If I remember correctly, back when covid first hit, one of the older Ogles came down with it. I thought it was him, I also thought that when he came back on the air he still looks sick and run down, like he never fully recovered from it. Someone with a better memory, please check and see if I am correct. If so, maybe this could be part of why he was shown the door. If you cannot do your job, then you dont have a job.
In Your Corner on Channel 4 is really good at stories and subsequent follow up stories. If it weren't for that I probably wouldn't watch the news.
Just wait until SpaceX makes a mobile version of Starlink terminals, pretty soon all these chasers/independent meteorologists will be able to transmit and receive data in real time and not to have to rely on choppy cell phone coverage when they are not in the city. Do viewers need to watch guys doom out on tv when they have a bunch of other people on the internet doing the same thing.
I was never a fan of Ogle, primarily in my two chance meetings with him in public spaces he was an absolute jerk. He would go out of his way to let you know how annoyed he was that he was recognized.
As for local news, Ch 9 is really the only option. The other stations simply parrot the news line of whatever big media outlet tells them to run. There's not much local journalism anymore.
He just announced, at the end of the 10PM news, that he won't be anchoring the news anymore. He said he's not retiring but nothing about what he will be doing. He said "It's not goodbye, It's 'See you soon'".
I had the similar experiences a few times professionally back in the day. Each time I've been around him he was very pompous.
He "signed off" the desk last night, stating he's not retiring. It sounds to me that he still is under contract, but the company was ready for a change so they're letting him ride out his contract under a different assignment until it expires. Then he'll have a silent goodbye very reminiscent of Gary England.
I saw him once at the state fair. I was almost to the front of the cinnamon roll line of probably 40+ people. Ogle strolled straight to the front of the line and cut everyone to purchase a dozen. He just said he didn't have time to wait. Such an ass. They should have fired him 10 years ago. He can barely make it through a broadcast.
Maybe he will do podcasts with Louis Fowler on The Lost Ogle…..
It always seems odd to me when 'famous' people are rude when recognized in public, given that, well, they are apt to be recognized. I wonder if it shows a truer glimpse of their particular personality. A few weeks back I saw Mike Turpen in public, and recognized him (I didn't speak, just noticed who he was) and he went out of his way to smile and say hello.
Depends on the scenario, of course, but I think people who are jerks and become famous enough to get recognized in public are just recognizable jerks, and same goes for people who are courteous and kind. Mike Turpen has always been very gracious any time I've interacted with him, and I'm nobody. Barry Switzer comes to mind, as well.
I completely agree with Barry Switzer. I've ran into him a couple of times when out having a beer. He's been friendly and seems to love talking to anybody about OU football. One of my favorite subjects. I've also run into Chad Stevens that used to do car commercials a number of times. Every time he was a loud, pompous, obnoxious, a-hole.
I’ve run into Switzer a few times as well and every time he’s been gracious and very fun to talk to.
I had the opportunity to sit down with The King a few years ago, and I brought up some stuff he worked on with my dad (not related to football at all), and he remembered a bunch of stuff. For as many people as he meets and has met, to be able to at least make me feel like he and I connected on something is something I'll never forget. Billy Tubbs was at the same event, and he could not have been any nicer. Just a calm, cool, nice dude, and his son, Tommy, was terrific, as well.
Wow Chad Stevens. I'd forgotten about him (thankfully so). I have family and friends who just adored him on the commercials, but not me. Nothing personal, I just didn't care for him. It's been years and years since he's been on tv, I think, and I haven't missed him at all. But, what is he up to nowadays?
A Mike Turpin story: In the mid 80s, I'm in my mid 20s working a blue collar job where I had my name on my uniform. Going to a lunch appointment, I am riding down the elevator in the Santa Fe Parking Garage with 2 suits (strangers), when on level 3, Mike Turpin (recognize him from TV) and another suit get on. Suits introduce to suits and I'm awkward stranger when, a few seconds later, Turpin glances at my uniform and says "Jeff, how you doing? Mike Turpin".
I have always voted for him since then.
I have a Switzer story. I was in high school in Tulsa in the mid 80s at a football game walking the track between the home and visitor stands. Barry was walking the other way, waving and saying hi to students. He was there on a recruiting visit and seemed quite nice. What stuck with me was that he was wearing a full length mink duster coat.
I've run into him since when I lived in Norman, but I will never forget that coat.
I saw Barry at Tarahumara in Norman one evening and expected him to get the star treatment but he just ordered a drink and waited out on the patio with the rest of us for a table.
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