With Hannah Knowles getting the main news anchor vacated by Lee Stoll, Theron Zahn shares the desk with her on weekend mornings and newcomer Stella Sun (above) works with Michelle Esteban o weekend evenings.  Zahn and Sun will presumably provide fill-in work for Waldenberger and O'Donnell weekdays/nights as well as doing weekday reporting stints.  Stella has big shoes to fill replacing Rebecca Stevenson.   It is difficult tohave five people on weather in these times of tight budgets.  KING still has five full-timers (Marriott, Pezzetti, Claibon, Everett and  Ruiz) but Rich Marriott might soon approach the exit door after 37 years and decades of morning work.

KOMO is asleep at the switch as usual with reporter Paul Rivera's bio still up on the web site's "News Team" page.  He announced his departure from the station right after the New Year.   In addition, Rebecca Stevenson's bio was still up this month even after she left the station just before Christmas!!  It's finally gone now.   Digital producer, please pick up the white courtesy phone.    https://komonews.com/station/people I

The KIRO 7 evening newscast is doing a lot more showcasing of segments and picking up the pace of the program.  Cosmetics over content.   Then, I watch a promo that says their news PUTS YOU THERE (oh, you mean the usual dime-a-dozen faux live shots?), HAPPENING NOW (oh, not yesterday?), GETS YOU ANSWERS (Isn't that what you are supposed to do?), news that's LOCAL (Really, a local station doing local news?), because WHERE YOU LIVE MATTERS (thanks, Capt. Obvious). What a mess, IMHO.

Seattle Times talks with the legendary Bob Rivers, who along with his cohorts, ruled radio in the market for years.  At one point, when I was running NWCN, we approached Bob and his producer Arik Korman about televising part of his daily show.  He was open to it,we broke bread over it, but things didn't work out.   I bet it would have been great fun. https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/bob-rivers-longtime-seattle-radio-host-looks-back-amid-cancer-diagnosis/?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=6117832

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So, they have lost reporters Mo Haider, Paul Rivera, Rebecca Stevenson, union ENG guys and a News Director and News Operations Manager who both retired last month.    It has replaced Fox 13 Seattle as the sieve of this market's TV roster.  They have hired an new male anchor who simply does NOT fit.  The newscast is filled with alarmist crime stories and the ARC Seattle morning show is a FEMA zone. Just the beginning.