Comments on Matthews featured on blog entry

Check out yesterday's blog entries for some comments on the apparent tryout longtime morning show host Alan Matthews has been receiving for the vacant KODE 5, 6 and 10 anchor position.
While Matthews reads well and is extremely personable, his bio on the KODE website doesn't indicate much hard news background since his early days of covering city council and school board meetings for radio stations. That is not an insurmountable obstacle, but when both KSNF and KOAM have dual anchors with considerable hard news credibility (even with Live with Gary and Tiffany), it would seem to put KODE at a disadvantage, which is not good considering the recent string of strong newscasts the station has put together.
On the other hand, Matthews has paid his dues at KODE and definitely deserves consideration.
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Alan Matthews and Malorie Maddox were both kind to me, Renee Jones, the other sponsor, and the members of the Diamond Middle School Student Council when we made an appearance on KODE's morning show four years ago.
At the time, the student council was sponsoring a book drive to help stock the shelves of the new middle school library. Under the leadership of President Sarah Simpson, who graduated from Diamond High School in May, the council collected more than 2,000 books, probably 1,000 of which are still on the shelves. Our drive was called "Help Us to Help Our Shelves."
Many of those books came after our appearance on KODE. During different segments, we were questioned by both of the hosts, and both were extremely professional and helpful to a bunch of nervous students.
Now for those of you who are looking for hidden motives behind the items I put on this blog, I should mention that I contacted KSNF, which at the time had the same duo, Gary Bandy and Tiffany Alaniz, who are doing my favorite 5 p.m. show now. I never heard back from their producer.
Aha, the conspiracy theorists are going. So that explains the things he writes about Gary and Tiffany's new program.
I should mention that I never heard back from the producer of KOAM's morning show either. And despite the courtesy and professionalism Ms. Maddox and Matthews showed me at KODE, I still usually watched Ms. Alaniz and Bandy (sorry, but I still believe the news person should receive top billing) each morning as I prepared for another day at school.