WTWO general manager Duane Lammers ('Book of Daniel', 'Doppler Dead Zone') quits

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Source: Terre Haute Tribune-Star

WTWO television station general manager Duane Lammers is leaving Channel 2 as well as the Terre Haute community after 11 years.

Lammers, who made local headlines in early 2006 when he decided against airing the controversial NBC series “The Book of Daniel,” is leaving WTWO voluntarily to pursue other interests, according to officials with Nexstar Broadcasting Group, which owns WTWO and WFXW Channel 38.

... Lammers made headlines in 2006 when he refused to air the “Book of Daniel,” a series about an Episcopalian priest and his family. The show was opposed by the American Family Association, a conservative Christian group. He later gained national attention for a Channel 2 weather promotion that criticized weather coverage at rival TV station, WTHI Channel 10.

Read more: http://www.tribstar.com/local/local_story_128210738.html

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Here's the infamous Doppler Dead Zone promo: http://youtube.com/watch?v=jJH-nvnCqLI
And here's what The Daily Show did with it: http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=113661&title=the-weather-game-in-terre