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Weekend Notes

2013-12-28T14:55:00.000-08:00

• Was WOWT using video equipment borrowed from a Texas Goodwill Store? Highlights of Saturday's Nebraska-Texas A&M looked alternately blurry or washed-out. At first we thought it was the TV, but quick checks of three other sets revealed the same thing. The fact that all the station's shots were taken from about a mile high didn't help any.• The lobotomization of Malorie Maddox appears to be

Local Paper Runs Ads on Talking Picture Box

2013-12-28T00:25:00.000-08:00

Omaha's daily newspaper may not cover television, but it doesn't mind advertising there.We noticed one spot over the weekend that features a young couple pushing a stroller through a kid-infested playground, only to be accosted by columnist Mike Kelly, who appears out of nowhere to offer them a paper. The ad doesn't make us want to read the paper, but it does make us wonder why Kelly is hanging

Paging John Clark...Mr. John Clark, Red Courtesy Phone Please

2013-12-27T01:21:00.000-08:00

If ever there were an article that just about everyone at Channel 6 should read, it's Mistakes Are Bad News by newswriting coach Mervin Block. Block's article describes 16 mistakes that news directors make that diminish the strength of their product. The piece reads like a prescription for much of what ails the sluggish WOWT evening newscasts. Our favorites, which we'll call "The John Clark Five"

If Diversity Includes the Untalented, Then She's a Double Threat

2013-12-24T08:45:00.000-08:00

KETV Newswatch 7 is truly sinking before our eyes. Ont Thursday at 10 p.m., train wreck reporter Farrah Fazal was dispatched to cover the story of the three-year-old who wandered away from home before being picked up by police, who then set about trying to figure out where he belonged. Fazal, whose voice is somewhat manly and comes with a halting delivery and yet-to-be-identified accent, kept

Bits

2013-12-24T05:43:00.000-08:00

• Sportsguy Matt Schick, who's cutting back on his involvement at KETV, will be hosting a daily sportstalk show on 1620/The Zone, according to promos running on the ESPN radio affiliate. The show is being called "Schick and Nick," to account for co-host Nick Bahe's presence. Bahe is a former Creighton basketball player.• If you have the stomach, check out Channel 3rd's 10 p.m. newscast to get a

Riding the Short Bus with My Sister

2013-12-23T20:53:00.000-08:00

Okay, this has nothing to do with Omaha TV, unless you count the fact that it was viewed on TVs in Omaha, but this TVgasm.com highlight reel from Rosie O'Donnell's made-for-TV movie "Riding the Bus with My Sister" made us laugh so hard we became incontinent. Enjoy. And don't send us outraged emails about our lack of sensitivity; you know we're insensitive, but you're here anyway, right?

Maltard Word of the Day

2013-12-18T15:12:00.000-08:00

(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

2013-12-15T17:02:00.000-08:00

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.

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.

Video journalism has also proliferated across YouTube. On YouTube Leanback, viewers have access to rich content from channels like the Associated Press, Al-Jazeera English, and NPR. Alongside traditional news sources, YouTube has built a thriving community of citizen reporters. The News & Politics channel, CitizenTube, aggregates video news from across the YouTube community, providing raw footage from the scene of breaking news and unique perspectives from people and places around the world.

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

2013-12-10T12:46:00.000-08:00

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

2013-12-08T06:31:00.000-08:00

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

2013-12-05T02:32:00.000-08:00

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

Hope?

2013-11-29T19:48:00.000-08:00

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

10

2013-11-29T01:09:00.000-08:00

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.

A Slow Week

2013-11-28T14:12:00.000-08:00

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

2013-11-28T14:09:00.000-08:00

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

2013-11-28T11:08:00.000-08:00

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

Third

2013-11-27T18:04:00.000-08:00

Well, it appears that the poor folks over at Action 3rd News are trying to do something with their morning show.First, as we've already mentioned, former SuxNews 4 p.m. anchor Sheila Brummer is back in town, having apparently been hired to replace the lethargic Kerri Stowell, whose fate is unknown (at least to us). And, as surprised as we are to see these words crawling onto the screen as we type

All Deyo Long

2013-11-26T12:57:00.000-08:00

Meanwhile, over at Channel 7, they've decided to hype the hell out of Suzanne Deyo's interview with prison escapee Michael Maguire. We're not sure why, but someone over there thinks viewers will be flocking to their TVs to see this guy. So they had Deyo up and in the studio to preview the piece on Wednesday's morning show. And, of course, tonight's broadcast is commercial-free.We're all for

Virnie Ismail Sexy Extravaganze Trans TV Host

2013-11-24T02:57:00.000-08:00

Virnie Ismail is a beautiful and sexy girl from Bandung who got famous after appeared in Comedy Show Extravaganza aired on Trans TV. The show Extravaganza really got succeed because the funny and creative comedian like Mieke Amalia, VJ Cathy, Tike Priatna Kusuma, Tora Sudiro, and also Virnie Ismail.

Virnie Ismail alo starred in several Indonesia Sinetron such as Babe, Bulan Berkaca, Kabut Sutra Ungu, Si Toloy serta Jaka Gledek. In Film industry, Virnie Ismail had starred in Rembulan Di Ujung Dahan (2002) with actress Ira Wibowo, and Koper with Anjasmara, Maya Hasan, and Djenar Maesa Ayu.

Although Virnie Ismail always said to be lucky to have such a sexy body and beautiful face, but her love story didn't end sweet like her face. Virnie Ismail ever gossiped with several actor or businessman like Surya Saputra, Aldi Bragi, but the lucky man now is Ferry Indra Yudha. Ferry and Virnie relationship can be said will be going to marriage in 2010.

Virnie Ismail hot and sexy performance also can be watched on Talk Show "Bedagang" aired on Trans 7 every monday till Friday on 11.30 PM. She hosts the show together with Ilow Ismail.

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Scratch

2013-11-23T07:09:00.000-08:00

There was "breaking news" in the "Heartland" Thursday night at 10, when "the people we know" dispatched their crack news team to deliver live coverage of what reporter Justin Joseph called "a massive rescue effort."He was referring, of course, to the case that riveted the city—a cat trapped in a drainpipe.Tracy Madden even ended the newscast with promises of updates first thing Friday on "

Mal-Tard Word of the Day

2013-11-19T15:27:00.000-08:00

ender: below (example: "My I.Q. is ender a hunnerd.")

Fresh Air

2013-11-18T11:56:00.000-08:00

Now this is a step in the right direction: In light of the opening day of the College World Series, Channel 6 is set to deliver its entire 6 p.m. newscast from Rosenblatt Stadium.An anchor reporting, remote broadcasts. Is the giant finally emerging from its coma?

Brainpower

2013-11-15T23:28:00.000-08:00

An alert reader points out this piece of crack reporting on the SuxNews website.Could the final two sentences of the story be any more contradictory?Is Maltard writing in her spare time?

Moronicity

2013-11-15T04:25:00.000-08:00

If it's not one of 'em, it's another.An alert commenter brings to our attention the latest idiotic prattle coming out of the mouths of Channel Sux's morning crew.Said commenter reports that linguistically-challenged anchorette Maltard Maddox "mentioned on the morning news [Monday] that it's been 81 years since the death of Martin Luther King Jr." The commenter continues, asserting that "that’s

Palpable Excitement at Channel 6

2013-11-12T02:45:00.000-08:00

Now in the throes of November sweeps, Channel 6 is hyping the hell out of what it apparently considers its big assets.On Tuesday, the Suxers keep promising, their election coverage will include a CONTINUOUS TICKER at the bottom of the screen!And on Wednesday, everything in Omaha will come to a halt so as to hear JIM'S WINTER FORECAST!How can any other station hope to compete with all that?