| | "Down goes South" - Our high school announcer when we beat our South rivals. Great Neck, on Educational Access TV |
| | "Boom Bam Thank You Man! "- High school baseball announcer. Great Neck, on Educational Access TV |
| | "Hey there, hi there, ho there"" -- Don Welch on Chattanooga Channel 9 -- sign on line, hollered, and annoying. |
| | "And here's Governor Ray's 8th grade daughter, Vickie, and what grade are you in, Vickie?"" - Frosty Mitchell at an Iowa Girl's Basketball Tournament game in Des Moines, IA |
| | "Local Fox station WBRC has a weather caster named Micky Ferguson. He is currently running a ""Name Mickey's Monkey"" contest. This is not a REAL monkey mind you. Just something that sits on his desk. |
| | Birmingham WBRC - "Voice of the public is the voice of the justice" - Newspaper: "Ses" from Äskenderun-Turkey |
| | Keloland, Sioux Falls SD, morning weatherman Shawn Cable's comments are often sillly, off the wall. He has a feature called "Busstop Weather" |
| | St. Louis Cardinals baseball had one of the best and well known, even outside of St. Louis, sportscaster ever. No one will ever compare to the late great Jack Buck. "Jack Buck, A Collection of Poems and Stories" was written by Mr. Buck sharing not only his poetry but funny stories of his life in baseball and beyond. He was well known for so many things it's hard to pick just one. I suppose if I had to pick I would say it's "Crazy, Folks! Go Crazy!" for exceptional hits and home runs. He was always known for saying "That's a winner!" to a winning Cardinals game. Although he passed away in 2002 he is still very much remembered and missed. |
| | My absolute, all-time favorite news station is Fox 8 in Cleveland, Ohio. The 5 p.m. news team has the best segments. They do a running bit during the football season where the 2 anchors, the sports guy, and a guest pick who's going to win the Browns game. This year the guest is a horse named Mr. Ed. Last year, it was a monkey. Mr. Ed has the best record this year so far. |
| | The main gaffe wasn't local, but it was caused by the local station...During a Today broadcast in October, Al Roaker handed off to local affiliate for the local weather. The local station was having some sort of difficulty, so they never left the Today feed. We were still able to hear Al, who, just after reporting about a big snow fall in Buffalo quipped "What's 13 inches and white?" much to the amusement of Matt and Ann. Shame on Al! |
| | "SLIIIIIIIIIME IN THE ICE MACHINE!!!" - Marvin Zindler from ktrk-tv, houston, texas. |
| | Zindler always ends his restaurant report news segment on establishments that have violated health code by having "slime in the ice machine". |
| | "In Grand Forks, North Dakota, on television station WDAZ (ABC affiliate), there is a newscaster named Terry Dullum, who has a weekly TV spot called "The Dullum File" in which he interviews various members of the community about off-beat topics. He has the unique ability to capture their genuine feelings in a humorous way. |
| | Ich bin schwul und das ist gut so" which means "I'm gay and this is a good thing" told by mayor of berlin, germany which was brodcasted in many german TVs live. |
| | During champions league game between barcelona and chealse year 2005 broadcasted via turkish television star. The anchorman depicted ronaldinho as "Ronaldinho , he is such a talented star of today`s football which is thirsty for stars like someone in a desert is thirsty for water." |
| | While it's not embarrassing or annoying, for some reason, the most memorable radio sign-off line I know comes from the late '70s on WKLS, 96-Rock in Atlanta, Georgia. The DJ was Dean Clarke, who called himself "my favorite disk jockey, Dean Clarke." To sign off the air every day after his shift he simply leaned into the microphone and said in a deadpan delivery, "Come get me mother; I'm through." More than two decades later and I have yet to hear another line that sticks with me that way his did. |
| | John Nicely from Omaha WOWT - His sign-off at the end of his program was always "I'm Derryn Hinch and that's life" or just "That's life". Arrrrrggghhhhh. Drove me insane, I couldn't bear the man after a few enforced watching (flatmate was a fan). |
| | During the 2000 republican convention, Action News Philadelphia Channel 6 had a live reporter on the floor of the convention, right in the middle of the crowd. His name was Vernon Odem. When the anchor asked the reporter a question, he started talking (loudly, to get over the crowd noise) just as the person on the podium had the crowd go silent for a prayer. Reporter Odem was mortified as poeple in the crowed started looking at him and it was quite awkward and difficult for him as he lost his train of thought an stumbled until the station went to commercial. |
| | On the 11 p.m. 11/19/2004 new broadcast, Richmond, Virginia's local CBS affiliate (channel 6) reporter Tim Trudell was doing a piece that was to look live. But due to an editing mess-up, what got on the air was one of the outtakes where Trudell says, "I can't f***ing talk right." The cameras immediately cut back to the anchors, and Rob Cardwell is seen out of his chair with his hands up in the air and Stephanie Rochon has her hand over mouth in disbelief. |
| | A TV newscaster, referring to something that was irresponsible and dangerous, said, "It was like playing Russian Roulette with a loaded gun." (Mixing "playing with a loaded gun" with "playing Russian Roulette." |
| | Walter Cronkite from cbs news many years ago used to always sign off with. And that's the way it is..and would say the date. |
| | From NBC Tom Brokaw used to always say, we'll see you back here tomorrow night" |
| | Oklahoma City, OK. News 4. Kevin Ogle - newscaster. Always pronounces the word "woman", as "woe-man", with a long o sound. In fact, his two brothers (also newscasters), pronounce it the same way, annoying viewers on two channels. Makes them and Ok City sound like Hickville. |
| | The first was on local station WJXT (Channel 4 in Jacksonville) - a drunken woman comes up to one of the reporters and calls him and name, and then hits him and tries to take his microphone. The other was local newscaster Rob Sweeting (on WJXT Channel 4) a few years back. The teleprompter broke and he was forced to ad lib, but he had absolutely no clue what to say and he stumbled around for about 60 seconds before they finally went to a break. It was as if he was taking a nap and suddenly woke up on screen." |
| | Sportscaster Rick Jenarette - "La La La LaFontaine!" - hockey broadcasting |
| | Both weathermen (meteorologist) from our local NBC news station, WSLS, Newschannel 10, in Roanoke, Virginia were fired within the last year. Mark Lamarr was fired first after overdosing on heroin. Almost a year later, meteorologist, Jamie Singleton was fired after his roomate took a nude photo of him getting out of the shower and posted it on Myspace. |
| | Jerry Dunphy, a legendary news anchor for Los Angeles always opened his newscast on KCAL-9 with "From the desert to the sea, to all of Southern California, a good evening. |
| | Dennis Green, coach of Arizona Cardinals after this lost their game to the Bears. "Bears were who we thought they were, that's why we took the damn field. Now if you gonna crown, then crown em!" |
| | WSMV-Channel 4's James Lewis resigns after reporting a news story where Metro cops arrested a McDonald's employee who sold a Big Mac to a hooker. Lewis says the law broken was, "giving nutrition to a prostitute." The irony of all this was that this story never occured. James Lewis was reporting on a joke newspaper article he read in the Nashville Scene. |