Process This

There's something wrong in football when a receiver, in the end zone, jumps up and catches the ball and comes down with both feet inbounds; gets knocked on his rear inbounds in the end zone; has his free hand touch inbounds in the end zone; rolls over and the hand with the ball touches down inbounds in the end zone and it's called an incomplete pass(?) -- because the ball comes out of his hand as he starts to get up.

Then I'm told by the announcers and the former head of NFL officials that it's a process?

The "process" screwed the Detroit Lions out of the game winning touchdown against the Chicago Bears.

When the term "process" comes into football, the fun goes out and the scientific community is united in that fact.

As long as I'm processing yesterday's game on FOX, I have to note that I hate their new letterbox look.

Joe Buck called it widescreen and alluded to it being more lifelike, I believe he said something like it's how we see the world.

If I see the world with black bars at the top and bottom of my vision, I'm going to a doctor ASAP.

If it's so wonderful, why doesn't FOX show the commercials and their promos in widescreen?

Can we chip in and get the FOX affiliate, KDSM, color bars so the uniforms won't look so washed out?

I saw the start of the Packers-Eagles game on NFL Sunday Ticket, while KDSM was wrapping up the Lions-Bears game, and the Eagles uniforms were actually Kelly green.

They turned putrid when I tuned to FOX 17.

Boy On Top Of The News

Somebody at KDSM FOX 17, or WHO TV HD, has some splainin' to do after running a newscast from November 13 during halftime of the Packers - Giants game yesterday.

It made our guy, Dave Price, look bad with this lead story...

FATAL ACCIDENT: Des Moines Officials found a man under a car in an accident Sunday afternoon.

Weather Boy Blunder, Brett McIntyre, looked just as bad with a weather forecast for Monday that predicted a high of 55. Per the National Weather Service the high in Des Moines on Monday November 14 2011 was 62.

That's considered an accurate forecast for TV Weather Wienies.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

False Claim(s)!

Sunday the Ragister ran a house ad, or self promotion, that stated "More People Will Read The Register Today Than Will Watch The Big Game".

They then stated, "With a combined print and online audience of 587,878 readers, The Des Moines Register is a tremendous scoring opportunity".

The ad and its claims are as clear as mud and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Sunday's Super Bowl (XLIV) was the most-watched program in U.S. television history, Nielsen estimated Monday that 106.5 million people watched the Super Bowl on average and 151.6 million tuned in overall.

It will take awhile for the numbers to be in for Central Iowa, per KCCI not until the end of March, but let's just look at some history.

For Super Bowl XLII in 2008, around 465,000 viewers watched the game (per KDSM FOX 17).

Per WHO, there were no local ratings for Super Bowl XLIII, in 2009, because the switch to HD took place in February and Nielsen delayed the ratings period until March.

However, that was the second most watched Super Bowl in history with an average of 98.7 million people tuned in, so it would not be impossible to imagine it would beat the previous years ratings.

It appears that the Ragister is using numbers from Scarborough Research of November 2009 and the figures are weekly print and online.

That averages out to 83,982 readers per day and is far less than an audience of 465,000.

Stay Tuned!

Killer

I guess I shouldn't have been stunned when WHO HD Sport-O Keith Murphy stood in front of a graphic, during the Tuesday 6 p.m. newscast, that spelled out the last name of the Minnesota Twins Hall of Famer as Killibrew.

After all, they've misspelled the name of their own sports guy, Chris Hassel, before and the scientific community is united in that fact.

I was saddened to learn Murphy didn't change it for the sports segment he does on KDSM Fox 17 at 9:50 p.m.

It was even more disheartening later learning that Murphy is the Iowa Sportscaster of the Year.

Round And Round

The Big Lug Nut, having just figured which end of the pen to use, can write off two more staff members.

Troy Price, who tried to convince Iowans that the BLN was "frugal", and Erin Seidler.

I'm trying to figure out if it's funny or sad.

BOTH

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

James Flansburg, or as O.Kay Henderson posts it Flansberg, aborted his job as Director of Communications for Planned Parenthood of the Heartland to join Culver's crew.

Flansburg's other claims to fame included News(?) Director at KDSM TV and having a daddy with the same name who wrote for the Ragister.

One does have to wonder if the BLN has turned his staff desertions into a double-fisting drinking game yet.

That's news to me

It appears WOI TV/5 has replaced anchor Lisa Carponelli (left) with Rachel Pierce.

Pierce moves to 5 from Omaha's WOWT.

Iowas Newz Liter is not sure that's a step up and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Carponelli is apparently moving to WHO TV/13 as an anchor, wonder who's out there?

Elsewhere around the dial, Sinclair has brought back Tiffany O'Donnell, at least at KDSM FOX/ 17.

I'm not sure if she's back on the air at KGAN or KFXA in Cedar Rapids.

























You may recall Tiffany was dumped for Beauty Queen, Miss Iowa 2003, Linsey Grams.













Back to you!

Ariel?

WHO TV's newest weather wienie is getting some face time.

Arielle Nixon is from GEORGIA.

The Liter thinks her name should be pronounced AIR-ielle, after all she is ON AIR talent.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

You can read her complete biography here.

Not sure who the Norman New Guy was doing sports on their News at 9 on KDSM FOX 17 last night, turns out it's John Sears, but it was unprofessional to start laughing, on air, when he found out his segment was over and they wouldn't be coming back to him after the commercials.

What If

I generally detest the "What If" game.

It's annoying when applied to sports, if the season ended today, and it's reared its ugly head twice in political news(?) in the last few hours.

Thanks to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News Survey, both the anchorette for WHO TV HD News at 9 on KDSM FOX 17 and a columnist for the Washington Examiner played the If the election were held today angle.

If the election were held today, it would violate the Constitution and numerous laws and the scientific community is united in that fact.

So stop it!

Time well spent?

The Iowa Department of Administrative Services released guidelines regarding the issue of state employees attending the Governor's inauguration on taxpayer time.

* State employees may attend the swearing-in of Governor Chet Culver at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines on official time, with the consent from their supervisor.

* Workers from outside Des Moines can attend on work time, provided the event coincides with their normal work hours.

This comes across as a poor use of taxpayer money, at least 2 1/2 hours of non-work for employees in the area and 8 hours for those in the hinterlands, and an attempt to fill seats...especially when the event was televised.

Take Two....

The Ragister is reporting that, a legislative committee is scheduled to look into the impasse between Mediacom and Sinclair Broadcasting on Thursday.

Sen. Tom Courtney, D-Burlington, the Senate chairman of the Joint Government Oversight Committee, said lawmakers are hearing complaints from constituents after losing KDSM-TV in Des Moines and KGAN-TV in Cedar Rapids from the Mediacom cable system.

"We can't force Sinclair to do anything," Courtney said. "But maybe we'll find out there is something we can do." The hearing is tentatively set for 9:30 a.m. in the Legislative dining room at the Capitol.

Meeting in the dining room? Is this just an attempt to get free donuts?

There is nothing the State can do!

Quit wasting our time, and taxpayer money, with this and meaningless war resolutions!