A chance encounter. Standing in line at the Honolulu International Airport, waiting to depart to LAX. I turn around and see a face, a familiar face. Same but different. Then it hits me:
It’s none other than former-KITV-news-anchor-turned-pilot Tasha Kobashigawa. Although she wasn’t piloting this United flight, it appeared she was on her way to meet up with another flight. Yes, Tasha Kobashigawa is still flying.
Even though Tasha Kobashigawa is no longer on the air, she’s still a hit on the Net with quite a few searches for her name.
Pulpconnection’s video of her final broadcast comes up as a Google top 10. Under Google Images, my poor man’s vidcap of her final broadcast is the first image listed.
Fun!
Related: New Comments on the Hottest Local Newscasters
Happened to tape part of Tasha Kobashigawa’s final broadcast on KITV.
https://media.dreamhost.com/mp5/jwplayer.js
jwplayer(“v11223”).setup({
‘flashplayer’: ‘https://media.dreamhost.com/mp5/player.swf’,
‘width’: 480,
‘height’: 360,
‘file’: ‘https://www.pulpconnection.net/files/tashafinal_480x360.flv’,
‘image’: ‘https://www.pulpconnection.net/files/tashafinal_480x360.jpeg’
});
She finished in a 5-way tie for 3rd place in the Listmania of Hottest Local Newscasters. With her departure, KHNL now has the most friendliest faces on local television.
Okay, the Hottest Local Newscaster Listmania is now over. Thanks to everyone who voted and commented!
According to you, the top two hottest local newscasters are Stephanie Lum and Dave Erickson, both from KHNL.
Here are the final voting results.
More stats and analysis.
Stephanie Lum started with an early lead and kept it (maybe something about marathon runners being hot). Dave Erickson jumped to second place at the very end, followed by a bunch with three votes each. The anchor spot got the most votes and watch KHNL or KITV for friendly faces.
Ran across three local celebrities while in the Ward area today. While eating lunch at Kakaako Kitchen, saw KITV news dudes Dan Meisenzahl and Rob DeMello.
Then the highlight of the day must have been seeing No Ka Oi classmate, Clifford “Kalai” Miller at Borders. It was great to see the buffed up actor strutting his stuff around the store then walking past me without an acknowledgment. Must be he didn’t remember me since I was holding my daughter. 😉
Oh well. I did pick up the boo Buzz Marketing with Blogs for Dummies so that I can figure out what the heck I’m doing here.