Friday, May 2, 2008
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
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KWCH started ran stories each night at six, that started Monday. They also had personalized segments each morning with the Early Show crew that was in Greensburg all week, if you were up that early.
KSN did a nice job with their special, I would agree.
I have barely seen anything on KAKE except for Susan's 7 minute piece on Thursday, the one I think you are referring to. It seemed more about Susan and her experiences in Greensburg than the people.
Hats off. The KSN special was the best thing to come out of the anniversary coverage so far. That was a heck of a production, and maybe the best local TV in years.
KAKE might be able to put something together for the anniversary if they can get their satellite truck towed out to Greensburg. The last thing I heard was that it was inoperable.
Whoever scheduled KSN's special needs to go through. Bury it on a Friday night, the first weekend of May when Iron Man opens...no one was watching.
wow... we are looking at a stellar job that looks top 10 market by KSN, and of course there's the negative comments. I guess that's to be expected though.
I thought KAKE tried to over-compensate for their lack of coverage throughout the week today and it came out confused.
Did anyone see KAKE on sunday night? What a joke. Herndon and Peters live from Greensburg doing nothing but standing there looking stupid it was horrible.
They looked like they were lit with a flashlight, Herndon couldn't talk to save his life (like always), Peters looked like she just wanted to go home and call it a day, it was amature at best. Only two highlights of the night were Natasha's story and Hatteburg's people.
Speaking of KAKE does anyone know if tey have changed staff recently or had a lot of technical people leave? They have had nothing but mistakes on every newscast it seems. I have seen them go to black several times, or wrong tapes, or the best mistake was watching them go from the weather open to some sort of computer internet screen before they went to Jay. I have heard they will let anyone direct or run camera over there so they probably hired a bunch of high school kids to do their shows or at least that is what it looks like.
Contrary to what the previous poster indicated, KSN knew EXACTLY what they were doing when they scheduled the Greensburg Special.
Such Programming is what you SHOULD do--not what gets ratings...a year later. A large number of people, but tiny part of the overall audience, wants a show length recap/follow up of such a devastating event.
MOST if not all the audience demands coverage, but only a small segment wants an entire show. At the risk of Political Incorrectness, the event happened a year ago. We've all seen it over and over and over.
If it weren't an important Sweeps,
KSN would have earned mega brownie points putting the show in a high profile slot. Their decision was spot on IMO.
Silly timing by KWCH, in Greensburg AFTER the anniversary doing all the stories everyone's already covered. They probably pass out their Christmas gifts on December 26th, too.
Herndon kept trying to come across as genuine but it was obviously staged. I don't think he was in Greensburg last year but either way it's obviously he never leaves the studio.
KSN could have put the exact same show on a different night and it would have had the same impact but bigger numbers. That's the point. It was a scheduling snafu.
KWCH was there Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Today's stories were different in tone and substance than the other two days. That's the point.
Looks like more bitter posts from a KAKEr who got beat again, not just be 12 but by 3 also.
I feel bad for KWCH. Their Greensburg coverage, a day late, was laughable. Their stories had no meat. Besides one story on a survivor, there was nothing even remotely good. It was like they just started Monday morning. And please don't try to defend yourselves. It'll just look pathetic.
IM SICK OF THE GREENSBURG STORIES!!!
Off topic, but...........it seems that people just disappear at KAKE. What happend to Chris Sadeghi and Nick Vin Zant? Where did they go?
What is going on with the video at KWCH & on Fox Kansas?
Tonight I saw stories on both which looked about the quality of film. I have been noticing it this week. The story I saw on 24 was about a disabled guy who could not find a place to park at the Courthouse.
And while I am on the subject of video quality, why does Rebecca Gannon always look yellow when she is on, but on one else on that newscast does?
My guess is they have some new editing software, because it was not as crisp and clear as usual. Could someone from 12 please fill this viewer in?
The problem is most likely your TV or your cable/satellite service. Check those first. The signal on 12is fine. Any issues on KSAS would be on their end and not 12's.
Also, KWCH had Greensburg stories the entire week before and was there Saturday and did a lot of stuff on Sunday. They added Monday on too, so what?
I like how my post about KAKE doing stories KWCH did the week before didn't get posted. Seems Hal has a thing for Susan.
Here are the stories KWCH did the week before and the weekend of Greensburg. Care to retract your lie about "no survivor stories?"
http://www.kwch.com/Global/category.asp?C=100510
Over the last year, KAKE has been the market's best springboard.
James Sido - Seattle market #14
Matt Makens - Orlando market #19
Cara Kumari - Nashville market #30
Jeaneane Keisling - Kansas City market #31
Chris Sadeghi - San Antonio market #37
Nick Vin Zant - Orlando market #19
Ratings is not the only measure of success, and I think all these big jumps are proof that KAKE still has a good repuatation across the country. No doubt that the Greensburg story benefitted each of those reporters greatly. Problem is they haven't replaced a lot of those people that left... and are now looking to one man bands.
Anon 1249
Chris Sadeghi is a reporter for KENS, the CBS station in San Antonio.
Nick Vin Zant is a reporter for a cable station in Orlando.
I feel bad for KWCH. Their Greensburg coverage, a day late, was laughable. Their stories had no meat. Besides one story on a survivor, there was nothing even remotely good. It was like they just started Monday morning. And please don't try to defend yourselves. It'll just look pathetic.
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What in the world are you talking about? I watch KWCH and lived in Greensburg and they had stories the entire previous week there- they even sent Roger to Greensburg and had several stories on the weekend. Not sure what you're even talking about, but obviously you don't even know.
zzzzz... that's the sound of Hal these days sleeping on the "job"
This is in response to anonymous listing all the people from KAKE going places after Wichita.
These days, that's hardly a big deal. I'm not saying that some of those people aren't talented, but it is MUCH easier to go places these days, than in years past.
Stations want cheap talent. Nick Van Zant is the best example of that. Please, I'm sure even KAKE people will admit, that guy was greener than a Boston Celtic jersey.
If "Hal" is only going to approve comments once every couple of weeks I think he should open the flood gates and let everything come through. I hate coming to this website day after day only to see that there hasn't been any new comments approved. Let's face it, nobody really looks at this page to see constructive comments. They just want to hear who is bad mouthing who.
None of those people got where they are cause of KAKE they got there cause they had talent. Let's take a good long look at all the KAKE prodigy's....
Jeff Herndon- Unable to finish a sentence without stuttering and has the personality of a wet mop.
Abby Barnet- Should go to market 230 and learn to read....can we say nails on a chalkboard? And go fix your hair.
Elise what's her name- Needs to be jump started and checked for a pulse.
Seems like anyone who was trained by KAKE, never worked anywhere but KAKE, and is never going to leave KAKE, are all mediocre at best. There are a few exceptions to that rule, like Larry H, Chris Frank.....some of the old-timers BUT those people came into the business when there was management in place to teach them, nowdays all the KAKE staff has is a couple of captains steering a sinking ship.
KSN is a joke. It's 11am Saturday and there's still nothing on their website about last night's tornado outbreak. There's barely anything on KAKE either. They also lost in last night's coverage to 12, big shock I know. Not.
KWCH streamed their coverage. Did anyone else?
Where is Hal?
Hal,
Where did you go?
Kind of like Central States Media--you just quit showing up for work.
Is Hal still alive? What a slacker!
Are you ok Hal???
I hereby declare Hal relieved of his duties. I don't know who Hal is, but like anyone would be, he's tired of these comments. Tired of the same youngins defending their "turf," and tired of the broken record that is local TV news. The facts are these: No one who has any real impact on the future of this business in Wichita reads this blog, no one with any desire for intelligent debate reads this blog, only mid-level staffers who are so enthralled that they've "made it" to market 69 read this blog, and so Hal, thanks for originating this discussion for a year plus, you're off the hook. We all should go back to our day jobs and worry about bettering our own environments, instead of anonymously blogging like a bunch of high school freshmen.
ummm, ok Mr. "ANONYMOUS" 6:10.
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