From The Associated Press:

Ernie Anastos of Fox affiliate WNYW was bantering with the weatherman Wednesday night when he cheerfully dropped an F-bomb on the air. What he likely intended to say was, “Keep plucking that chicken.”

Anastos didn’t appear to recognize the error, though co-anchor Dari Alexander’s eyes bugged out after he said it.

Just before the flub, Anastos told weatherman Nick Gregory, “It takes a tough man to make a tender forecast,” a play on an old chicken commercial.

Fox isn’t laughing, though. The vice president and general manager of WNYW, Lew Leone, said he’s “disappointed” in�

This:

They just don’t make TV-news image campaigns like this one for KMOV anymore.

This video from the ’80s has been making the rounds online lately, but we saw it first on one of our new favorite local blogs, Punching Kitty.

As a kid, the local TV news folks were like family members to those of us who grew up in a town with only one local TV station.

So when we heard that anchorman Mike Shain was retiring after 36 years on the air at KFVS-TV in Cape Girardeau, we were saddened a bit. For the (doing math in our head) 25 years that we lived in Southeast Missouri, Mike was a consistent presence in our living room every evening.

The Southeast Missourian newspaper put together this piece of video from a longer interview.

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High heels aren’t for everyone.

I had never seen this video before, but it was just the topic of discussion in the Features department.

Who is directing this newscast? Can we get a commercial, please? PLEASE?