Presidential Coverage Notes

The three stations pretty much matched each other step by step. Although the dreaded glitch award went to KAKE. Just as the Pres. was headed into town they lost audio from Susan Peters as well as the picture at times. That caused morning anchor Jemelle Holopirek to have to "buy time." Not a bad job, but she had some goofy lines at times, but what can you expect. KAKE's coverage might have improved if they would have let Susan host coverage out there with Larry Hatteberg from the field. I think she needed to bounce stuff off of someone on site, similar to how KWCH did with Roger Cornish and Michael Schwanke. KWCH probably had the most solid live hosting of the three stations. KSN's Anita Cochran appeared at times a little giddy and caught up in the excitement of the whole event, although she showed her strength when she grabbed a pair of high school students walking near their location and talked to them about thoughts of the storm. Candid and good comments. Kudos to the three stations for going back to programming and not staying on air all throughout his visit and hearing the same stuff over and over. Besides KWCH switched over just in time to see Bob Barker miss a put on his "Hole and One," game. Now its time to end my lunch break and get grinding again. -Hal