Subject: TV News Shows

• That Man Makes a Mean Lemonade

  February 21, 2007

• Pastoral U.

  August 14, 2006

• Re: In the Line of Fire

  April 30, 2007

• Radio on the TV: Chamillionaire Debuts New Video

  July 26, 2007

• Straight Talk with World Net Daily

  August 9, 2007

• Houstoned Video: Texas Sinkhole

  May 20, 2008

• Say It Ain’t So, Dr. Frank

  May 30, 2008

• Rappers and Republicans: Still the Same?

  August 5, 2008

• Darian Ward, Reporter (On "Friday Night Lights")

  August 22, 2008

• News Hostage

  April 22, 1999

• More of the Same

  Houston braces for an invasion of TV news

  October 19, 2000

• Fox Calls It For Obama. People Desperately Look Up How To Spell "Shadenfreude"

  November 4, 2008

• Missing NASA Tool Bag Found! Launch A Rescue Mission!

  The famous $100,000 tool bag lost by an astronaut on the current shuttle mission has been found!And no, not by that nut from Minnesota who's been calling media outlets all over to say the bag is up for sale on eBay.It's been found in space, streaking through the night.An amateur astronomer in Ontario used info released by the military on the bag's orbit and filmed it streaking through the night.

  November 25, 2008

• Local TV Anchors -- The Legends Are Disappearing

  The New York Times reports today that the veteran anchor, the mainstay glamor position in local TV news, may become a thing of the past.Falling ratings, slashed budgets and the obsession to woo young viewers all has management axing legends who have been around for years in their market.(The Times cites as an example Carolyn Campbell, who worked for KHOU for 26 years, but she wasn't really an anchor.)One expert told the paper that anchors at top-rated stations in a local market are probably safe

  December 1, 2008

• Changing Channels

  September 8, 1994

• Pay TV

  March 9, 1995

• Clonesome Blues

  July 18, 1996

• The Mean Spirit of Texas?

  April 30, 1998

• In the Line of Fire

  November 12, 1998

• Starting from Scratch

  May 18, 2000

• Meltdown at Fox

  August 31, 2000

• Best Local TV News Anchor

  September 21, 2000

• What Do Shepard Smith and Soulja Boy have in common?

  Wack's here to tell you: more than you might expect

  June 12, 2008

• Talk About the Weather

  April 20, 2006

• Best Sexy Newscaster

  September 23, 2004

• Best Local TV News

  September 23, 2004

• Best Fried Chicken

  Pollo Campero

  September 25, 2003

• Best Local TV News Reporter

  Doug Miller

  September 25, 2003

• Best Local TV News Anchor

  Alan Hemberger

  September 25, 2003

• Best Radio Commentary

  Dean Becker, "420 Drug War News"

  September 25, 2003

• Best Gadfly

  Robert "Bob" Martin

  September 25, 2003

• Power Play

  Jim Carrey goes from physical to metaphysical comedy in Bruce Almighty

  May 22, 2003

• Jailhouse Mock

  Pot calls kettle black! Tonight on KHOU!

  March 20, 2003

• Protesting Peace

  Plus: Been There, Din That; No Smut Glut; Cursory Check

  February 13, 2003

• Man of the Year

  If Chronicle coverage is any indication, Texans owner Bob McNair is 2002's VIP

  January 9, 2003

• Best Local TV News Anchor

  Gina Gaston, KTRK-TV, Channel 13

  September 26, 2002

• Delayed DeLay

  He didn't duck an airport mob

  May 2, 2002

• The Product

  Heath Ledger's in no rush to be a star. Why's everyone else in a hurry?

  May 10, 2001

• Booster Shot

  A proposed Medical Center project gets big, big play

  March 1, 2001

• Volume, Volume, Volume

  COC may be edging toward the mainstream, but the metal specialists still refuse to conform

  November 23, 2000

• Rubber Fetish

  Glory days for KHOU and Anna Werner

  September 28, 2000

• Best Weathercaster

  Chuck George, KPRC-TV Channel 2

  September 21, 2000

• Insider

  Unhappy Talk TV. At KHOU, the hit tune is "Take This Job and Shove It!"

  September 16, 1999

• Former Houston News Director: Multiple Social Security Numbers, Wives & Bondage Websites

  Remember back around 2001, 2002, when Time Warner and the Belo Corporation decided to create a 24-hour news station focusing exclusively on Houston?You might have to think hard, because the effort didn't last long.But it was spearheaded by a guy named Jeff Alan, who became the station's first news director. And, well, of News 24 Houston had broadcast stories half as interesting as Alan's, it might still be on the air.Alan, who also is a conservative activist, sued a Portland news station for age

  April 20, 2009

• $7 at Bell Street Cafe

  Photo by Craig HlavatyChicken Veronique at Bell Street CafeWhere: Bell Street Cafe, 800 Bell Street (under the Exxon Building) What $7 gets you: Surprisingly fresh and cheap food. Dining under the Exxon building, right next to the Houston Press building, means that you will be eating with a million suits who do business just a few floors up. There's a lot of guys in dress clothes and delicate comb-overs who probably make an untold amount of costly and wide-sweeping decisions before they belly

  April 29, 2009

• Houston's Top Ten Female TV Reporters, Based On A Highly Scientific And Professional System

  Our own Miss Pop Rocks wrote an entry some time ago about the Secret Lives of Houston's Hottest Male Newscasters, which seemed...incomplete to me somehow.I wasn't sure of the exact problem until she followed it up with the admission of her crush on KPRC's Jennifer Reyna, then I realized that by not putting out a list of Houston's hottest female news personalities, Hair Balls has been horribly remiss in its service to the community.Here then, mostly in no particular order, are the ten lovely netw

  June 22, 2009

• Former Anchor Sues KPRC For Defamation

  Photo courtesy of KPRCWendy CoronaFormer KPRC Channel 2 anchorwoman Wendy Corona is suing her former news station, alleging breach of contract and defamation. According to the lawsuit recently filed in Harris County District Court, Corona signed a four-year contract with KPRC starting in April 2006. The contract allowed the station to fire Corona after the first two years as long as they gave her at least 90 days written notice.On January 5, a general manager at the station told Corona she had b

  June 22, 2009

• Beyonce Scheduled to Perform at Michael Jackson Memorial

  Daniel Kramer ABC News is reporting that Beyonce, who sang tributes to Michael Jackson at her Toyota Center concert and at New Orleans' Essence Music Festival over the weekend, will perform at Jackson's funeral in Los Angeles this afternoon. Also expected to attend are Justin Timberlake, P Diddy, Smokey Robinson, Akon and Jennifer Hudson, while previously confirmed guests include Motown Records' Berry Gordy, Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey and Usher. "You're talking about the A-list of all A-lists,"

  July 7, 2009

• Channel 39's Anchor Wants You To Watch Her (Doing The News, Possibly)

  ​For a couple of weeks now, commuters on the Loop near Meyerland have been seeing a billboard featuring a lovely looking black woman leaning seductively into the camera, a come-hither look on her face, with the caption "Watch me at 9." Her autographed first name just increases the intimate intensity.The fact that she's a news anchor doesn't seem to bother the people who approved the ad campaign.Channel 39's Mia Gradney is the model on the billboard, a fact that hasn't escaped notice amongst ot

  July 30, 2009

• R.I.P., Marvin Zindler's Angels

  ​It's been a little over two years since Houston legend Marvin Zindler took his shock wig, blue-tinted eyeglasses and excessively nipped-and-tucked face to that great Ice Machine in the Sky.For a while after his demise, KTRK kept alive his Angels in Action program, where doctors and other professionals would volunteer services to help down-on-their-luck kids or adults who needed eye surgery, wheelchairs, clothes, etc.Now it's gone. Laurie Kendrick Lori Reingold, the longtime assistant who help

  October 9, 2009