Another critique of Fox 13's Washington Sports Wrap

Decided to wait for awhile and check out the latest edition of Washington Sports Wrap at 730 weeknights on Fox 13 Seattle.

My take:

The show is terribly under-produced in general. Alyssa Charlston hosted this edition, I guess Aaron Levine was off. She's OK but lacks tangible energy or enthusiasm and is rather standard as a sports host. Just a slowwww pace top to bottom on Wednesday night's show. Host hould to start each block on a closeup after a nice studio wide shot & needs to push it hard. Inflection, tone, salesmanship.

The set remains more than mediocre with cheap lookiing director's chairs and overly long two shots combined with that really bad cutout logo as the backdrop. Everett Fitzhugh, the Kraken radio guy was a very good guest, I like this guy's energy a lot, and I am amazed he hasn't been on the KHN pre-game show far with a taped piece on location, especially when the games are on KJR and Ian Furness still works there. But don't ask the guy to comment on football. That's not his game or thing. Will this show be canceled after football season? KING/KONG has hockey locked up so this show doesn't have many hot topics post Super Bowl, which indeed will be on Fox.

The show needs creative producing and more interactivity with the audience. It falls very short and doesn's seem to be a very good draw against prime time games and Jeopardy. Placeholder.

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