Amazon Prime is not my go-to for tv programming, not even for football on Thursday nights. The amazing mammoth drop-shipping company has set up studios and is readying talent for election night coverage.
I’m hearing a rumor from a dodgy source that Tubi and Pluto tv are vying for Dennis Bounds to cover election results.
While all of KIRO’s anchors and reporters were out investigating stories and unable to give the weather forecast Saturday night, management pulled out an old Rolodex, blew the dust off, and called back Scott Haveson from 2003 (see video above from 2003). The good thing about Haveson is that he now has a fulltime job with regular income (Seattle-Queen Anne offices of Windemere) so he can choose to take a side gig when he feels like it. I’m guessing Barry Judge was not available or may have passed on. (Judge is seen in video clips from 1991, below.)
Speaking of apps and streaming tv – MyFree DirecTV is a free, ad-supported streaming service that will launch on November 15, 2024. MyFree DirecTV is intended to be a starting point for consumers to experience DirecTV, and to get them interested in its pay TV packages.
Content includes live TV channels, on-demand movies, series, and shows, and content across genres like news, sports, entertainment, and kids’ shows. The service will be viewable on the web, mobile devices, and select media players and smart TVs. The interface uses DirecTV’s You TV interface, which combines a user’s most watched content and selected favorites. Additional channels will be added throughout 2025.
In the latest edition of “Inside the Arena!” (episode 21), KOMO Sports Director Niko Tamurian and KOMO News Senior Reporter Chris Daniels reflect on the life and career of Seattle TV legend Tony Ventrella, who passed away at the age of 80.
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You may be right, it would have been around 88-89 that the format made the rounds, if you station was channel 11 aready, it was a no brainer for a late newscast title.
Seeing Scott Haveson mention 11@11 on the clip Lou posted, I will immodestly brag that I created that format at WXEX (later WRIC) in Richmond in July 1988 when I was News Director. It got a lot of media press and was copied all over the country, including KIRO here, Pittsburgh (WPXI) and others, along with midwest stations as 10@10. I should have trademarked it. The consultants loved it. The goal was to try and stop the already diminishing late news audience with a compressed content approach with 8 minutes of news, 1:00 of weather, one minute of sports and a 1:00 preview of next day’s news calendar all in the first segment, then long form in the second. It got my station from third into second in short order. So there…LOL
Before KIRO, I’m pretty sure KSTW used it when they were a CBS affiliate… I seem to remember them calling it “11 on 11.”