When determining the quality of a news channel, I think the number one thing you should go by is the overall attractiveness of the anchorwomen and female reporters. Because if you have a hot chick reading or reporting the news, who really cares if it is good or not. After that, I would say the best news channels generally have the longest sports reports and employ gracious deities to control the weather.
Anyway, that’s how I would determine a “Best of” news channel. I have no clue how to judge a “Worst of.” Since that’s the case, I’m going to be totally lazy and just post some You Tube clips of our five nominees. Vote after the jump.
KFOR- Channel 4
KOCO – Channel 5
KWTV- Channel 9
KOKH – Channel 25
KSBI – Channel 52
Worst OKC News Channel?
- KSBI, Channel 52 (41%, 133 Votes)
- KFOR, Channel 4 (22%, 71 Votes)
- KOKH, Channel 25 (17%, 57 Votes)
- KOCO, Channel 5 (12%, 38 Votes)
- KWTV, Channel 9 (8%, 27 Votes)
Total Voters: 326
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Oh man. Well, KOCO seems to be the most consistently tolerable, so that’s easy enough. On the one hand, KFOR and KWTV both have people I don’t really enjoy watching at all, My Two Cents which is bad and The Rant which is even worse, way too much “Doin’ it fer the folks of Okiehoma!”-ness, too many idiot sweeps stories especially about MIRACLES!! and KIDS!!, all that stuff. But then, KOKH does virtually every basic TV-news element far worse, possibly because it’s a total on-the-cheap operation…and KSBI is lower still. So it’s really not true to call one of the other Big 3 the “worst.” And the Dirty Harry video made me chuckle. So congratulations, KOKH! Next time don’t make me watch commercials of Angie Mock at sound levels 600% higher than the programming. (Even with the range compression on. I don’t know how you idiots do that, by the way…)
Mike Morgan was on Channel 5 with Deano?! Surely a major contender for the worst OKC weatherman/sportscaster duo of all time.
WHo is the dude in the shiny brown leather jacket followed by that blue jacket he is wearing at the news desk?
Hey cant we see clips from at least 1998? It really isn’t fair to show opens from shows 20-30 years ago.
Though it was interesting to see KFOR’s open looking like the opening of Law & Order.
It’s hard for me to believe that any channel could be worse than KFOR. Everytime I get stuck watching their newscast, I feel like I’m in a nursing home. I’ve never seen channel 52, but it can’t be any worse than channel 4.
Anthony Foster… whatever happened to that guy? Anybody remember the run-in he had with Molly Murphy’s?
Anthony Foster passed away a couple of years ago. After he left broadcasting he was teaching (I believe at Millwood) and loving it. He had a stroke, then died a year or two later. Much too young, he was a good guy.
I sort of miss the inexplicable newsbreaks on KOKH in the 80s, featuring Ronnie Kaye (were they shot against Styrofoam and a bedsheet scrim?).
I watch KWTV’s news programming the way one would watch Fernwood Tonight. So perhaps they get my vote.
Yes, it’s pretty much miracles, ill children, a woman having a “litter” of babies, a gypsy not finishing paving the driveway that grandma payed him for-then he skips town, dog-human sex, and tornado warnings. But…what are my expectations? News and weather programing lasting 3 minutes.
“Put the TV remote down or I’ll blow his head off.” -Scorpio
Now seriously, there has to be a way to put an “all of these” on some of these questions.
Yeah I am with Brett. Where’s the “All of the Above” option?
I thought KOKH’s was on-the-cheap, then last week I caught what KSBI calls news. Ugh!
Everyone should see KSBI’s news just once. You’ll see the future of Fox Noise, they have to work God and the GOP into every story in a positive light, and no mentioning Democrats unless it’s something borderline-Satanic.
Wow, that sounds awful. Having never tuned into their news, especially after seeing the high quality of their other original programming–YardDawgz games annoy me to begin with, and the TV coverage is ecstatically dreadful, like a ripping tequila hangover–now I kind of want to catch it. Bet the daily viewership is a terrific bunch of people, too…
Who was Gene Wheatley? I like the brown leather jacket with the Bob Macy red tie look.
This poll should be limited to stations you can get on UHF without cable….all the others are basically competing with high school and college broadcast journalism students.
KOCO has, by far, the least amount of annoying talking heads of any station and is 100% Ogle-free.
And by UHF, I mean VHF.
To use the word “News” in relation to these broadcasts is a bit of a reach. Yeah, I know THEY do it, but must we?
I’ve seen so many hilarious screw ups on FOX 25. Its really unbelievable.
Gene Wheatley is the guy I was talking about….
All of you guys asking for “all of the above” could benefit from looking up the term “worst”.
In response to the comment about Mike Morgan and Deano being on KOCO together, its no wonder their ratings were in the toilet….
Dont waste your time watching KSBI….
Brady Brus and Sarah Tappel know as much of how to produce a high quality newscast as Josh Jarobe knows how to stay out of trouble.
THeir sportscaster Janice Crammer is even worse. She is on-air, even after calling the Ottawa Senators hockey team the Ottawa Seminoles and her use of “boom goes the dynamite”.
Brus will hire anything with breasts, regardless of brainpower.
But if I pick one as the worst, I’m implying that the others are, even if it’s an infinitesimal and immeasurably small amount, better. I…I just can’t do it.
Along with Deano and Mike was also “The Stache” Myron Patton at KOCO he was working his way up in the minors at the time but he is definitely big time now. I’m awaiting the day when ESPN calls to steal him away from Oklahoma
Myron is a good guy and I have met him a few times. To the best of my knowledge having met him, he is not cocky and arrogant, like Rodgers and Blevins.
Myron will make it on the major scene someday if he wants to leave Oklahoma.
Wow, I guess I am the only one who caught the name of the burglary suspect on the first video… I thought it was funny.
My Mitch Jelniker wishes have been granted!
“…Next news when it happens and on Newstouch 25 later tonight…”
Who knew Brady Brus was such a badass.