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Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords

brian4

brian4

Ask I'm writing this (11:45 AM), there is breaking news on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Phoenix local TV stations are still playing programming. ABC News interrupted KNXV with a national clip but afterwards went back to a show.

Ms. Giffords is a Tucson representative and this tragic event happened in southern Arizona. Surprised that the news teams haven't broken in yet.
 
brian4 said:
Ask I'm writing this (11:45 AM), there is breaking news on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Phoenix local TV stations are still playing programming. ABC News interrupted KNXV with a national clip but afterwards went back to a show.

Ms. Giffords is a Tucson representative and this tragic event happened in southern Arizona. Surprised that the news teams haven't broken in yet.
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No local coverage at all. 10 is running Fox News Channel, and 12 is running a horribly center-cut CNN.

Luckily at least KOLD is running a live stream of its coverage.
 
I hate to multi-post, but this is another update:

NBC News ran a special report claiming she had died, but she still is only in surgery (KOLD is doing an excellent job at covering this). Even MSNBC has backtracked after talking to the Pima County sheriff.

3 and 5 are now running local coverage (3's heavily augmented with KGUN from CNN). 15 is running ABC News coverage. 12 has switched to MSNBC (which itself is rebroadcasting KVOA). 10 is still on Fox News Channel.

I find it odd that KMSB-11 is seemingly doing nothing – and that 3 cannot pick up their own sister station's feed.
 
15 is simulcasting KGUN. 5 is cycling between local and CNN. 12 was simulcasting KVOA, but is now back to CNN. 3 is back to Pets on Parade.
 
justthenumbers said:
15 is simulcasting KGUN. 5 is cycling between local and CNN. 12 was simulcasting KVOA, but is now back to CNN. 3 is back to Pets on Parade.
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OK, 3's decision is just baffling. They are the only station in town with co-owned RESOURCES and a NEWS DEPARTMENT in Tucson. Why!?
 
There was an interloper at the mic flag parade at Gov. Brewer's conference today: besides the usual 15, 12, etc., there was an 8.

No, not KAET, either. It was the 8 of KGW-Portland (KTVK's sister station), which presumably sent down a reporter or two to cover the BCS title game (and with it, a mic flag at the least). For some reason the mic at the news conference had the 8, not the 3, on it.
 
Raymie said:
There was an interloper at the mic flag parade at Gov. Brewer's conference today: besides the usual 15, 12, etc., there was an 8.

No, not KAET, either. It was the 8 of KGW-Portland (KTVK's sister station), which presumably sent down a reporter or two to cover the BCS title game (and with it, a mic flag at the least). For some reason the mic at the news conference had the 8, not the 3, on it.
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I saw that and couldn't figure it out at all. Makes total sense now.

From Chicago I was transfixed on coverage of this all day. KOLD did an excellent job, and having Bud Foster (the elder statesman of Tucson news) on the coverage without any notes or a script was awesome. KVOA was streaming their content but I had a hell of a time getting it to stay loaded and not buffer. Got a glimpse of KGUN whenever CNN or FNC would go to them. When I lived in Southern Arizona KVOA was always head and shoulders above everyone else but from what I saw today KOLD was the superior. They never jumped to the conclusion Giffords was dead like everyone else did, constantly sticking to their sources. It was refreshing for breaking news coverage.

I don't want to trivialize what happened today but I'm curious how KVOA handled coverage with the NFC Wild Card playoff game? President Obama and the Guv didn't speak until after kickoff, so which did channel 4 go with?
 
KPNX 12.1 and KVOA 4.1 have football but switched to news during halftime. 12.2 has continuous local coverage of the shooting.
 
KNXV picked up the first 15 minutes of ABC World News at 4pm then reverted to local coverage. Was the ABC World News segment live coverage?
 
Beau Duran said:
I don't want to trivialize what happened today but I'm curious how KVOA handled coverage with the NFC Wild Card playoff game? President Obama and the Guv didn't speak until after kickoff, so which did channel 4 go with?
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Based on the KVOA stream...

- At 2:30, they went to a split screen, with the game on one screen and their continuing coverage on the other, plus a scroll at the bottom. The audio was primarily from the game, although I think they had some technical issues that resulted in the audio sometimes coming from the newsroom. For a few seconds, the coverage screen showed a shot of the room where President Obama eventually spoke (no person was visible on that screen - just the furniture/podium in the room.)

- Also, at some point, two different color bars came on the full screen - one said "Telemundo" and another said "NBC News Ch." (which presumably refers to MSNBC). It was preceded/followed by static and a blue screen.

- When President Obama began speaking, it was on the split screen, but I don't think they successfully switched the audio to Obama; it remained the audio of the game. I checked KPNX during this time and they had the same setup, but I believe they were able to get the Obama audio on the air.

- The stream now shows only the news coverage; I assume that it's just the game now on the air (or perhaps still a split screen on the air).
 
justthenumbers said:
- Also, at some point, two different color bars came on the full screen - one said "Telemundo" and another said "NBC News Ch." (which presumably refers to MSNBC). It was preceded/followed by static and a blue screen.
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NBC News Channel is the affiliate news service for NBC. It is run out of Charlotte, North Carolina. (The other networks have similar services: CBS Newspath, ABC News One, and Fox News Edge, as well as CNN Newsource.)

Also: there WAS a KTVK mic flag next to the KGW one on a separate mic. Still wonder how the extra one got there though.
 
The confusion surrounding the coverage is not terribly unexpected. It happened on Saturday. Most news departments are thinly staffed at mid-day on Saturday. The stations had to gauge the magnitude of the story, rouse a number of staffers on the weekend, send reporters 100 miles south to Tucson, and so forth. They have actually done a very good job, overall. I was particularly impressed with Fox 10 (had Cindy McCain, a security expert, and other political figures).
 
Raymie said:
...12 is running a horribly center-cut CNN.
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I was surprised to see 12, an NBC affiliate, not running MSNBC. They did switch to that later on.
 
First of all my thoughts and prayers go out to all the victim of this senseless shooting.As of 5:00 pm news cast i saw john and Kerry doing the breaking news along with Sean and Catherine Anya of CBS 5 ,channel 15 was using national news source i am disappointed in channel 3 and 12 doing regular programing.
 
tmartin993 said:
i am disappointed in channel 3 and 12 doing regular programing.
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NFL wildcard playoff football on a Saturday afternoon (something that happens exactly one day each year) is not normal programming. If it were any other Saturday, you would probably have seen non-stop coverage on 12 as well. They (and 10) had coverage at the start of this tragedy considerably earlier than 3, 5, and 15.

During most of the football game, KPNX had local coverage over on 12.2 (normally WeatherPlus)...given the circumstances, that was probably the next best option to offer.
 
At 4 PM KNXV Ch. 15 put the ABC network feed on the air live. David Muir had a brief report of the facts and then talked to
Steve Irwin of KNXV for an on-the-scene-report. Brian Webb also was on scene in Tucson.
At 4:30 Katy Raml continued to report the news concerning the devastation near the Tucson Safeway. Raml interviewed Irwin for some time...
Our prayers continue to go out to the families impacted by this tragedy...
 
tmartin993 said:
i am disappointed in channel 3 and 12 doing regular programing.
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Why is it necessary for every major TV station in both Tucson and Phoenix to cover the same story? This story could have been reported quite well using 5-minute newsbreaks every 30 minutes or by using a news crawl. Since most of the coverage was either repetition or speculation I see no sense in running wall-to-wall coverage before the facts are known.

Tuning between stations it was very clear that no one had the facts concerning Giffords medical status, the number of persons shot/dead or any information on the shooter. So the news people speculated and/or reviewed reports already made - sometimes multiple times. If there is anything worse showing the warts of TV news this was it.
 
Continued bits...

*It's Hook and Lake on 10. I believe pretty much every station has called in their weeknight news teams tonight; Cooney and Curtis are definitely on 12.

*Several national anchors are headed to Tucson: George Stephanopoulos and Dan Harris (GMA), Erica Hill (by Monday for The Early Show), Lester Holt (NBC), and Christiane Amanpour (This Week).

*5 is running a full hour of news tonight at 10. Speaking of full-hour newscasts, a few stations do one regularly on Saturdays (KWTV and KOTV in Oklahoma, co-owned). One (WISN Milwaukee) recently announced it was going to a full hour for all of its 10pm newscasts, even on weeknights (they already delayed Nightline and Kimmel by 30 minutes for Access Hollywood).
 
One last tidbit:

They have a new weekend met at 5, Jason Kadah (NWA seal). He's from Spokane, Washington, and had been recently fired from his last job at KREM there (as a morning/noon met).
 
Raymie said:
There was an interloper at the mic flag parade at Gov. Brewer's conference today: besides the usual 15, 12, etc., there was an 8.

No, not KAET, either. It was the 8 of KGW-Portland (KTVK's sister station), which presumably sent down a reporter or two to cover the BCS title game (and with it, a mic flag at the least). For some reason the mic at the news conference had the 8, not the 3, on it.
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It was also at the Sheriff's news conference as well. If I hadn't seen the discussions here on R-I, I too would've thought it was strange.

While it makes sense for KGW to have a prescence down in Arizona with the Oregon Ducks in the National Championship Game, I have to wonder if KTVK is now being so cheaply run that its now "Borrowing" equipment from its sister stations around the country. First a mic or two. I'm afraid to ask what's next - A camera??

I suppose it could've been worse though. It could've been a mic from WFAA in Dallas/Ft. Worth. That 8 would REALLY stuck out like a sore thumb :) *LOL!*

Either way, you'd NEVER see that kind of gaffe by the Denver stations.

Cheers :D
 
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