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This seems to be a recurring problem on channel 3 for some reason. I wonder if they hire reporters and even technical people who cannot spell off the streets, or....? I've been watching Channel 3 News as long as I can remember; the errors I've seen on their newscasts haven't been monumental (yet), but they are an embarrassment to the station's management and, ultimately, to the Greater Cleveland area as a whole.

Must be all those VCRs and converter boxes set to channel 3.

Most local news shows are usually lame. Mostly news about rapes, murders, fires and such. And the weather reports that stretch out for ten minutes, and the only meaningful info is contained in the 5 day forecast graphic, which only takes a few seconds to read. "And doesn't Mrs Murphy's dog look cute romping around in the snowstorm"...

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Originally Posted by Jeffhs

There was another goof on the NBC television network (then owned by RCA) that has stuck in my memory for well over 35 years. The local affiliate in Cleveland was going from a commercial (following a local show, IIRC) to the NBC network feed; the engineer cut to the feed about 15 seconds too soon, and northern Ohio viewers of WKYC-TV in Cleveland, myself included, found themselves looking at the station break for WNBC-TV in New York! The station had a unique ID at the time, with the NBC "snake" logo inside the number 4.

Several times when I was kid I was watching the local CBS affiliate and when they went to a station break with the CBS eye there at the bottom was "WCBS New York". I guess somebody in NY pushed the wrong button.

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My Dad remembers watching the news on WGAL in Lancaster, and how the weatherman always would always sip from his coffee mug while reading off the weather service reports. Well one night, as they just cut to him to begin, he took a big swig, spat it all over the place and yelled 'holy s**t that's hot!' He threw a big enough fit that some poor slob handed him a dixie cup of water from off camera.

Dad also loved the time he watched the Rock Hudson movie 'Send Me No Flowers' the station announcer must have lost a bet or something, as he read off that evening's schedule and introduced the movie in a comical Italian accent: 'And-ah now, Send-ah Me No Flowers'!

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Originally Posted by Jeffhs

...I wonder if they hire reporters and even technical people who cannot spell off the streets, or....? I've been watching Channel 3 News as long as I can remember; the errors I've seen on their newscasts haven't been monumental (yet), but they are an embarrassment to the station's management and, ultimately, to the Greater Cleveland area as a whole.

I've been watching WWL-TV in New Orleans for as long as I can remember, and by all rights it is an excellent station. But some years back the station employed this reporter who had no clue where she was at. Around the time she married the mayor she was anchoring the 5:30am early newscast, which was rife with mistakes from her and the crew - misspelling names on the ticker, technical errors, etc. We used to turn that newscast on at the local barroom and take bets on how many flubs would occur. And nevermind that this reporter was on the air almost ten years, she never learned the geography of the city. When her husband (the mayor) was appointed head of the Urban League in N.Y.C., she left the station and was given a cushy job as a network reporter on CBS! Her name...Michelle Miller (Morial).

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

I know times are tough, the US economy is in shambles, but for crying out loud...doesn't Cleveland have enough problems without the added embarrassment...

Well, it looks like now's the time to buy a house - I was looking at the Cleveland MLS and gosh, I could sell my modest suburban home and buy an entire block up there! Furthermore, nothing could be more embarrassing than living in New Orleans these days...