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New Weekend Voice at KOMO

RadioEdit said:
True. And not a single reporter on weekends. :mad:
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Right - they always used to have one reporter working on weekends, but now that they are down to 4 full time reporters (not counting Bill Ogden rip and reading Tacoma News Tribune reports from his basement) from 6, I guess that shift has been eliminated.

I think it is suprising that KOMO only has 4 reporters, especially considering their competition at KIRO has maintained 6 reporters even with a drastically cut back news operation.

Also- as for the weekends, note that as one goes, so goes the other. Both KOMO and KIRO used to have male/female coanchors on weekend mornings... when KIRO went to Eric Kirschner solo, KOMO ditched the coanchor as well. Then KIRO got rid of the weekend morning reporter (the weekend reporter, currently Trey Thomas, does a whole shift anchoring updates middays now), and so did KOMO. Weekend mornings are better on KOMO than KIRO because at least KOMO has a pool of editors to voice reports and TV reports left over from the previous night. KIRO weekend mornings have become a compliation of all the little one minute filler segments CBS makes available to affiliates (which I actually find pretty interesting, just to hear what CBS "throws out there") and national news stories.
 
What concerns me most is newspapers are cutting back ... TV is bare-bones, radio is bare-bones (national AND local alike). There used to be SOME level of comfort that there was SOME news organization bird-dogging politics so those guys and gals didn't feel like they have free reign to screw us blind. Now, all the news folks worried about the most basic dollar and we see reporting resources cut and cut and cut. We can't even have the comfort zone of RADIO/TV doing newspaper rewrites because newspapers are cutting too. Does A/P have ANY investigative resources? TV's "investigative" teams are usually sweeps-building stories about what's living in your toilet, how your kids' teachers own computers that are CAPABLE of connecting to porn sites, etc.!!! Not sure half of them could find City Hall with a GPS.

So...where do our "watchdogs" come from now? If "nowhere" ... what keeps our public trust TRUSTWORTHY?? PBS/NPR also getting budget cuts so certainly won't come from there either.

I'm just very afraid we'll end up getting EXACTLY what we deserve.
 
"Weekend mornings are better on KOMO than KIRO because at least KOMO has....TV reports left over from the previous night."

My concern is should that day come when KOMO TV and radio are no longer under one ownership, (as KING 5 & KING 1090 and KIRO 7 & News Radio 710 both split during the 1990's) will that resource still be available for KOMO 1000 News.
 
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