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Post by vampiroporvida on Sept 21, 2021 9:48:32 GMT -5
What's up all. Are the local news anchors, weathermen, etc., still celebs in your town? Are local newscasts still important to your city?
I live in a fairly small town in Texas, and can say here, they for sure are. You rarely see the anchors out and about, and they can be a bit standoffish, oddly, but our weatherman is the coolest. Even people that show up on the news are like pseudo-celebs down here.
Thought this might be fun to talk about with yall. Much respect.
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Post by slappy on Sept 21, 2021 9:59:23 GMT -5
I don't know if they are celebrities but I'm sure they have people going up to them when they are out.
If anyone is a local celebrity it's the ambulance chaser that has his ads everywhere and sponsors the Bucks and WWE when they come to Milwaukee.
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Post by CM Poor on Sept 21, 2021 10:02:06 GMT -5
We had a weather guy growing up that was kind of a local celebrity because he had a bit of a silly voice and would play it up for comedic effect. He's the type of guy that would be signing 8x10s at local fairs and might grand marshall a small town parade. My senior class got him to make a funny forecast for our senior video and make jokes about how you'll want to bring a coat because it'll be cold in the A wing. He's kinda shuffled off to doing like...really poorly produced webcasts for the weather now for some nothing news network, and last I heard, he worked in the men's department at Macy's.
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Post by Valbroski on Sept 21, 2021 15:50:10 GMT -5
We had a weather guy growing up that was kind of a local celebrity because he had a bit of a silly voice and would play it up for comedic effect. He's the type of guy that would be signing 8x10s at local fairs and might grand marshall a small town parade. My senior class got him to make a funny forecast for our senior video and make jokes about how you'll want to bring a coat because it'll be cold in the A wing. He's kinda shuffled off to doing like...really poorly produced webcasts for the weather now for some nothing news network, and last I heard, he worked in the men's department at Macy's. This story got sadder with each sentence  |
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Post by JC Motors on Sept 21, 2021 18:12:41 GMT -5
I mean some of them have verified Twitter accounts
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Post by bababooey on Sept 22, 2021 9:36:47 GMT -5
Not in my town exactly, but there’s plenty celebrities that live or have lived within 30 minutes of me.
A while back, my brother and I went to the movies to see Civil War. As we were walking out of the theater, Sam Roberts and his wife were walking in.
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Post by jason1980s on Sept 22, 2021 11:31:27 GMT -5
There's one who lives in our town who is pretty popular at local events. You normally see him at gas stations or restaurants and people will go up to him and shake is hand. He's pretty personable so he's inviting to fans.
I've only ever seen a few in passing at events where they were working. I don't even know most of their names but know some faces. I remember my grandfather running down to catch one of the reporters at an event and the family members were all laughing at how ridiculous he was doing it. He told the guy a negative personal story about one of the anchor people on the show.
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Post by Mongo Bears on Sept 22, 2021 15:56:30 GMT -5
Al Kaprielian is famous to me
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Post by sonstuds on Sept 22, 2021 16:03:13 GMT -5
One of the meteorologists on Global News in Ontario used to be one of the Midnight Society kids on "Are You Afraid of the Dark?".
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Post by JC Motors on Sept 22, 2021 16:27:38 GMT -5
We have a local Weatherman who is on in the mornings on our ABC affiliate. He used to be a science teacher. He likes to act all goofy when he's on the air. He puts photoshopped pictures on the screen and likes to draw stuff too. Every year he rides his bike for charity for a care home for people with intellectual disabilities. Don't believe me that he's wacky? Just read his bio on the WNEP's website, you'll get the gist of the kind of person he is www.wnep.com/article/about-us/team-bios/joe-snedeker/523-cb2a993b-b9a9-47f9-bcb4-d58ff16536e1 |
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Post by vampiroporvida on Sept 22, 2021 16:52:13 GMT -5
We have a local Weatherman who is on in the mornings on our ABC affiliate. He used to be a science teacher. He likes to act all goofy when he's on the air. He puts photoshopped pictures on the screen and likes to draw stuff too. Every year he rides his bike for charity for a care home for people with intellectual disabilities. Don't believe me that he's wacky? Just read his bio on the WNEP's website, you'll get the gist of the kind of person he is www.wnep.com/article/about-us/team-bios/joe-snedeker/523-cb2a993b-b9a9-47f9-bcb4-d58ff16536e1That dude is awesome! Reminds me of an old sports anchor we had that was fun too. He didn't last long, sadly. |
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Post by LK3 on Sept 22, 2021 18:16:30 GMT -5
I don't know what happened to our local weatherman, but when I was a kid I once went to his kid's birthday party. The neighbors knew him, but I'm not sure how I ended up going.
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Post by The Brain on Sept 22, 2021 19:13:14 GMT -5
Former WWF personality Joe Fowler was a weatherman for NBC here in Philly back in the day  |
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Post by rKoNomad316 on Sept 24, 2021 22:54:12 GMT -5
For those that agree that YT vlog people are celebs, then local news people are celebs too.
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I dont know good luck 
