An announcement Monday by Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel - one which he says will regard "his future plans" - will be carried live by several Omaha media outlets.WOWT (Cox Channel 8) announced on its 10 p.m. newscast Wednesday that it will stream Hagel's press conference at 10 a.m. at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Alumni Center live and on its website, WOWT.com.
It is widely speculated that the that the two-term senator will announce his plans for making a run for the Republican presidential nomination.
KMTV (Cox Channel 5) will interrupt "The Price is Right" to cover the event, as well as stream it live on its website, action3news.com.
KETV (Cox Channel 9) is also promoting that it will carry the announcement live both on-air and on its website, KETV.com.
KPTM (Cox Channel 10) plans to carry the press conference live, but will not stream it on its website.
Radio station KFAB (1110 AM) will broadcast the announcement live and will offer video of the press conference on KFAB.com.
Radio station KKAR (1290 AM) will not only provide live over-the-air coverage of Hagel, but it will also provide the feed to the Nebraska Broadcasters Association radio network for stations across Nebraska.
On Wednesday night's 10 p.m. broadcast, WOWT reporter Brian Mastre interviewed former Nebraska Congressman and Omaha Mayor Hal Daub, who is a member of the Republican National Committee. Daub said he doesn't know what Hagel will say.
The Omaha World-Herald seemed overly excited by the news. The state's largest daily newspaper printed the same story about Hagel's announcement twice in one section (pages A5 and A12) in Thursday's metropolitan morning editions:
5 comments:
I surely hope he isn't planning on a run for the White House.
Just because I think he'll have better luck building a snowman in July...In a lit fireplace...During a heatwave...In the Sahara Desert.
-cb
Senator Hagel is from Nebraska?!?!
Huh, whadda know!
You've never know it since he doesn't live here, only comes back when he has to make an appearance.
So, I guess the stations will all be touting that "heartland values" and "hometown boy", blah, blah, blah.
This better be good if they're interrupting The Price is Right.
I mean, what if they were gonna play Plinko????
Frankly, I'm more of a Dice Game kinda guy, but Hagel is a complete buffoon if he thinks he has a shot at the White House.
First, he's late in announcing -- all the media is fawning over Obama, Clinton, McCain and Guiliani. Hagel has as much shot of winning the GOP slot as Edwards does of winning the Democrats' nod.
Hagel should just go back to wherever he calls home -- it obviously isn't within the borders of the state he allegedly represents -- and call it a day.
Hey at least this will give the local stations something to salivate over and beat into the ground...At least until March 2008 when he drops out after the first couple of primaries.
As for me. I dig the game with the yodeling mountain climber.
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