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Stephen Parr - KLTV

BreakingNews08 said:
I noticed he's no longer on air and his bio has been removed from the website. Does anyone know the details??
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Is Morgan handling Stephen's weekday morning duties and weekends now?
 
Yeah, Morgan is handling the mornings...some other guy is doing weekends...I cannot remember his name but i think he is a producer at KLTV.

I found out Stephen Parr is going to become the Chief Met at KSLA in Shreveport.
 
BreakingNews08 said:
Yeah, Morgan is handling the mornings...some other guy is doing weekends...I cannot remember his name but i think he is a producer at KLTV.

I found out Stephen Parr is going to become the Chief Met at KSLA in Shreveport.
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Makes sense since KLTV and KSLA are both owned by Raycom.
 
BreakingNews08 said:
Yeah, Morgan is handling the mornings...some other guy is doing weekends...I cannot remember his name but i think he is a producer at KLTV.

I found out Stephen Parr is going to become the Chief Met at KSLA in Shreveport.
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Good for Stephen! I'm sure he'll do well.

Is the "some other guy" you're thinking of named Michael Hetrick?
 
BreakingNews08 said:
Is the "some other guy" you're thinking of named Michael Hetrick?
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Yeah, that's him.
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If memory serves me correct, he's presented as a meteorologist as opposed to a "forecaster" as Morgan was before he completed his degree. Hetrick must be accustomed to being a utility man if he's a producer and now the weekend meteorologist.
 
At KLTV, they are all about Multi-tasking. I started as a simple camera op/weekend master control op. When, I left (and I was only there for a year and a half, unfortunately), I was directing news, editing, assisting Public Service, doing audio, tape, floor directing, and I was doing voiceover work, too. If I wanted to, I probably could have studied to do weather or sports. And, I loved that job, it's been by far my favorite media job. But, they did things very cheaply, so if they can hire someone cheap to do some fill-in or weekend work, they are all over it. Love the station, Love the People, just hate the operating budget. And, I'm sure it's worse now that they are owned by Raycom, instead of Buford/TV-3, Inc.
 
Snoman,

Maybe if you had 'worked the pole', you'd still be there with a big, fat raise.

Or at least your had own network show.
 
bill davis said:
Snoman,

Maybe if you had 'worked the pole', you'd still be there with a big, fat raise.

Or at least your had own network show.
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I have a face (and body) for Radio. And, unlike our friends on Loop 323 (both 19 & 56), KLTV had standards. Unfortunately, my landlord and the light company don't like it when you try to pay with company standards. They'd rather have a check, and not one that Michael Jordan can dribble down the court. ;)

However, maybe if I would have worked a pole and sent it in on videotape, to Dave Moreland, with my aircheck, about 12 years ago, he would have hired me to join you guys at "The East Texas Superstation 93.1 KTYL", just on my comedy performance alone. My aircheck obviously didn't get r'done. Why is it the "What Might Have Been" card is the most popular one in the deck? ???
 
snoman said:
you guys at "The East Texas Superstation 93.1 KTYL"
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Speaking of the "East Texas Superstation", I suppose I will be indebted to Bill for introducing me to what has become one of my more favorite Christmas carol parodies, "The Restroom Door Said 'Gentlemen'". I found the lyrics to that song last Christmas and had the senior adults at my church rolling in laughter.

Thanks, Bill! ;D
 
My pleasure, Mr. C.

But my fave was always "Walking 'Round in Womens Underwear". I played that song once, ONCE, mind you. My owner was driving in Tyler that day, heard it and ordered me never to play it again....even though I got hundreds of requests for years from moms and their kids to hear it. My ol' mentor banned it from that day forward. Too bad....very funny song.

And Snoman, those things just happen. I'm sure we either didn't have an opening or Dave missplaced your aircheck, etc. We were actually lucky enough back then to have lots of people applying for jobs....from what I hear, that doesn't seem to be the case in radio anymore. And for what its worth, I actually applied for a job at KLUE a couple of years after graduating from SFA in '75. Can't recall the guy's name, but he told me I had zilch talent and would never, ever make it in radio. So I guess we've all had those kinds of career turning events. And I probably did suck way back then.

BTW, back to the topic, went to the KSLA site and noticed Mr. Parr's bio isn't up yet, but saw that an Ed Duranczyk has been in the Shreveport market since 1979. The reason I mention it is that his bio says he got his TV start in Tyler....which would mean KLTV back then, since they were the only act in town. I didn't get to Tyler until 1981. Anybody heard of or remember this guy?
 
Bill,

If you get a chance, please private message me with the owner who told you "no mas" on that one. I can't remember who that might would have been.

I also saw that about Ed Duranczyk on his bio. I can't remember him being at KLTV back then...but that was before I really started paying attention to personalities on TV. I can only remember John Adams and Mark Scirto being at KLTV. Can't even recall who was there when one of them (Scirto?) took a hiatus and then came back.

Wasn't Duranczyk Chief Meteorologist at KTBS at some point?
 
Well, thanks for the encouragement Bill. I'm ok with the path my career has taken. I'd like to be in Radio, instead of TV, but I enjoy having three days off and money in my pocket. Something I fell short of, when I was behind the mic... and doing music calls, remotes, schedules, production work, and working in a restaurant to suppliment my income. Not that I would have had to do all that at KTYL, and I would have possibly had enough money to eat and sleep in a roofed establishment (other than a car), I would not have all the wonderful relationships I've established along the way.

Duranczyk was indeed at KLTV. Not sure when he left, but when my family moved to East Texas in 1982, he was already at KTBS. And, yes he was the Chief there for quite sometime. I'm not sure what happened there, but for some reason, in the early-to-mid '90's, Mike Pass who was at KSLA, wound up at KTBS and Duranczyk crossed the road to KSLA, in a lesser capacity. Not sure why they didn't promote him to Chief. Maybe like Scott Fossey, he's got other obligations outside his Face Time. In related Tyler-Shreveport news, former KETK Meteorologist Mark Rowlett, is at KTBS now.

Where is Adams these days? Not that I'm complaining, he's beyond boring. I just wondered what happened to him and Chuck McDonald, who bolted KLTV, when KETK took to the air. Scirto is awesome. Yeah, he's got a pretty big ego, but he was always nice to me. We'd watch BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD after the newscast each night. I'll never forget the first time I went back to KLTV to visit, after I went home to San Antonio, he had this promotion with an umbrella giveaway. The umbrella said "Mark Scirto said it would". I walked up and tapped him on the shoulder, and said, "Mark Scirto said 'Wood'." He doubled over.
 
snoman said:
Where is Adams these days? Not that I'm complaining, he's beyond boring. I just wondered what happened to him and Chuck McDonald, who bolted KLTV, when KETK took to the air.
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John was doing the weather for Waller's cluster of radio stations for awhile after leaving KETK. Apparently, his contract has expired and Waller is using some national company because I heard the same meteorologist that is on in the mornings on a station in Columbus, OH, doing the weather in the mornings on "The Breeze". (Did I just set a record for the longest sentence in a post?) Chuck was last seen on KYTX doing the "Legends" weekend thing that Hurley did some time back. It was quite a throwback to see him and Judy Jordan back together.

Scirto is awesome. Yeah, he's got a pretty big ego, but he was always nice to me. We'd watch BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD after the newscast each night. I'll never forget the first time I went back to KLTV to visit, after I went home to San Antonio, he had this promotion with an umbrella giveaway. The umbrella said "Mark Scirto said it would". I walked up and tapped him on the shoulder, and said, "Mark Scirto said 'Wood'." He doubled over.
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Sounds like Scirto is quite the humorist. He's always struck me as a jovial character.
 
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