Oregon Media Insiders

Someone, another anonymous "someone," posted this revealing bit of sagaciousness in regards to another News Anchor appointment in the PDX market:

"Not to mention his NINE Emmys for local broadcast excellence, an Edward R. Murrow Award and an Iris award."

Given the state of television news, especially within the past ten years, the heaviest lifting one must do to win a local Emmy is to be smart enough to fill out the entry forms.

I didn't get a chance to follow everyone's coverage of the Gearhart story this morning, but I was impressed how quickly the Astorian got accurate info on their website, and KGW seemed to be only a step behind. (Others may have done well, too.)

OregonLive.com quoted the Astorian and linked to it on its website during the morning hours.

As I just said in a message to Lynn, my wife and I had a place in Gearhart until a year ago and know that house well. It is sobering to imagine how quickly a peaceful, post-weekend morning turned to tragedy without warning.

Sayonara

Spring Arbitrons are in for Portland. As usual I don't have the demo, but I do have the 12+. And the market leader, for the first time, is a Spanish language station, El Rey 93.1. The top ten stations:

KRYP-FM Regional Mexican 6.4
KWJJ-FM Country 5.5
KKCW-FM AC 5
KGON-FM Classic Rock 4.7
KUPL-FM Country 4.7
KEX-AM News/Talk 4.1
KINK-FM Triple A 3.6
KKRZ-FM CHR/Top 40 3.6
KPOJ-AM Talk 3.5
KUFO-FM Rock 3.4

Who saw this coming? I sure didn't!

Once again, the average OMI reader displays his/her true colors and demonstrates why television, and Television News in particular, is in dire straits. After castigating this writer for excessive banality, utter vapidness, mind-numbing stupidity and for being a generally poor imitation of the real Hunter Thompson (may god rest his soul) one person who posts to the site asked:

“If this site had the capability to ignore, I would do so. (Does it have that capability?)”

The site owner and operator replied: “not yet But I'll look into it.”