Thursday, the first day after Sweeps brought plenty of flooding coverage. At 6PM all stations offered multiple reporter treatments on the flooding in Reno and Saline counties. Pretty even for the most part. At 10PM I questioned the reason why KSN had Anita lending her voice to interviews which were already shown at 6PM with little new content for a story at 10PM, but after watching the other two, it felt they did the same thing. Although KAKE and KWCH might have had a few new interviews, the information was pretty much the same from what was reported at 6PM. Except KWCH was the first of this flooding event to do the common be careful of buying a flooded car story. KSN consolidated all their coverage at 6PM into a piece that worked well at 10PM. KWCH spent the longest on the flooding at 10PM and although I liked the consolidated approach to KSN, I thought KWCH definitely offered a good comprehensive view for those who wanted it and hadn't watched through the day. However a downside to KWCH was Linda Mares. She can do an OK, average story, but she needs to spend her time off air, practicing reading her stories into a mirror as if she is speaking live into a camera. She often gets flustered when she appears live before or after her stories. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think KSN finally was the first station to answer a recurring question from people traveling back and forth on K-96 from I-96 East to Greenwich and vice versa. Nothing overly special with the execution of the story, but I think it proved to be the most useful and informative story of the night, answering the question what the heck is going on? Lanes and ramps have been closed from 6PM to 6 AM for nearly a month now, while they have been busy cutting out holes and putting in metal rods to tie pieces of concrete together. To drivers like myself it just makes the roads rougher, but as explained in the story apparently in the end it will make the road better. We'll just have to see.
I got the car filled with overpriced gasoline and will be headed South at dawn's early light tomorrow morning for a little Memorial day R&R. I will be packing the laptop when I am done with this post, so although I wont be making any new posts the next couple of days, hopefully I'll be able to find an Internet connection and update any comments. Have a nice weekend. -Hal
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The K-96 story is not a story. It's construction. It's worth a mention at best which everyone did at the start of the project. The road is not closed, then it would be story. It's just down to one lane in places during the quietest times of the day.
I think KWCH has owned the flooding. Today's most memorable story, Kim Hynes from the Cosmosphere reporting on damage there. No one else had it and it was interesting.
I couldn't believe how early KAKE and KSN dumped out of flooding so early at 10. Homes damaged, property ruined, major repairs on levees, people evacuated and KAKE has an update on a murder 2 minutes in. Bad move.
Hey everyone,
We've talked about KSN's need for more people, this could be a start by fall...
http://wichita.bizjournals.com/wichita/stories/2007/05/28/daily12.html?jst=b_ln_hl
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