Rainman
We heard one of the anchors say Tuesday that they should start calling Mike Cuevas “Rainman,” joking about all the rain we’ve been having. But they don’t know how right they are.
The more we thought about it, the more we realized that Cuevas is Rainman.
What happened to the news?
There were murders and missing paddlers and investigations into potentially beaten babies, but the local TV news station led Tuesday’s 5 with a top story about – hold your breath – car washes and something about how all the rain makes cars muddy or something. Thank goodness Julie Wunder was standing outside a car wash to explain it all to me.
Le Le
John Le got is French on and held his own with a sassy Frenchman during a live shot Tuesday at City County Plaza re: the big Sister Cities hoedown. The French kid, from Djion, sported a tart T-shirt that said something like “Thank your girlfriend for me.” Le held back, but I would have given Johnny permission to karate-chop his ass.
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re: catnap’s post about outsourcing weather
It’s coming, at some point. That’s what Sinclair is doing at many of its other stations. That whole “SportsCentral” thing WLOS does now for sports is another part of it. It all goes to the home office’s theory that people will watch anything you call “news” at the designated news times. So they’re doing newscasts from their Baltimore HQ called “News Central.” They have weather readers in Baltimore who do the weather for stations across the country, so they don’t have to pay a local weather reader at each station. They do the same thing with sports for most of their stations, but don’t even try to make it look local. It’s just some other ESPN wannabe, sucking up to Mark Hyman so he can yell “booyah” (or however you spell it) on what he thinks is a national network.
Much as I hate it from a local community standpoint, it makes sense, business-wise. As we see from our local batch, being in Asheville to read the National Weather Service forecast off the wire or Internet and plug it in with the graphics Accuweather provides from wherever their home office is, doesn’t make the forecast any more accurate than just getting it from the Weather Channel. So why waste the money to have a local yahoo do what you can do just as accurately (if not more so) from Baltimore? Bob’s 40 years covering weather in the mountains (“what you got’s what you got; the actual temperature on your front porch may vary”) don’t make him any more accurate than the Count’s 2 years (or whatever) or Julie’s or Jay’s however many years or even Chuck Bell’s view from Baltimore.
You lose the local personality, which is one more slip down the slippery slope away from being a community oriented station, but you don’t sacrifice anything in accuracy.
Has anyone else noticed the box of hair-coloring he must have dumped on his head this past week. . .?
I don’t hate anybody. He gets on my nerves a little and I think his forecasts could be better. But that’s about it.
Boy, you really hate Cuevas. I myself don’t see it
Something for wlos to try:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/4687467/detail.html