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KVUE’s weatherman wings it well!
Mark Murray gets the Golden Remote Award for stretching a 30-second weather tease into almost the entire first half of last night’s 10 p.m. news.
KVUE was felled by audio problems in the studio Wednesday night that affected anchors Tyler Sieswerda and Christine Haas but not Murray, huddled in his weather pod.
While the station wrestled with the audio problem, Quick-on-His-Feet Mark, the Music-Loving Meteorologist, plowed ahead, serving up hour-by-hour weather for Austin, Texas, the Southwest and much of the United States. All the bells and whistles of TV weather made an appearance, and Murray filled time without skipping a beat.
After a few extra-long commercial breaks, sometime around 10:15, Sieswerda and Haas were audible at last and started the newscast.
“Well, better late than never,” quipped Sieswerda upon returning.
Technical difficulties happen. It’s how you handle them that counts, and KVUE’s Murray charged ahead in splendid fashion. But I bet some weary late news watchers wondered if we were in a major weather crisis when they saw him flying solo through a big chunk of the newscast.
Dave & Oprah — Together again!
Whatever nasty feud existed between Opray Winfrey and David Letterman is officially over.
Dave, who NEVER does talk shows other than his own (maybe once or twice on pal Regis Philbin’s morning yapper), will plop down on Oprah’s couch on Sept. 10. What will he talk about? Geez, it’s hard to know. Oprah usually has themes to her shows. Maybe late-life celebrity dads? We’ll see.
The decade-long bad blood between the powerful show-biz duo apparently began when Letterman started making frequent jokes about her exploding wealth and her weight battles. Winfrey was not amused and declined several invitations to appear on Letterman’s “Late Show.”
But in 2005, Winfrey decided to drop by Letterman’s gig on her way to the opening of her Broadway production of “The Color Purple.” When she arrived, Letterman was at the curb to meet her and escorted her inside. He also escorted her out when she headed for the theater. And the two appeared in a Super Bowl ad together in February.
Kissing and making up no doubt benefits crusty Dave more than the beloved Oprah.
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By Esther
August 30, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this
That's AWESOME! He never gets interviewed himself so this should be great!