Who she is: Linda Cavanaugh
What she does: 10pm News anchor for KFOR Channel 4
Why Approve:
One time, an Ogle Mole at Channel 9 asked me why we never write about Linda Cavanaugh. This was my answer:
“Other than being an Oklahoma City institution, Linda’s never really done anything to warrant our coverage. She doesn’t have a nightly opinion piece. She doesn’t tell us that a tornado is about to destroy our house. She doesn’t have an annoying Sports Talk show. In fact, she’s a very classy, professional and nice person.”
Okay. Although that’s kind of true, that’s not the real reason. The real reason why we leave Linda Cavanaugh alone is that in 1988 she gave me a certificate for reading 80 books during a March of Dimes Read-A-Thon. For some reason, I think Linda may have known that most of the books I read were of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” variety, and that once I flipped to page 63 and learned that the time machine was broken and that I was forever stuck in the Old West, that I marked that book down and counted it as being read.
Anyway, Linda Cavanaugh didn’t rat on me. For that, I will always be loyal.
Why Disapprove:
With Linda Cavanaugh having what seems to be a lifetime contract at KFOR, we don’t get to see enough Joleen Chaney. We need more Joleen Chaney.
Also, we’ve learned through the Ogle Mole Network that she gives away crummy Halloween candy. Who would have known!
Last Week’s Result:
Well, Lost Ogle readers are split when it comes down to Paul Folger. He came away with a 50% approval rating. That’s ghey with an H.
Vote after the jump!
Do you approve or disapprove of Linda Cavanaugh?
- Approve (60%, 275 Votes)
- Disapprove (40%, 181 Votes)
Total Voters: 456
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I like that I was the second vote, canceling out the first person’s “no” vote. She’s an OKC institution!
Linda is the aunt everyone wishes they had.
While in college working a crap job for a statewide newspaper, Linda called to complain that she did not get her morning delivery. Her first words were “Do you know who I am?” Yes, Linda, I do…and I disapprove.
I’ll never take down my Linda Cavanaugh poster! Approvamundo.
This is crazy. Yesterday I was going to say you guys should do a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book with Traber.
“You look around the Westpoint Chrysler to see if anyone noticed your fart. No one did. You ask Mark Rodgers if he agrees with your statement that Tiger Woods is a sex addict. He does completely. The phone rings. The caller says that there is no right answer for OU’s non conference scheduling because a weak schedule helped them in 2000 and a strong one helped them in 2008. He also says it’s silly to scream at people who have a different opinion than you. TO YELL AT HIM AND HANG UP TURN TO PAGE 83. TO YELL AT HIM, SAY YOU HAVE CALLER ID AND TELL HIM YOU’RE GOING TO CALL HIS HOUSE AT 3 AM TURN TO PAGE 71.”
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/choose-your-own.php
I need to use my approve vote to somehow get her husband to bump my grade up…
Linda Cavanaugh hates children. She once sat in her back yard with a decibel meter trying to prove that the innocent laughter of children playing on a playground was a public nuisance and noise violation. Lots of things are illegal in Nichols Hills, but playing outside hasn’t been banned … yet.
That’s probably why her Halloween candy sucks. That, and because she’s married to a dentist. Dentists never give good candy.
and sues churches…
Disapproved.
“I have myself a salisbury steak hungry man dinner, and i’m poised upon the couch prepared to be a sinner…”
She seems nice, but I too want more Joleen Chaney. Disapprove, and I can explain why in one word: My big, sweetass HDTV. TERRIFYING! I feel for the aging newscasters of the world.
I don’t watch Kfor if she is on. Arrogant, disaprove.
mike hosty’s song about linda cavanaugh rocks. “i make love to linda cavanaugh … in my mind.”
I don’t like her at all, she is too old to be on tv and I’ve heard she is a real jerk. Disapprove!
Tailgate tested …. tailgate approved! But, I vote no …
I worked at the old anthonys on britton rd. she came in one time and bought some pantyhose. I asked her if they had any job openings down there at the kfor sports department. She said “how the hell would I know”. Approve.
Linda is in no way married to a dentist. He’s actually an economics teacher. There must be another reason she gives out shitty Halloween candy…
in jr. my mom and I were shopping at the CR Anthony’s for school clothes and Ms. Linda was in front of. She almost drove a cashier to tears because Linda thought she was over charged for a bag of boys’ underwear. She then demanded to see a manager. It was awkward. I always heard that Jack Ogle orinially refused to hire her at WKY brcause he thought she was unqualified. As far as Linda v. Jolene; I think it might be a deborah Norville v. Jane Pauley dynamic
rockogre….So you watch when Meg Alexander is on because she isn’t arrogant? Or do you just like constant sweeps coverage of which plastic surgeon gives the best results?
I know someone who worked with her and said she was tough, but actually was capable of giving praise. More than many people can do.
Linda Cavanaugh-Clark is a great FRONT for KFOR. Behind closed doors she’s a total demanding b*tch. Ever see her without her wonderful makeup? You’d NEVER know who she was.
I used to be fond of her until I had to work around her. She kept to herself in the newsroom mostly, but when she wanted something, it was ALL about her and how she wanted it done yesterday.
DISAPPROVE
Linda rocks! I’ve spent 30 years working around news anchors in the OKC area. Linda is among the best I’ve met. You’ll never catch me dissing her.
To add to my previous post…the majority of my experience in the OKC market was as a competitor to KFOR, so don’t think I’m giving props to one of my own.
I don’t watch Meg Alexander on KFOR either, I rarely watch it at all preferring to watch 9. Ms Cavanaugh came to my hometown to do an on the spot broadcast some time ago. I took my small 6 year old daughter to meet her, she was so excited. When we tried to talk to her she didn’t have time for children, she just hopped into her little princess helicopter and waited to leave. She might can give praise, but she can sure make a six year old girl cry.
H8_Gundy_Now ive seen her without her makeup yikkes! but she was with her dad and seemed sweet. but i hear so thinks shes all that becuase she works for the oklahoma news..
Her daughter is nice. Approve.
Watched “The Devil in Ms. Jones” with Linda (and Bella Shaw, I might add) along with Dr. Will and some others.
Tree Rings Cavanaugh is tres’ cool.
Fingerguns hinted at a true story. Linda lives across the street from a Church and 2 schools. Both of which were there long before she ever moved in. She was even a member of the church, and her own child attended one of the schools. The church owns a house adjacent to their property and across the street from Linda’s house. When the church wanted to allow their youth group to meet in the house once or twice a week, entering and exiting only through the back door, with no signs or anything else to make the house not appear to be a house – the “fun” began:
She actually threatned to sue, and engaged the services of a lawyer – claiming that the sound of children playing on the school playground constitutes a public nuisance. She did use a noise meter, she made up a video tape and presented it to the City Council. (In an ironic twist, the sounds of birds chipring actually created spikes on the noise meter in the video, however she didn’t threaten to sue the birds.) She actually wanted the church to agree not to use it’s outdoor areas on weekends, including Sunday! She has organized the neighbors – they even got the city to complain on their behalf to the church about the noise from the church bells! She has also stated that the solution would be for the church and school to move, even though they were there first. She has also made it her personal quest to make sure that the church and school are not allowed to grow – as if we can have too many educated children or too many people attending church on Sundays.
Channel 9 did cover some of this story, however – perhaps out of professional courtesy – they never showed Linda speaking at the City Council meetings, didn’t interview her and never revealed that she was the spearhead of this effort.
I mean, really – if you don’t like the sounds of children playing or the sounds of church bells ringing – don’t buy a house across the street from a church and two schools. That isn’t really hard concept. If you do choose to live across the street from a church and two schools it is logical to assume that there will be some traffic on Sunday mornings. It is also logical to assume that people will drop kids off in the morning and pick them up again in the evening. It’s not logical to think that because you bought the house that you can tell people not to attend church or school – because it bothers you.
Beneath the folksy, aw-shucks “I’m a local girl” facade is a person who is very calculating and not especially tolerant.
Dis-approve!!
Based on the previous story… APPROVE.
I’ve known Linda for more than 10 years, and she’s one of the most down-to-earth people I’ve ever met. (Plus lovely…and talented.) Approve.