The North Coast has a new TV news program. Back in spring the Journal caught wind that KRCR out of Redding was launching a news program to rival our local NBC affiliates at KIEM.
The news program, which debuted yesterday at 6 p.m., apparently (although they have web content dating back to Sunday), will air at 6 p.m. on KAEF ABC 23 and at 10 p.m. on KBVU Fox 28 — two of KRCR’s local sister stations.
The station came together in the downtown Eureka KAEF building under the guidance of assistant news director Lindsay Housaman, who will anchor the program. There are four reporters: Candase Chambers, Tyler Dahlgren, Katherine Harwood, and Nick Prete; and weatherman Mike Krueger.
The Journal hasn’t caught a broadcast of the program yet — if you saw the debut, tell us what you think.
This article appears in EL PULPO MECANICO.
KIEM staffers are constantly changing. What’s the deal? Maybe minimum wage is too much to pay them.
Just watched the Tuesday 6:00 pm version on KAEF. Channel 3’s going to be in trouble; this new program has much better production values and is a lot easier to watch.
Looked pretty slick. Doesn’t have quite the home-towny charm of Channel 3 though. BTW, shouldn’t the ABC station in Redding be KRCR, not KCRC?
Thanks William – you’re right and I fixed it.
Generally, TV news reporters earn very little, until you have a name to sell, and that is very rare. I even doubt Dave Silverbrand is sitting all cushy like. Probably struggling like so many others, even though he has a quality reputation.
@A Guy … Remember what happened to the Eureka Reporter … Came in hot with superior equipment and in a lot of ways a better product than the TS. If KRCR wants to stick, they need to convince us that they’re PART of this community and invested in it. That they don’t exist solely to out-do KIEM.