Jason Snell would wonder why anyone would choose to watch Kitchen Nightmares on Fox instead of The Bionic Woman on NBC.

Here, that decision is casually easy. Kitchen Nightmares is funny and in beautiful High Definition. The Bionic Woman, however, is in hazy, fogged over, indistinct, down-converted standard definition on KFOR-DT.

Why? Because there is lightning near the Texas border, KFOR-DT abandoned the high-def signal to superimpose weather maps of events far outside the digital broadcast area, just as they've always done since being dragged kicking and screaming into the digital area. (This the same station whose "tech news" segment, the "KFOR.com desk," reported a few months ago that Apple is making iPod speakers with vacuum tubes. No, I am not making this up.)

So, after NBC spent millions of dollars promoting a high-visibility, high-budget special-effects Sci-Fi series shot in high-definition, KFOR-DT throws all that out the window—yet again—to show a tiny, fuzzy, unsaturated, letterboxed-on-all-four-sides picture, all so the station can self-aggrandizingly promote its own weather coverage of events that no one who can see the signal is experiencing.

Good job, KFOR—you've once again cost NBC probably a few million dollars. When is NBC going to pay attention and demand something better than the least competent television station in America?