KSTP, Channel 5, ready to launch 'Twin Cities Live'

KSTP will not survive!!

Nor will many of the other networks. They are being replaced due to their irrelevance.

Didn't KSTP try this before? Wasn't it called "Good Company?"

Long live Gary Lumpkin

"Hey gang" as Steve Cannon used to say,"It's a rat race the rats are winning." He started on at KSTP-TV and their AM radio station before he went to WCCO-AM.

BTW, WCCO-AM should bring back Maynard Speece and Roger Erickson in the Good Morning Show.

Hopefully this show is better than some of the crap KARE has on...like the Showcase Minnesota show where advertisers pay to be on.
And the boring Pat & Di show at 4pm is lame too...

KARE has still not found a solid fit to mix the internet and their newscast. I give them credit for trying but, when you watch that show you can see it does not have a budget to make the show shine.

You have to be a slug to really sit and watch TV anyway. I rarely watch it. I usually am working on something and hear it. Have no time to watch it. Too distracting. My work requires great precision. TV audio takes the edge off my resarch. TV Snooze/Schmooze is all headlines & commercials anyway. No depth.

You want real news? Read WSJ. But put it back on our neighbor's step when you are through reading it.

This is just what the Twin Cities ordered! With all of the bad things happening around us; 911, I-35W, War, and the Presidential race that has/is taking place, this will be a show that highlights the positive things in MINNESOTA. If you don't have time to watch, dont. But for those who choose to see the finer things in life - WATCH!
KSTP - 5 Eyewitness News is the best channel. If anyone can do it, they can.
In 5,4,3,2,1 - Twin Cities Live
Minneapolis, MN

YES!!!! Finally some good TV viewing. Can't wait for the debut! Keep it up KSTP.
Burnsville

Maybe KSTP could have Joe Soucheray host it. He already works for them and he IS a journalist. Hard-hitting news, commentary, and all the "community" things that "Good Company" used to do. Of course, they'd have to screen the studio audience a little better. Don't want folks who aren't "our" kind of folks there.

This show will be great and so far is. Much better than anything it is up against. This show is not meant to be the bible to life merely entertainment and point out interesting things MN has to offer. I would say we have a great state with lots going on...who wouldn't?

Smart wrote:

Hopefully this show is better than some of the crap KARE has on...like the Showcase Minnesota show where advertisers pay to be on.
And the boring Pat & Di show at 4pm is lame too...

Yet, here KSTP is copuying the idea. They must see something in the mix worth trying. Oh, I bet I know -- locally produced programming is cheaper than paying for some lame syndicated programming -- and stations get to keep all the ad revenue.

The Pat and Di show is an attempt to merge a techie Internet audience with a TV audience. They're trying something that hasn't been tried much -- innovating.

KSTP is doing what it does best, trying to use a tired formula with a couple of new bells and whistles. Being they are KSTP, I suspect they'll cancel it inside of two years -- and change the anchors at least once in the interim.

I really like the show. You always come up with the coolish items to re-do the home on a little income. And now day's i think everyone is working with a very little income. Becauce of the gas prices and the cost of food. At this time i would like to get a new look but i just don't have the income todo that.

It's a snoozfest! They should have hired the newly fired people from WCCO to host.

Thank you I love that your doing a spin-off from Good Company. I always felt that it was a good show. Thanks again Cindy

Hope this show does well, the bar was set pretty high by Good Company.

Blair wrote:

Didn't KSTP try this before? Wasn't it called "Good Company?"
Long live Gary Lumpkin

Bring back the Lump!

hi my name is ricky zatarain. i go to burnsville high school in minnesota. i made up a rap about life and about barack obama and i wanna get it heard on the radio.i made it to the my life beat by lil wayne and the game.i kept the hook and used the beat.and i performed it at my school's international baquent so i have it on tape.it goes like this:

welcome to america the land of the "free"
where you do what you do live life and just "be"
the place where your judge and "discriminated"
in some place's say the wrong thing and be "eliminated"
the place where people judge you because the color of your "skin"
point fingers and laugh at you cuz what you "believe in"
see these are things that happen on a "daily basis"
i believe in a lot but not being "racist"
we are created equal but grow up to be "unique"
listen to my message to and to the words that i "speak"
this is who i am and i cannot "fake it"
i dont look back on history because i "make it"
its time for a change no more "complications"
im here to inspire to be an "inspiration"
if you feel the same then speak up and be "heard"
because i cant listen if you dont say a "word"

see life is crazy no matter what goes "on"
one minute you can be there then the next you are "gone"
there are choices in life that we cannot "make"
ones where you get caught in the moment and do not "take"
its our countries finest moment and it feels "great"
let me tell you why,"Obama 08"
change will occur its what we "expect"
and who ever you voted for i salute you with the up most "respect"
i make my voice known i do it through my "music"
you can speak up to you have a voice go on and "use it"
change is here its reality not a "dream"
we stand behind Obama were an unbeatable "team"
when its all said and done and it comes down to the "wire"
for president Obama is "hired"
yes we can is something he once "said"
im changing yes we can to oh "yes we did"

thats a weazle of a song

This is "The Lump"...thanks for remembering the show. I'm still in the Twin Cities and most of the bruises are gone from the goofy stories they "made" me do...