Greensburg: The Anniversary

This week the stations all tried to do stories remembering the tragedy of the EF5 tornado. I am sure many will argue with me on this statement, but the mighty 3rd place engine, is turning into the engine that could for the Greensburg anniversary. It certainly appears KSN had the best thought out plan ahead of time. The stories which have run all this week looked sharp, production wise and well executed reporter wise. Out of the 3, it seems as if KSN had the best plan and ran with it for this week of the Greensburg Anniversary. KWCH had some nice pieces, but not the production elements of KSN and KAKE appeared like they learned of the anniversary on Wednesday and threw something together for Thursday. KSN ran an hour long special Tonight and I think KWCH has one planned (Update me if this is wrong and if KAKE has anything planned). Going into KSN's Tonight, I thought it might be just a rehash of the nice stories they did throughout the week. That would have been fine television. Instead the first 20 minutes provided nice glimpses of the night and what happened. Surprisingly Dave and Anita were watchable. I was leery about this when the program started, but they kept their personalities in check and did OK. The overall product definitely looked like something you would see on the National level. I'll be watching the coverage of President Bush's visit this weekend, let me know what you think. -Hal