Brad McConahay

Why did they start making my favorite cereal into “movie shapes”?

It’s not like you can tell what the shapes are supposed to be. And instead of being round, they’re now just seemingly random jagged shapes. This only increases the chance that the already-pointy cereal will tear up the roof of your mouth, and possibly your gums.

Look, just put it in a plain white box that says “crunchberries”, make all the pieces one shape, and charge me a buck fitty.

Yes, I took a picture of crunchberries. And I’m not ashamed.

The local cable weather radar channel (ch. 22) started out as a non-commercial continuous feed of the old-school density-based radar from the Airport, and NOAA weather radio audio. You could turn to channel 22 at any time and have instant radar and current weather audio. Then, about 10 years ago, WCPO Channel 9 took it over.

At first, this seemed like a good idea. Doppler radar and professional news voices. The sad reality now is that 60% of the time you look, it’s a commercial. And another 20% of the time, it’s weather graphics and information besides radar, or a “weather update” that’s often many hours stale. The same is true of the audio loop.

Honestly, as bad as the old airport radar was, I’d rather have it available 24/7. Since you can get local radar on the Weather Channel on the 8’s (and everything else besides), channel 22 has become almost useless. The low point was a recent Sunday when clouds were threatening, and cable channel 22 was running an infomercial. Dicks.

This isn’t the first thing WCPO has ruined by getting their hands on it.