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Fisher follies, KATU and McOmie

Submitted by Zamboni on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 2:56pm.

So, as KATU is blowing out Grant McOmie, the home office was trying to plunder - er, enhance compensation for executives - until major stockholders blew a gasket.

From Portland Business Journal:

Quote:
Fisher Communications Inc.'s shareholders Wednesday approved a scaled-back plan to issue new stock to reward executives after an original plan drew strong opposition from two of the Seattle-based media company's largest investors.

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KATU score ticker clipped?

Submitted by Zamboni on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 9:48am.

Anyone else noticing that K2's score ticker is past "title-safe" on 4x3 screens?

Dunno if this is part of some evil plot to get us all to buy those newfangled HD sets...but seems more annoying than persuasive to me. And K2 seems to be the only violator - haven't noticed it to this extent elsewhere.

To see the score as

BA Knicks 87 Celtics 83 FINA (obviously, I am making this up, as the Knicks are winning a game)

or some such is just odd.

Signed,

Conventional Viewer

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Christmas music, anyone?

Submitted by Zamboni on Tue, 11/06/2007 - 12:56pm.

An ESPN writer notes that WCKG in Chicago went all-Christmas music on Nov. 2, more than seven weeks before Santa comes down the chimney.

So what station will go first in Oregon? How about the first "Happy Holidays" TV IDs? Poinsettias on the news set?

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