Oregon Media Insiders

There is a very disturbing trend at KATU
In case you haven't noticed, KATU has lost at least a dozen quality veteran employees since the Colleen Brown/John Tamerlano regime began.
You may have your differences and opinions about prior management, but they have all been replaced by cheaper, less capable managers, who are systematically destroying the television station. The performance speaks for itself: Lower ratings, with last May's Nielsen recording some of the lowest news ratings in the station's history. There is also a lower pure advertising revenue share, in spite of a vastly improved ABC Television Network, that even management can't wreck.
When people like Dan Christopher, Julia Radlick, Grant McComie, and respected sales guy, Byron Leeper, leave the station, the management spin is that they "found a new opportunity", or "they were mailing it in", or "we are moving in a new direction, and they were not in our future plans."
JT, what are your future plans? Drive out every well paid employee and save money for your bonus and a few select station PALS. Continue to bring in low paid inexperienced employees at all levels and the station will continue its steady decline.
A revamped news set is just window dressing for a reporting team of mostly strangers. The employees know it and the viewers see it. Grant pulled the mask off JT in the Oregonian article, and now he is shown the door even sooner.
This charade is about to end. CEO Colleen Brown is under fire by major shareholder Mario Gabelli and others for the Bakersfield purchase and other missteps. She and JT will be gone before year's end. Sadly, the damage has already has been done to many people's lives and the on air product.