Comments on: Fancy Local TV News Rumors & Such

By: mikesr

mikesr — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:34:39 +0000

That “some park somewhere” is part of Shawnee. Not as recognizable as one in the East End, but one that definitely needs good lighting for early morning walkers. It’s sad Jacqueline had to leave like that. WHAS has, at least temporarily, added veteran reporter Stephanie Collins to the team. She is head and shoulders above so many others.
And that GM who renigged on the Thunder agreement was given the boot, thank God. WHAS recently started testing a new high-power DTV transmitter. There’s a very good chance that rescanning will bring the signal in much clearer.

By: Carter Burger

Carter Burger — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:11:33 +0000

Newsgirl, I don’t recall anyone attacking Ms McLean personally. It’s her former employer we have a problem with.

By: jake

jake — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:58:31 +0000

Mud-slinging? Really?

Guess you haven’t read anything I’ve written about Katie King or Jerry Abramson.

By: newsgirl

newsgirl — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:36:18 +0000

Well the fancy reported whom you did not know even was in town was trying her hardest to regain her career and life back after suffering a stroke. 11′s former news director gave her a chance before she left, and she tried, but in the end it proved to difficult. Sorry to sling mud in your face for such a mean comment, but it goes to show that everyone has a story and be cautious with side handed remarks because you never know what people are dealing with.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:59:06 +0000

I’m not familiar with Jacqueline McLean, either. I quit watching all local TV news because I got tired of 3-5 sentence “news” bits, describing something that happened 2-3 days prior, written on a 6th-grade level of comprehension, with mispronunciations & factual errors. I’m also tired of the fact that local TV stations don’t even remotely care how stupid they look and sound.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:53:07 +0000

I haven’t watched since 1995. My dad committed suicide and a WHAS reporter & cameraman showed up trying to get a story due to “gun” being mentioned over the scanner. I was at the hospital with dad, but it disturbed the other family members at the scene. The police finally got them to leave.
After the funeral, I called and wrote the GM at WHAS describing what happened. Didn’t hear a word from him…haven’t watched the news on 11 since.

By: Carter Burger

Carter Burger — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:01:29 +0000

I stopped watching WHAS when they refused to play by the rules on the broadcast of Thunder a few years ago. I don’t know if y’all remember, but 3, 11, 32 and 41 have a gentleman’s agreement to rotate the broadcast of Thunder. 11 had broadcast Thunder the year before the agreement and was scheduled to be the first to broadcast under the agreement. The next year it fell to 41, I think. The powers that be at 11 decided they were going to back out of the agreement and broadcast Thunder anyway. I have not watched a newscast from West Chestnut street since.

By: BillB

BillB — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:47:17 +0000

I’ve talked to an engineer at WHAS and that’s the deal. I have a spot that I have to set my antenna to get them and if it’s not within an inch or two I don’t get them.

The funny thing is I can get the LP station in Southern IN. but can’t get 11

I love digital TV

By: JN

JN — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:09:22 +0000

It may not do Bill much good yet, KYGuy. They’re broadcasting on VHF and I’ve heard from a good many people that they can’t get WHAS either. They’re awaiting FCC approval to raise their power; the only potential problem with that is that it may interfere with folks on the fringes of WLFI’s signal (that’s the CBS station in Lafayette, Ind.).

By: KYGuy

KYGuy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:18:43 +0000

Rescan your channels.