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SD Watch gets the scoop on the biggest SD media story of 2007: Shawn Cable is evidently doing the weather for KAAL-TV in Austin, MN. (Check out the video -- he still looks sharp... though that hair is getting a little Madville-Times bushy!) Alas! Another energetic, talented SDSU grad, lost to the People's Republic of Minnesota.
Good grief, Shawn! Didn't anyone tell you Minnesota has an income tax?! Surely you wouldn't have moved if you had known that!
Update -- 2007.12.27: Sorry to disappoint, kids, but Cable's gig at KAAL-TV appears to have been just a brief fill-in job. The haircut should have given that away. The video link above takes you to the current weather dudes, the newest of whom is Iowa State grad Chris Kuball. Cable... Kuball... still sounds like something eerie is going on!
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Is it a dastardly plot to lure away South Dakota talent? Witness protection gone amok (or 'amuck,' if you prefer)? Or a simple case of misplacing something - or someone? If you check the "News Teams" link on KAAL there is no mention of Shawn Cable anywhere, but there IS a Fred Hexom listed as a meterologist! Hmmm. I suspect a local connection (after all, even Madison's mayor must admit that 'Hexom' isn't all that common a name) and cite yet another 'coincidence:' "Fred Hexom" was recently married. Sound familiar? I sadly admit, however, that the paperwork required to permit entrance of a federally protected 'witness' into the Peoples' Republic of Minnesota would doubtless be so daunting that it lessens the likelihood of my 'witness protection' thesis. So where does that leave us? Alas, with the same burning question: Where in the world is Shawn Cable? (Perhaps a publicity stunt for a new television series for PBS, or even a new children's book? Shawn in a red and white striped shirt? Hmmm indeed!)
ReplyDeleteIsn't Shawn FROM Minnesota? I thought he talked about that when he was on KELO.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing.. aren't some of their names on TV made up? I used to work out with one of the news people on KELO and her name wasn't even close to what her husband called her (and no, it wasn't her pet name).
Yes, Cable is a Minnesota native. He grew up in Morgan and DJ'ed in New Ulm before coming to SDSU. As a Minnesotan, socialism must have been in his blood. ;-) But it was nice while we had him!
ReplyDeletePseudonym? Shawn used the same name when we knew him at SDSU.
O.K. I am willing to grudgingly acknowledge that coralhei has found Shawn Cable at KAAL - if you believe the picture at the masthead of their site and the video cited in his blog. (I love to use 'site' and 'cite' in the same sentence!) And of course all of the great ones seem to create under a pseudonym; to avoid the obviouos literary examples, do you remember Marion Michael (originally Robert, I believe) Morrison? But unless there have been some serious surgical shenannigans the pictures of the two meteorologists in the "News Teams" link certainly don't resemble our wayward weatherman. Perhaps we should call upon KAAL to update their link, include Shawn in the list, and thus lay the matter to rest - at least for the moment. Surely there will be more to come; isn't there always!
ReplyDeleteApologies are in order. In the excitement of the moment (I'm new at blogging) I erred at least twice in my last post. First, I made an obviouos typing error; I do know how to spell "obvious" in spite of my bad keyboarding skills. But more grievously, I split an infinitive, and right off the bat, too. I have done penance by going to my room and reading at length the section on the same in Fowler's "Modern English Usage" (1983 Edition - "Modern?"), thus assuaging my guilty conscience. But I will quote Fowler: "The English-speaking world may be divided into (1) those who neither know nor care what a split infinitive is; (2) those who do not know, but care very much; (3) those who know and condemn; (4) those who know and approve; and (5) those who know and distinguish." Thank goodness for the ancient Romans and their insistence on making the infinitive construction one word, not two, and thus adding one more grammatical rule over which I can trip! (And you don't know how close I came to ending that sentence with, "...which I can trip over.")
ReplyDeleteOh, yes: coralhei, could you install a spell checker for me in the near future? I fear that I am wearing out my ancient Webster's New World (Second College Edition) before its time.
That's cool that he uses his real name. Kudos to him. I don't know the guy, but missed him when he left Kelo. That morning of his last news cast I thought something didn't look right. He just wasn't his usual self. He made watching the news fun because you never knew what crazy thing he was going to say. We miss you Shawn and wish you would come back to the viewing area! ! !
ReplyDeleteI agree Shawn did add some personality to the weather.
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell happened to Shawn anyway?? Why did he leave KELO??
ReplyDeleteAnon -- see this post.
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