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JacksonDevilDog |
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WJTV is a joke of a news broadcast. When they did news, just a couple of months ago, they would talk about a game abd have some cheesy graphic up with the
score. No video, just a score. That went on for months. If I was a sports broadcaster working for them, I would have done said 17 off.
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cowbell9 |
These days it's all about the weather.................. | #2 | ||
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" coming to you 4 seconds faster". I hate weather. And weather people.
"A loss will be good for us in the long run"
Frances Drebin "I've had a handfull of man-crushes with players" Rebelbruiser 1/30/08 |
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Sarc Dawg |
Here in Mobile... | #3 | ||
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There are 4 weather segments. 1 Every 5 minutes. I never realized weather changed that much in 5 min. And what little sports we do get is what Saban or
Tubberville had for lunch today.
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falzaergo |
I don't know how we have digressed but... | #4 | ||
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Most local news services are putting all of their money on weather. Local weather is the only area that they can seriously compete against 24-hour national
coverage. If you need sports go to espn, if you need news go to cnn, if you need to know what impact the weather had on goat herding in Poland during the
winter of '43 go to the weather channel. If it tornado sirens are going off, local tv is the best choice.
Oh, and WTVA in Tupelo is the biggest joke of a news cast ever and sports may be the worst segment of the broadcast. |
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cowbell9 |
I the sirens are going off................ | #5 | ||
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I ain't gonna be watching TV. My ass is in the root cellar.
"A loss will be good for us in the long run"
Frances Drebin "I've had a handfull of man-crushes with players" Rebelbruiser 1/30/08 |
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dogmatic1 |
WTVA has to be the worst ever | #6 | ||
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If nobody got shot today, the news will be 95 percent weather, including a 60-second reading of temperatures around the state that are 1) right there for you
to read yourself and 2) all within 2 degrees of each other. "It's 48 in Mantachie, 48 in Fulton, 48 in Pontotoc, 48 in Splunge, 47 in Algoma, 48 in
Hatley, 48 in Big Creek, blah blah blah." Once that's done, we get an update, sometimes including video, on how Dick Rice's tomato plants are
doing. After that, we go to sports.
Weather guys are a different breed. They get fired up about any cold front like we do for the Sugar Bowl. While I was at State, I took a geography class as a sop elective. The teacher assigned to it was a meteorologist. Yes, I know. Anyway, every class, every day, was about weather. This went on for four or five weeks until complaints to the department head finally got the guy yanked. These people live and breathe that shit. I subscribe to the Lewis Grizzard weather dog theory. Send the dog outside. If he comes back wet, it's probably raining. If he doesn't come back at all, it's probably windy. The WTVA sports guys might be OK -- but we'll never know. I've had them tell me they never get to do the sportscast they'd planned because the weather segments leave them 90 seconds to say all they're going to say. In the sports guys' defense, they do tend to do a pretty good job on Friday night football. |
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cowbell9 |
And now you have Dreeew Powell. what a gem he is. | #7 | ||
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"A loss will be good for us in the long run"
Frances Drebin "I've had a handfull of man-crushes with players" Rebelbruiser 1/30/08 |
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dogmatic1 |
I honestly wouldn't know | #8 | ||
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I get so pissed off during, "54 degrees in Golden, 54 in Possum Flat, 54 in Cotton Mill, 54 in Booger Den" that I usually have started flipping
channels well before the sport report gets on.
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TR |
Don't criticize the local weather broadcasts... | #9 | ||
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Remember, almost a quarter of the people doing TV weather broadcasts in the US have some kind of degree or certification from Mississippi State.
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SwampDawg |
My favorite is Mike Reader, WLOX | #10 | ||
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About every other sentence he stops to grin and show off his capped teeth. Damn, they do shine through.
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