Oregon Media Insiders

KPTV-ers never cared about your partnership with the Oregonian. No one wasted any time bashing it, at least that I ever heard. We really don't spend a lot of our time worrying about what you are doing over there. It seems to be the other way around.

And I like your new slogan over there at 12.. sounds a lot like the one KGW has been using for YEARS.

KPTV or KOIN?

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Lynn Siprelle * Fairy Blogmother

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Mike Donahue is taking over Lynn Huston's position. Lynn will be reporting. They put the word out Friday.

Wow. Talk about rearranging the deck chairs.

KOIN management should realize several things:

- CBS affiliates struggle in the morning. It's just the way it is. Sending your most-liked on-air talent to live in obscurity there is not going to help. (Are there any CBS affils in the country that win from 5-7a?)

- Jeff & Kelley may be the worst possible anchor pairing in the history of television. His overinflated ego oozes through the television and creeps people out. She can't stop smiling, even when talking about 32 dead people at Virginia Tech. Totally unacceptable.

- Covering the news still matters in Portland. You've saved a bundle by switching to Ignite, and after a year of pain, you've got 80% of the kinks worked out. Now take some of those savings and cover the news. Hire a few reporters with experience, or at the very least, hire some talent that actually has talent. Sussman's a good get, but he can't make up for the fact that Iwanaga is the only decent reporter on staff.

- My recommendation: Fire Jeff & Kelley. Use the money you save to hire decent reporters. Bring back Reed Coleman to anchor alongside Mike Donahue for the main shows. She's solid and won't cost you a bundle. Save some more cash by saying goodbye to Big Ed Whelan. I realize the guy had a stroke and all, but that's no excuse for being as unfunny as unwatchable as he is. Use that money to hire more photographers to go with the extra reporters.

- With all that in place, you'd have a shot at challenging KGW at 11pm, which is the first place a CBS station should look for a comeback. If you manage to turn things around at 11, then you can look at the mornings or early evenings.

Iwanaga the only decent reporter on staff? You smokin' somethin'? No offense to Joel, he's fine in his own unique way, but there are a small handful of reporters at KOIN, not recently hired, that are "decent", even better than decent, against the odds of the current system. But otherwise you make some good points.

I hear the morning anchor will be gone by the end of July book. The guy, not Jenny.

And....they're not a FOX-owned station. They're a FOX affiliate... run the programming---THAT'S IT !!
Figure it out--- FOX O&O's may (though i doubt it)have a mandate from corporate to spin their news to the right... but even if that were true, it wouldn't affect KPTV. They're owned by a different company--Meredith.
All this deal is about is money, money, money, and making more of it. That's what the FOX news department is out to do(at least their news boss). Seems they have forgotten their charge of being responsible informers of the public, accountable to them, and not the stock holders. That's why they're given the free PUBLIC airwaves.
KGW's not there yet, but they're at the edge of that slippery slope, staring down at it, scratching their head, and contemplating joining KPTV at the bottom of the hill.

Ummm... Because Willy Week wouldn't have them even if they asked!

At last check, katu and ww have a loose partnership already.