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Meteorologist John Bolaris

The saga of CBS 3’s Alycia Lane continues. She has been divorced twice, appeared on Dr. Phil, was romantically linked to WCBS anchor Chris Wragge, and of course infamously sent bikini photos to a married man. All of this seemed to make her one of the darlings of the New York Post’s Page Six column of late.

You may have caught Walt Hunter’s report about sleeping Wackenhut security guards at the Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plant in York County on CBS 3 (KYW) on Tuesday. Well that report was based on a three month investigation by Scott Weinberger from CBS 2 (WCBS) in New York, which is the sister station for CBS 3 in New York. The thing is that Hunter’s piece, which used video and interviews conducted by Weinberger, didn’t mention the source of the video and it the station claimed it was an exclusive story. We mentioned the WCBS report earlier this week.

We are dumbfounded as to why the New York Post’s Page Six gossip column has been following the saga of the love life of KYW’s Alycia Lane, but it has provided some odd entertainment since the spring. In case you don’t know, the tabloid broke the story of Lane sending e-mails containing bikini photos of herself to NFL Network anchor Rich Eisen which were intercepted by his wife, ABC Sports reporter Suzy Shuster.

It looks like John Bolaris, most famous for predicting a massive blizzard in 2001 that never happened, may be back in the forecast for WCAU. The recent announcement that WCAU meteorologist Doug Kammerer will be moving to KYW in February means that CBS 3 will be up one forecaster and NBC 10 will be down one. KYW was one of the stations that Bolaris was rumored to have talked to. Given the reports that his contract at WCBS is up at the end of the year, the forecast model shows that Bolaris may be heading south.

CBS 3 did something quite lazy for last night’s sweeps story – borrowing it from what they said was their “New York sister station WCBS.” The story in question, which originally aired on November 20th, was an interview with Golan Cipel, the man who’s accusations of sexual harassment brought down New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey. Our sister-ist Gothamist even noted it the next day, writing, “Monday night at 11 p.m. WCBS finally aired what they have been touting as a world exclusive interview with Golan Cipel.”

Please welcome another new author to our team, G. W. Bridge, whose diverse talents include reviewing pizza places, and covering local news items, as he does below.