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That's what Chambers said to the Register Guard...

Here Here! KEZI and Mr. Chambers understand the math better than do most readers of this site.

IMG paid U of O 67-million over 10-years. That means they must recoup 6.7-million annually to mythically "break even."

KEZI claims to have paid 1-million in years past. Dubious, but accept it for the sake of argument.

That figure requires KEZI to recoup only slightly more than 1-million to be profitable.

Now that IMG is in the mix, the annual nut moves up to 6.7-million, a considerable hurdle for a small market station like KEZI...even if the station likely would not have hd to cover all of the 6.7 million, but perhaps a third of that.

Given the state of the economy and the fact that the Eugene car dealers can't give away a truck or SUV, the math doesn't work. KEZI will get any and all ABC games anyway, so Chambers' math was correct.

I'm absolutely sure the real Hunter Thompson would have known the phrase is correctly "Hear, hear!"

The real Hunter Thompson is, unfortunately a victim of his own hand and was blasted into sub-earth parabola by Johnny Depp. We'll never know whch way he would have preferred it.

Yep, Chambers didn't think $6.7 million (or whatever the number was, it obviously had to be at least a double if not triple increase) was worth it. Eugene, Medford, and Bend aren't that big in terms of paying that kind of money. I'm betting Comcast will spend the money to pick them up, and then wonder why they're not making anywhere near a profit from the Blazers and Ducks.

It's not just one or two football games... We're talking about almost all the games. Regardless of whether or not ABC has it, OSN always records and re-broadcasts the games. That means replays, also content for KDRV in Medford and KOHD in Bend. Last year, Chambers played 8 or 10 baskeball games for their three stations, and the football games were almost every single week. If the football team does well, ABC will pick up there games... but, not to get on a sports conversation...but... we'll see. This contract is a big deal when you consider three markets will no longer be airing Oregon Ducks games, the state's arguably first or second most payed attention to team.

you mean Bland-y Smith

What someone should be saying, if we're on the lines of:

Pregnancy is as good as any other yardstick for employment. After all, if a person gets pregnant, hasn't that person demonstrably proven that they think their personal life is far more important than a broadcasting position? Any responsible News Director has to view a pregnancy in the Newsroom as a direct threat to the ratings and to his/her job which is based entirely on ratings which flow from continuity which flows from staffers who want to be on the job instead of having children - not that that's a bad thing.

What a jerk. If men could get pregnant, abortion would have been legal 1000 years ago. Burris may or may not have chosen to get pregnant. God knows we have all failed at protection from time to time. That said, if she chose to shift to weekends, that's her decision and you sexist pigs should butt out!

Wow I got a promotion AND a job at KEZI at the same time. I wish someone would have told me that.

The thread was about losing the OSN, it was not yet another lame attempt for people to trash KEZI's decisions regarding the news department.

I get it people dislike Kezi but in this age of modern technology there is an easy way to deal with it.

TURN THE CHANNEL IF YOU DISLIKE THE STATION.

Nobody forces anyone to watch them so if you dislike them don't watch them. What a novel concept.

What happened to Kim Stark?

Kim Stark has her own Myspace page http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendI...

So why not ask to be added and ask her yourselves as to why she left instead of playing clueless gossips.

Better yet all these posts crying about poor poor Korenza being demoted to the weekend fails to consider even the possibility that due to her being due to deliver in the next couple of weeks that SHE HERSELF just might have wanted to cut back on her work load.

Why no that could not be possible because that just might make some sense that a person who is about to become a parent might just want the extra time to (a) get prepared for the birth of her first child or (b) cut back on the workload so she could also cut out some of the stress of being in the spotlight.

Got to admit I got a huge laugh when the clueless ones fixated on their anti-chambers obsession that it does not dawn on them that turning the channel takes money of their pockets. It makes KEZI less profitable and if the station starts draining money that maybe they just might sell the station to another out of area company like KVAL and KMTR are owned by.

No not one of the Anti-Chambers whiners says word one about the Ducks looking to screw their fans by signing with IMG. Nah that same team that makes people pay twice for the same football tickets are a bunch of great guys.

That same bunch of wonderful fellas wants to build a white elephant of a basketball arena not caring about who it might affect, not caring about the price tag or heck just not caring about anyone but their athletic department.

No instead it is all about the evil folks at Chambers communication.

Some people would not realize this even if given free clues because they are so blinded by their hate

I've said it before and I'll say it again- an interest in SPORTS is a stupid and trivial pastime. I suppose those with juvenile personalites, or.. shall we say- undersized equipment- need this dreary hobby. And that's just the women- don't get me started on men!!

"Oh and calling Burris talented is a good laugh, she is a younger Shelly Kurtz always bumbling her lines."

ha! and agreed. Kurtz is sooo bad. I cannot understand why Fisher keeps her on, even in the morning.

Burris seems like a very nice person but never has projected a personality/charm/charisma to be weekday anchor. And as a producer/anchor for late news her decisions were never the brightest. Back when Al Franken broadcasted his live radio show from LCC it was Burris' stumbling which eliminated coverage of the event from the 11pm news (although it was covered on the 5pm and 6pm newscasts).

Not defending Chambers decision how Burris was demoted (if that is what it ends up being, a permanent change) but KEZI needs a new anchor team...badly.

Now with OSN gone, Rick Dancer gone (good anchor, good person, lousy politician), virtually no local programming by KEZI, and the legacy of Peter Jennings replaced by the new Disney at the ABC news, and since you can now download ABC network programming via internet if that suits your fancy, there is absolutely no reason to continue watching KEZI. Yes vote with your channel selector and with your voice.

Maybe the coaches show and game replays will be brought back to OPB? ;-)

Here's how I see it, as a person who is actually there to see it.

1: None of the newsroom activities have anything to do with OSN. So quit asking "what's going on over there?" You stupid twits.

2: Kim Stark was ...[redacted] a sub-par anchor. Just cause you've been there for a few years doesn't mean you are good. The station was smart to let her go.

3: Korenza Burris is a virus in that newsroom. Constantly complaining and whining about how unfairly she is treated (this pre-dates her demotion.) How the managers are idiots. How much it sucks there. Gee, wouldn't you demote someone in that situation too? Or should she be rewarded for such actions.

I knew this thread would emerge after the OSN-IMG, Chambers deal split. And I knew it would turn into another KEZI bash session. I also knew it would, again, be filled with tons of misinformation, just as the NBC Bill thread was.

Frankly, at this point, I'm glad these threads go so far south on this useless OMI site. It shows how much lack of credibility this site has. How full of crap it all is. Particularly on all the Eugene threads.

All these negative KEZI comments are nothing more than a small handful of disgruntled employees and former employees, sounding off. And to all of you I speak of: either get a new job, or get over the fact that your old job didn't want you anymore. Your egos are pathetic. Get over it, and move on, and leave the rest of us in peace. Weaklings. I'd be happy to list you by name, because I know who you are. But if I did that, I also know, Lynn wouldn't approve the comment, and all this typing would be a waste of my time, which it practically already is anyway.

Is the live broadcast of a national radio show on an unrelated station really worthy of being covered on the 5,6 and 11:00 news? I hardly think that a newscast not having time to air a THIRD report about Al Franken visiting Eugene qualifies as evidence that Korenza Burris is a bad anchor.
I think she does have personality. I for one am tired of 20-somethings who look and sound like they just got out of college.
For a while there they had Holly Menino and Kim Stark as co-anchors. On their own, each is ok, but together they were practicaly unlistenable.
I agree the current team is also pretty bad. Holly and ....whatever his name is...don't have any chemistry with each other or the audience.

First, many different local personalities, some with national prominence, were interviewed on that nationally broadcasted live radio show, in front of a local sold out audience. Subjects ranged from local, national and international affairs, including constructive discussion about education, health care, the economy, culture, politics, volunteering in our community...you name it was covered. The event was indeed THE local story of the day. The story was not about Franken himself. It was about the diversity of the guests, the varied subject matter and the response of the audience.

If it were any other national radio host doing a similar live national radio show in front of a live audience at our local public junior college with such a wide range of local guests, I would say the same thing. That is, the event deserves quality coverage. Are you sure you are not taking issue just because it was Al Franken? I would like to see any current popular national conservative talk show host have the balls to do a live local show in Eugene (Sorry Lars, you are just not popular).

Poster, are you sure you did not work for the current administration choosing who could and could not be a federal attorney based on their political party affiliation?

Second, the viewers who watch the early evening news don't generally watch the late news and vice versa. That Friday viewers of KEZI late news were cheated from seeing coverage of a significant event in their area. Since I worked swing shift til 10 pm I almost missed out. Thankfully I switched channels in time to see coverage on both KVAL and KMTR. But those who stayed with KEZI were treated to bonus repeated day old stale coverage of the UofO mens basketball game played the night before, and then, the regular sports segment followed. Whoop-de-do. Sports overruled news.

Burris is too hyper amped and in need of a chill pill. Her inabilty to take a calm pause, and ability to talk over (and not mix in with) over the other anchors during the end of newscast banter sessions is severely annoying. Just watch poor ol John Fischers eyes roll whenever Burris speaks. She could have taken an etiquette course from Kim Stark. Too late for that. Last one out please turn out the lights.

I for one still have all my embroidered KOPT-logo clothing. Just to be clear, who ever is claiming to have worked at KOPT and KEZI at the time, must be someone in production...not say any of the anchors or reporters :)

Ummm ... you know ...
The Broadcast market as we know it is all going to change and put everything on its ear with in months ...
can't liberate on how and/or what ... But mark my words: this thing with KEZI, OSN, IMG and any other entity involved hasn't seen anything yet... This is just the beginning.
Getting back to the root of this thread:
If this is the IMG I think it is ... KEZI didn't stand a chance this is not a bad thing they have alot more on their plates to deal with. This could be a good thing for OSN and Sports in general for Eugene. But all the stations need to take heed that the identity they are trying to generate by fancy promos promoting their news department and not having the content to back it up ( not a boatload of VO's teases up the yin~yang that lead to even more unanswered questions in hopes that their viewers will tune in salivating like Pavlov's dog every time the bell ring ) but "Honest to God get the Community involved" Content only that will save the markets we have today. Save the money on the Rolling Bus billboards and the fancy full-page, Half-page, Quater-Page ads and put that back into your staff and get a REAL marketable wage for the Crew... MAYBE (just maybe) you will see a change in the on-air product that I read everyone complaining about. maybe a buy out or hostile take over of said station is what is needed ... If the present owners can't seem to make it happen maybe someone else can... 'nuff said... NEXT ?

blaaaaaaaaaaaaandy beaver!

All this talk of KEZI management making bad choices is hogwash. Just look at Blandy Smith and Bryce Yawnslinger. TV gold!