CITY LIFE Consistent KOAA leaves others in the dust . . . New news hotties give viewers must-see TV
Best TV news station KOAA/CHANNELS 5&30
KRDO/Channel 13, KKTV/Channel 11 and KXRM/Channel 21 have been throwing everything but the kitchen sink at their newscasts. The news in this town has never been more competitive, but KOAA keeps racking up ratings crowns. Why? Consistency, competency, reliability. Don’t mess with success.
Best TV reporter DAVID NANCARROW, KKTV/CHANNEL 11
Nancarrow didn’t have a story this year as flashy as his 2006 Iraq trip, but he still scored some big scoops on the Ted Haggard story, and he’s been solid behind the anchor desk on weekends, too.
Best TV anchor JON KARROLL, KRDO/CHANNEL 13
We’re dubbing this the “Lisa Lyden Memorial Award.� Lisa’s won it more times than we can count — and deservedly so — but it’s boring giving it to the same person every year. Jon Karroll, in addition to possessing the perfect silvery anchorman hair, stays on his toes, rolling with the punches when he has to ad-lib or when he’s reporting from the scene.
Best TV consumer reporter BETTY SEXTON, KKTV/CHANNEL 11
A pesky consumer issue got you down? Betty and the station’s Call for Action are the answer to your headache.
Jon Karroll: The Southern California native has been a KRDO staple since 1993.
Betty Sexton: Not just an anchor, she covered crime for 15 years in Kansas City, Mo., and joined KKTV in 1999.
Best TV news hottie, male MARK HANRAHAN, KOAA/CHANNELS 5&30
It’s been a good year on the TV news hottie front. Local stations did a lot of hiring last fall, and they didn’t neglect the, um, aesthetics. Case in point: Hanrahan, who joined KOAA back in October and has been charming up the small screen ever since.
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Mark Hanrahan: A relative newcomer, he came to KOAA in October, 2006, from Great Falls, Mont.
Christina Salvo: A California native, she joined KXRM in October 2006, when the station launched its newscast.
Best TV news hottie, female CHRISTINA SALVO, KXRM/CHANNEL 21
This category just keeps getting more competitive. Young men considering their career options, take note: We’re told there are far more women than men in TV news these days and, apparently, they’re all really good-looking. Salvo is the hotness leader out of the uniformly attractive crew KXRM hired when it started its own news department last year.
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Friday, May 18, 2007