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Roy Hobbs
Nov 23rd 2008, 05:05 PM
I'm trying to remember the name of a really great assistant ND at WCCO-TV I interviewed with back in 1985 or so.

Somehow initials with K come to mind. He was a real newsman's newsman. This was about the time Beth Pearlman had returned to WCCO as a producer after a stint at the CBS Washington bureau.

Anybody remember who I'm talking about, and where he might be today?
Clever Login Name
Nov 23rd 2008, 06:13 PM
Ted Canova?
s'news
Nov 23rd 2008, 06:17 PM
Shon'Tashia Iggenbotham?
Head Janitor
Nov 24th 2008, 06:17 PM
Amanda Huggenkist?
TAFKA wacowx
Nov 25th 2008, 04:28 AM
Hal Jalykakik?
wx or not
Nov 25th 2008, 05:19 AM
Somehow initials with K come to mind. He was a real newsman's newsman.
Kat Mandu?
s'news
Nov 25th 2008, 08:10 AM
I.P. Freely.

(Just bumping it again for you, Roy.)
wx or not
Nov 25th 2008, 09:39 AM
Hugh G. Recshun
filter5
Nov 26th 2008, 02:28 PM
barry mckockner
Roy Hobbs
Nov 26th 2008, 02:58 PM
MediaLine...Newsman's choice for indepth TeeVee News trivia for over ten years...unfortunately the years were 1996-2006
Roy Hobbs
Nov 26th 2008, 03:07 PM
Well I know it wasn't this guy from Letterman:

http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2008-05/dick-assman.jpg
s'news
Nov 26th 2008, 07:52 PM
Pat Mcgroin.

(Again offered only as a friendly bump.)
Chartsengrafs
Nov 27th 2008, 03:26 AM
Stu Pidasso fer shure.
wx or not
Nov 27th 2008, 06:38 AM
Somehow initials with K come to mind.
Hun Klykahorss
Roy Hobbs
Nov 28th 2008, 11:41 AM
Dave Nimmer!

Nimmer retired after 15 years at WCCO and twenty as the managing editor of the Minneapolis Star, then taught at the University of St. Thomas J-school for ten.
http://www.nodinpress.com/images/dave-nimmer-web.jpghttp://www.district196.org/evhs/academics/flash/nim.jpg

Thanks Nim for teaching me the "rule of threes" and a shout-out to Don Shelby for getting me the info. Classy gentlemen all in a classy shop. Sorry there was never room at the inn there.
Gil
Nov 28th 2008, 03:59 PM
Dave is, indeed, a class guy.

Many years ago, I had a print guy apply for a reporting job with me at WEAU-TV in Eau Claire. He was an excellent reporter, and his only misgiving was making the transition and whether he would succeed. I had him call Dave Nimmer and the result was a great employee who is still reporting and anchoring his own syndicated show.

I never aspired to the big market (in fact, turned down a couple of opportunities), but if I had taken a larger market job somewhere, WCCO would have been at the top of my list in the 1970s and 1980s.
wx or not
Nov 28th 2008, 08:43 PM
Dave Nimmer!

Somehow initials with K come to mind. He was a real newsman's newsman.

I guess the K was silent in Knimmer.:shifty:
s'news
Nov 29th 2008, 08:17 PM
Rule of threes?
Roy Hobbs
Nov 30th 2008, 12:04 PM
Rule of threes?

Dave taught that writing is more powerful when you cluster things in threes.

For example, Mighty Dyckerson is a pervert, ahumorous and an embarrassment.
s'news
Nov 30th 2008, 01:25 PM
Ah. Okay. All is revealed.

I was thinking of the Rule of Thirds in photojournalism.

http://photodoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/rule_of_thirds.jpg
Roy Hobbs
Nov 30th 2008, 03:32 PM
Rule of Turds?
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