MediaMaven

By rule, The KOMO School of TV News Production loves to keep its anchors on camera when video is rolling, even dramatic video of violent/rowdy fan behavior in NYC.  Plus, they add (every five seconds) area temps and forecasts screen right, a rolling headline ticker and a two-line lower third font.     Phew.  That rivals Fox13's Live Desk malaise.  I know, we must be multitaskers, but this seems excessive early in the morning!    

Will somebody get KOMO morning anchor something to sit on or a small riser or raise her chair up to match the height of new anchor Patrick Hussion from North Carolina? Totally distracting and bad first impression, which a good producer would have immediately noticed and fixed.   I mean didn't they rehearse together???    Bad mismatch standing at the wall as well.  Guarantee you viewers chuckled when they watched.  They didn't notice in this pre-taped interview, where he listed his resume, they played a stirring 8 questions game like 'coffee or tea?'  'sunset or sunrise?'  and interviewed his wife!   Wow.    Well, good luck, sir!

TEMP-PER-AH-TURES.   If you find one who doesn't say TEMP-A-CHERS, let me know.  Diction, folks, on your most important and most often used word.  Pet peeve.

KOMO Senior News Reporter posts this after the Stanley Cup Finals.  Clicks, click, clicks.  Good for you Chris. The Hartford Whaler logo from the great beyond.  Stonehenge.   Meaningless.   I don't get it at all.  Why?   Pick your poison.  Covering sports business or pushing old hockey logos?  No young folks care.   Cover City Hall more. 

Checked in with KING on Saturday evening where reporter Sebastian Robertson was filling in on the anchor desk.  Please, somebody at KING coach this guy. He is too soft spoken to anchor. No energy, volume, no urgency, tone, drive.   He led in to an exclusive Investigators piece like he was ready for a nap.   Sell the stories.   He has one job.  Don't mail it in.  Boring presentation at a time where he could shine.

KING Sports Director Paul Silvi has posted a social media pitch for his side hustle, Biff's Blue Ribbon BBQ Sauce, which he owns!   It must be "The Ultimate Side Hustle."  I think it been out there for about a year, but this seems new.  I should charge him for this ad.   https://www.facebook.com/share/1Fiec84AtW/

I often think long goodbyes from TV people are overdone.  Layers of pollyanna hyperbole.  They talk about the privilege and trust and gratitude of being welcomed into viewers' homes.  On weekend newscasts?   The right words?   Vague next career steps and new chapters??  After being in Seattle for a proverbial cup a coffee?   Unfortunately, social media makes these goodbyes possible.   They seemed linked to the generation, but the comments aimed at strangers have become far more than we need to know.    Is it done to get clicks present and future?  To maintain your friends and followers? How bout mentioning the crisis facing the business, the pressures of working under the dark cloud of a Nexstar takeover or being asked to do too much work for the money?    Her unsolved murder series dates back to the 70s in TV when I did the same stuff in Baltimore.  They've  once again become the flavor of th...