Slow News Day

When I worked at the station, and would fill in for our news director, there were some days that we just call "slow news days". These days are somewhat easier to deal with in radio, because you can shorten the newscast, and it's not a big deal. Well, in television, you cannot do that, because you must fill the entire 30 minutes. You can tell when the station is doing a story about a back sidewalk in a neighborhood, or farmer's bad day that lost a cow and a haystack in the same day. That would indicate a slow news day, and often times it makes me laugh. Now, tonight I was sitting at home, with not much on TV, and i for some reason turned on the national news on CBS. I'm really waiting to see if the Jacks game is going to be on. I'm just a bit early, and watched the news, and today must be a slow news day on the national scene also. Right now, the story is WWE wrestling. See what I mean? That's the best they can come with on a national scene today? Wow. Well, based on an earlier news story, I'm thinking Monday might be national day of mourning. Socks, the "First Cat" under President Bill Clinton died today. Flags should be lowered to half mast, and we should maybe see a bank holiday. I just sat there fairly stunned that it actually made the news. Who cares??? First off, it's a cat, and second of all, who cares??? Seriously, who cares??

On another television note, I spent last weekend at home. I usually don't even watch the local news, but my parents do, so I watched it with them on Friday night. I'd have to say, as annoying as the perception that KELOLAND gives that they are the only station that anyone should know about (even if the ratings say its true), KSFY has now become even more annoying than KELO. They decided to go to this really odd "Action News" Format, that is just bizarre. My favorite was the Wheel of Justice. Whoa, this is ground breaking television at its best! They have this wheel, with four criminals on it. They spin it, and whoever it lands on gets their own 2 minute special on what they've done, and why viewers should report them. I was too stunned to see them do this on a live news cast to even see who it was, or what they'd done. Who thought this was a good idea? They should borrow a line from Donald Trump, and tell them, "You're Fired!" Anyhow, here is the link to the KSFY promo that when it came out, we spent days at the radio station laughing at how ridiculous this was.