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Sunday Morning Coming Way Down on KOMO



Watched for a full hour Sunday morning.  NO Theron Zahn, so weather was voiced over several times by one of the anchors and the voices of Hannah Knowles and Kelly Koopmans were impossible to tell apart on VOs.  With Rebecca Stevenson gone, the weather staff is now shorthanded.    Nothing but rerun news packages from Kent, Moreno and Harris, hockey highlights from a Saturday afternoon game (now 16 hours old) and even an interview from the moribund ARC Seattle show. NO live reporter at all.   A canned 'Steals and Deals' and a bunch of mostly innocuous feature stuff to fill out the hour.    Yikes, hardly worth wasting a cup of coffee on.  A half hour news on weekend mornings would suffice,  but two hours are there for ad inventory only on all the stations.    

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  1. Mike BarerJanuary 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM

    All the local TV studios will probably be like KING5's current one and local Tv will probably all but disappear.

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