MediaBistro’s TVNewser is reporting this morning that NBC Universal is set to lay off some 500 employees — including folks who work in NBC News’ Dallas bureau. The network’s been shuttering bureaus since the summer; Paris was the first to go, back in August. And in September, word was NBC…
Uncle Barky breaks the bad news: The great Brad Hawkins, long a favorite of ours, is leaving WFAA-Channel 8 on Christmas Eve. Why come? He’s taking a public relations gig at Southwest Airlines. Really? Really: “I’m at a crossroads in terms of opening myself to new challenges and new skills,”…
A couple of months back, D ran David Feherty’s riveting account of his collision with a pickup on Park Lane; figured his being able to live and write about his smash-up was what the Sporting News was referring to today when it ran the piece headlined “A week when David…
Okay, not really. But we can dream, right? Because if Pacman Jones did get his own show with The Ticket’s informative and entertaining Bob Sturm and Dan McDowell, the corrupt Cowboy returning to practice at Valley Ranch today would mysteriously fall on hard times and slink quietly…
Wyatt Cenac as Barack Obama Tina Brown’s Daily Beast reports that four contenders are in the running to oust Fred Armisen as Saturday Night Live’s Barack Obama — and two of them, heyheyhey, happen to be Dallas private schools graduates. One we introduced back in June, when Jesuit College Preparatory…
Brett Shipp In October 2006, Benny and Martha Cryer of Wylie were killed when natural gas, leaking beneath their home, ignited and exploded, trapping them beneath fiery debris. One year later, WFAA-Channel 8’s Brett Shipp revisited the story to find out why no one had been held responsible for the…
All this? Because of one game a year in our zip code? Seems a tad much. Okay, we get it. Dallas’ Only Daily is hitching its downsized wagon to the Texas Longhorns. Again. I often accuse Dallas of being not a sports town, but a winners town. I have to…
… Fox! So, last week it was The Dallas Morning News and Star-Telegram trying to figure out how to share a sleeping bag. Today, it’s Fox and NBC — not the networks themselves (not yet), but the local affiliates owned and operated by the networks, which would indeed include KDFW-Channel…
A bump in the road? Or the beginning of the end? Couple months back I forecasted a significant change in the way the radio ratings wind would blow around these parts in the fall. Wow. I had no idea. With Arbitron finally awaking to the digital age and replacing its…
Cavalier as ever. Live 105.3 talk-show host Russ Martin is so convinced the charges stemming from his July 18 arrest won’t stick that this week he turned down a slap-on-the-wrist plea bargain from Tarrant County prosecutors. According to a jurisprudence source, Martin snubbed an offer of a reduced charge –…
Kudos to The Star-Telegram for yesterday addressing the fairly startling revelation on Friday that the Fort Worth paper and its longtime rival The Dallas Morning News are considering some kind of collaboration. The piece, by Mitchell Schnurman, even refers to the news as a “stunning local example” of how papers…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends along this story out of Fort Worth concerning the Star-Telegram’s likely collaboration with rival The Dallas Morning News. Says Startlegram exec editor Jim Witt: “There is absolutely no intention of diluting the powerful individual brands of these two papers. We just want to find…
As I mentioned Tuesday night, T.D. Jakes, of The Potter’s House, was all over MSNBC during its Election Night coverage — up until he was bumped at the moment Ohio was called for Barack Obama. Jakes is about to get his own TV show courtesy Dr. Phil, and Broadcasting &…
The letter Lincoln may or may not have written to a woman who may or may not have lost her sons in the Civil War Last night, KXAS-Channel 5 ran a short piece about the Dallas Historical Society’s big find in its archives at Fair Park: a condolence letter from…
Our neighborhood was trashed overnight as dozens of A.H. Belo’s Briefings were dumped along the curbs and into the streets like it was some kind of prank. As you can see in the photo, I sorta, kinda got two of the freebies intended for non-Dallas Morning News subscribers — even…
Your suggestions for our Tom Leppert poster were, for the most part, undeniably strong, to the point where there’s been much bickering amongst Unfair Parkers today concerning the winning choice. There are four clear front-runners: “RAZE,” “SPEND,” “ERECT” and “HOTEL.” (Other personal favorites: “COPE,” “MARCH,” “DINERO” and “LEGACY.”) But, if…
Word out of 508 Young Street is that George Rodrigue, Dallas Morning News managing editor, has informed the staff of Dallas’s Only Daily that it’s fired up the presses this afternoon for a special reprinting of today’s paper, which is apparently historic or something? Turns out, folks have been streaming…
There have been many, many parodies of Shepard Fairey’s Obama “Hope” posters, few of which elicit even the faintest hint of a giggle. (Always did like the Luke Skywalker “New Hope” version, though the execution doesn’t top the concept.) What you see above is, of course, our version courtesy Observer…
See, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. I’ve recently received several emails curious in Live 105.3 talk-show host Russ Martin. Not in his “situation” per se – we’ve already covered that from incident to indictment – but more so in the fallout, if any, from his July arrest and…
Say it ain’t so. It’s so, ain’t it? Picked up my Dallas Morning News this morning – Went into the driveway and physically picked it up. I’m a dinosaur, ridicule away. – pulled out SportsDay and had a bright idea. For Halloween I will dress as a newspaper. Nothing scarier…
Always a delight to dial up ESPN.com to find a piece by Frank Luksa, who’s been spending the last little while dipping into the Dallas Cowboys Bag of Memories on behalf of the Worldwide Leader. Fine by me, as today he corrals some of Tom Landry’s men to find out…
As Observer editor Mark Donald, fellow staff writer Megan Feldman and I exited our car and headed to the elevators in the parking garage at the Belo Mansion yesterday afternoon, we bumped into staffers from D Magazine. It was my first opportunity to meet Adam McGill and Zac Crain, and…
