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In the news: KTLA news anchor switches to KTTV

Shades of George Putnam - who would move back and forth across the street between KTLA and KTTV in the 60s and early 70s - each time for more money. By the late 60s, he was reportedly the highest paid anchorman in the country, making even more than nationally top-rated Walter Chronkite made at CBS.
 
ThatManDan said:
Carlos Amezcua, seen as a possible successor to Hal Fishman, jumps ship.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-anchorsaway5sep05,0,2009960.story?coll=la-home-center
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No great loss. I found him competent but bland.

Lynette Romero is a disaster. I don't mind her looking 'pudgy' on-camera (HD has not helped her) but she has a serious, on-going problem pronouncing the names of foreign leaders and locations (other than Spanish, of course). Hal used to nail these names with ease. Lynette is either unprepared or uninformed.

Walter Richards, on the other hand, has a very good presence and reads well. It would be nice to bring him off the streets and behind the anchor desk.

But you can't tell me that in the #2 market KTLA, a heritage station, cannot find a worthy successor to Hal Fishman.

db
 
dbdigital said:
ThatManDan said:
Carlos Amezcua, seen as a possible successor to Hal Fishman, jumps ship.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-anchorsaway5sep05,0,2009960.story?coll=la-home-center
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No great loss. I found him competent but bland.

Lynette Romero is a disaster. I don't mind her looking 'pudgy' on-camera (HD has not helped her) but she has a serious, on-going problem pronouncing the names of foreign leaders and locations (other than Spanish, of course). Hal used to nail these names with ease. Lynette is either unprepared or uninformed.

Walter Richards, on the other hand, has a very good presence and reads well. It would be nice to bring him off the streets and behind the anchor desk.

But you can't tell me that in the #2 market KTLA, a heritage station, cannot find a worthy successor to Hal Fishman.

db
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Emmit Miller will be the new anchor.
 
Lkeller said:
Shades of George Putnam - who would move back and forth across the street between KTLA and KTTV in the 60s and early 70s - each time for more money.
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...I seem to recall Alex Dreier doing the same between KABC-TV and KTTV when he moved from Chicago to Los Angeles in the late '60s...
 
"Shades of George Putnam - who would move back and forth across the street between KTLA and KTTV in the 60s and early 70s - each time for more money."

"...I seem to recall Alex Dreier doing the same between KABC-TV and KTTV when he moved from Chicago to Los Angeles in the late '60s..."

You could be right - I don't remember Dreier on KABC at all - but I remember that KTTV hired him for the 10:00 PM news to compete against Putnam. They were similar in that they both had big deep authoritative voices, and were both on the pompous and dramatic side, though Dreier was a liberal, not conservative like Putnam.

I suspect Putnam always won in the ratings - after a year or two Dreier left KTTV and TV news, though he kept his ABC radio show, and acted for awhwile - mostly playing heavies (no pun intended) - mafia types and criminal corporate executives - in TV shows and made for TV movies...usually smoking a big cigar.
 
paulsecic said:
dbdigital said:
ThatManDan said:
Carlos Amezcua, seen as a possible successor to Hal Fishman, jumps ship.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-anchorsaway5sep05,0,2009960.story?coll=la-home-center
Click to expand...

No great loss. I found him competent but bland.

Lynette Romero is a disaster. I don't mind her looking 'pudgy' on-camera (HD has not helped her) but she has a serious, on-going problem pronouncing the names of foreign leaders and locations (other than Spanish, of course). Hal used to nail these names with ease. Lynette is either unprepared or uninformed.

Walter Richards, on the other hand, has a very good presence and reads well. It would be nice to bring him off the streets and behind the anchor desk.

But you can't tell me that in the #2 market KTLA, a heritage station, cannot find a worthy successor to Hal Fishman.

db
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Emmit Miller will be the new anchor.
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Emmett Miller comes across as a light weight and little more than eye candy. Prime News has that already with Leila Feinstein. They need someone with the "Walter Cronkite" factor...someone who appears seasoned and credible and, for lack of a better term, "fatherly" or paternal.

In short, KTLA needs to keep auditioning.

db
 
So the choices for KTLA comes down to: Walter Cronkite, George Putnam, or I understand Dan Rather is also now available. Hey, whatever happened to Joseph Benti? He could fill that roll.
 
o.k. Here's my real prediction. Watch for KTLA to announce that it's New Anchor of the 10 p.m. News to be: John Beard. The old switch game is on.
 
Well, so much for Emmett Miller. Now KTLA has Kurt Knutsen (the blond kid with the dimples and overbite) doing anchor chores with Leila.

If Ron Olsen didn't look so shabby and Nixon-like, I'd say give it to him. He reads news well and gives the salient points the right emphasis.

Oh well, the musical anchor game continues.

db
 
Lkeller said:
"Shades of George Putnam - who would move back and forth across the street between KTLA and KTTV in the 60s and early 70s - each time for more money."

"...I seem to recall Alex Dreier doing the same between KABC-TV and KTTV when he moved from Chicago to Los Angeles in the late '60s..."

You could be right - I don't remember Dreier on KABC at all - but I remember that KTTV hired him for the 10:00 PM news to compete against Putnam. They were similar in that they both had big deep authoritative voices, and were both on the pompous and dramatic side, though Dreier was a liberal, not conservative like Putnam.

I suspect Putnam always won in the ratings - after a year or two Dreier left KTTV and TV news, though he kept his ABC radio show, and acted for awhwile - mostly playing heavies (no pun intended) - mafia types and criminal corporate executives - in TV shows and made for TV movies...usually smoking a big cigar.
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...I'm fairly positive that Dreier first came to Los Angeles to work on KABC-TV -- he had been the lead anchor on WBKB/7, ABC's Chicago O&O, for years before that and had become perhaps the most important news anchor on the ABC payroll after John Daly left in 1960...
 
LV Foghead said:
o.k. Here's my real prediction. Watch for KTLA to announce that it's New Anchor of the 10 p.m. News to be: John Beard. The old switch game is on.
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Where's Emmet. I hate that know it all woman!!!!!!
 
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