For starters, KCBS/2 morning traffic "reporter" Vera Jimenez got into a little trouble last week after her ad-lib about Dick Cheney didn't go the way she probably planned:
When talking about members in Washington getting flu vaccine and Cheney was one of those, Jimenez stated that Cheney had "one foot in the grave" as it was.
Oops. According to a Fineman tipster, word of Jimenez's gaffe made it all the way to Washington... and she was asked to apologize (which she did) the next day.
Meanwhile, that same day, KCBS had to contend with another on-air embarrassing moment, another Fineman tipster reports:
The 11am KCBS news producer placed that story right before weather, and the anchors and weather anchor Henry DiCarlo had some discussion about it. That's why stories that can generate conversation, usually light or "fun" conversation, come right before weather. Well, as DiCarlo crossed from the anchor desk to the weather
wall and came into frame, he pretended to stumble and fall just like Castro had just done! It was very funny! Everyone laughed loudly and had lots of fun with it. Then when DiCarlo returned to the anchor desk, I'm told news anchor Suzanne Rico held a card above her head in Olympic-judging fashion, scoring DiCarlo's Castro-esque fall a "perfect 10"!
Apparently, at least according to the website, that didn't go over well with station brass.
One last tidbit: Fineman confirms that, believe it or not, KABC/7 weathermen Johnny Mountain and Dallas Raines aren't making their names up. Those are their real, birth-given monikers. No lie.
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