K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Keith saw it personally. He was sports director at channel 2 from 1988 to 1992, his first year there overlapping Jerry's last year (the second time).
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So much for the "KCAL News" branding
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Keith saw it personally. He was sports director at channel 2 from 1988 to 1992, his first year there overlapping Jerry's last year (the second time).
How about the Spanish-language TV market in LA? KVEA 52, the Telemundo O&O in Los Angeles, dominates in the ratings, often beating the highest ranked English language station.
So where is KMEX 34, the Univision O&O? I always thought Telemundo and Univision are fairly evenly matched in their investment in news and the ratings results. In NYC, whenever one is doing news, the other usually is too.
So where is KMEX 34, the Univision O&O? I always thought Telemundo and Univision are fairly evenly matched in their investment in news and the ratings results. In NYC, whenever one is doing news, the other usually is too.
Okay, so yeah---a second time, because the first one (the tape I saw) was at KABC in the early 80s.
This promo is from seven years ago, and I would imagine there have been cutbacks, but basically, combining the KNBC and KVEA news resources makes 52 tough to compete against:
This, by the way, blows my mind---58 news vans.
Now, what they've done is to eliminate the old separate news crew SUV and live truck and set everyone up so they can go live, and that's great---but damn.
At KTVK, we had 16 news units (SUVs), two microwave live trucks, a satellite truck and a helicopter and that felt pretty damn close to the big time. I think I counted 25 SUVs and 12 microwave live trucks and two sat trucks at KABC back in the 90s.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
So then Kent Brockman wasn't just a physical parody of Jerry Dunphy?
Judge for yourself. Ted Knight always said he fashioned the Ted Baxter character on the Mary Tyler Moore Show as a cross between Dunphy and the late George Putnam.
At least the latter had a brain, although even then he was too far to the right for my tastes.
TV news was a strange beast in the 70s, 80s and 90s, when budgets were big and promotion was a priority. KGO, San Francisco, 1971:
