Monday, August 31, 2009

Former KODE anchor Tara Brown vanishes again


Former KODE anchor Tara Brown has pulled another vanishing act, according to this online forum in Pensacola, Fla., where she has most recently worked as a morning anchor at WEAR.

Ms. Brown, if you recall, left KODE in 2006 in a swirl of controversy, as I wrote in a Nov. 12, 2006, post:

The reason for the abrupt departure of KODE anchor Tara Brown depends on who you ask.
Some readers have told me it came as a result of a principled stand by Ms. Brown over a decision made by the higher-ups in the KODE news department.

Others describe it as either a "prima-donna" move by Ms. Brown or a shrewd maneuver to enable her to leave the station and take a position at another television station.

Ms. Brown walked out on KODE Monday, cleaning out her desks and leaving the station after a disagreement over the use of a sweeps package on the McDonald County cult/ritual sex story, a story on which Ms. Brown has led the way since the arrests of leaders of the Grand Valley Independent Baptist Church in late August.

Sources have told The Turner Report Ms. Brown was angered by an order to turn over the videotape of her report to KSNF to use on its broadcast. Ms. Brown was adamantly against that idea, but finally agreed to let KODE's sister station use the tape the following day. That idea did not fly with station officials, who reminded Ms. Brown of the shared services agreement that Nexstar Broadcasting, owner of KSNF (and obviously, the party in control since Mission is obviously a dummy corporation), and Mission Broadcasting have.
At that point, the sources say, Ms. Brown walked out and immediately cleaned out her desk.

Ms. Brown's detractors do not depict this as a principled stand in favor of her story and its use on KODE. They say Ms. Brown was grandstanding in an effort to find a way to walk out of her contract with KODE and accept a position with a station in a larger market. Reportedly, Ms. Brown's contract allowed her to leave KODE, which is in one of the smallest markets in the United States, to go to a top 50 market. Ms. Brown's detractors indicate she has a job in waiting at a larger market, but not a top 50 market.


Ms. Brown, the former Tara Paat, was a onetime Miss World Canada, who gave her title due to a dispute with pageant officials following a trip to South Africa in which she observed racial discrimination which she felt was tacitly approved by pageant officials, according to a Chicago Tribune article.

26 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not an answer, but an update on Tara Brown's career in Pensacola, FL and WEAR TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqkuqTopAAE&feature=channel_page

Anonymous said...

Gosh, this seems to out of character for her.


Meanwhile, in reality, this lady is an obvious headcase that will never learn.

Anonymous said...

The way she talks bugs the hell out of me.

Anonymous said...

At least she was pretty to look at, unlike most of the stations in the area.

Anonymous said...

Man lets go look for her, shes a good lookin Babe.

Anonymous said...

They may have gotten rid of her for her mispronunciation of her words....I was wondering when they'd stop allowing her to butcher, I mean read, the Trivia question...

jp said...

she's broadcasting the news here in Washington State

Anonymous said...

I worked with Tara for her entire time at WEAR channel 3. I found her, in that time, to be a genuinely nice person who received a lot of crap from various co-workers(some of it sexist) that she didn't deserve. Added to that was the additional stress of troubles at home and you can see why she decided to move on from a bad situation gone worse.

Head case? Sorry but you are, in my experience, misinformed. Speculation and gossip does not a reality make.

Good luck Tara. I hope you land on your feet out there somewhere.

I.M. said...

She's awesome!!!love watching her and her co-anchor give the morning news!!! She seems like a ver nice,genuine lady.

Anonymous said...

Seems to me she landed onher feet just fine. New job, a cowboy to hold her tight, proud mom. Her new life has left a huge smile on her face. God bless.

Anonymous said...

Tara has some serious problems, not the least of which is a self-centered attitude. It could be for that reason that she is now working in market 126 instead of Pensacola (market 57). At the station we continually have to work around her inability to be at work. She misses an average of once a week.

Anonymous said...

As a journalist, I am not into heresay, so please know that what I am about to share comes straight from Tara through a variety of conversations with her. As you've read on her various bios, Tara claims to walk the good walk; and says she is all about family. But, sadly, this is a woman who met her current husband (her third), at a bar the first week she was in the Tri-Cities, WA, and then spent every subsequent weekend with the man at his home an hour away--leaving her two young daughters (one is just 11)alone in a brand new city! On the work side, when shown the edit bays, she said, "I'm an anchor, I don't do these little rooms." Y'know, if the Bible is your favorite book, as Tara publicly claims, then one would assume that the goal would be to apply the wisdom inside. Repeatedly, the book asks for a focus on character. At the center of it all is integrity. Integrity is about doing what you say you'll do, finishing what you start, and honoring people and your commitments, especially to your family. As a co-worker, I grow tired of the lack of ethics, and I feel for her children, who cannot be learning much that's good on the home front.

Anonymous said...

I dated her when she lived in North Vancouver, BC back in my early teens... strange to read about her now...

TruthyOne said...

http://colorado.missing.report/tara-paat-grand-junction/ She is missing. Literally.

Anonymous said...

We saw an talked to ms paat in gj she was hidiin from captures..an we couldnt remove her from situation an local pd sez shes not missin

Anonymous said...

I met Tara Brown yesterday 6/26/2018 in Thornton Colorado at a Safeways. This is not a joke, she told me who she was and I looked her up online, it was definetly her.

Anonymous said...

How was she? I know her personally. I don’t want to get into details on how. But curious about her being at Safeway. I seen another post of someone saying the same thing.

Unknown said...

She is in a bit of a mess right now. I noticed it said she was missing. I just spoke to her. She is still here in grand junction if her family does not know where she us.

Anonymous said...

She's a beautiful disaster.
Run for your life!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

She spend the night before the 4th of July 2018 at my house in Wheat Ridge,CO. I offered her a hot bath and a safe place to spend the night. I hope she is ok,and would like to see her again.

Anonymous said...

Sadly, she has some very serious addiction issues, is homeless, and is currently "staying" in Littleton, Colorado (July 2022).

Anonymous said...

Homeless in Littleton Colorado? Do you know any more info? I would like to help. I met her in Thornton Colorado around the same time in 2018 she seemed like she was in some trouble. I hope she is doing ok and would like to help her. If you have any info please message me.

Anonymous said...

Tara is working as a community advocate for the homeless and lives in Arvada. I'm not sure why people need to hate on her so much. Maybe you're jealous?

Anonymous said...

Tara is a community advocate now. She's been helping the homeless and seems like a pretty kind hearted person to me. Too bad there's lots of jealous people that have been judging her and don't know anything about her. You may want to get your facts straight before you make a false comment.

Anonymous said...

I was in partnership with her in the 1990s doing promotional work for a Brewery and incorporated bikini models into the mix.
Tara was very smart at how to make a buck and had good business skills. However didn't end great , she decided to just take her then husband Duane on as a business partner and tossed me out without a thought. I was nit impressed . I branched off and went solo and did well . She closed up shop , I got her business. This was when she went to live in the USA as her husband was an American resident. Next I heard from her was a phone call. She phoned to apologize for the way she treated me and for ruining our friendship and business. It was one of her steps for AA. TARA was a very bad full blown alcoholic that she took meds that would make her violently ill if she had alcohol.
She would go BLACKOUT AMNESIA DRUNK!

I JUST HEARS ABOUT HER DISSAPEARANCE TODAY FEB 13 2924 I STILL HAVENT FOUND OUT WHERE IR IF IT GETS RESOLVED IR SHE TURNS UP!
HOPEFULLY she's well and safe.

Anonymous said...

I knew Tara when she was married to her first husband Mike. I met her when we both were servers at a niteclub I Langkey B.C.
We hooked up as business partners with S.T.A.R. Promotions we ran swimsuit contests in nightclub with hi end sponsors. We worked together for a season and she then met her 2nd husband Duane Brown a baseball player from the u.s.a. that was staying in B.C. and also a team member on a client's AA Baseball team the Surrey Glaciers. The twonof them were an item quickly and basically shoved me out of the partnership with no discussion whatsoever. We parted ways I went on to start my own promotions company which was successful. She closed STAR Promotoions got married and moved to the USA. I next heard room her a couple years later because partner her RECOVERY through ALCOHOLICS Anonymous is to make amends with those you hurt and wronged. She called to apologize. That's the last I spoke to her. Tara was a severe alcoholic. She needed to take medication that would make her deathly ill if she consumed a drop of alcohol. Her first marriage didn't weather her addiction very well.
She would get black out drunk, turnninto a complete slut go home with whoever and not tell anyone. It was embarrassing and a problem. Thank goodness it didn't happen often. Often enough to know there's some demo s she still needs to deal with.
I wish her the best.