SO MANY MURROWS...SO LITTLE TIME

[LITTLEBOYBLUE]

Congrat's to KOMO for picking up FOUR of the coveted Ed R Murrow awards in News categories....and even (no joke) KPLZ scored one for the Bras Across Lake Washington coverage.

Especially impressive for KPLZ since pedaling the "news bike" to the middle of Lake Washington is no small feat.

 

[Joe_Capitano]

Let's also include the TV side, threatened as it might be by ... um, "Them". Four Murrows including the big one for overall excellence in the Region. Sister KATU also scored for their coverage of that Mall shooting.

Seems KOMO has a great news department here, Sinclair. YA THINK?

 

[radioguy123]

Saw the listing of Murrow Awards. KOMO-TV and KOMO Radio were the big winners along with KING TV. Couple of surprises in that KIRO-FM had no awards and surprising to see KPLZ in the mix of winners. One has to wonder if the new owners of Fisher will even care. I fear Seattle will lose a 24/7 honored news station and a live and local music station that does a lot of good in the community as evidenced by this recognition. Speaks to local talent doing good things versus out of town owners carrying syndicated programming or voice-tracking. KUDO's to the people at Fisher, proving radio and TV are more than just broadcast licenses and profit margins. Isn't the FCC license granted to "serve the public interest," not serve "serve the stockholders interest." Fisher stations seem to do both, let hope it stays that way with out of town owners. Sadly that is not usually the case.

 

[Steenman]

"Sadly that is not usually the case."
So Belo is not based here and they won awards, In fact there are very few media companies based in the NW any more unless you count a handful of AM stations that are mostly smaller market or fringe players- and good operators (tow of which are regular posters on this board)
Why does not 'being local' mean they won't care about the market? It just feels like such a throwback to say that. And why predict the worst with Sinclair, maybe they are going to come in and do a bang up job here in their 'jewel' of a market. We don't know. So why assume the worst?

 

[Bongwater]

"Sadly that is not usually the case."
So Belo is not based here and they won awards, In fact there are very few media companies based in the NW any more unless you count a handful of AM stations that are mostly smaller market or fringe players- and good operators (tow of which are regular posters on this board)
Why does not 'being local' mean they won't care about the market? It just feels like such a throwback to say that. And why predict the worst with Sinclair, maybe they are going to come in and do a bang up job here in their 'jewel' of a market. We don't know. So why assume the worst?

Perhaps because Fisher was the last major locally owned player. It feels like the end of an era going back nearly 100 years (and it is.)

 

[radioguy123]

I doubt if you talk to anyone who worked for KING Broadcasting in the days of the Bullitt sisters they would say the stations are better under national ownership. KING dominated the Murrows (KOMO won most of the coveted categories this year), plus had a larger staff, gave back more to the community and in every way was a community TV station through its many local and public affairs programs and corporate gifts to the arts. Most of these programs are gone today. Belo is a solid broadcaster, but hard to argue they are better than the local ownership before. I am not sure Sinclair is even the quality of broadcasting company that Belo is. Others may know more. As for radio, Sinclair owns none so you are right however to wait and see.