather than filling in for Tracy Madden, as she was on Friday afternoon, maybe
A Knicely Tasered Rip-Off?
We haven't yet watched John Knicely's televised tasering (that's why God made News on One), but an alert reader confirms our suspicion that we'd seen this story before. Channel 3's Michelle Bandur did it over a year ago, getting zapped so you wouldn't have to. Maybe this is going to become one of those first-baby-of-the-New-Year stories that everybody does periodically. We hope not, but nothing
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