KWTV9 Loses to OETA!

[BailJumper]

This is too funny.

Over the weekend were the news Emmys.

the funniest one was when KWTV9 was nominated for best set design due to their million dollar over-the-top news set.

However, they lost to OETA who reportedly only spent $1,600 on their set!

Now that is priceless!

[oneforone]

About as priceless as someone shooting their mouth off on a message board under the sheild of a screen name.

[solitude]

Like bailjumper did? You just did? Or, I am doing?

[Joe Kimball]

Is it a coincidence that the news set changed soon after this video was produced and released on YouTube?

Videokie.tv

[CuatrodeMayo]

I must have missed something...

[oneforone]

Like bailjumper did? You just did? Or, I am doing?

Yep......... I was throwing a friendly jab.

[Oh GAWD the Smell!]

About as priceless as someone shooting their mouth off on a message board under the sheild of a screen name.

I don't know what you're talking about. This is my given name.

[bandnerd]

Is it a coincidence that the news set changed soon after this video was produced and released on YouTube?

Videokie.tv

BWAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAA

[metro]

News 9's cast and set looks geriatric to me.

[SoonerDave]

The set was designed by some high-priced consulting firm out of Florida, I think, but its primary purpose was to facilitate local HD news production whenever KWTV can afford it.

As local news and I have pretty much parted company in recent years, I've only caught a few glimpses of the set, but what I have seen is a little strange in that it seems the anchors are standing virtually all the time, and ol' Gary England's weather control center looks like the bridge of the Starship Enterprise...

[drumsncode]

This is too funny.

Over the weekend were the news Emmys.

the funniest one was when KWTV9 was nominated for best set design due to their million dollar over-the-top news set.

However, they lost to OETA who reportedly only spent $1,600 on their set!

Now that is priceless!

BailJumper, you just made my morning!!!

I've been complaining about that new set for one year now, and how they've ruined their show because of it. I echo some of SoonerDave's comments too.

OETA has very elegant looking set, and I guess they just proved you don't need two stories, spiral staircases, and over 3 dozen reporting positions, most of which are distant or standing, to do a great newscast.

I was a loyal KWTV viewer for decades, but the new set and distant shots drove me to KOCO. I've lived there happily ever since.

[Jimmy's Big Toe]

Did Pottery Barn get a nomination for the Fox 25 Morning News Set?

[jbrown84]

Did Pottery Barn get a nomination for the Fox 25 Morning News Set?

hahahaha

News 9's cast and set looks geriatric to me.

Are you kidding me??????

As opposed to OETA?

[metro]

No as opposed to its real competition KOCO.

[jbrown84]

Other than Gary England I don't know what you could be referring to. Who cares how old they are?

[drumsncode]

Actually, I believe the stations themselves care a great deal about how old their anchors are, at least that's what a lot of their practices tell us just from observation.

I've even been told by someone fairly close to the news business that when you get around 38 years old it is like the kiss of death for a female anchor. KWTV's pattern a while back certainly bears this out.

Of course, since 40 is the new 30, perhaps some of the great ones working now will be with us for a while, I certainly hope so because I think they're great.

Anyway, it might make an interesting discussion, especially since KFOR is the obvious exception.

I don't believe age plays much of a factor though, in male anchors. They play different roles on a newscast anyway.

[BailJumper]

About as priceless as someone shooting their mouth off on a message board under the sheild of a screen name.

Huh? It's called a message board for a reason goof.

Why would I need a "shield" (proper spelling) for that statement. Seems somebody got their lil feelings hurt.

[Matt]

when you get around 38 years old it is like the kiss of death for a female anchor.

Ahh, so that explains why Linda Cavanaugh looks the way she does--she's actually been dead for twenty years!

[drumsncode]

Ouch! That's as cold as a KWTV opening at 4pm, with the camera pulled back at max distance and the anchors greeting their viewers into the wrong camera! ;-)

KFOR stands out as the puzzling exception, but the other stations hire them young and beautiful. Look at the hires KOCO, FOX25, and KWTV have made in the past year, and look at the ages of the people that "left".

I do find it amusing that Linda Cavanaugh and KFOR won sweeps in July at 6pm and nearly won at 10pm. I give them credit. They must be doing something right, but November sweeps starts tomorrow and the war is on again.

[CuatrodeMayo]

Is it a coincidence that the news set changed soon after this video was produced and released on YouTube?

Videokie.tv

The link is dead and I can't find that video. Anybody know where it is on YouTube?

[mmonroe]

Ahh, so that explains why Linda Cavanaugh looks the way she does--she's actually been dead for twenty years!

I was about to ask the same question... Linda Cavanaugh has been on the air for 40 million years.. only 21 of those while I was alive.

[Joe Kimball]

The link is dead and I can't find that video. Anybody know where it is on YouTube?

YouTube - The News

The amount of in-jokes is staggering. There's even a few, I'm sure, that I'm not aware of.