So. Cal. Wildfire Coverage

[Bsean 150]

I have been watchin KGTV all day here in San Diego, and it seems they have most of the county covered as far as reporters, whether they are live on camera or via phone. I've been hearing the latest information from them first. How are the other stations doing in San Diego and LA?

[Bsean 150]

Here is coverage from KFMB from yesterday 10/21/2007:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoOXfXA6jyw

 

Also coverage from KNSD from yesterday 10/21/2007:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2aOLQZaKR0

 

Coverage from KGTV from yesterday 10/21/2007:

 

http://www.10news.com/video/14390569/index.html

[who?cares 254]

i watched 3 hours of streaming coverage on ktla.com, then i got bored, and went outside, but they did a pretty good.

[A3N 1002]

I have been watching KFMB all day long and they are doing one heck of a job covering it. They are really covering the fires here in San Diego the best. The reporters go from location to location showing the devastation that this fire has caused. I have to give KFMB kudos, they have not gone to a commercial break since I started watching around 9:30am PT. KGTV has been doing a good job, but the lack of staff is really hurting them a lot. Instead of having live shots they do live phone reports from some parts of San Diego County, while KFMB has had live video from virtually every neighborhood affected by these fires.

[jbjimbo 0]

Ok this is the part where everyone gets mad at me. I just wrote a post in LA that probably could have went here. Sorry, I didn't see this. But here's what I wrote:

http://www.tvnewstalk.net/forum/index.php/topic,2612.0.html

 

'KABC Showing Outdated Coverage'

This is my first post in the LA thread, I'm a New Yorker. Anyway. I've been watching KABC's continuing fire coverage online. Its 9:30 ET, and of course 6:30 PT, why would KABC stop their continuing coverage to go to World News if the reports on the fire are from 3 hours ago. World News didn't update for the west coast. What good is that? If KABC feels its important information to cover it all day (or for most of the day), why would they feel its OK to show 3 hour old reports? I assume I'm going to get responses like this is nothing new for the west coast, it just seems super odd from an eastern coast point of view. ???

[Joe Capitano 4]

Your point is well taken, especially since NBC did two live hits from George Lewis during their 6 PM PT replay of Nightly. Here in Seattle we get the ABC and CBS shows out of phase.

[calwatch 0]

KNSD, XETV, KGTV, KUSI, KCBS, KNBC, KTLA (stream only, not on TV, not even repurposing 5.5 which still shows a static screen saying The Tube has shut down), KABC, KCAL, and KTTV are streaming. (KFMB is not streaming out of the big stations). XETV is advertising 87.7 FM as a station to listen to.

 

You can tell how urgent a station is treating something by whether they are running commercials. KCBS and KCAL still run commercials, and I saw KTTV run commercials last night. All the other stations have gone commercial free.

[Bsean 150]

KGTV was the only station to not go off the air last night at all. I also want to point out that KNSD, being an NBC O & O, has pulled reporters from across the country to help with it's coverage of the wildfires.

[SFTV 527]

KNSD, being an NBC O & O, has pulled reporters from across the country to help with it's coverage of the wildfires.

 

KNTV - ETHAN HARP

KXAS - NIGEL WHEELER

WMAQ - ROB ELGAS

WVIT - ANDREW PERGAM

[calwatch 0]

Here's a sampler of the coverage offered today at 4 pm. From top left clockwise: KNBC (4.4 stream), KUSI, KNSD, KCAL (on my tuner card), KGTV, KABC, KTLA (the online stream, regular programming on the TV side), KTTV, and KCBS. (Trying to keep all the streams running at once was somewhat time consuming by itself, over a 3 megabit DSL pipe, I thought it was amazing that I could fit 8 streams at once.)

 

[lkwdcj562 0]

To me It seems that KCAL9/CBS2 had the best coverage in LA while the new Daybreak OC seems hamstrung being newer and weaker despite linked with the Orange County Register (The station could make a strategic alliance with either Channel 4 News or ABC7 Eyewitness News. I perfer KABC)

 

In watching San Diego stations via their station web sites 10 News, KUSI News and NBC7/39 News(a/k/a/ News San Diego Hey I like the old moniker) did well. I didn't see FOX 6 newscast live on web nor News 8 ( although the KFMB's site was redesigned to cover the fires and chock full information and and plenty of links; which if find very helpful even without live streaming.)

 

On a side note I checked out on other stations covered the fire across the country; and I wondered some stations that sent reporters here to southern California didn't anchors or reporters with either worked or was raised in LA or San Diego covering the fires example WABC's Bill Ritter who was born, raised and worked in LA at KCBS and KTTV. WCBS's Chris Wagge who worked at Entertainment Tonight. KYW's Larry Mendte who knows Southern California forward backward and sideways working at KFMB in San Diego and Access Hollywood, Houston anchors Greg Hurst and Art Rascon; just to name a few. This would give their current market audience a unique perspective( of course this would apply to California reporters and anchors who worked else where previously like Chicago, Phily, DC New York, etc who could be dispatched to those cities when a major event takes place.