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Heidi does it again

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TAWT

During last night's extensive coverage of the hostage situation and the new developments in the Mesa murder story, KTAR, which did an admirable job extending its news block coverage, demonstated again why Heidi Fogelsong needs to go back to television.

In setting up a live report on the developments in Mesa by Jamie West, Heidi said the following:

"Jamie West is, sort of, covering this story for us."

Great, Heidi. Look, we all know it's not nice to ask Jamie to do anything after her regular shift, but to blatantly throw her under the bus....

Hey, you've never worked at 15, right? Bet they'd buy your "I'll stay for the length of my contract" speech.
 
> Great, Heidi. Look, we all know it's not nice to
> ask Jamie to do anything after her regular shift,
> but to blatantly throw her under the bus....

Hmmm...sounds like that is also a knock directed at
Jayme, or am I interpreting the wrong sarcasm mode?<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by oldiesfan on 02/24/06 03:50 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> During last night's extensive coverage of the hostage
> situation and the new developments in the Mesa murder story,
> KTAR, which did an admirable job extending its news block
> coverage, demonstated again why Heidi Fogelsong needs to go
> back to television.

Yes, KTAR did a great job (props for extending both the Afternoon News and the Night Shift) and yes, Heidi should be back on TV. She can barely cut it as an anchor on a slow news day, but you throw in a major news story (i.e. having to report without a script), and her "chit-chat-witty-banter" style hurts my ears. I say give Diane Brennan or Pamela Hughes the PM drive anchor chair alongside Ted, or maybe even Brian Barks, leaving Ted to middays.
 
Has anyone noticed that KTAR is all of a sudden sounding like they used to? This new PD has his head on. Great coverage, news promos... it's about time they dusted off and got back to work over there. Now if they could only find a retirement home for Snow!
 
> > Great, Heidi. Look, we all know it's not nice to
> > ask Jamie to do anything after her regular shift,
> > but to blatantly throw her under the bus....
>
> Hmmm...sounds like that is also a knock directed at
> Jayme, or am I interpreting the wrong sarcasm mode?

It's not a knock...Jamie's a good reporter...I just get tired of hearing her "cat in a tree" stories. Geez, this is Phoenix...isn't there more going on in AM Drive than to do man on the street interviews about what was on TV last night?
>
 
Oh my god, there was a cat in a tree?

Quick, send out the Action team!

It was a story that had nothing to report and about 7 hours of time to report nothing.

Back in the old days, Heidi and Cater Lee would have a special report about how the hostage situation effects your hairstyle, or how it would effect the life of a male stripper, or a big special "How to prevent hostage situations from starting in your home".


Anyone that takes local TV newscasts seriously should go back to reading Harlequin Romance novels, they are a step up in intelligence and reality.
 
KTAR cares...

...about the "bottom line."

They are considering dropping Tony Snow--not because they're losing listeners, but because they're losing revenue--5 spots per hour lost.
Snow is popular on the Bonneville station in D.C.--because there, he is local! That is part of the problem of implementing the same paradigm in all regions.
We don't all wear the same underwear, either.

Though their ratings have dropped, their sales are soaring and they have added sales staff! High ratings are no longer necessary to charge more for spots. They are making a killing selling "packages" that include sponsorship of promotional events and web page ads.

(By the way, casino ads for gambling not allowed, but ads for food and shows at casinos are O.K.)

First floor sales staff is secure, but the second floor news & talk folks are worried about potential changes...
 
Re: KTAR cares...

> ...about the "bottom line."
> First floor sales staff is secure, but the second floor news
> & talk folks are worried about potential changes...


We can only hope as the men in secret underwear have yet to halt the decline they inherited from the Emmis Brain Trust. KT'R should never have put ABC network news at the top of the hour. Over 90% of the time, local news is far more important and relevant. The Chick Boss understands this...maybe the new suit will get it as well.
 
Re: KTAR cares...

> KT'R should never have put ABC network news
> at the top of the hour. Over 90% of the time,
> local news is far more important and relevant.

Whoa, Doctor! Strongly disagree.

KT'R can't cover the nation/world anywhere near
as well as ABC (or CBS) can. Besides it's only
two minutes at the TOH. They have the other 58
minutes to cover local/state stuff.

Wait...there's stopsets, Mr. Ed, Deputy Dan with
his west valley-centric traffic, Dr. Bart. And
sports. What's with their fascination with sports
twice an hour? Oh, right. Jerry and KT'R--they
go way back. Sort of explains the @#$% one hour
pregame shows that often spill backwards into
PM drive.

Anyway, even with all that clutter, they still
have a lot more than two minutes each hour to
cover the local scene...if they wanted to.

I like the "comfort zone" of knowing I can get
a network newscast at the TOH, and if I want
local I know it will follow the net.

Same deal with KNX at night--CBS news at the
bong (even if it's :07 late with the dirty word
delay). Although CBS El-Lay cluster wonderboy
David G. Hall has been dismantling this heritage
station piece by piece.
 
Re: KTAR cares...

If Tony Snow disappears from KTAR, the reason won't matter to me. I'll just be glad he's gone.
As for KNX, Oldiesfan, the delay is likely the processing for digital which is left on at night.
 
Re: KTAR cares...

> As for KNX, Oldiesfan, the delay is likely
> the processing for digital which is left on
> at night.

While info on KNX I've Googled (well, Yahooed
actually in this case) does seem to indicate
they are IBOCing again--after some down time
last summer--there was also an edict from
Infinity corporate a while back that their
N/T stations should always run in (language)
delay, as a result of Uncle Charlie's current
take on those seven words you can't say on
TV or radio.

If 55/FYI is any indicator, their language
plus IBOC delay is about :16 but KNX at night
was :07.

Maybe Wattsup can give us some insight.
 
Re: KTAR cares...

> ...about the "bottom line."
>
> They are considering dropping Tony Snow--not because they're
> losing listeners, but because they're losing revenue--5
> spots per hour lost.
> Snow is popular on the Bonneville station in D.C.--because
> there, he is local! That is part of the problem of
> implementing the same paradigm in all regions.

He's not on the Bonneville station anywhere; in DC, he's on WMET, which is owned by IDT, and isn't really a DC station. The daytime pattern may cover part of the District, but apparently word hasn't gotten out there... listenership is 0.

It doesn't take a genius to realize that syndie products carry network inventory; I think I figured out at when Snow started that if you paid a guy and a prodcer $100k/yr and sold 50%, you'd only need $50/:60 to make more money on Leibo. Simplified, yes, but nonetheless...


> First floor sales staff is secure, but the second floor news
> & talk folks are worried about potential changes...

Which, if they have any kind of sense, they should have been worried for a long time now.
 
Re: KTAR cares...

> Whoa, Doctor! Strongly disagree.

I agree with the Doc but think Russ Hill will continue what I've referred to as the KSLization of KTAR, with the net news cast at the top.

> KT'R can't cover the nation/world anywhere near
> as well as ABC (or CBS) can. Besides it's only
> two minutes at the TOH. They have the other 58
> minutes to cover local/state stuff.

What?! What kind of news staff at a big station in market #15 do we have that can't cover national news. They can still use ABC reports to go in-depth on stories where they don't have reporters (although WTOP reporters could always file reports for KTAR, KSL, etc. on some DC/Capitol area goings on), but I don't think Diane or Ned have a hard time reporting on national or world stories. Top stations in smaller markets have excellent TOH casts that are local 24/7... WLW/Cincinnati (#27), WTAM/Cleveland (#25, with 24/7 traffic), KOA/Denver (#22), and so on.

> Same deal with KNX at night--CBS news at the
> bong (even if it's :07 late with the dirty word
> delay). Although CBS El-Lay cluster wonderboy
> David G. Hall has been dismantling this heritage
> station piece by piece.

KNX is a CBS O&O... all such stations run CBS News every hour and the other network acoutrements, like all the weekend wrap-ups and what not. No different than only CC stations running mediocre shows like Mike McConnell; it makes sense to run your own stuff.

David Hall, yeah, wasn't Clark Howard still on in afternoon drive when he left in 2001?
 
Re: KTAR cares...

> Maybe Wattsup can give us some insight.

Wattsup is at Jefferson-Pilot in San Diego these days... <P ID="signature">______________
...co-moderator of the Satellite Radio, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, and San Diego boards...</P>
 
Re: KTAR cares...

> > Maybe Wattsup can give us some insight.
>
> Wattsup is at Jefferson-Pilot in San Diego these days...
>
But I still read the news about my other home town! Don't know much about the time delays on the stations per se. Ideally, stations broadcasting in HD or whatever you want to call it, would time align their signals so that when the radio blends from digital to analog, it's a smooth transistion. Obviously, the proliferation of atomic clocks and other precision time sources causes us to fret over several seconds here or there. At the end of the day, does it really make much difference?
To quote (I know you can see this one a mile away)"Does anyone now what time it is, does anyone really care?"
Cheers to all my AZ pals.
 
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