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The Seattle Emmy Racket Grows

Just what we need, two more categories for the NATAS NW Emmy contest: Talk Show and Contact Shorts.   Does this mean New Day on KING and Studio 13 Live can enter??   I hope not.  Too many paid segments.  And I am trying to think if I have seen a 'content short' on any television show in the market.  Correct me if I'm wrong.  Is this like TikTok TV??   Crank up extra entry fees and dinner tickets!! Anyway, here's the NATAS explanations. Read if you dare: Categories We have two new categories: Content Shorts - category 55 Talk Show - category 49 Content Shorts #55 For excellence in short-form content created with a social-first strategy. While entries are not required to have been published on a specific platform (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X), the video content is designed for a social media audience. This content is served to viewers based on interests and follows rather than being consumed via scheduled time slots. ...
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Seattle TV holiday rhyme time

I offered my national TV Christmas ode earlier this month.  Now, here's one for Seattle TV.  Hope you enjoy a chuckle: Twas the Time Before Christmas  Push hard!   Feed the phones, Keep the content gods fed, Staff is picked to the bones. KOMO’s righty agenda hangs in the air Due to the Evil Empire known as Sinclair. On Mary, on Daniels, on Preston and Molly. That team keeps survivin' - by gosh, by golly! Short staffing at 7 not quite as acute, Will Cox sell it off or is that all moot? Horcher still scorches, Monique is unique, Allard’s great too, but sport’s up the creek 13 has Claire with always a twinkle The Live Desk debut was an unprepared wrinkle. On Wixey, on Aaron, on Hana and Brian But Mets reading newscasts still leaves me sighin’ And what about KING, where awards are important? If Nexstar buys, will its old rep go dormant? On Copeland, on Taylor, on Mimi and Marriott. No sleigh for Santa, just a legacy chariot 11 remains non-local each day Family Feud ...

Check these pages and tell me what you see

I am including all four 'Meet the Team' pages from the Seattle TV station sites.  Is DEI truly dead?  Is it just the Seattle market?   What do you notice?  Take a close look.   Give me your conclusions and thughts!   Thanks. https://www.kiro7.com/station/about-us/kiro-7-newsteam/ https://komonews.com/station/people https://www.fox13seattle.com/team https://www.king5.com/meet-the-team

A 1pm Monday snapshot of Seattle TV coverage of Levee Break

Decided to canvass the Seattle TV's when news was breaking about major flash flood threats because of the Green River levee break.    KING was on the air for the full hour extended with wall-to-wall coverage, anchored very strongly by Christine Pae on news and Ashley Ruiz on weather.   Interestingly, KING did not simulcast on KONG at 1, when it usually repeats the KING noon.   In fact, KONG ran back-to-back spots and promos until about 1:50 when it joined a 'Justice for The People' show in progress.     KOMO stayed with the General Hospital soap until 2 when anchor Molly Shen and George Waldenberger began breaking coverage.    KIRO, from what I observed, was live for about a half hour or thereabouts with Linzi Sheldon and Dee Dee Sun on the desk, when it eventualy joined a CBS soap in progress.  Fox 13 was simulcasting its Live Desk on both the mother ship and KJZO.   Hana Kim and Erin Mayofsky anchored for a per...

Leaving PDX for DVR

  Drew Carney, who has been an anchor/reporter for some 19 years at KGW Portland, is leaving the Tegna station for another one, KUSA in Denver, the Tegna flagship.  From our friends at ftvlive.com https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2025/12/11/toldja

Cohn out of KHN

As we reported about back in early October, and had previously speculated, Linda Cohn is not part of the Kraken Hockey Network this season.  Furness fully riding the Zamboni.   The Seattle Times and the website Awful Announcing finally caught up. https://awfulannouncing.com/nhl/linda-cohn-kraken-hockey-network-ian-furness.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter  

This Seattle TV Investigative team dwindling

A tip from a reader tonight indicates that Kristin Goodwillie, a KING 5 investigator, has quietly left the station.   Insider days she is now with the Red Cross here, joining a former Tegna employee.   With the departure of Taylor Mirfendereski and Susannah Frame promoted to News Director, it would leave only Chris Ingalls in the award-winning unit.  But, my source says the station is trying to hire a new investigator.  Regardless, it's n ot a good time to join Tegna at King with the Nexstar merger looming.