Oregon Media Insiders

Via PDXRadio, we hear of two deaths of note: Marilyn McKay, longtime KOIN finance gal who retired in 1997; and Ric Eljin, aka Rick Liljenberg, of KYXI, KOIN radio and KGAR among others.

[Edited to correct spelling of Ric Eljin's name. Apologies.--L]

From today's memo from the really rather overexposed on OMI these days Patrick McCreery, SM/ND:

I am very excited to announce the addition of two new Fox 12 newscasts on Fox 12 and PDX-49.

Starting September 8th we are adding a 5pm newscast on KPTV Fox 12 and an 8pm newscast on PDX-49.

These will both be one-hour newscasts making Fox 12 news the undisputed news leader in Portland!

Absolutely no relation to this being a year ending in a number that's divisible by four, I'm sure.

That makes it...lessee...not counting Better...I think eight hours of news a day? Which doesn't seem to me to be more than the rest do, but I may be counting on my fingers wrong; I got too much sun at Park Day. That's a lot of Dirty Dining in any event. I would think they'd go for at least a modest staff-up, but who knows. Work smarter, not harder? har-de-har?

I hear Dave Northfield is leaving the Ocho for a PR position. True?