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THOSE weren't rosy red cheeks on NBC-10 anchor Tim Lake's face Thursday afternoon. It was embarrassment and anger that producers let a prankster get on the air during the station's coverage of the collapse of the Tropicana garage in A.C. NBC-10 - on the first day of the all-important sweeps rating period - was pranked by the infamous Capt. Janks, acolyte of the loathsome Howard Stern. The 37-year-old Janks got on the air live pretending to be Mark Keating, the CEO of Keating Building Corp. (whose first name is actually Daniel). A producer handling the call took the precaution of...

Captain Janks called in and said he accidentally made another phony phone call to MSNBC. He said he was calling in from Saddam Airport in Baghdad. All he did was tell them that he was from the NY Times. They wouldn't put him on NBC national news but did offer to put him on MSNBC. He said he had his radio on between stations to make some static. Howard wanted to hear it so Janks explained how he did it and played the call. He delayed his answers so it seemed like he was actually that far away. The news...