The first night of the February ratings period offered viewers three different lead stories on the 10 p.m. newscasts of the ABC, CBS and NBC affiliates:
KETV (Cox Channel 9)
Owen Lei reporting on the extremely cold conditions.
Sweeps Piece: "Excessively shy" child (reporter Brandi Petersen).
KMTV (Cox Channel 5)
"Breaking News Update" on a gas leak in South Omaha.
Sweeps Piece: Potentially deadly chemicals traveling unguarded by rail (reporter Joe Jordan).
WOWT (Cox Channel 8)
Mike McKnight's exclusive on a monkey that attacked a vacationing Omaha tourist.
Sweeps Piece: Vocal smoke alarms - a follow-up on a story from three years ago that investigated the effectiveness of smoke detectors on young children (John Knicely).
7 comments:
If a monkey had caused the gas leak, that would have been the no-brainer lead tonight at 10.
Good thing KM3 lead with Jordan and not their ace, Stowell. Maybe they'll never learn.
If this is what we can expect from the Big Six this month, hopefully the viewers of Omaha will finally give them what they deserve: third place. Then maybe they can cut some of the dead wood at 35th and Farnam and get back to doing some actual news.
Obviously, the monkey wasn't too shy......
Spank the monkey!!!!!!
A couple of things:
1). When doesn't 3 give us something that is breaking news. Yes, a gas leak is serious news. However, they overuse the breaking news - even when the breaking news is 10 hours old. Channel 3 - give it rest when its not warranted.
2). A monkey story topping the news?!!! You've got to be kidding me! Who is the producer at 6 and what market do they think this is?! Lets not forget - the monkey attacked someone ON VACATION! I guess I don't need to worry about a pack of wild monkeys attacking me while walking across the parking lot at Oak View Mall! What a non-story. Someone needs to fire the staff at 6 and replace them with a bunch of high school journalism students - I'm sure we'd get a better product.
KPTM
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