tvspy.com is reporting that CBS is looking to add more newscasts to its local stations, including resumption of newscasts at KSTW.
\CBS Stations Looks to Reinvent and Expand Local News
\CBS Stations Looks to Reinvent and Expand Local News
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KSTW To Resume Local Newscasts
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A 10pm to start.
Here are the stations joining KSTW with Innovation News Lab according to the article.
Of course, as the thread title states, many know KSTW ran a 10 and/or 11 pm newscast for many years throughout most of their history. They also ran an early evening cast for awhile in the 90’s when they were briefly the CBS Seattle affiliate.
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I remember during the mid 90's KSTW ran news from 6-7a, 11a-12n- 4-5p and 11p-1135p. They were the 4th rated newscast in the Seattle market.
Before Viacom shutdown their newscast, they only ran news in the 10 O'clock hour and drop other newscast. If KSTW brings back their newscast, where will they build their tv studios. They used to be in Tacoma, but they sold their old building to KBTC when they move to Renton afterwards and at the old CBS Radio studios before they move to their transmitter site at Capitol Hill.
Before Viacom shutdown their newscast, they only ran news in the 10 O'clock hour and drop other newscast. If KSTW brings back their newscast, where will they build their tv studios. They used to be in Tacoma, but they sold their old building to KBTC when they move to Renton afterwards and at the old CBS Radio studios before they move to their transmitter site at Capitol Hill.
As I mentioned KSTW briefly served as the CBS affiliate in Seattle in the 90’s. They actually put a pretty good news presentation on but KIRO got back the affiliation. What is old is new until it is old again.
Frankly, there is a lane for more action oriented news in the market. KIRO has done this in the past why not go that route again?
Frankly, there is a lane for more action oriented news in the market. KIRO has done this in the past why not go that route again?
Remember Sinclair's much maligned "NewsCentral" product for small to medium markets?
KSTW did have studio space at one time, as I posted earlier they aired a local newscast in the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. Don’t know about today but I sort of remember they moved out of their studio space years ago. Could be corrected on this.
Those studios were actually in Tacoma, I think and they are long gone.
After Tacoma they moved to an industrial park in Renton (Oakesdale Blvd.) where they had production facilities. Then when operations consolidated to SFO they moved from there and started just operating out of a sales/admin office in the same facility as the CBS radio stations on Dexter Ave N. (ironically across the street from the old Channel 22 facility).
The real question is... does Winslow Barger still work there?
Interestingly KSTW has an address at their transmitter site. But the staff members are based in San Francisco. That 206 area code has be a virtual number to 855 Battery Street where KSTW management is located at the KPIX/KBCW offices. The Seattle location is mainly where the XTMR staff would be though to relay TV signals from the San Francisco feed to Seattle. Its gotta be mainly engineering staff at this location.
I have a feeling it will be like other stations they added a newscast to. The newscast will come from another station i.e. the San Fran station and just hire 1-2 reporters in Seattle. I am sure they will lease out a small office space somewhere downtown or do a share agreement with KIRO or something.
And now they are hiring for what you would call an MMJ position. Posting is up on LinkedIn and on their website if you drill down enough: Multi-Skilled Journalist
You're probably right. Use MMJ's working out of their homes, filing stories to the Hub elsewhere. Newscast is stitched together, then played out by their Hub.
Welcome to the already crowded local news market.
We will have to watch and see how many mispronunciations of cities names are made....
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