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Is the LIVE DESK dead in Seattle TV

 


Still seeing the overworked Steve McCarron handling the KOMO Live Desk in the morning, but I am no longer seeing it in the 4-6 pm shows, which used to feature Hannah Knowles and Ryan Simms doing updates on stories and showing the phony Pulse Poll, often populated with questions that play to the KOMO base, IMHO.   No Live Desk at 4 or 5, despite Breaking News on I-5.  Maybe it's because the KOMO anchors are pictured on every story in an adjacent video box.  The new News Director at work.

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  1. IDC9May 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM

    KIRO had a live desk for a while that would occasionally pop up on the evening shows, though I always got the impression it was used more on the morning show (I'm not a regular viewer of the KIRO morning show, so my impression may not be accurate). Is the KIRO live desk still around, or has it gone away as well?

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  2. Wayne LMay 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM

    No Live Desk on 7 at 4pm Friday but will check a.m. shows next week. I rarely watch the news on 7 after the Jesse firing and the fake investigative team using their anchors. Doesn't work that way. Also learned that two of their EMMY nominations were DQ'd because entries were re-edited by promotion dept. and not submitted as originally aired. Hmmmm

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  3. IDC9May 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM

    When I saw KIRO's live desk on the evening shows, it was really only being used as an alternative to the typical camera-in-the-newsroom set-up that stations have. It wasn't being used the way in which we've come to see live desks being used in recent years, at least not during the evening shows.

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  4. IDC9May 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM

    As for KIRO's emmy nominations being disqualified, that is concerning. I wonder what stories, newscasts, and/or special reports they were trying to enter, and why they felt the need to re-edit them. Maybe they weren't worthy of being entered in their original, as-aired forms?

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  5. Wayne LMay 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM

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  6. Wayne LMay 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM

    I will reveal after the noms in this particular category are awarded on event night.

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  7. IDC9May 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM

    I will look forward to the reveal. Thank you. And good luck to all of the stations who have submitted entries this year. May the best ones win!

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