 |
 |
|
|
|
|
May 2008
Categories
News More KGW Blogs
|
November 2005 Archives Instead of sugarplums dancing in their heads, my kids have If you saw "Million Dollar Baby", you know Clint Eastwood probably didn't intend for his Academy Award winning film to increase the popularity of women's boxing. But it seems it has... at least in part. On Tuesday night at 11pm (11/29), I'll take you into the boxing ring here in Oregon. Along with the incredibly ... It's toy drive time! When we ask you to donate a new unwrapped toy for the NewsChannel 8 Great Toy Drive. For those of you wondering how it all works here's the basics. With your help we collect the toys, then a number of agencies that work with families and children in need distribute them in time for Christmas. For a number of years I had the great joy of delivering a stack of them to a local classroom of little ones in the... I knew Oregonians were serious about their trees, but this is getting out of hand. Workers are busy assembling the HOLIDAY tree in Pioneer Courthouse Square, and it seems there is some confusion - or dare I say - outrage, over what we call it. After all, 'tis the season of giving - and a number of you have been giving us your opinion on this. Emailers pronounce, "It's not a HOLIDAY tree, it's a #$%&$! CHRISTMAS tree!" >> Continue reading: What's in a name? This fall marks my 20th anniversary at KGW. Wow. I don't know about you but I never thought that would happen. I can remember being on KXL with my colleagues Shirley Hancock and Julie Emry at least 15 years ago. CBS had just come out with a survey that showed only 1 percent of the women on-air in television news were over the age of 40! I've beat that by a few years. Okay, more than a few. Before I moved to Portland, I had a job interview in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that remains to this day, one of my favorites. The news director took me to a Milwaukee Bucks basketball game, and we played "You Make the Call" for the next three hours. We ate a shrimp pizza (it was a Friday during Lent), and drank what looked like a small silo of beer (that is never forbidden in Milwaukee) as he laid out dozens of scenarios. Each was followed by a ... Welcome to the next generation of television news. It seems like only yesterday, I was writing my first news stories on a typewriter. Back then, I would roll 5 sheets of paper into an IBM machine the size of a large watermelon - and drop carbon paper in between each sheet to ensure everyone had a copy of the script. Fast forward 20 years, and I find myself in front of a computer screen - writing an entry for my own blog. ... |
 |
|
|
|