After all, fame is mighty busy these days, what with catapulting folks from viral video to mainstream stardom. That’s the planned trajectory for Sweet Brown — you know, the Oklahoma City resident whose “Lord Jesus, it’s a fire!” interview on KFOR Channel 4 became a YouTube phenomenon. Well, in December, she’ll make a cameo in […]
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For sale: KFOR
KFOR and its sister station, KAUT Channel 43, are among 21 stations up on the block by Oak Hill Capital Partners, the parent company of Local TV LLC. “I can’t say anything about it. All I can tell you is we’re for sale,” said Joe Kozlowski, KFOR’s creative services director. A spokesman for Local TV, […]
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One Sweet sell-out
Guess whose 15 minutes aren’t quite up yet? Oklahoma City’s Sweet Brown, whose apartment-fire interview with KFOR Channel 4 made her an Internet superstar overnight. Not just anyone can parlay a life-threatening incident into an appearance on Comedy Central’s hit Tosh.0. Chicken-Fried News wasn’t bowled over by Brown’s spokesperson ad last year selling homes, but […]
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So long, Mary Ann
Credit: Brad Gregg After KWTV Channel 9’s recent grab of ex-KFORsters Jim Gardner, David Payne and Bobbie Miller, CFN is just amazed that occasionally people leave 4 without being seduced by the bewitching eyes of Channel 9 anchor Kelly Ogle.
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Super sizing
Credit: Brad Gregg KWTV Channel 9’s Gary England and KFOR-TV Channel 4’s Mike Morgan batted around the usual, tiresome comparisons: quarter-sized, golf ball-sized, baseball-sized, softball-sized. Yawn. Morgan briefly livened things by suggesting some of the hail was grapefruit-sized, but we took a look outside and think he got his grapefruits and clementines confused. But then […]
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Fame, Sweet fame
Sweet Brown Mark Hancock Sweet Brown falls into the latter category. After giving a very animated interview with KFOR-TV Channel 4 about a fire at her apartment building in early April, the Oklahoma City woman soon became a viral Internet phenomenon. The video of her interview currently sits at more than 3.5 million views on […]
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What’s a few thousand between friends?
The news station reported that the company’s accountant read through the DHS handbook and found the part where a business that makes an overpayment should contact the agency and ask for a refund. When KFOR reporter asked Jeff Wagner of Child Support Services about the kerfuffle, Wagner said, “It’s really unfortunate that the employer submitted […]
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Punch drunk
Look, Chicken-Fried News realizes that bachelor parties can get pretty wild, but unless you’re starring in a sorta needless sequel, there’s no need for the night to end in jail. We’re guessing one 22-year-old guy might agree with us. So here’s what happened. A couple of weekends ago, a group was out for a bachelor […]