As long as I am writing about the media here I want to give out a few awards...
Best television new staff...KTVI Channel 2. They aren't as flashy as channel four and five, but they do the best job of reporting and presenting the news. I have even seen the news staff at two report on issues. (This is rarely seen in television news. (Is that an oxymoron)? In the weather department if their main meteorologist wasn't so bad at predicting the weather the station would be really good. But, they are still better than the products being generated by the other stations in this market.
Worst television news staff KSDK Channel 5. There newscast has turned into a slick presentation of little more than features and puff pieces. In fact yesterday morning, at it's nine a.m. newscast it not only did a promo in the newscast for the Skating competition in town this week, it went so far as to tell viewers where to buy tickets and how much they cost. News? Come on folks why don't you just label this crap what it is. In fact you should call yourself feature center five. The woman who does prime time weather is awful and the Asian woman on Saturday morning isn't much better.
The other two TV outlets that do "local" newscasts are mediocre. The CBS affiliate KMOV puts up a lot of slick, glitzy pieces, but it does have some reporters who know the market and do recognize a legitimate story.
Channel 11 tries real hard, but it is reminiscent of the newscasts I used to put out when I was in journalism school. ..not really very good. But they do try and they have a few people in their newsroom that are good at what they do. And give them credit, unlike the other three they are not constantly interrupting prime time programming with their latest weather technology, to bore the pants off of viewers.
