Omaha Local News Channels

Professor Woland · Post by **Professor Woland** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 10:36 pm

GRANDPASMUCKER wrote:
omahacacher wrote:
GRANDPASMUCKER wrote:Whats up with the reporting on this Senator getting attacked in the restroom and having his leg broken while he was down at Blatt Beer and Table on Wednesday. Is the media conspiring to play this down to avoid bad pub during the CWS or is there something about this story they are not telling us. I smell a rat for sure somewhere in this. I don't remember seeing this story told in the World Herald at all. The news stations report this story almost like the Senators version of the story in in doubt. I think they are saying the Senator was standing at the urinal and someone ran up and bashed him in his leg and broke it and he did not see who did it. I dont know if the media is playing this down for the CWS or the Senator is lying but I do know that 2+2 is adding up to 5 here. I tend to lean towards the idea that the Senator is telling the truth and the media is trying to play this down so CWS affiliated businesses dont loose money.
Page 2B of today's World-Herald.

Thanks. I went and looked and it was a very short article buried on the second page of the second section of the newspaper. Here we have a paper that often has 2 kids selling lemonade on the front page and when a state Senator is attackeded at a venue next to the biggest event in the City the story is buried on a back page. "Nancy Kerriganed!" Oh the humanity. Oh why oh why oh why oh why. Maybe he slipped on some urine on the floor and didn't want to own it. Who knows but I think the Senator and his broken leg are getting swept under the rug.

Or one of the Cobra Kai guys swept his leg.

GRANDPASMUCKER · Post by **GRANDPASMUCKER** » Sat Jun 20, 2015 3:26 pm

Todays front page of the paper featured a picture of a herd of goats! Thats what Im talking about here.

omahacacher · Post by **omahacacher** » Sat Jun 20, 2015 6:33 pm

GRANDPASMUCKER wrote:Todays front page of the paper featured a picture of a herd of goats! Thats what Im talking about here.

I actually thought it was a great story. An eco friendly alternative to tackling a problem. Goats are great at taking care of weed problems in areas that are hard to access with mowers. Goats are routinely used in the Los Angeles foot hills to take care of weed issues and helping to reduce fire danger. I'm glad to see an outside the box approach being used in our area.

Post by **Brad** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 12:21 pm

The news stations have been really annoying me lately with their "breaking news" reports....

They keep using "I am Hearing" and "We are hearing". Since when does news media not need to cite a source?

99% of the time they should be saying "We heard on the police scanner" because that's whats really happening. There is nothing wrong with saying that either. They are a news outlet, you monitor the police scanner for a living. If you didn't hear it on the police scanner, got back to your old stand by "Sources within the police department tell us".

"I am Hearing" and "We are hearing" just comes off as armature... I am tired of local news dropping themselves to the level of social media.

Post by **nebugeater** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 3:29 pm

Brad wrote:The news stations have been really annoying me lately with their "breaking news" reports....

They keep using "I am Hearing" and "We are hearing". Since when does news media not need to cite a source?

99% of the time they should be saying "We heard on the police scanner" because that's whats really happening. There is nothing wrong with saying that either. They are a news outlet, you monitor the police scanner for a living. If you didn't hear it on the police scanner, got back to your old stand by "Sources within the police department tell us".

"I am Hearing" and "We are hearing" just comes off as armature... I am tired of local news dropping themselves to the level of social media.

They use that wording because what is highlighted in RED is where they probably really heard it.

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 4:47 pm

CNN and Fox News are worse. They usually start their news shows with "breaking news" which is typically the same lead story that they've been reporting all day with no new information.

swinquest · Post by **swinquest** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 5:38 pm

Jeremy Maskel moving to do the 5:00 news on KETV. Great choice!!

Wonder who will be taking his spot on Friday and Saturdays.

nativeomahan · Post by **nativeomahan** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:40 pm

swinquest wrote:Jeremy Maskel moving to do the 5:00 news on KETV. Great choice!!

Wonder who will be taking his spot on Friday and Saturdays.

The thought of seeing even more of that inappropriate, gawd awful $hit eating grin of his is enough to make me want to vomit. Please, just read the news with a straight face. Let the viewer decide for themselves whether it is funny or tragic.

Stargazer · Post by **Stargazer** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 10:54 pm

I'll have you know... I was responsible for his dumping his glasses, literally during a Saturday AM newscast. I sent an email while on an elliptical at the gym suggesting he ditch them... following return from the next commercial, they were gone... and have never returned.

Mr.Nuke · Post by **Mr.Nuke** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:13 pm

KETV's recent change in weather alert packages is incredibly annoying. I don't need a loud beep beep beep every 30 seconds to tell me about a thunderstorm warning near the Nebraska/Kansas border.

GetUrban · Post by **GetUrban** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:34 pm

Mr.Nuke wrote:KETV's recent change in weather alert packages is incredibly annoying. I don't need a loud beep beep beep every 30 seconds to tell me about a thunderstorm warning near the Nebraska/Kansas border.

Plus they even continued the beep beep beep during Bill Randby's weather cast while he was telling us there is a severe thunderstorm warning for Jefferson County over 100 miles away!

Post by **nebugeater** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 6:56 am

Mr.Nuke wrote:KETV's recent change in weather alert packages is incredibly annoying. I don't need a loud beep beep beep every 30 seconds to tell me about a thunderstorm warning near the Nebraska/Kansas border.

The beep are annoying and they could be handled differently. To complain about the coverage of that area is short sighted. That is their coverage area too and the people in that area need to know what is headed their way too.

bigredmed · Post by **bigredmed** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 7:46 am

If you want closer in weather alerts, get a weather radio that has SAME capability (almost all new ones have this).

Put batteries in. Follow directions to add the numbers for the counties you want alerts for. I generally suggest:

Lancaster
Saunders
Cass
Sarpy
Douglas
Washington
Pottawattomie

In new radios, you can even select types of storms to be alerted for. I generally don't mess with this setting as the weather service is pretty good about it's use of sub-audible tones that can prevent hurricane drills from getting into your radio.

If you have a scanner, you can just use it and tune to 162.4 MHz and get the weather radio directly.

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:03 pm

Finally! KETV updated their iOS app

Mr.Nuke · Post by **Mr.Nuke** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 3:18 pm

nebugeater wrote:
Mr.Nuke wrote:KETV's recent change in weather alert packages is incredibly annoying. I don't need a loud beep beep beep every 30 seconds to tell me about a thunderstorm warning near the Nebraska/Kansas border.
The beep are annoying and they could be handled differently. To complain about the coverage of that area is short sighted. That is their coverage area too and the people in that area need to know what is headed their way too.

Well yes an no. Richardson County were the thunderstorm warning was last night doesn't fall under KETV's antenna contour http://www.bing.com/maps/?mapurl=https: ... ate=NE.kml. The local cable company may pick up KETV, but I doubt it as there is an ABC affiliate in St. Joe's. Regardless if they are going to use that audible sound every time there is a warning especially if it is in a county with a population density of 15 people per square mile outside their coverage area that is ridiculous. Use the beep if you must (please pick a less obtrusive one) at the first warning for an event. As long as you are running a scroll on your station I don't need to hear another beep again.

GetUrban wrote: Plus they even continued the beep beep beep during Bill Randby's weather cast while he was telling us there is a severe thunderstorm warning for Jefferson County over 100 miles away!

Yep.

nativeomahan · Post by **nativeomahan** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 9:43 pm

I would strongly suspect that ABC channel 8 out of Lincoln would be the ABC affiliate for Jefferson County, and not KETV.

Omababe · Post by **Omababe** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 12:54 am

I heard one very obvious faux pas on channel 3 the other morning. I wasn't really paying attention, but it was on as I was getting ready. The one lady (the very boobish blonde, forget the name) was making happy talk with the others and discussing the Pluto mission. She actually said that Pluto was once considered a "planet" and then considered a "STAR" and finally a "dwarf planet". I caught the mistake and started to pay attention and she REPEATED that it was changed from a planet to a STAR and then to a dwarf planet.

I realize that none of those folks are PhD astrophysicists, but one of them surely should have caught the mistake!

S33 · Post by **S33** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 8:27 am

Omababe wrote:I heard one very obvious faux pas on channel 3 the other morning. I wasn't really paying attention, but it was on as I was getting ready. The one lady (the very boobish blonde, forget the name) was making happy talk with the others and discussing the Pluto mission. She actually said that Pluto was once considered a "planet" and then considered a "STAR" and finally a "dwarf planet". I caught the mistake and started to pay attention and she REPEATED that it was changed from a planet to a STAR and then to a dwarf planet.

I realize that none of those folks are PhD astrophysicists, but one of them surely should have caught the mistake!

So do you think her big jugs had anything to do with this mistake?

Omababe · Post by **Omababe** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 8:47 am

S33 wrote:So do you think her big jugs had anything to do with this mistake?

Uh, no, and I don't think I implied that. My comment reflected on the whole crew, two of whom were male, and somebody, at least one of the three, should have caught that.

Greg S · Post by **Greg S** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:20 am

Are you talking about Deanne Brink?

Greg

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 11:26 am

But they all feel integrity such as that of healthcare in the Merica' of the U.S., and therefore, yes.

lisanstan · Post by **lisanstan** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 5:38 pm

Local news last week doing a story about the bird flu epidemic and how chicken and eggs were going to be going up in price. Then they cut to a shot of Panda Express and said that the restaurant will be replacing scrambled eggs with corn in the fried rice. Then they switched to a person on the street interview in front of Panda Express. College age Asian guy who, I swear, with an accent pronounced it "flied lice." I could not believe they actually went on air with that.

S33 · Post by **S33** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 5:30 pm

Omababe wrote:
S33 wrote:So do you think her big jugs had anything to do with this mistake?
Uh, no, and I don't think I implied that. My comment reflected on the whole crew, two of whom were male, and somebody, at least one of the three, should have caught that.

I think this mistake could have been avoided if her hair was a little less blonde, and if her boobs were a little less boobish.

GetUrban · Post by **GetUrban** » Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:30 pm

Anyone notice the recent trend how news stations are playing news videos that have the middle third in focus and the sides blurred-out. Why do they do this? My guess it is done for mobile devices. It defeats the purpose of having a wide-screen TV.

Plus they seem to be covering up more and more of the video with captions with the station logo, often covering up the main subject of the video, such as the most interesting part of the tornado touching the ground as is destroys something.

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:56 pm

GetUrban wrote:Anyone notice the recent trend how news stations are playing news videos that have the middle third in focus and the sides blurred-out. Why do they do this? My guess it is done for mobile devices. It defeats the purpose of having a wide-screen TV.

In those situations, the footage was likely shot with a cell phone in portrait mode.

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Mon Aug 03, 2015 11:30 pm

jessep28 wrote:
GetUrban wrote:Anyone notice the recent trend how news stations are playing news videos that have the middle third in focus and the sides blurred-out. Why do they do this? My guess it is done for mobile devices. It defeats the purpose of having a wide-screen TV.

In those situations, the footage was likely shot with a cell phone in portrait mode.

There's a place in purgatory for those who shoot in portrait

Post by **Brad** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 8:03 am

jessep28 wrote:In those situations, the footage was likely shot with a cell phone in portrait mode.

I would say that is the case 90% of the time. Somethimes they also do it when they are showing older footage shot in standard def.

MTO wrote:There's a place in purgatory for those who shoot in portrait

I agree! Why do they do it? A- They have no Common Sense? B- They are too lazy to turn it sideways?

GetUrban · Post by **GetUrban** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 10:01 am

The videos I'm talking about were shot in landscape view but they apply translucent filters over the sides so that only the middle portion of the video is clearly visible. It's like they think you won't focus on the subject they are talking about if you can see the whole frame. Or maybe they're trying to protect or keep you from seeing other things in the video. Anyway, it's annoying.

Here's an example....

http://www.ketv.com/news/owner-who-had- ... r/34470444

You'll have to make it through the ads first, of course.

Here's the tornado video I was talking about. They have the sides of the video blacked-out but they did not overlay the tornado with their stupid caption/logo in this case. In the newscast the logo covered up the tornado during the first part.

http://www.ketv.com/news/video-tornado- ... a/34499442

skinzfan23 · Post by **skinzfan23** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 10:04 am

Haha....I was just telling my wife the other night that I hate how they all show video that way too.

Post by **Brad** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 10:16 am

GetUrban wrote:The videos I'm talking about were shot in landscape view but they apply translucent filters over the sides so that only the middle portion of the video is clearly visible. It's like they think you won't focus on the subject they are talking about if you can see the whole frame. Or maybe they're trying to protect or keep you from seeing other things in the video. Anyway, it's annoying.

Here's an example....

http://www.ketv.com/news/owner-who-had- ... r/34470444

You'll have to make it through the ads first, of course.

Here's the tornado video I was talking about. They have the sides of the video blacked-out but they did not overlay the tornado with their stupid caption/logo in this case. In the newscast the logo covered up the tornado during the first part.

http://www.ketv.com/news/video-tornado- ... a/34499442

Both Cell Phone videos. They are not blurring or blacking anything out.

For the Blur, they take the original video and repeat it on both sides, zoom in and blur it out so that they are "filling" the full screen.

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 10:45 am

GetUrban wrote:The videos I'm talking about were shot in landscape view but they apply translucent filters over the sides so that only the middle portion of the video is clearly visible. It's like they think you won't focus on the subject they are talking about if you can see the whole frame. Or maybe they're trying to protect or keep you from seeing other things in the video. Anyway, it's annoying.

Here's an example....

http://www.ketv.com/news/owner-who-had- ... r/34470444

You'll have to make it through the ads first, of course.

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That's clearly cell phone footage in portrait mode. The left and right part of the image are simply the visible footage carnival mirrored and blurred.

GetUrban · Post by **GetUrban** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 10:53 am

Wow, until I looked closer, I hadn't noticed it was the same video copied to each side, zoomed and blurred. At quick glance, my mind just filled-in the side with the rest of the image I thought I was seeing. I think I'd rather they black it out entirely and keep their logo/captions on black areas on each side and off the subject...like the posted tornado video. It's a little less annoying now, thanks! It would be nice if more people shot in landscape mode.

Post by **BRoss** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 5:06 pm

I think a lot of people shoot portrait because things like Instagram and Snapchat work that way. In fact for Snapchat, it's kind of annoying when someone sends you something in landscape.

Post by **nebugeater** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 8:21 pm

HR Paperstacks wrote:I think a lot of people shoot portrait because things like Instagram and Snapchat work that way. In fact for Snapchat, it's kind of annoying when someone sends you something in landscape.

Snapchat is kind of annoying no mater if it is landscape or portrait

Post by **Brad** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 10:56 pm

It really sucks that people base their photo and videos on what an app say and not what actually makes a decent photo or video. Social Media is ruining Videography and Photography. There is no line anymore on what makes a good solid photo or video and what gets a bunch of likes... Sad.

This Photo, which is absoute Dog $hit, has 7000+ shares and 17,000 Likes!!! Seriously people... This is a Horrible Photo!

skinzfan23 · Post by **skinzfan23** » Wed Aug 05, 2015 8:07 am

Brad wrote:
This Photo, which is absoute Dog $hit, has 7000+ shares and 17,000 Likes!!! Seriously people... This is a Horrible Photo!

I agree with you there. Besides being a grainy image, the color doesn't look right either. If you would have taken the same photo, I can pretty much assure that it would look 1,000 times better.

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Wed Aug 05, 2015 8:13 am

It isn't that difficult to take a halfway decent cell phone picture either. Cropping, paying attention to lighting and using the rules of thirds works wonders.

Post by **Brad** » Wed Aug 05, 2015 8:33 am

skinzfan23 wrote: I agree with you there. Besides being a grainy image, the color doesn't look right either. If you would have taken the same photo, I can pretty much assure that it would look 1,000 times better.

To me its a gimmick... I had an art teacher way back in the say that said "don't use a gimmick to improve a bad piece of art, improve your art." This photo is just a plain boring photo with a bad comp and they grab the contrast slider and turned it up 100 times higher than it was ever meant to go and now everyone is like "Wow, look at those clouds".

jessep28 wrote:It isn't that difficult to take a halfway decent cell phone picture either. Cropping, paying attention to lighting and using the rules of thirds works wonders.

Exactly. Besides the Gimmick Clouds... What about that huge Tree... Just guessing but if they moved 50' to the left, it might actually be a more interesting photo..

So relating it back to the Media, Its Its sad that the Media shares these types of gimmick photos that really have no photographic value.

Some people will try to call it art, but cranking up the contrast through the roof doesn't really seem like art to me. It would be like a baker who bake a pie as done as they can and not the art of cooking it perfectly to golden brown...

skinzfan23 · Post by **skinzfan23** » Wed Aug 05, 2015 8:41 am

They do that with demos on tvs at the store. They crank up the contrast and brightness so they can show you how much the tv "pops" compared to your old one. When it actuality, it is so unrealistic and if you were to leave those settings on it after you buy it, it would give you a headache.

bbinks · Post by **bbinks** » Wed Aug 05, 2015 9:07 am

Not everyone has an expensive camera with them at all times. If you are limited to your phone, then that is what you get.

Which evening news do you watch the most (5p 6p 10p)