Here are a few random points on my mind:
The Brady Bunch
I'll admit I was wrong. A few posts ago I complimented KAKE hire Carol(ine) Brady. She is serving as a fill-in on the weekdays for Jemelle Holopirek who is on maternity leave and also anchors/reports on the weekend mornings. I watched her with Mike Iuen last week anchoring the 1130 show a couple of times. Mike and Carol (I like the way it has that vintage TV show sound) are certainly no Mike and Jemelle. Carol comes across as a loud girl who has to comment about everything whether or not it relates to the topic at hand. (Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!) I feel bad for Mike Iuen because he is left picking up the pieces. Her comments leave him at times in some tough spots to get back in the flow of things. While she hurts Iuen, she helps Saturday morning co-anchor Cayle Thompson. In the past, I have said I didn't like Cayle anchoring Saturday morning, but that was when he shared the camera with former anchor Rachel Phillips. It was as if the two competed to one-up each other. With Carol he has toned himself down and it works, but still doesn't make up for Carol's loud brash nature. If I never had seen Cayle anchor with Rachel before, I probably wouldn't be as positive about his performance with Carol, but he has been forced to improve himself.
One Down, One to Go
With the Hawker Beech strike settled, it now looks like the 2nd aviation strike will soon begin with Boeing. I didn't really get a good look at the coverage from the three stations on the Hawker strike, but I cannot really think of many miscues. It was peaceful and once started I couldn't think of major developments. The stations did a decent job of talking to strikers and their families as it drug out, but still refrained from getting overly emotional with the story.
Musical Anchor Chairs
It didn't interest me as a topic until a comment was made from the last post. Someone wrote that at KSN on Friday, Anne Meyer anchored at 5PM, Jason Kravarik at 6PM and was wondering if Larry Steckline would anchor at 10. I am sure the last part was done tongue-in-cheek. For those who don't get up early every morning he is the guy who does the ag reports on KSN and is Anita Cochran's dad. At 10PM Larry didn't appear, but rather Dana Hertneky, but it did get me to thinking. Lately KSN has had Aileen Simborio fill-in to less than solid results. I thought the 3 replacements on KSN did a fine job and show KSN has other possibilities for fill-ins rather than Ailieen. As I mentioned in a previous post I thought Aileen handled her anchoring fill-ins poorly and did not interact well with weather and sports. Meanwhile the three filling in on Friday, overall did a nice job, they didn't force anything, yet they didn't hold back either.
Hal Writes something Positive:
Readers have criticized me saying I never write anything positive. Here it goes and with two people I have been critical of before. Kudos to KAKE's Abby Barnett, KSN's Casey Walkup as well as KWCHs Megan Strader for stories on a high school student from Winfield who was moments from having a different procedure performed, when a heart became available. A heartwarming story by all who did it. In stories like this its easy to add drama and emotion. There was plenty of that without adding any and I thought the three reporters did a nice job in balancing that.
Sarah Palin as a Sports Reporter: No this isn't a local tie-in, but it is related to local TV news (Anchorage). The current Governor of Alaska and now VP candidate was a sportscaster at an Anchorage TV station. Station KTVA found a clip of her anchoring sports on Good Friday 1989. The news that day was allegations of Pete Rose betting on baseball. I guess this topic is somewhat locally based, keep reading. If you make it through the clip keep watching, because you might recognize the anchor on the next clip. I sort of recognized the face, but didn't think of anything until the graphic appeared with the name, Matt Simon. He used to be a reporter for KAKE a couple of years ago and now is listed as a reporter for KTVA in Anchorage and he must also be an anchor.
The Palin Sports Clip:
Hurricane coverage
Since I have posted one link, why not another? As the hurricane approaches the Southeast, there is a site which posts links to the live coverage of the various spots in Gustav's target area. -Hal
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8 comments:
Let's see... you bash the old ND at KSN... yet compliment the station for the KAB station of the year and the Murrow. Both of them would have happened under his watch.
And, when a station improves, it isn't overnight. What you are seeing now is the product of what management has been doing for 6-18 months. Not 3 weeks.
Finally, everyone at our station is a direct result of our old ND. The fact that the interim person, Jason, is doing okay is because the old ND trained him.
Yes-- I work at the station, and I didn't like everything about the old ND. But you can't argue with him as a person or what he did for this station given all the obstacles he faced.
Hmmmmmm - Anon 1002 maybe you should have written, "You USED to work at the station." Your writing style sure sounds a lot like the former ND. I will agree that everyone at the station is a direct result of the old ND. Many of his recent hires (on and off camera)are train wrecks. Because of that the old ND leaves his signature on the product regularly, when they screw up each and everyday.
KSN Employee posting at 10:02: What obstacles did he face? The main obstacle at KWCH until 7/2/8 was the news director herself who didn't know what news was! It's always interesting to hear these different perspectives.
carol brady and iuen may not have compatible styles, but i dont think shes a bad anchor. hes much older than she is and they dont go together.
that weatherchick on 12 is terrible..why did they hire her
Hal,
You have been quiet on the Boeing near strike coverage. I do not consider myself a news fanatic, howver I was really interested last night in knowing the final results of the Boeing strike vote. When the 10PM casts ended last night it was still unknown what the decision was because the voting closed later in Seattle. All three station said to stay tuned through the late evening and they would have the news when it was known. Thank goodness I was watching KAKE and then KWCH, because both broke in with the news, while KSN must have went to bed early and didn't have it. Don't say one thing and then do another.
KSN had a crawl and an online update. Don't act as if they "went to bed." That's just proof you're searching for criticism, perhaps because KSN has come on strong lately with good content. KWCH performed well late Wednesday night, no argument. But don't diminish KSN's gains by arguing whether Conan O'Brien viewers wanted a cutin or a crawl. It's silly, and a waste of a decent debate.
first shes mild mannered and now brash? thats quite a swing in an opinion, buddy...which is she? i think poor old carol got thrown into a difficult spot (she was allegedly hired to report, right?) and was less than prepared to fill in for half of a longstanding duo
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