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The former News Director of powerhouse KTVB in Boise, who went on to be a GM for Tegna Phoenix, has been named regional GM for the Pacific Northwest stations owned by the company.   Kate Morris will supervise GMs at KING, Seattle, KGW in Portland, KREM in Spokane, and KTVB.  The regional ND there was fired not too long ago, so not sure how long this job will hold if Nexstar eventually gets Tegna after all the litigation.  My forecast:  Mostly Cloudy, save for a rainy day.  

Seeing a big solo promotional push for Patrick Hussion at KOMO with him talking about truth and accountability.  Hmmm.  A Sinclair anchor being pushed before the mid-terms?   We still have no idea about whether this guy believes in the news media, for which he works, or hates it, as he said during his CPAC speech when he worked at the One American non-network cable network.   Believe in his credibility if you dare.   He has a tainted news rep, IMO.    BTW the way, his co-anchor in the mornings is not getting the same push, is she?   Trying to get him over with viewers?   Aren't they a team??     Seems odd??  

Noticed that KOMO reporter Jackie Kent did fill-in anchoring on the weekend evening news.   Good, solid reporter IMO.  Nice break!  

Gregg Bell, sports talk host at KJR, reported that  Sunday was his last day as Seahawks beat writer for the Tacoma News Tribune because of the McClatchy company layoffs.   Recently he's also been a frequent guest on KING's afternoon sports show. 

I don't usually catch Seattle News Tonight on Fox 13 at 5 so I guess I was surprised to see this minor  set, complete with vases and other items (probablyleague from Michael's Crafts) placed on some shelves with the others left open.  Didn't Studio 13 Live use this backdrop and also even the nightly sports show?   And if I'm not mistaken, Rose and Kim had comfy, cozy white chairs at some point sans this backdrop. I wonder if this is happening because of the station's November plan to move everything to a new building downtown.    Anyway, it looks awful and the anchors have a height disparity which I hadn't seen before, rivaling the morning team on KOMO.    

Looks like Fox 13 Seattle has abandoned it's highly promoted LIVE DESK running during afternoon in favor of newly-titled Good Day at noon and newly-Seattle News Today at 1, both still designed to forage and present news as it happen, but without the clutter that defined it and made it a shaky technical production.  AJ Janavel anchoring at 12 Weds and Matt Smith at 1.   The shows are missing the overkill multi-frame video boxes and weather on the right, with changing fonts/crawls below.  Not sure if this is permanent or temporary but here's how it looked today vs how it looked when debuted last year.    Thanks to an ever loyal tipster, BTW.

There has been plenty of discussion on this site about the sports situation in Seattle TV, in particular the lack of a sports department at KIRO 7 and the seemingly stretched one-man operation at KOMO.   Well, KOMO is listing a job opening for a sports MMJ to help with coverage of all of the teams.  With all that's going on now and what's ahead in Seattle sports, it seems about time.   Here's the posting: https://edyy.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2002/jobs?location=Seattle%2C+King%2C++WA%2C++United+States&locationId=300000001961183&locationLevel=city&mode=location&radius=25&radiusUnit=MI