Today the Bureau of R.L.and INUENDOS is still shifting through the hundreds of faxes, letters and e mails from those in the know about what the cigar smoking corporate corner office types decided concerning WBIR. After tossing the bull feces flag on 98 epistles obviously written by WATE management they have concluded the following half truths to be reportedly genuine.
1. The tribal leaders may or may not have arrived last Friday
2. The message they carried to the quivering staff was not of doom.
3. The message they carried did not include paying more.
4. The message they carried did include WORKING MORE
5. The message opened wide the doors of experience expansion.
6. The message CLOSED the doors on future hires in news.
7. The message’s plan was to benefit the bottom line
8. The message’s plan was not to benefit the worker bees.
Last week more than a few of you old TV news types lauded the efforts of staff for their ability to find a site and plagiarize it! You were ecstatic concerning the editing department’s ability to cut and past pictures of long gone TV icons and then rather than telling you where they are today, simply linking to the site they openly violated for their information.
Hey, let’s do it again! Remember just go to where are they now to find out if you can remember what station they were with in Knoxville and then to find out..well where they are now! Here are the kids for this week!
HINT HIS OLD MAN WAS BIG IN TV AND HE WORKED HERE AROUND THE TIME OF THE
WORLD'S FAIR
HINT HE WAS A DOUBLE DUTY (radio and TV) KID AND HIS LAST NAME
WAS THAT OF SOMEONE WHO BURPED CONSTANTLY!
HINT HER LAST NAME RHYMES WITH THE NAME
OF THE LANGUAGE OFTEN SPOKEN IN PLACES
WHERE YOU CAN GET YOUR REAR END SHOT OFF!
HINT SHE IS NO KIN TO THE
GHOST IN THAT SCAREY CHRISTMAS
BOOK!
Lots of letters that ranged from one virus filled slice of spam to love hate relationships with various TV news departments shuffled in last week. As always nothing is ever edited (OK the deadly spam thing was yanked but that was for my safely) and all posts are welcome! Lock and load kids!
Anonymous said...
WBIR is going to do something but we are not sure it will happen today or not. We don't think they will fire anyone because we are all working several shifts and there are very few of us left to fire.
The on air work is showing the cost of letting go people and with WVLT coming after us we all have our eyes open for new work.
Another mole at 10
Friday, April 18, 2008 7:45:00 AM EST
Anonymous said...
Yo Walker..
Kim is Kim Simmons Thomas, not Simms.
Friday, April 18, 2008 9:11:00 AM EST
T. West said...
Oh, geez oh pete! Let's get off the "bash C.P. & Walker" soapbox. I'm sure, given the opportunity and the right situation, C.P. & Walker could still compete with any of the teams in K-town radio today!
Friday, April 18, 2008 7:19:00 PM EST
Anonymous said...
Wow! After looking at the list of former tv people in Knoxville, I can understand why they should rent and not buy. Lots and lots of familiar names, but when they leave, most of us never realize it or miss them.
With all the budget-cutting moves, the future of local tv personalities does not look very bright.
Friday, April 18, 2008 10:54:00 PM EST
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 2:55:00 AM EST
Anonymous said...
The gps site is Spanish spam. Walker, I know you don't edit responses, but you should delete all spam. Otherwise, you're aaking for trouble. And to gps.
"VETE A LA MIERDA!"
Sunday, April 20, 2008 6:38:00 PM EST
Anonymous said...
I saw a sports woman on WBIR doing the early morning weather today? Did the giggler finally drop her puppy and if so isn't there a real weather person they could bring in?
This is the same woman who did such a bad job covering the lady vols and refused to wear the orange on TV!
WBIR used to be a real good news station and would have never let a sports person, male or female cover any big vol game not wearing the orange.
10 still runs stories days before 8and unlike channel 6 their anchors are all fresh and young looking, but when a strugling sports woman is made to do weather it makes me wonder just what is going on there/
Monday, April 21, 2008 7:14:00 AM EST
Anonymous said...
Thanks to this blog I have found knoxviews.com and radio 101. I also have been looking at the hundreds of blogs now linked by the Knoxville News Sentinel and few if any are worth the time to read.
Radio 101 is my second favorite because unlike this one it updates more and talks about the past. I don't care very much about what is going on at the TV news stations because outside of 10 the others change their reporters so much it is hard to keep up.
I am glad Gene Patterson and Robine Wilholt are still together but to tell the truth I don't recognize any of the other ones at 8 and 10 now.
As for knoxviews.com well at times they have some posts that really hit home. I hate that water tank they are talking about and I never miss Betty Bean or Sandra Clark when they post there but some of the people on it are just a little bit to tree hugging for me.
I voted for Bush and will vote for McCain because my democrat friends just can't find a good candidate.
Thank you for your work, keep it up.
Another West Knoxville Republican
Monday, April 21, 2008 7:36:00 AM EST
4 comments:
The fat guy is BELCHER!
It's a shame what is happening in broadcasting these days. Forget quality work and community involvement. Just do enough to get by and hopefully satisfy the FCC. But it is also the face of most businesses anymore. Make more money at ANY cost. I'd never advise anyone to have a careet in broadcasting unless they low pay and would like to move 10-15 times during their lifetime. And raise a family in poverty. The stuff going on at 10 is typical of what's happening everywhere. But I gotta agree. The girl that's been doing the sports for 10 is just plain awful. She has that chesire cat look, but does a horrible job. It looks like Dan Farkas was really smart. He got out of the business and got a real job that can lead to advancement. Watching the 10 news at 6pm is an adventure lately. There's usually at least one screwup each day--sometimes more.
And I also agree that Walker and CP could do better than what's on the air on morning radio around here, but they're too smart to want to get up at 3:30 am five days a week just to be abused by management. wink wink
BEWARE! THE APOCALYPSE IS NEAR!
Ha!!! Couldn't help but laugh at the "rent not buy" comment. Truer words have never been written. A wise radio station owner once told me this story about on air people when they leave a station:
1st day everyone will be saying, "Where's T, where's T, where's T"!!!
2nd day is "Anyone heard from T?"
3rd day it's "T who?"
Ain't it the truth!
Hey "West Knoxville Republican". Just a little correction here. Gene and Robin are not "together". He's with Lori Tucker at channel 6 and she's teamed at channel 10 with some guy named Becker who I think used to play a sitcom doctor on t.v.(just kidding). Anyway, being just one of three republicans here in northern Campbell Co.(not kidding), I just have to pass this one on to ya' all. Seems us republicans can't do much better than our democrat friends. Someone said to me the other day "out of 167 people that started out wanting to be president. we're stuck with the 3 worst!" Kinda' says it all doesn't it?
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