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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 7:46pm CDT by Ted Brockman
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Well, it appears that Channel 7 just couldn't resist giving outgoing anchor /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Julie Cornel/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"l/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;" the PP treatment./spandivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br //span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Longtime Omaha news sufferers are likely to have flashbacks to the nightmare that was WOWT's days-long /spana href="http://omanews.blogspot.com/2005/05/our-long-local-nightmare-is-over.html"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"goodbye to anchor /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Pat Persaud/span/span/aspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;" in 2005. /span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br //span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"The primary difference between Cornell's exit and Queen Pat's is that WOWT shamelessly milked Persaud's swan-song, running promos around the clock and orchestrating the entire spectacle to coincide with the end of the May ratings period. By contrast, KETV's promotion has been minimal—so far—and the middle-of-the-cast "highlights" of Julie's career have been more low-key and substantive than anything aired back in '05./span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br //span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"While we could do without the whole thing, Channel 7 is at least exercising /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"some/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;" restraint./span/div