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Any Eastern WA Stations Carrying The National Desk?
- Thread starter Kelly A
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Not in Yakima or Tri...as for replacing local news. But KIMA does air National Desk in various weekend timeslots (usually late Saturday night at 11:30) and the CW station airs two hours in the morning.
We're still getting used to our new British anchor at KIMA...John Kennedy O'Connor. Who would have thought? He's very professional...but also has a sense of humor. KIMA has to run these little blurbs about their Toys for Tots fundraiser each night and I've seen him play with...and make quick comments about...the toys that people bring in. I guess it gets boring all alone at that desk with no co-anchor to provide chemistry.
We're still getting used to our new British anchor at KIMA...John Kennedy O'Connor. Who would have thought? He's very professional...but also has a sense of humor. KIMA has to run these little blurbs about their Toys for Tots fundraiser each night and I've seen him play with...and make quick comments about...the toys that people bring in. I guess it gets boring all alone at that desk with no co-anchor to provide chemistry.
I'll bet he's a local conversation piece. I can hear it now: 'Who let that foreigner on our local TV station??' For that matter, I wonder if he's actually physically in Yakiscratch, or coming in from another location. My money is he's somewhere else.
It will be interesting to see once the curiosity dies down whether they keep using him for there.
Yes, physically in Yakima. I'm a substitute teacher, and last week at lunch time/prep, the 4th grade teachers were talking about the recent fire at the abandoned Sea Galley restaurant in Union Gap, and two of them had no idea because they don't watch TV news! There was a comment made about "that British guy on the local news", from the one full-time teacher who saw the story on TV.
He originally came from KIEM Eureka, and had done a whole bunch of work for the Eurovision Song Contest prior to that, also occasional reports to BBC and Channel 5 in the UK.
Today, KIMA news went black and stayed black after Judge Judy. Eventually they switched the feed to sister station KEPR. 6:00 news had a fill-in anchor. Would a top-50 market let THAT happen? The tired operation at Terrace Heights Dr rolls on...even the Missoula local news is better than this and they are a much smaller market!
He originally came from KIEM Eureka, and had done a whole bunch of work for the Eurovision Song Contest prior to that, also occasional reports to BBC and Channel 5 in the UK.
Today, KIMA news went black and stayed black after Judge Judy. Eventually they switched the feed to sister station KEPR. 6:00 news had a fill-in anchor. Would a top-50 market let THAT happen? The tired operation at Terrace Heights Dr rolls on...even the Missoula local news is better than this and they are a much smaller market!
Yakiratchet is a small town. Has anyone actually seen him around town? Like at the local fish n' chips place? (Kidding) He could literally be somewhere else reading a story about the crispy former Union Gap Sea Galley. Doesn't have to be in town at the God forsaken Terrace Heights location.
Yikes, Eureka, CA to Yakima? Not very big market jumps. Kind of feel sorry for the guy..
Well, we do have an Irish pub in town and you can easily find a Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout in multiple grocery stores here ;-)
I prefer the Organic Chocolate Stout anyway.
And to confirm - the studio is at KIMA, the anchor is at KIMA, because Alan Sillence still does sports at 6pm, going on 30 years now, and he's from...Yakima, on the local news set. John and Alan often banter on set at the end of the 6pm newscast. Just about every star HS athlete in the past 25+ years has been interviewed by Alan. High school sports are big here. Even tennis & soccer get coverage.
Lots of heritage in that old building, Uncle Jimmy's Clubhouse especially, but that was 50 years ago, and it looks more worn out day by day.
Oh, the only seafood restaurant left in Yakima is Red Lobster. It's on skid row, also known as North 1st Street near the Union Gospel Mission.
I prefer the Organic Chocolate Stout anyway.
And to confirm - the studio is at KIMA, the anchor is at KIMA, because Alan Sillence still does sports at 6pm, going on 30 years now, and he's from...Yakima, on the local news set. John and Alan often banter on set at the end of the 6pm newscast. Just about every star HS athlete in the past 25+ years has been interviewed by Alan. High school sports are big here. Even tennis & soccer get coverage.
Lots of heritage in that old building, Uncle Jimmy's Clubhouse especially, but that was 50 years ago, and it looks more worn out day by day.
Oh, the only seafood restaurant left in Yakima is Red Lobster. It's on skid row, also known as North 1st Street near the Union Gospel Mission.
That building is a dump that should have been torn down years ago. Each time I visited, I felt the need to get back to the hotel and take a shower. It's leaky, with old wood paneling from the 60's. Believe there was old shag carpet in some offices too.
Great. Sounds like a dining paradise.
It may be the only Red Lobster in the U.S. where the XXX adult store is a short walk away. I'm not kidding. That, and tons of sleazy motels, prostitutes, and gangs. The vintage shag carpet in the news bureau doesn't surprise me either. It's probably so old that Jimmy Nolan himself walked on the same carpet.
If not for the hops, breweries, and wineries, Yakima's tourism dollars wouldn't even show up. We do have amazing beer here!!
If not for the hops, breweries, and wineries, Yakima's tourism dollars wouldn't even show up. We do have amazing beer here!!
And like Yakima, Fresno has raisins along with gangs and drugs. Between hops and dried grapes, neither would be enough to entice me to live in either town.
Of course John Kennedy O'Connor is based in Yakima. Ludicrous to suggest or assume otherwise. We see him around a lot. A LOT. He is at many, many community events. If you had any doubts, dispelled surely when he was broadcasting live at the Yakima Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning. You thought he was sitting in London? Jeez.
Jumping from market 195 to market 116 in one leap is not a very big jump? I doubt he needs your sympathy.
Pity you didn't put real money on it. You'd have lost, big time.
So has anybody found out why he moved the U.S.? Not a problem with me, I really enjoyed him (and KIMA in general) when I was in Yakima this Christmas, but it does seem bizarre for a name UK broadcaster doing small market American stations.
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