The tradition started when Tiffany Alaniz and Gary Bandy were hosts of KSN's morning program and should have ended there, but I am assuming there is money to be made with these weekly pep rallies that Hometown Today holds at various area high schools.
This year's grueling (especially to viewers) pep rallies began at Seneca High School. The situation forces co-hosts Toni Valliere and Jeremiah Cook to shout everything they say for 90 minutes, and it is almost impossible to conduct a coherent interview under these conditions.
Thankfully, KSN no longer has its anchors attempt to do the news from the pep rally site. Instead, reporter Jennifer Adkins reads the news from the studio.
I suppose it's with us forever, but I will likely spend my Fridays with KODE or KOAM for the next couple of months.
I'd say your headline appropriately states the feelings of both on air and technical staff about these events.
ReplyDeleteThey have not had much success with appealing to the entire viewing area, so this must be an attempt to be populat at least somewhere. The view from 30,000 feet would be that although Seneca, as you used as example, would be excited and residents likely tune in to see, the rest of the area could care less and indeed might say, why not our town.
ReplyDeleteIf they would actually go back to having it in the early morning it would help, those were actually kind of fun. This mess of taping the day before is a joke - do they really think the viewing public believes that?
ReplyDeleteKSN has fallen behind. Same old boring stuff, no real incentive for viewers to watch. I'd say the ratings are pretty accurate. It's time for some real leadership if that boat is to avoid sinking.
ReplyDeleteListening to the voice of Tiffany Alaniz is torture alone! Geez!! She has the most nasal voice I have ever heard!!
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