First, Let me say that from all indications and forecasts this certainly will not be a storm to mess with it. If you want a time where strong coverage is needed, now and into tomorrow is certainly the time for it. Not Sunday night when KAKE's lead story was a couple who feed Geese in the cold and snowy weather. Hey, I am the first one to admit I like feature stories, yes straight feature stories, not feature stories made into news stories so you can have your token weather story to meet the need to seem like you are on top of the weather. For Sunday night I thought KWCH had the best weather hyped story in giving a good overall wrap up of the storm from a few years ago. Yes, other did have that angle in other stories but I thought KWCH had it tailored best. However the best coverage on Sunday went to KSN, for NOT leading with weather and instead with the Morrison story.
Tonight at 6 KWCH was strong going into 2 segments with weather related stories. Some were a little bit of a stretch like the driving school instructor, but they didn't repeat each other and were for the most part good. It was good having Jim Grawae in Ark City showing the heavy rain and also a story from Salina. A good snapshot from around the area. At 10, they focused a little more in Wichita, with Grawae doing a story from Wichita with video from throughout the day. The most useful information came from backup meteorologist Ross Janssen who compared the conditions from this storm to that of 2005 and the temps being slightly warmer and the wind lighter compared to the last major ice storm. All the stations have brought up the 2005 storm, but I think this was the first time so far, that anyone as showed how it might be a little different and maybe a little less worse than 2005. It made for a good overall complete product on the storm to come.
Over on KAKE I thought, especially at 10PM that had two stories with similar angles and not all that different. It shows they definitely are going big with weather, but for a station who was over hyping the little stuff from last week and weekend, you would think they could have a little stronger story selection at 10PM. Maybe they already wasted those stories the previous few days.
KSN leads with weather now everyday, even if it is sunny and 70. Well it is strange to me that when now you might want additional info right off the top newscast, the weather intro is 20 seconds at most and onto the weather news stories. Now, they did go back to the weather and what is to come later in the segment, but by then I think many who are watching are switching over to another station so they get that immediate answer to the question of how much and what will it be like in the morning. As for stories they had two at 10 with different angles with an interesting angle on how the overflow shelter can't handle the demand for the homeless. -Hal
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Let's see a major storm that impacts everyone, could kill people and cause millions of dollars in damage OR a harassment suit against the AG. At any other time it would be the lead but not this weekend.
I think KWCH had it right by putting their AG story after weather. I don't know why KAKE buried it near the end of the first segment Sunday but they did. I even think they only ran a VO and not pkg like the other two.
But weather has been everything people care about and have talked about since Friday. Did I mention than more than a dozen people have already died from this storm, it's brought airports and highways to a standstill and caused millions in damage already. Oh yeah, I did but let's lead with the seedy sex scandal anyway.
I thought the weather coverage on all 3 was good on Sunday night. KAKE has a new guy, Blake I noticed too. Does a decent job, seems a little dry.
He seemed to downplay the severity of the storm Sunday night. Granted, Wichita ended up missing the worst but many people in the viewing area did not. And we did not know that then.
This was a big deal and it seemed KAKE didn't treat it as such until Monday, hence their Goose lead on Sunday night. You could say...they laid an egg.
Hal,
You say KSN won for not leading with the storm. I'd say they lose for not leading with the biggest story of the week.
Ross and Andrew played it up but I think their execution of not being overly dramatic like their older counterparts. I was the one who made the comment on Blake. I think he did a fine job and after the last comment, maybe his dry delivery was because he is new and this was a big deal situation right off the bat. Either way I think its impressive that all 3 made good calls on the storm Sunday night. Now as for leads and placement in newscasts, I think it should have been the top story.
The storm didn't even move in until Monday night and it wasn't as bad as the ice storm of 2005. Everyone made it sound like Wichita was going to get a ton of ice. We ended up with nothing.
Actually, check your facts. This storm hit more area than 05 and was worse.
First of all, Wichita lucked out and that happens sometimes. Had no one talked about it you would be bitching about that.
Everyone said that it all depended on the temperatures. The ended up on the high side which is why Wichita was spared a lot of the bad stuff.
But the viewing area is a lot more than just Wichita. Hutchinson, the second largest city in the market got slammed much like Wichita did in 2005. Not to mention Salina, Topeka and places out west. It was a major winter storm.
The post is obviously from someone defending KSN's horrible decision to lead with Morrison Sunday night. You made a bad call now admit it.
But
wait, who is defending that decision?
The one who said "we ended up with nothing."
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