![]() "When you tend to violate the rules like I do from time to time, I mean you get caught." "Cell phone cameras," he told Delkus and news anchors John McCaa and Gloria Campos. Hansen apparently still wants his pound of flesh anyway. ![]() He reportedly was fined, but Garrett told reporters Monday that such matters will be kept in-house. Instead the Monday night gambit was tied to Hansen's ragging on interim Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett, whose new rules require players and coaches to wear coats and ties on flights to and from games.īut for the victorious trip home from New York, running back and co-team captain Marion Barber wore a shirt that was not tucked in, no tie, jeans and sneakers with no socks. "Now she's legal, and I don't have to lie to the bartenders anymore."īut no, an unfortunate joke about under-age drinking didn't get him in any trouble - at least on the WFAA8 homefront. Hansen joked that she had just turned 21. It should be noted that Hansen's latest foot-in-mouth ad lib came Friday night, after Delkus reminded him that it was wife Chris Hansen's birthday. A total of seven weeknights now remain in the November sweeps.ĭelkus returned to the Hansen festivities after Monday night's weathercast, priming the pump by saying, "This guy right over here, after all of these years of just totally looking the other way at anything that management says - it's finally caught up with you, hasn't it?" The two stations remain locked in another airtight race for late night news ratings supremacy after CBS11 narrowly won the May ratings "sweeps" in both measurements for the first time in its history. newscast just happened to handily beat arch rival CBS11 in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. Whatever the impact, WFAA8's "suspension"-fused 10 p.m. ![]() The reference, to WFAA8's ever voluble and opinionated sports anchor, Dale Hansen, might well have puzzled a good number of the 491,725 D-FW viewers that Nielsen Media Research says were watching ABC's most popular program. "The answer tonight, at 10." The same tease popped up later during respites from the night's other ABC programming. "Did Hansen finally get suspended?" he asked with a completely serious face. Photos: Ed Barkįor starters Monday night, WFAA8's Pete Delkus leaned into the camera for one of his prime-time weather teases, but then threw a curveball during a break from ABC's Dancing with the Stars. ![]() Making news on WFAA8 Monday night: Sports anchor Dale Hansen's "violation" of the station's dress code, for which he received a fake suspension during the course of the newscast. ![]()
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