KSPR to add 4 p.m. newscast

In a Thursday entry from her blog, KSPR reporter Michelle Sherwood offers some information about KSPR's recent announcement that it will add a 4 p.m. newscast. Some of the ideas that she floats in the post are things I would like to see done by one of the stations in the Joplin market, including longer interviews with newsmakers:

We were told this show will be less of the same... meaning, it will not look like your standard newscast. My guess is that it will be like a meatier morning show. After all, it is an early afternoon newscast. Expect local newsmakers to come on the show and talk, probably expect more opportunity for anchors to show their personalities, expect more community events to be featured, perhaps more indepth coverage of local and national news. My guess.

Hopefully for KSPR, it will not turn into a repeat of KSNF's failed experiment in its 5 p.m. newscast of overshadowing news with fluff.