OT: What local news do you watch....
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Fun fact #2: Growing up, our family Doctor was in Sligo.
Looked like Sam Drucker!
This may not be appropriate, but it is the truth for me. If an attractive female is providing the news, then I am more inclined to keep it on that channel.
Overheard in auto parts store:
"Hey, Jackie Cain is leaving WTAE!"
"Wow, we're going to miss them."
Hey I said I overheard it, not said it! True Story!
It is the Fox News model. Blondes and short skirts.
Well yeah, this goes without saying. It’s kind of the reason why every pharmaceutical sales rep hired over the last 25 years was a hot college grad in her mid 20s. Doctors don’t want wined and dined by middle age male sales reps.
But it's not THAT Sligo. That is a real town. This is some area along the Allegheny River in Harrison Twp that existed like in the 1850's when there were mines, and hasn't been occupied in over 100 years.
I watch all 3 local but I mostly watch WTAE because I knew/know the personality. I went to Seton LaSalle for a few years with Ryan Recker and I also went to Canevin for a few years with John Myers who left the news casting business and Ryan replaced him. Both of them are good people.
What was the real reason behind Krenn leaving? Was it money or did they think he wasn’t funny anymore.
I cant stand him... he's a another reason to hate psu...
I do remember he got busted for some hooker action ?
I remember seeing an interview with him about it .
He said he came into work one day and he was told thanks but we are going in another direction .
He was blown away .
No hard feelings with management but walked out just like wtf ?
Okay . Life goes on .
True professional
Been hearing more Stanely P. Kachowsky lately on commercials .
Hopefully they know his Burgh value to the airwaves
If not .. Just good to hear him .
Julie , Julie , Julie ... yikes she beautifulThey're all just talking heads. I get my news online.
I watch the tv news for the eye candy. For traffic, Channel 11's Trisha Pittman.
For news, KDKA's Julie Grant.
I really misremembered that incident with Quinn and Banana. It was Liz Randolph who won the lawsuit not Pittman.They're all just talking heads. I get my news online.
I watch the tv news for the eye candy. For traffic, Channel 11's Trisha Pittman.
For news, KDKA's Julie Grant.
Sorry about that!
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It's only human nature. Which is why for a long time, advertising has used attractive people to push their products.
yep, I'm the same way too. That's how I decide on which news program to watch....lol
I completely stopped watching local news. I think people mainly watch it for entertainment and/or to feel more connected. The weather is the worst. They actually have three weather segments. The Pre Weather, where you are told to stay tuned for the Weather segment later on. Then the Main Weather segment, where they spend half the time telling you about the weather that already happened... which of course we all know because we were alive. Then they tell you the forecast, which should take bout 10 seconds at most, but it doesn't. Then they come back with the Post Weather, and I'm not even sure the point of this segment.
All they really need to do is tell people the high/low coming up and the rain/snow chances and how much. That can be done in 10 seconds tops.
But... it's not about the actual weather, and that's why many stations seem to be moving towards the hot but serious looking women, so men will watch because the girl is hot, but also woman will watch because the forecast appears serious.
All they really need to do is tell people the high/low coming up and the rain/snow chances and how much. That can be done in 10 seconds tops.
But... it's not about the actual weather, and that's why many stations seem to be moving towards the hot but serious looking women, so men will watch because the girl is hot, but also woman will watch because the forecast appears serious.
Excellent examples you cited!They're all just talking heads. I get my news online.
I watch the tv news for the eye candy. For traffic, Channel 11's Trisha Pittman.
For news, KDKA's Julie Grant.
I actually find I have been watching Hyundai commercials this holiday season, all the way through, because of the fetching blonde girl who traipses through the ads. And I'd never buy a Hyundai in a million years.
Ken Rice carried my previous manager from a flooding car.... He was a dude with a bad hip. True story.
That last line was more for comic effect (sadly the rest of the post is totally true). I'm sure that they are fine cars now. Back when I graduated from Pitt though, Hyundai had only been in America for a few years. My good friend was given one (an Elantra or what it might have been called then?)by his parents as an early grad present. My buds and I were living near Bates street, nobody else yet had a car. He picked us up to go for a ride to the grocery mecca of S. Oakland, the South Side Giant Eagle ... the car gasped, shuddered and dropped its transmission right on Semple St. I think it had like 1500 miles total on it.
I only watch wpxi and kdka. ANY ABC affiliate (especially WTAE) unapologetically pushes the left's agendaThey're all just talking heads. I get my news online.
I watch the tv news for the eye candy. For traffic, Channel 11's Trisha Pittman.
For news, KDKA's Julie Grant.
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