News Hottie of the Whatever: Betty Nguyen
Posted on November 25, 2009
Bringing it back! Betty Nguyen is a news anchor on CNN Saturday Morning, CNN Sunday Morning, and is a regular correspondent and contributor for many of CNN’s other programs. She was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1974, leaving for the USA seven months later. She grew up in Fort Worth Texas and attended the University of Texas in Austin. She intended to become an attorney but instead graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism. Before joining CNN in 2004 she anchored at KTVT, a CBS affiliate in Dallas. In 2003 she won a regional Emmy award and was named a Great Women of Texas Honoree. She also portrayed a newscaster on Walker, Texas Ranger. In 2007 the Smithsonian Institute recognized Nguyen as the first Vietnamese-American to anchor a national news broadcast in the USA, and 2007 she was named one of “TV’s 10 Hottest News Anchors by Maxim” magazine. She also once met friend of jwiltshire.org meatypuffs, something even I haven’t done.
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NBC Are Jackasses, Pt. II
Posted on September 25, 2007Everybody and their blog has known about how NBC are dumbasses since they cancelled their deal with iTunes. Now anybody who used to buy their episodes of Heroes or The Office the honest way are now going to have to find a different way to acquire the latest episode of their favorite NBC programming. Usually within an hour of the show’s airing. And in high definition too. Lovin’ it. The shows were already made and paid for with advertising; sales through iTunes were basically free money for NBC.
But there’s one aspect I had not yet thought of about the falling out, not until watching the premiere of a new show called Journeyman last night. (Pretty meh show, but that’s besides the point. All I’m saying is I won’t be tuning in next week.) When NBC first signed on with iTunes, there was an episode of The Office centered all around a new iPod that was much desired by everyone in the office. Just the beginning of loads of Apple product placement in NBC’s shows. Most, if not all, of NBC’s shows for the season have already been filmed and are at least some of the way through the editing and post production process. During Journeyman, some guy travels back to 1987, and promptly notices that his phone doesn’t have service. There is about three seconds of a close up of an iPhone’s screen, literally filling the frame. About 15 minutes later in the episode, there’s another close up, lasting nearly six seconds this time. I imagine there’s going to be lots more product placement across NBC’s programming this year, a bittersweet reminder of what once was. 
I was checking TV Guide’s online listings for what time the Heroes premiere began. It started right after a new show called Chuck. Sometimes doing keyword advertising isn’t the greatest. There seems to be a bit of a disconnect in this picture:
jWiltshire.org will be going the Kubrick theme until further notice, because I didn’t like how k2 was playing with the new Wordpress. I’ll whomp up something new soon.
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