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Sharing a post here from KING5 morning anchor Mimi Jumg who caught up with television's Katie Couric about an important upcoming PBS cooking show.  Katie lost a husband to the disease and Mimi added she also lost a loved one to it.  In 2000 Katie posted a live colonoscopy for the Today Show  More info in the links below. https://www.facebook.com/MimiJungJournalist/posts/pfbid02QrrckHT9rnvPPitJairYAu11yMZnBETLiS97t3aLNwMUk6npCe7dA35qLvpmpseNl?rdid=TWNY3yOtBBE5doN

  These moves should make KING5 happy, as the station has the exclusive 4th season partnership with the club to broadcast games over free TV.  (Root Sports has gone to the penalty box for a season-long major!).    The Kraken have signed defenseman Brandon Montour for $7M annually, just days after he helped Florida win the NHL's Stanley Cup.   In addition, Vegas Knights center Chandler Stephenson is also headed here, as the team's free agent spendng spree skates on.  https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/40474240/seattle-kraken-sign-defenseman-brandon-montour-7-years

  Consider this a 'DEERE JOHN' goodbye letter, so to speak, from JOHN DEERE to its employees in Illinois and Iowa, during the week of its big golf tournament in Silvis, IL.  It says so long to hundreds of workers.  I can hear CBS announcers now, interviewing the CEO, as they always do, NOT mentioning this at all.     https://x.com/komonews/status/1807851675983519934

Hoopfest is an annual tradition in Spokane...34 years now...as they shut down streets in downtown and set up hoops for some summer scufflin'.   500 three-person teams, 2,000 players and hundreds of thousands of spectators.  No word yet on how much the city's economy benefited, but the list of people injured in some way during the event is amazing.  189 strains/springs led the way, but, wow, 29 broken bones.   Read all about it and watch a wrapup video from KREM2 News. https://www.krem.com/article/entertainment/events/hoopfest/hoopfest-2024-tradition-growth-riley-stockton-spokane-basketball/293-2389428b-ac38-4199-aa2a-cbe37540213a

ICYMI, it appears COX-APOLLO owned KIRO7 in Seattle has cut almost a dozen staff as cutbacks across the company reportedly continue.   The only names confirmed so far are Sports DIrector Chris Francis, son of longtime NBC correspondent Fred Francis, and his producer, Chris Swanson, who formerly worked for me at the old Northwest Cable News.  No word on how KIRO will cover sports in the market going forward, with the Mariners leading the AL West, the Seahawks and UW football coming soon, not to mention the Kraken's fourth hockey season.  Gonna be interesting to watch.   I already notice  KOMO's weekend news, where the news anchor reads just a minute or two of sports.  Nico Tamurian is the station's only sports reporter/anchor right now.  Courtesy: ftvlive.com                                                                       Chris Francis                                                                    Nico Tamurian

The Summer Olympics start in late July and, for Chris Egan, it will be another long journey and a long time away from his Puyallup home and family.  He will be headed for Paris to cover the Games for KING5.  He has previously traveled to Rio in 2016, South Korea in 2018 and Tokyo in 2021 for the same assignment.   Chris and his wife, Melanie, have three children, one who has played Division One tennis for Portland State Univ., a son who pitches for Edmonton in the West Coast Baseball League and another son, who plays club basketball.