January 07, 2004

First, Live, Local, And Perpetual

Hardly pressing or urgent news, but KPTV just proudly announced that they have just entered into their 39th consecutive hour of coverage of the Winter storm. Luckily for them, they own both channels 12 and 49, so when highly-rated FOX entertainment programming is due to come on, they switch over to channel 49 until they can come back home to channel 12.

Strangely, their anchors and reporters seem less punchy, and have been giving each other less crap, than their counterparts over at KGW who although they have not been on the air quite as endlessly, yesterday began to clearly suffer some sort of public snow madness.

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  1. Worldwide Pablo on 07 Jan 2004

    WWP rarely watches the Murdoch channels, but has been known to peruse the locals. Of them, KGW is clearly the most fatigued. Today, when Joe Smith, reporting on 100-year-old water pipes that had broken, opined something to the effect that "when you're 100 you might spring a leak too" -- well, there wasn't a measure of composure on the set for over a minute.

    KGW: WWP thinks they're losing it ... whatever "it" might have been.

    Best bet these days (and WWP is surprised to say this): KATU. Solid, consistent, most original of the locals, and most accurate weather forecasts. (WWP will opine Thursday on this.)

    The storm coverage is a big coup for KATU, once the bottom feeder of Portland's news stations. KATU's earned its stripes with the coverage in the last few days.

  2. The One True b!X on 07 Jan 2004

    I haven't watched much KATU because they normally drive me insane.

    I quite like how punchy KPTV has been, and how psychologically-challenged KGW has become during storm coverage.

  3. pdxkona on 11 Jan 2004

    I miss having cable. Northwest Cable News as I remember it, is the fairest of the all. Oh wait, no that award goes to Cam Johnson, one of their newscasters, who is hot, hot, hot. She is the fairest of them all, says I viewer/mirror.
    But really, when I lived in Seattle during the WTO riot happening, NWCN was always very matter of fact and didn't do the emotionalfreakout reporting as the others tended towards.