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So much traffic, so little talent

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OK, all of this talk about Alexa and her child destined for Citlopram or Selexa, got me thinking about our local traffic talent and begs the question... huh?

At one point, it was FOX with Chip and his "Chopper Dave" persona, NBC with Donbeck and her... well, sporty blazers, ABC with TXCN castaway, Alexa and CBS with the seemingly always prego Rebecca Flores. Then, NBC had to get jiggy with it. They have this contest and hire a fiery redhead vixen to discuss the intractableness of LBJ (and so Tammy could go out and do whatever it is she does "on the side"). Then, poof, Red (Teresa Frosini, all) is gone and is now over at CBS. Mommy Flores disappears like a fart in the wind and now, she is the fill-in for another mommy, Ms. Sweet, Clean Conomos.

I realize Metro Traffic always has positions available, but have these people ever heard of "another market"? Just a fleeting thought. ;)

P.S. Speaking of the talent at KTVT, um... Kaushel Patel. Grooming Issues? You discuss.
 
Ms.Patel seems to use a lot of Dramatization in reporting. Her eyes have got to be the biggest I have seen on a person. Man they are large.
 
When you've got such specific knowledge about one market, your best bet is to stick with it...consider the daunting task of having to completely learn a whole new city, all the highways and surface streets, all the alternate routes, and then sound completely confident on the air about it. (I know, I know...there's still one or two that may not have DFW down as well as they should, but play along with me for a moment!) Sure, I'm biased about traffic people and jobs and what's involved, but it's really not a job that you can just drop some random eye candy into. I know some do have producers who build the maps for them and pull the traffic info from the computer, but you've still got to ad-lib and sound credible, or you'll get tuned out. It's not the same as a news anchor changing markets, but it would be a similar situation with a weather anchor. I know traffic's not the end-all to everyone's existence, but it IS heavily depended on in such a busy region like ours.

For me, just to underscore the point...I spent 9 years as a courier in DFW, clocking roughly 500,000 miles over every last North TX highway and street...and lived here all my life too...so there's not much you can throw past me!! Point is, I'd have no clue whatsoever about the job if I had to migrate elsewhere.
 
Todd Carruth said:
At least nobody mentioned my dancing. ;)
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Todd, I must say, you do have good moves! My wife always says "Why can't you dance like him?" So please stop it!!! ;)
 
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