WOWT news is incredibly amateurish! There's a lot of fluff in their broadcasts, but very little hard news.nativeomahan wrote:The head just spins. Is this a high school TV station?
The "news" on WOWT is usually nothing more than filler between commercials!Bob from Omaha wrote:they did a rip & read, maybe a couple of seconds of mindless banter, maybe the weather & then commercials. They must rake it in on that show.
A good example which most in the area can easily watch is the 9:00pm news on WGN from Chicago. This is not one of the "3 majors" in that market, but they have considerably more polish than any of the Omaha news programs. (In all fairness, I admit I am biased since they are a client of mine.) However, when I travel I'll usually check out the news in other markets. In almost all cases, even in markets smaller than Omaha, the news is almost always more professionally presented than in Omaha.Want to compare? Go to http://www.clickondetroit.com and check out Detroit's local NBC affiliate.
Lately I've been noticing that the ABC overnight news folks have been slipping into happy-talk mode more and more. (>>CLICK<<)The big difference is that we don't cringe when the anchors do a little banter.
Whenever I rent a car in Chicago the first thing I do is tune into WBBM for the frequent traffic report. Usually I hear it before I'm out of the lot. Then I know how nasty the traffic on the Kennedy or Stevenson will be. People in Omaha are SPOILED by the lack of serious traffic!Bob from Omaha wrote:For what its worth, on a clear night I can get Wbbm on the radio in the car. Want to hear a traffic report? Catch a Chicago one. Takes more than 10 seconds.
For some reason, they keep us split into two smaller markets.I was thinking. Figuring the total market for Omaha stations, which I would assume includes Lincoln, you have over 1,000,000 people.
As long as people keep watching the bottom-end drek, and as long as the sucker local sponsors buy the airtime, things will stay as they are!One would think that with those kinds of numbers they could charge some pretty good cash for commercials, which would allow them to hire actual journalists. On the other hand, they're already putting up some good numbers with at best mediocre talking heads. So what's the use of hiring quality?
Speaking of Omaha Traffic Reports... KFAB does WOWT's Traffic and KFAB uses WOWT's news. I don't listen to KFAB much, but when I do, I always seem to hear at least one Error in the traffic report. Yesterday, after Rosenblatt, I was waiting to hear Jeff and Trenton do the weekly Grow Omaha visit to the morning show. Rosenblatt's Traffic was closed for less than 5 min after the blast. People were literally driving through the smoke before it was cleared. The road was opened right around 7am. Trenton and Jeff come on at 7:45 and the last traffic report before that was still saying the road was closed. A few weeks before that, when 60th Street was closed Pacific to Leavenworth, they reported that closed for days after it was open again.Omababe wrote:Whenever I rent a car in Chicago the first thing I do is tune into WBBM for the frequent traffic report. Usually I hear it before I'm out of the lot. Then I know how nasty the traffic on the Kennedy or Stevenson will be. People in Omaha are SPOILED by the lack of serious traffic!Bob from Omaha wrote:For what its worth, on a clear night I can get Wbbm on the radio in the car. Want to hear a traffic report? Catch a Chicago one. Takes more than 10 seconds.
I don't know if you remember WKRP in Cincinnati, but I have to believe that WOWT would love to hire Les Nessman.Brad wrote:So exactly where do they get their traffic infomation? Nobody in this town has a Plane or Helicopter.
I assumed it was from the various traffic cams they show.Brad wrote:So exactly where do they get their traffic infomation? Nobody in this town has a Plane or Helicopter.
That's a good idea, I'll have to call in and see if it reduces my commute time.....assuming anyone actually listens to those reports anyway.jessep28 wrote:Apps like Waze and Google Maps are probably more reliable for traffic reports. Sometimes I wonder if people call in fake traffic wrecks or slowdowns to get others to avoid the area so that person can have a faster commute.
jessep28 wrote:I didn't know that he became a shoe salesman. He kind of reminds me of Al Bundy from Married With Children.
Exactly my point. He will some day retire, but then show up for guest spots.nativeomahan wrote:Dave Webber still reappears from time to time, plus he is on all those TV commercials.
Brad wrote:After some digging around, looks like the Tom Becka is where the rumor started. Apparently he talked about it on his show yesterday and made a post about it this morning.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tom-Becka ... 8938992988
WOWT's web site still lists Jim as their Chief Meteorologist. Why do I think this speaks more to their slowness at updating the web site than to his his continued employment with the station?nebugeater wrote:Here is where I first saw it afew days ago and then saw mention on Facebook this AM so that is what started my question this AM.
http://nebraskamediadiscussionforums.yu ... ut-At-WOWT
Brad wrote:After some digging around, looks like the Tom Becka is where the rumor started. Apparently he talked about it on his show yesterday and made a post about it this morning.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tom-Becka ... 8938992988
Tom Becka's fan page on FB says it was contract related. Maybe Jim wanted too much $$$.nativeomahan wrote:What happened to Jim Flowers? Rumor is he got let go.
I Googled Andrea Rich and according to her LinkedIn page, she is currently selling athletic shoes in Nashville. They should call her up to fill in until things get figured out.nativeomahan wrote:Meanwhile their meteorologist Rusty Lord is off work for several weeks recovering from surgery.
If it's a temporary contract dispute, it wouldn't be smart to remove him from the website and add him back on if they agree to something.nativeomahan wrote:
WOWT's web site still lists Jim as their Chief Meteorologist. Why do I think this speaks more to their slowness at updating the web site than to his his continued employment with the station?
http://www.wowt.com/station/bios/weather/17301.html
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 2879_n.jpg
In addition, Michael Scott was selling shoes at Younkers a month ago when he was arrested. So, keep an eye out for Jim Flowers next time you are at DSW everybody.jessep28 wrote: I Googled Andrea Rich and according to her LinkedIn page, she is currently selling athletic shoes in Nashville.
One Year, One Month, and One Day ago it was 11/11/11... Same thing if you ask me.S33 wrote:If I hear one more news outlet say that "12/12/12, only a once in a lifetime date" one more time, I'm gonna lose my f'ing mind. This includes George Dwarfanopoulous on GMA.
Why do you people think the calendar even exists? Because every date only happens once! I don't know why I'm so irritated about this.
Tom Becka had this on his show early last week. WOWT does not want to seem to admit the truth on their facebook pages though. It looks like they will lose some viewers over it. I prefer channel 7 over 6 or 3. Channel 7 gained more support from me back in June 2009 when they were the only station on air during an early AM tornado.Brad wrote:I heard Flower's contract was not renewed and while technically he is still an employee, he is using up his vacation between now and the end of his contract and will not be back.
I think President Obama's speech pushed everything back on the major stations tonight.Brad wrote:Its 10:20 and not one single local new station is on the air???
NBC is its usual Sunday night football.
However
ABC is showing some wedding |expletive|
CBS is showing some Survivor reunion
Oops, my bad. Didn't realize he was on tonight. I got stuck on this reality show about Miami International Airport and then a couple episodes of Cops I had on the DVR.cp jay 07 wrote:I think President Obama's speech pushed everything back on the major stations tonight.
Agreed. Those two are true talents.Brad wrote:WOWT's new weather guy just called Ross, Russ... Speaking of, if you are going to get rid of Flowers, "Rossie" would surly be on your Radar. Ortiz could run circles around Ross.
Hopefully they make Rusty the Chief and Ortiz the Sports Director.
