Oregon Media Insiders

Now that KOIN has new ownership and the new news director has been on the job for 4 months or so now, are there any changes coming?

When I was a young kid of around 10 or so, I can remember pretending to be Roger Mudd doing the news from the living room of my family home. With my tape recorder, microphone and script, I’d do my nightly news broadcast.

The biggest day of my lackluster college career was meeting CNN Headline News anchor Chuck Roberts. I was at the CNN Center in Atlanta with a friend when I saw all 5’ 6” of him come out of the CNN studios. I walked up to him and told him I wanted his job. He laughed and offered to give my friend and me a tour of the CNN studio the following Monday. So my friend David and I returned that Monday and for about an hour, Chuck Roberts showed us around the CNN studios. It was wonderful. While I was there, I saw former KGW anchor Ralph Wange. It was quite an experience. For the record, I should note that Chuck Roberts has one of the foulest mouths I’ve ever heard. LOL.

I’ve had the opportunity to visit all but two of the TV stations in Portland, those being KPTV and KPDX. What struck me is lack of size of the news sets. Television makes everything seem so large. I visited KOIN a few times and had the opportunity to meet one of Portland’s premier anchors Mike Donahue. I was taken by his absolute modesty.

My KATU visit was made possible because a friend from high school was interning their while a student in college. We watched the 5pm news with Jeff Gianola and Julie Emry from the control room. What I most remember is my friend telling me of a party she attended hosted by Jeff Gianola at his home that summer. Lots of people, lots to drink.

My trip to KGW was made possible because I was a contestant on “On the Spot” with Larry Blackmar, Tracy Barry’s husband. I saw Pete Schulberg for about 2 seconds following the conclusion of the 5pm news. Plus I saw the KGW News 8 set. It was tiny. Oh, I came in third place. But I won some very nice consolation prizes, even had to pay federal income taxes on them.

Given that I grew up in the area, I should have landed at KPTV at least once. In my house, Ramblin’ Rod was required viewing before we left for school. I knew several people who appeared on his morning show, none though smile winners.

Anyway, happy birthday to your daughter and may she secure gainful employment at KPTV.

I know this is very random, but we were having a debate in the newsroom regarding the iNews instant message, or "top line" feature. Is is possible for someone in management to see those messages? We were told it was not possible, then a new producer told us that management can read them. So yeah, we've been saying less than nice things about our ND. Has he been reading them? Oh well!!!

yeah I'm the only one who ever talks smack about my boss. I'm so immature. BTW, I'm not stupid enough to out myself like that. It's similar to iNews. I could care less what the moron thinks about me. If you weren't aware, you cannot get fired for calling your boss an idiot even on company time. Even if you can, who freaking cares.

Your self-righteous pitiful remarks shows how miserable you are with your own position in life.

Thanks for the info!

Since it's open... I just saw a commercial for that mattress company that usually has the husband/wife team; sleep like a baby... That one. Anyway, the guy isn't in the commercial and I noticed that the wife ain't wearing a ring on her finger. Hmmmmm... Maybe she downsized from a king to a twin?

After being booted from KPNW from his popular local sports show Sports Talk, he has now found a home at Eugene's ESPN sports station KSCR 1320 2-3pm slot. He made his debut yesterday.