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We've been hearing about San Diego radio news being outsourced to Los Angeles: well that is happening in local TV too: former KYXY morning co-host Pat Brown is being replaced as the KNSD weathercaster by Fritz Coleman in Los Angeles 
According to the San Diego Union/Tribune (Motto: "all the news that fits, if we have room for it") "...Coleman will do his forecasts from a “specially equipped set” at the NBC4 studios. His forecasts will air weekdays during the 4, 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts." Pat was still doing mornings at KYXY when I started doing mornings at sister station The Planet: she was dressed up even at 5AM and and always looked bit angelic to me as she swept down the hallway enroute to the studio.
And the union website at http://www.nabetcwa54.org/ in reporting on the string of budget cuts at KGTV says, "Next up is weekend weather anchor Geni Cavitt, expected to leave in July." I worked briefly with Geni at KOGO in the early 90's and she was always a pleasant colleague in a business that could have more than its fair share of unpleasant types.
I think that Pat and Geni brought something extra to their TV appearances because of their radio experience. Both were part of "personality radio" unlike many of the younger local TV news and traffic reporters whose on-air experience has been confined to reading liners and traffic reports for Metro: they've been taught how to spit out lots of facts in a shirt time, but there's zero personality at work.
According to the San Diego Union/Tribune (Motto: "all the news that fits, if we have room for it") "...Coleman will do his forecasts from a “specially equipped set” at the NBC4 studios. His forecasts will air weekdays during the 4, 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts." Pat was still doing mornings at KYXY when I started doing mornings at sister station The Planet: she was dressed up even at 5AM and and always looked bit angelic to me as she swept down the hallway enroute to the studio.And the union website at http://www.nabetcwa54.org/ in reporting on the string of budget cuts at KGTV says, "Next up is weekend weather anchor Geni Cavitt, expected to leave in July." I worked briefly with Geni at KOGO in the early 90's and she was always a pleasant colleague in a business that could have more than its fair share of unpleasant types.
I think that Pat and Geni brought something extra to their TV appearances because of their radio experience. Both were part of "personality radio" unlike many of the younger local TV news and traffic reporters whose on-air experience has been confined to reading liners and traffic reports for Metro: they've been taught how to spit out lots of facts in a shirt time, but there's zero personality at work.