Doesn’t anybody with the city own a TV?
Denver city officials laid blame for the snow-clearing screw-up last week on faulty weather predictions from its forecasting companies.
If they had turned on any local news, they would have seen that everyone was predicting a storm Tuesday evening. This was one time TV weather got it right. Often they get in a twist about what I like to call “TV blizzards,” end-of-the-world storms that never materialize.
“It’s not an exact science,” says Stacey Donaldson, jumping from KDVR-
Channel 31 to KCNC-Channel 4, where she’ll be the morning and midday weather anchor. “I always say I predict the best I can but I’m not psychic. It’s still nature. It’s better to be safe than sorry.” Donaldson is on the job at Channel 4 but won’t appear on-air until March 1 because of the traditional TV no-compete clause.
Her move – for what I hear was a long contract and a pile of dough – is the last domino in a run that began with the retirement of Larry Green and the move of daytime weatherman Ed Greene to the night shift.
Donaldson doesn’t mind the criticism of overblown forecasts. “At least people are warned about it. It’s always been ‘bash the weather person.’ It’s easy. But we’re right a lot of the time.”
Advertisement rejected
Clear Channel Denver and a group called Judaism Your Way are at odds over commercials rejected by the radio conglomerate.
JYW is co-sponsoring an appearance by publisher Josh Neuman of Heeb magazine in Denver on Friday. JYW describes the magazine, pitched to Jews in their 20s and 30s, as “funny, provocative and cutting edge.”
Clear Channel disagreed. It turned down the ads for KTCL 93.3-FM and KBCO 97.3-FM. Said Lee Larsen, senior vice president of Clear Channel’s Rocky Mountain Region, “When we saw the copy, we determined it would be offensive to our listeners.”
Around the dial
KKCS 101.9-FM (“La Gran D”) has a first-anniversary party at the Palladium on Dec. 13. The show is free with an unwrapped toy but tickets are a must, available through the station … Steffan Tubbs and April Zesbaugh, the morning duo at KOA 850-AM, host the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Christmas party at the Galleria Theater of the Denver Arts Complex on Tuesday. It’s in support of the John Lynch Foundation … Revised Nielsen ratings for November show KUSA-Channel 9’s news at 4 p.m. nosed out “The Oprah Winfrey Show” on Channel 4, giving Channel 9 a sweep of every daily news period … Former Westminster resident Emily Wilson, attending Chapman University, bagged $25,000 on the “College Audition” show on KTLA in Los Angeles … Quotable: “If you want more time in your life, don’t watch TV.” Bob Keeshan
Dick Kreck’s column appears Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. He may be reached at 303-954-1456 or dkreck@denverpost.com.
