Comments on: Local is all relative http://blog.dfg77.net/2009/07/10/local-is-all-relative/ Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:18:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Lee http://blog.dfg77.net/2009/07/10/local-is-all-relative/#comment-2742 Lee Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:35:44 +0000 http://davefromalbury.wordpress.com/?p=795#comment-2742 Perhaps better than the local news are the locally made ads. There might be plenty of talented, good looking journo's heading for the big smoke but there's a pretty shallow pool of marketing men to fish from. Perhaps better than the local news are the locally made ads. There might be plenty of talented, good looking journo’s heading for the big smoke but there’s a pretty shallow pool of marketing men to fish from.

]]> By: Lee http://blog.dfg77.net/2009/07/10/local-is-all-relative/#comment-2741 Lee Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:28:54 +0000 http://davefromalbury.wordpress.com/?p=795#comment-2741 The fact that I remember Mike Pook's name after nearly a decade and a half demonstrates the impression that he made. I couldn't even name another weather person (other than the other former ABC Mike). The brown suits and matching ties...ahh, the memories.... The fact that I remember Mike Pook’s name after nearly a decade and a half demonstrates the impression that he made. I couldn’t even name another weather person (other than the other former ABC Mike). The brown suits and matching ties…ahh, the memories….

]]> By: roxannatas http://blog.dfg77.net/2009/07/10/local-is-all-relative/#comment-2737 roxannatas Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:44:41 +0000 http://davefromalbury.wordpress.com/?p=795#comment-2737 Saint Mike Pook, and his brown suits, are still mourned here every night at the end of the ABC news. "The ABC in Tasmania have had a proper meteorologist for as long as I can remember. Mike Pook did it for years and years and became an idol. My science teacher in college loved him and my dad nearly cried on his final weather report. If Mike said it was going to rain, it was going to rain and if it didn't he'd give a proper technical reason as to why it didn't and all would be forgiven." (Off some blog or other.) Then there's Peter Cundall, Timmy Lane, Mal Walden and a fair number of sports commentators you lot have pinched from us. Local TV is the breeding-ground for the stars, Saint Mike Pook, and his brown suits, are still mourned here every night at the end of the ABC news.

“The ABC in Tasmania have had a proper meteorologist for as long as I can remember. Mike Pook did it for years and years and became an idol. My science teacher in college loved him and my dad nearly cried on his final weather report. If Mike said it was going to rain, it was going to rain and if it didn’t he’d give a proper technical reason as to why it didn’t and all would be forgiven.”

(Off some blog or other.)

Then there’s Peter Cundall, Timmy Lane, Mal Walden and a fair number of sports commentators you lot have pinched from us.

Local TV is the breeding-ground for the stars,

]]> By: Lee http://blog.dfg77.net/2009/07/10/local-is-all-relative/#comment-2734 Lee Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:37:45 +0000 http://davefromalbury.wordpress.com/?p=795#comment-2734 I spent a year in Hobart - it was amazing how much their localy produced ABC news was like rural local news. Their weather man, Michael Pook, looked just like a year 7 Australian Studies teacher. I spent a year in Hobart – it was amazing how much their localy produced ABC news was like rural local news. Their weather man, Michael Pook, looked just like a year 7 Australian Studies teacher.

]]> By: Ray Dixon http://blog.dfg77.net/2009/07/10/local-is-all-relative/#comment-2729 Ray Dixon Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:33:44 +0000 http://davefromalbury.wordpress.com/?p=795#comment-2729 The Chinese secret police will probably think it's just another seniors tour ... with walking frames. The Chinese secret police will probably think it’s just another seniors tour … with walking frames.

]]> By: jr http://blog.dfg77.net/2009/07/10/local-is-all-relative/#comment-2728 jr Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:08:26 +0000 http://davefromalbury.wordpress.com/?p=795#comment-2728 The Chinese secret police will have a wow of a time working out the importance of that mission, elephantandrat. The Chinese secret police will have a wow of a time working out the importance of that mission, elephantandrat.

]]> By: Ray Dixon http://blog.dfg77.net/2009/07/10/local-is-all-relative/#comment-2727 Ray Dixon Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:46:18 +0000 http://davefromalbury.wordpress.com/?p=795#comment-2727 I'm hoping she gets quarantined for suspected swine flu. I’m hoping she gets quarantined for suspected swine flu.

]]> By: elephantandrat http://blog.dfg77.net/2009/07/10/local-is-all-relative/#comment-2726 elephantandrat Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:33:13 +0000 http://davefromalbury.wordpress.com/?p=795#comment-2726 I'm hoping that Albury mayor Patricia Gould is arrested for spying whilst on her important mission to China. Now that would make good 'local' news. I’m hoping that Albury mayor Patricia Gould is arrested for spying whilst on her important mission to China.
Now that would make good ‘local’ news.

]]> By: Ray Dixon http://blog.dfg77.net/2009/07/10/local-is-all-relative/#comment-2722 Ray Dixon Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:04:24 +0000 http://davefromalbury.wordpress.com/?p=795#comment-2722 Prime TV Wodonga even reported how "our Andrew McDonald" <i>didn't</i> get selected in the First Test side. Prime TV Wodonga even reported how “our Andrew McDonald” didn’t get selected in the First Test side.

]]> By: jr http://blog.dfg77.net/2009/07/10/local-is-all-relative/#comment-2721 jr Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:50:34 +0000 http://davefromalbury.wordpress.com/?p=795#comment-2721 Then there's our Timmeh in Rome. Sometimes the reports on his sojourn are so painstakingly accurate, I swear I can hear the trough snorting in the background. Then there’s our Timmeh in Rome. Sometimes the reports on his sojourn are so painstakingly accurate, I swear I can hear the trough snorting in the background.

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