Congrats to KU and another example when sports becomes your lead story. Leading up to the game I thought KAKE's coverage was really limited by their lack of talent in San Antonio. Dave Phillips and Ben Arnet just don't do it for me. As was written in a previous comment, Phillips is obnoxious and seems like a giddy fan along for the ride at the Final 4, while Arnet seems more concerned about acting suave and coming up with bad not-so-like ESPN catch phrases.
KSN did a decent job. I have never been a huge Case Walkup fan, but for Casey he did a fantastic job. Keep in mind what I wrote, "for Casey." Mark Davidson did a decent job for who he worked with, but I couldn't tell when they appeared on camera they were at the the Final 4. The other stations' views showed a background with a Final 4 logo, with KWCH having the best view.
As for KWCH, they obviously had the largest crew as previously was debated in previous posts. It didn't bother me one way or another. Cindy does provide a nice break from the constant Sports talk with side stories. The other 2 did offer them, but with KSN and Casey Walkup, although not terrible, you could still tell they were done by a sports guy forced to make it newsy, while I have no clue where Dave on KAKE was going with his supposed more newsier schtick.
As for Tonight, KSN and KAKE were at a disadvantage since the game was going on during the newscast. I did like the fact KAKE had a reporter in Lawrence live, although after 5 seconds I was sick of Abby Barnett talking about how incredible things were. I would have liked to see KWCH live from Lawrence. Although Kim Setty filed a story, a live report would have been nice with the many fans in Lawrence. I was impressed that although taped, Kim's story did have video of Lawrence after the game and the jubilation. During KWCH's coverage, the split live pictures between Memphis and Lawrence were good, although Roger referred to the Memphis picture being from an empty bar, but it looked like an empty arena of some sort. KWCH's newscast had a few angles which were good, but I thought the sports segment lacked a little. It seemed as if the press conferences were going on as the newscast was happening. I would have liked to have seen clips from those during the sportscast. You would have thought the press conference would have been on the Satellite and someone from KWCH in Wichita could have gotten that on air, because I am sure the crew in San Antonio was busy. Besides the highlights from the game and hearing from Bruce, the sports coverage wasn't as good of the event. I know KWCHers you'll argue fans saw the game on the station and got plenty of coverage. I would say however since your station aired the game you needed to provide fans with more post game player and coach react. I would argue fans would have loved to see even the press conferences happen raw and live. I went to ESPN for that. KWCH had the unique opportunity being the only station on LIVE after the game and the station had a huge audience watching, but they blew it. Your thoughts on KU coverage? -Hal
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Oh yeah. KWCH blew it. Post-game coverage sucked. Horrible. Another example of why they are number one by habit only. No arguement that the ratings say they are number one. They are. But the product is #3. Poor planning, poor execution and poor talent (except Cindy-- I good to see she can leave the anchor chair).
As for the other stations at 10p: why the hell would you do KU. At least KSN only did a quick VO and moved on to other news. KAKE spent tons of time doing KU. Hello, the game is on. If you give a rip about KU, you are watching the game. If you are watching either KSN, KAKE or some channel running the Brady Bunch, you are obviously choosing not to watch the game. So why torture those souls with coverage of the game they are choosing not to watch.
Get a clue.
You obviously know nothing about the limitations of satellite shots Hal.
The reason KAKE was live in Lawrence was probably because they used WIBW's sat truck. KSN and KWCH's were in San Antonio and don't have another "sister station" in the state.
Nor do you seem to know about NCAA rules regard what can be shown and when, this includes post-game news conferences. Again your bias shows.
You do realize that the NCAA says when players/coaches can talk after a game. You seem to think the media has unlimited access to talk to them right away. They do not.
Also, it's not possible to go from a crew outside reporting to the news conference inside if you are using one satellite truck. Basics Hal. If you were in this biz you'd know that.
Hal -
Don't be mistaken by these other posts. You do bring up some good questions and I think the only limitation generally is when CBS goes off the air with the game, then anyone can go live. I think that is with press conferences as well. I was with you when KWCH was on and I was flipping back and forth between KWCH and ESPN, because I wanted to hear the KU players talk about the game. As for the satellite issue. I've been out of the business for some time, but I used to remember the NCAA putting the post game pressers up live on the satellite through their own truck. Even if they didn't, they used to always have a video output of the press conferences and everything near the lot where the satellite trucks were parked. Maybe things are different now, but Hal I think you are thinking down the right path and posed some very legit points.
Off topic ... but .. did Aja leave KSN already?
#1 you are either an employee recently fired by 12 or a gremling at KAKE or KSN.
Your points:
1) Things are always going to look "rough" when you have mere minutes to get people from inside a massive arena out to do a live shot. Not to mention, getting interviews and video quickly. This is true of the Final Four, it's true of the Super Bowl, any big event.
2) If you are calling Roger, Bruce and Kim Setty poor talent you are just as idiotic as you sound. You are probably the same person who has praised KSN's team with the most boring and monotone anchors and reporters known to man or KAKE's team with their shallowness.
3)Your grammar..."I good to see" shows how stupid you really are.
My guess, you've recently been fired by 12 and are angry and bitter.
NCAA owns the rights to all media in relation to a game, that includes press conferences. They say who can get in, the rules for broadcasting them, re-broadcasting them, how much of a particular news conference can be used, for how long. The NCAA has very, very strict rules on things. They DO NOT put the post-game news conferences up on a satellite for anyone to use at their own will. You need permission in order to access it. This goes from the Final Four to the BCS.
This is just more bashing of KWCH by a group of wanna-bes. If you people were really any good at your jobs, you would be at a better station than KAKE or KSN.
Oh man we have the angry and bitter man back!
I don't know who you are MR. KWCH man but not everyone that says bad things about KWCH is "ANGRY AND BITTER" a lot of us just see the flaws you want to ignore. I think you are defensive, untalented, clueless, and probably a noob to this business....oh wait you work in this market so now I KNOW you are a noob to this business. Why don't you and Abby Barnet from KAKE hang out and discuss how you both should be working in market 163, but since you have perfected your brown nosing techniques you managed to secure a job in this market.
Aja has been moved to Garden City to be the bureau reporter she was hired to be. KSN is expanding their satellite stations. Things weren't quite ready when Aja arrived; now they are. You will see more of her, in small amounts.
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