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The team used its own production facility and personnel at Lumen to provide the ceremony telecast exclusively on KING at 10 a.m., just like for home pre-season games on K5. The show had great player and fan closeups, music, dancing, speeches, toasts, Ernest Jones' totally unnecessary and embarrassing double profanity at a family event, the works (I swear Steve Raible grimaced at those words, not to mention the middle finger on the shirt). Radio pbp man Steve Raible actually anchored the event. KING had Paul Silvi and Ariel Orsuto at a separate desk inside the stadium. Partnership paid off! The other stations, including KING, set up reporters along the parade route.
BTW, Kenneth Walker III, the Super Bowl MVP, did not speak and was only briefly mentioned awkwardly that I saw. That seemed strange. Soft spoken, so maybe he didn't want the added attention? Or maybe he's already committed to Vegas with Kubiak??
I hear you Wayne re: Ernest Jones. Hopefully KING had the TV broadcast on seven-second delay
ReplyDeleteNo, it came thru loud and clear and to the entire stadium.
DeleteI saw it live and yes the first thing I thought is, oh great, the FCC is going to be calling
DeleteIt’s amazing — and impressive — how KING continues to invest in its product. Sometime soon there will be a “last man standing” in local TV news and 5 will be it.
ReplyDeleteTotally true. Probably King and Fox 13 will survive. KOMO depends on Sinclair which is not a positive. If Nexstar gets KING, they do so knowing it's power legacy.
ReplyDeleteI've never given too much thought to which station might end up being the last one standing in this market should we get to the point of seeing entire stations close down, but I would have to agree that KING and Fox 13 currently seem poised to be the last two. I hope we don't lose any of our stations, but the possibility can't be taken completley off the table at this point.
DeleteKING and FOX are good looking stations with okay on-air products, but neither is currently top of the market. FOX pre-records newscasts. KING looks like the Mickey Mouse Club with all of those young faces. Partnerships are great during the season, but the true “pay off” would be an ROI in the form of lasting ratings growth. That said, I do worry about KING. Nexstar is everything Sinclair wishes it could be.
ReplyDeleteI think KING's new graphics beginning with a center screen square is totally unattractive. Don't get the concept at all. KOMO seems to be walking in place right now. Status quo. Fox folks do too much smiling banter in the morning, but I will be more curious about changes in their overall studio look when they move downtown. It looks cheap too often. KIRO is living on a prayer.
ReplyDeleteNot one, two but 3 "F Bombs" on live tv. Will that cost KING some money? And I can't believe there wasn't a delay in play there
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