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6_improve20your20memory20and20brain20power-2011-01-21-0File this one under That Didn't Take Long.

After saying farewell to viewers on KDKA Friday night -- covered in PG media writer Maria Sciullo's Sunday feature -- Patrice King Brown was back on Pittsburgh TV on Sunday.

Read more after the jump. ...

0_improve20your20memory20and20brain20power-2011-01-31-0An observant viewer e-mailed me Sunday morning to say Brown and her husband, former KDKA-TV medical reporter Dr. Paul Nemiroff, were on WPGH, hosting an infomercial.

Channel 53 aired a program called "PROCERA V9" produced by Mercury Media at 7:30 a.m. Sunday. And I was sent a link to a transcript from the program that also shows pictures of Brown and Nemiroff on a set. (I found another link here.)

News anchor contracts generally forbid on-air talent from participating in infomercials but the fact that this one got on the air so fast after Brown's last newscasts makes me think this must have been planned in advance.

 

 

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written by DukesFan, February 01, 2011 - 09:50 AM
This has been running for at least a month. I know that I saw it at least a week before the announcement of her retirement.
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written by Rob Owen, February 01, 2011 - 09:56 AM
Interesting. No one mentioned it to me until Sunday and since then I've heard from several people who saw it.
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written by Louder_Is_Bestest, February 01, 2011 - 11:26 AM
Hey, how about that - from newsreader to infomercial scam artist! Way to move up in the world!
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written by DukesFan, February 02, 2011 - 02:46 PM
I honestly meant to ask you about, as I have asked several questions before.....but it slipped my mind. When I heard she made the retirement announcement, I thought "Oh, so that is why she is doing an infomercial with her husband."

And I know that I saw it on the CW, because I first thought that she was doing an interview with her husband. So KD could not have been surprised as it was on the CW.



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