This morning, we mentioned that KTVT-Channel 11 anchor Tracy Rowlett would be retiring in July 2008. We weren’t necessarily shocked by the news; rumors of Rowlett’s leaving have been circulating for months, if not years. (He’s been through two contracts since moving to Channel 11 from WFAA-Channel 8 in 1999,…
Yup, Tracy Rowlett at KTVT-Channel 11 this morning announced that when his current contract expires in July 2008, he’s out the door, bringing to a close a career on Dallas-Fort Worth television that began in April 1974, when he moved from Oklahoma City to become an investigative reporter for WFAA-Channel…
Our pal Gordon Keith sends word there’s a far better video of KXAS-Channel 5 anchor Mike Snyder’s icky come-on than the one to which we linked yesterday. And how does Gordon know this? Because he’s the one who made it available. Oh, and now would be as good a time…
Glory be to God on high: Uncle Barky says KXAS-Channel 5’s inexplicable chart-topping success at 10 p.m. may soon be coming to an end, thanks to two things — WFAA-Channel 8’s dependable newcasts, anchored by beliked (uh…) stalwarts John McCaa and Gloria Campos, and Channel 5’s desperate, icky obsession with…
Rod Dreher is no friend of the local Muslim community. He explains why. Should make plenty of new friends. It’s because he’s the “new face of hate,” duh. That what The Dallas Morning News’er and Crunchy Con writes in the winter issue of City Journal, the urban-affairs quarterly published by…
Ed Bark asks the same thing we’re all wondering: How does any newscast anchored by this woman stay on top? God bless Ed Bark. I dunno how much Uncle Barky’s making over at his Web site — gonna guess probably less than he did whilst toiling for Dallas’ Only Daily…
Either Don Hill really is No. 1, or he just shot you with his finger pistol. Here’s some sausage-making for your Monday morning. On Friday, WFAA-Channel 8 sent reporter Chris Heinbaugh to City Hall to ask mayor pro tem and mayoral candidate Don Hill about the segregation taking place at…
If you wanna see me looking like an aging alternarock bum (yeah, great day to wear the Flaming Lips T-shirt and gray hoodie) whilst going on a lengthy, had-to-be-crazy-ass-sounding harangue about the state of Deep Ellum, by all means tune into KTVT-Channel 11 tonight at 10. Jay Gormley just left…
No doubt we’ll have a few things here today about Molly Ivins; after all, Schutze and I worked with her at the Dallas Times Herald, Jim much longer and closer than I, and he has the anecdotes to prove it. Most of mine have to do with smoking — as…
The Texas Observer’s home page confirms what we found out but a short while ago: Molly Ivins has died. We will have more tomorrow from her old friend and Dallas Times Herald colleague (by which I mean “drinking buddy”) Jim Schutze. –Robert Wilonsky…
Ed Bark thinks Justin Farmer’s a real mimbo. Gee, what gave it away? File this under Things The Great Ed Bark Never Coulda Said About WFAA When He Worked At The Dallas Morning News: “Justin Farmer and Jackie Hyland seemed happily under glass, bantering with almost shocking ineptitude on a…
When she’s not running the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Nancy Brinker’s reading People magazine. How do we know this? Because she has a letter in the new issue (the one with Tyra Banks on the cover) — specifically, a response to a story the magazine recently did on…
“Schutzesque.” I’ve yet to find a precise meaning in the dictionary — Jim says it means “ruggedly handsome in tweed” — but the word has officially entered the lexicon at Bold Types, The Dallas Morning News’ Metro blog that has becoming infinitely more interesting with the recent additions of education…
This is not young Jim Schutze… OK, this is navel-gazing of the worst kind, but I thought you might like to know about it anyway: That picture (at right) on the cover of this week’s Dallas Observer, accompanying Jim Schutze’s story about the de-hippy-fication of East Dallas, is not Schutze…
Who says the newspaper business is dead (well, besides, like, everybody)? Don’t tell that to the folks over at American Community Newspapers, the Minnesota-based publisher of 16 papers in the North Texas area — including the Plano Star Courier, McKinney Courier-Gazette, Frisco Enterprise and Mesquite News. (The North Texas papers…
The late Howard Forbes, who is no doubt very amused wherever he is So, let’s backtrack for a moment. On Tuesday, the missus wakes me in Utah to tell me about an obit in The Dallas Morning News for a man named Howard Forbes. Then, a few hours later, Paul…
Hey, Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, that’s quite a spokesman you got there. Celso Martinez works as the spokesperson for DISD, where his job is to explain to the public how the school district goes about educating its students. Lately, my job has been to write about DISD, particularly how it goes…
Craig Miller of KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) sends this brief missive concerning his phrase “sardine theory” becoming a part of the Dallas Police Department lexicon: “I am honored that my sardine theory has gone mainstream. In 100 years, I believe most will point to this moment as the springboard to…
Well, that didn’t take long. I started last week’s announcement of a new all-sports radio station by cautiously warning that the Sports Fan 990 experiment was either “hopelessly pitching pebbles at the castle walls…or perhaps the latest, greatest idea in local sports radio.” Three days into its first week, we…
WFAA’s Pete Delkus unveils the station’s latest weather forecasting tool, Doppler GODar. O.K., now I feel guilty about my Pete Delkus rant yesterday. I have reconsidered my feelings about yesterday’s weather, and I see now that my issues are not really with Delkus but with God. That’s an old beef…
Friend of Unfair Park “John” (dunno if he’d want his last name used) sends what he says and what appears to be the original e-mail that prompted Troy Dungan to kindly, gently dress down Jim Schutze’s fav weather man Pete Delkus yesterday afternoon. If you haven’t seen the video, in…
If you’re interested in playing along, there’s a new guessing game taking place this week in media circles: Who’s the unnamed billionaire mentioned in the first sentence of Michael Wolff’s Vanity Fair piece about very rich men trying to buy into the newspaper biz. Or I guess you could play…
