Welcome To The New KWHY News Team!

[Blinkin]

In fond memory of all of the great sit-coms and off-the-wall news shows/movies like WKRP in Cincinnati, Spin City, Murphy Brown, Mary Tyler Moore and many more (no pun intended) to mention classics, I give you...

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The region's most watched news program with an entirely news team is back on the air with (Insert Character name) in Weather! (Insert character name), sports, (Insert character name),  covering Traffic, and Anchors (Insert character's names)!





Located in lovely downtown Duluth, MN (Yes, Duluth has a downtown), Channel 7's KWHY news is proud to bring you all of the latest news and events taking place throughout the region. With it's award winning news team (well, they used to be.) devoted to keeping you informed,  and up-to-date with all the News, events andstories happening throughout the region; including sports results, politics, legal, weather (at both the top and bottom of the hill), and up-to-the-minute hockey casualty list throughout the state, It's the most watched news channel in town!

Last month, Media mogul Bob Stevens purchased the struggling KWHY station and set about upgrading, modernizing and trimming the network down to make it profitable once again; in the process, the contracts of the afore mentioned award winning news department were coming up for renegociation. Just as in the real world, jus like what would never happen,  Mr. Stevens cut the proposed salary by 20% and refused to negociate on any of their request for better pay, better hours, safer working conditions... not even cosmetics in the dresing room (There use to be
2  dressing rooms, now just 1 with a Personal "exercise" center for Mr. Stevens)! the entire news department walked off the set on mass. With the station’s biggest producers gone, something had to be done… fast!

With only the News Crew’s assistant Director remaining, now the head of the News Departmen, it was left to Ms. Marja JoHannsen (MC)  to clean up the mes. Under orders to get a news crew together today[/i[, at any cost, It would be a sleepless night for everyone involved.

A casting call was immediately issued with the announcement that KWHY News was looking for local talent to fill the vacant positions. Not only Ms. Johannsen's lovely butt was on the line, but Mr. Bobb's reputation was as well.

but what can you really expect on short notice and the lowest salaries in the industry?well, it’s probably not going to be the cream of the crop! Enter the characters!





What I'm looking for is a group of quirky, off-beat, even odd-ball characters to fill the ranks of the News department; run by my character, Ms. Marja Johansen (Rumors have it that Marja slept with Bobb's to keep her job), To fill the ranks of the station news department, have some fun between the latest news reports and to enjoy the hyjinks behind the camera. Positions that may be available may be, but not limited to:

Head Anchor
Co-Anchor
Chief Meteorologist
Sports
Traffic (Someone has to report on the lifting and lowering of theGolden draw-bridge!
legal
Roaming Reporter(s)
Support Cast such as camera persons, sound techs, and make-up and so on.

What I have in mind are a cast of somewhat quirky characters who may look at this as their big chance to get into TV, move out of print or radio and into the big leagues, people who for one reason or another, just haven't gotten that break, not really suited for Television news, or just a bit too far out there for the normally hot jobs; characters who will be fun to play and not too proud to do a little tongue in cheek from time to time.

Some examples of what I mean may be…

*An Anchor with stage fright, tourette'ss, nervousness, etc.
*A weather-person obsessed with the weather in Florida who's forecast rarely includes Duluth(Well, folks, it's going to be a balmy 85 degrees today in Tampa, but it’s a chilly, wet and miserable -10 here in the great white tundra!”
*A sports reporter like Oscar in The Odd Couple.
* A camera man who keeps loosing focus on the roaming reporter and follows cute women passing by or the reporter’s boobs.
* A co-anchor who’s sole concern is getting into the panties of every woman he sees so he can try them on.
*A roaming reporter who's a dedicated nudist.
*A goth makeup artist who sends everyone out on the set looking like the living dead because it fits her mood for the day.
*A rabid lesbian feminist who can't help but blame "a man" for all the bad news in the world.
* A Former televangelist who is still stuck in the days of stomping about and preaching instead of telling the news.
*A nerd sports reporter... 'nuff said...
*A man or woman with serious gas issues when suffering a panic attack, or has drunk wayyyyyy to much caffine)
* A biker bitch with road rage delivering the latest traffic report.

In short, characters who are a little quirky, a bit kookie, a little unorthodox, An odd-ball and a lot of fun to play. If there is enough interest, I’ll turn this into a recruitment thread. Any questions are happily accepted and answered.

Again, I'm looking for characters who would never of made it into the "big time" who suddenly finds him/herself a second chance; people who aren't exactly  suited for TV;  people who, under normal conditions, would never get hired by the kind of people who work in real media concerns, etc.

On a side note, the characters will have to occasionally make up news reports for the show, but it’s more about what happens behind the cameras and the interaction of the characters. This will be mainly freeform game with some guideance to keep things moving along.

[Foxy DeVille]

I... am so in. Funky timing because a couple weeks ago I watched a couple WKRP eps for the heck of it. And I have a nephew in Duluth!

[Blinkin]

Welcome!

Actually, it while watching one of those shows that the idea came to me. I thought that it could be fun to play with.

As our first interested person, You may have first pi k at the openings, or create one of your own.

[Foxy DeVille]

Well, I had an idea that the station decided to hire a popular attractive weather girl to boost ratings. They didn't realize she was from Mexico, so now they have a Spanish-language forecast... in Minnesota.

[Blinkin]

It's an interesting idea. The only thing I would comment on is her being a popular personage; implying that she's been in the industry and would be hard to not notice, among all those pasty people, that she's Hispanic. A great tan among all of that snow 9 months a year would stand out just a bit.

I could easily see her slip into her native language when she's nervous or excited; something that could certainly happen when the camera little red light goes on.

They will hire pretty much anyone who walks through the door, but pay wise, it would certainly be less than she would make anywhere else in the market.

[Foxy DeVille]

It's an interesting idea. The only thing I would comment on is her being a popular personage; implying that she's been in the industry and would be hard to not notice, among all those pasty people, that she's Hispanic. A great tan among all of that snow 9 months a year would stand out just a bit.

I could easily see her slip into her native language when she's nervous or excited; something that could certainly happen when the camera little red light goes on.

They will hire pretty much anyone who walks through the door, but pay wise, it would certainly be less than she would make anywhere else in the market.

Hmmm... what if she was Mr. Bobb's maid he was having a fling with and to keep her away from his wife he has the station hire her as "chief meteorologist" even though she has limited English and zero experience but hey... she's hot and videos of sexy Mexican weather girls get a lot of clicks on YouTube.

[Kadigan]

I had sort of a "Jen from IT Crowd" idea for a sports person...

"Oh I know about sports..."

Great you're hired.

[Blinkin]

Ok, what makes him/her quirky, kookie or off of the wall? Parden me if I missed the reference, I'm a bit clueless sometimes.

[Kadigan]

Basically the show is a normal computer person (who can use email, fill out spreadsheets, etc) states on her resume/cv that she's "good with computers." Which, being a sitcom, she's immediately made the head of IT.

[Blinkin]

As the News Department already has a head, Ms. Johansen, I could see putting the new hire in control of the techicanal side of things, audio, camera's and so on.

[Yukina]

Possibly a bit too sci-fi, but I'd maybe like to play a camera nerd that uses her drones to get every angle of the report. However, whether it be due to the numerous signals or just a minor thing off with the weather, a lot of the lewder shots keep slipping into the footage. My dorky damsel would rush to correct the drones out of line, but commonly just end up gettin embarrassing shots of herself in the footage instead. :)

[AshJeeves]

Camera Person who interrupts broadcasts with her own opinion, but is just trying to be helpful, considerate, and nice, but has no clue how bad she is messing up.

Basically Patrice from HIMYM

[yobo]

This looks like a lot of fun. Not sure about a character just yet, but I am most definitely intrigued.