A critical look at the Wichita TV news

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Sunday Potpourri

OK, I know I used this title once before, but what the heck. The last few weeks we saw the battle of what station could bring us the best story on checking up on the Casino Ads Commercials. Of course this blog was filled with commenters fighting for their stations being first with it and better, all good fodder. I am sure the upcoming election will be the subject of more stories this week. I'll be curious what the next angle will be.

In the last week KAKE premiered a new sports guy to replace James Sido who went to a bigger market. As I have made it clear in the past, I never was a fan of Sido. Even though someone must like him to give him a shot in a bigger market, I just don't like these bad Sportscenter anchor impersonators. KAKE's newest sports guy made his debut over a week ago. Not sure of the spelling, but KAKE's newest sports guy Ben Arnet, isn't bad. He has had a couple of witty lines and should be good overall. While I am on the KAKE bandwagon, it was good timing having Alan Shope in Wisconsin for the arrival of Priest Holmes. Although I'm doubtful Holmes will see much playing time this year, I thought it worked well for them to be up there for that as the only Wichita station, up until this point. KWCH folks, I know, I'm sure you'll have a crew in a few days, but face it you missed an interesting day today.

Tomorrow, its not the YouTube debate, but the closest thing for Wichita. KWCH will simulcast on the Internet a casino debate Monday night. I'll be curious to hear your comments about it when its over. -Hal

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hal's bias shows through once again. So much for being fair and honest.

Anonymous said...

What a dumb thing to say anon #1. At least be a bit more commital and eleaborate what you mean by Hal's bias showing through once again.

Anonymous said...

How about KSN's Sunday coverage of that oil spill in Salina???? I guess weather save them from catastrophy.

Anonymous said...

I see online on KSN that the City might have chosen an independent team to replace the Wranglers. I haven't seen it on the other web sites. I am curious did the others have it or did KSN recover after blowing the Salina fuel leak yesterday and were the first to have it? Hal, I am suprised you weren't more on the fact they missed the lead story yesterday.

Anonymous said...

Or the fact that as of 5pm today their website hadn't been updated since Saturday. Or the fact that KAKE had a meltdown during their 10 on Saturday. What's the deal Hal?

BTW: A new minor league baseball team is minor news. A large fuel leak into a river that provides one of the state's larger cities with most of the drinking water is a big deal. KSN can't "make up for it."

Anonymous said...

"Sources tell...unconfirmed reports." What responsible news organization uses that as its basis for a story? You'd have to live in KAKEland to do so.

Anonymous said...

KWCH/KAKE employee try working with two photographers/editors and one producer who is also assignment desk/graphic designer/web producer. Not an easy task when you don't have the staff.

Anonymous said...

"Sources tell.. unconfirmed reports"... uhm, that's not what was said. Again, KWCH people clearly are sore losers. Apparently the KSN information was so accurate that everyone correctly followed it. So KWCH-- just relax. You win sometimes, but not always. And that's fine. Go sit on Roger's lap and I'm sure he'll tell you a bedtime story.