I want to salute the man in the tux from this celebratory photo taken in 2010, if memory serves. The industry lost Dick Splitstone nine years ago this month. He was my talented, loyal executive producer and dear friend at NWCN, running the day-to-day and teaching our young staff professionalism. He also had many work colleagues at KIRO and NATAS NW. He is missed very much. Dick was kind enough to honor me in retirement, arranging some great farewell photos of the staff. (Below) Thank you, Richard Also, I want acknowledge that the lady in the first photo is Emily Cantrell, former NWCN and KOMO leader, now president of Seafair.
I went looking on the cable program grid Saturday for evening network news, but none of the local stations elected to take earlier feeds of WNT, NNN or CBS EN. There were network sports events at 7, 730 & 8 in the East, presumably with the usual network news in normal time slots. Here, KOMO did Sinclair's 'Full Measure' at 330 and local news at 4. KIRO ran paid at 330 and local news at 4. KING ran paid at 330. And after Golf, it ran five straight paid shows. First local news aired at 10 on KONG, 11 on K5 after Dateline. This happens a lot during college football Saturdays, but was surprised today that there were no opportunities.