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An anon user has added several claims for firsts and awards for KOMO to the article. I gotta say, without seeing some sources being cited for those claims, that I'm somewhat skeptical of them.
Some of the firsts being mentioned are also ambiguous. Were they the first to do it in Seattle-Tacoma? The Northwest? The country? Also, I do know that KOMO's been claiming its newscasts as being rated "the best in America", but I forget who it was that did the rating.
Perhaps the anon user (or someone else) would be kind enough to provide some sources for those claims in the article?
- Hinto 22:10, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
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- This is probably about a year late, but I was the one who'd added those "Broadcasting firsts" portion of the KOMO TV Wikipedia entry. When I was young, I'd done a project on the history of KOMO TV and decided to write to KOMO TV for as much information as possible. They were more than happy to oblige, and sent me tons of old station memorabilia in addition to several dozen newspaper clippings citing the new innovations KOMO has led the industry with. Many of those newspaper and article clippings came from sources like the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Times, and several broadcast trade publications of that time. Srosenow 98 05:08, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Broadcasting scheduling change
I've heard that KOMO says that they're changing the 5pm newscast to 30 minutes, moving ABC's World News with Charles Gibson to 5:30 pm, and put a 6pm newscast (for a full hour). They're confirmed as of now, and I seen a promotional campaign that they're changing the structure. They're not going to change the "First News at 4" scheduling. I think they're going competitive against KIRO-TV, which was the first station to broadcast a newscast at 6pm, with its slogan named "The Only Local News and Weather at 6". But with KOMO-TV changing its evening news structure, I think KIRO-TV should remove its current slogan because of KOMO-TV's 6pm newscast entry.
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This was their previously evening news format had:
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This is the new scheduling as of now: (changes in red)
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Source: [1] - Note that these schedules may be subject to change without notice; however, KOMO 4 might not change its new format as of now. --Bigtop 19:19, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
- Update: KIRO-TV removed the "Only Local News and Weather at 6" slogan recently; found evidence (yesterday) by having the introduction a shared 6am/6pm ident. --Bigtop 00:12, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
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I've been thinking of a newer logo because of the new appearance released today. Could you try to look it up at various sources, like http://www.komotv.com? Thanks. Bigtop 02:41, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
- Is it possible to create a Wikipedia Commons entry to KOMO TV? I have LOADS of available logos from their past, as well as images of their previous sets, etc. With that said, I would like to expand on the "logos" portion as well.Srosenow 98 05:40, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] NPOV, no sources cited
I've plowed through and tried to remove all the POV issues. This piece makes a lot of (sometimes outrageous) claims that need to be cited, or should be removed. Boisemedia 02:40, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
- I was the one who'd added those "Broadcasting firsts" (Later renamed "History") portion of the KOMO TV Wikipedia entry. When I was young, I'd done a project on the history of KOMO TV and decided to write to KOMO TV for as much information as possible. They were more than happy to oblige, and sent me tons of old station memorabilia in addition to several dozen newspaper clippings citing the new innovations KOMO has led the industry with. Many of those newspaper and article clippings came from sources like the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Times, and several broadcast trade publications of that time. Unfortunately, most of the material used to create a large portion of this article is not available for instant reference online.
- Additionally, much of the information contained herein is my own personal knowledge about the station, which goes back to childhood. The Keith Eldridge/Skokomish River portion of this article is a fact because I was there along with Eldridge and several other Mason County residents when he was stranded. I can even vividly recall their old Newstar4 satellite truck parked across from my house for a couple days while their crews waited for Highway 101 to reopen.
- The discovery by KOMO news photographer to develop color film in a matter of hours instead of days back in 1957? That was shown repeatedly during the station's 40th anniversary back in December of 1993 (again on their 50th in December of 2003), and again when KOMO announced that they were moving out of the old KOMO building and into Fisher Plaza (which was built on the site of the old KOMO building's parking lot). During both instances, KOMO showed an incredible amount of old archival footage.
- The fact that Dan Lewis became the first American journalist to interview then-newly-elected President Clinton in the Oval Office is widely known in the broadcasting industry, and for years was a part of Dan Lewis' own biography at KOMO's own website. (See link here: Dan Lewis' own bio courtesy Archive.ORG, from the KOMO website in 1996)[|Dan Lewis biography from the KOMO website in 1996, courtesy Archive.ORG]
- In doubt of Eric Johnson being listed in the credits of "Prefontaine"? See [| this link ].
- If you're in doubt of anything else in this article, contact KOMO themselves and I'm sure they'll be happy to oblidge in supplying the footage of that particular event, or anything else in this article you may be in question over.
- Their address is:
- KOMO-TV
- 140 4th Avenue North
- Seattle, WA 98109.
With that said, I'm removing the "sources needed" tags.
Srosenow 98 05:51, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
- Another thing, some sources(i.e., Newsblues)say that the station may have slipped to third in the local news ratings behind a resurgent KIRO-TV(which has even at times threatened to knock KING-TV out of first)in recent years, and this fact has been largely ignored in this article... Ranma9617 18:36, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
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- All entries on Wikipedia must be verifiable and may not include original research. When I have a moment, I will be re-adding the citation needed tags -- and then the content will be removed if verification cannot be provided. Boisemedia 07:01, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] This article almost got a {{totally-disputed}}
Instead, I put a missing info tag. This article conveniently forgets how their newscasts have done historically and in recent rating periods... Ranma9617 01:46, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
- It's not a matter of "conveniently forgetting" as you put it. It's a matter of there being no real web-based source of information to go from in terms of citing.
- I can certainly say without a shadow of a doubt though that for most of the 1980s leading into the very late 1990s, KOMO was the leader in TV news for the Seattle market. I can also add with certainty that while KING 5 News consistently ran "Number One at 5 o'clock..." voiceover tags during their news intros, it was infact KOMO that led the ratings race (predominantly due to the fact that during much of the 1980s and 1990s, ABC News was the most-watched network news organization).
- It's also worthy to note that in 1996, KOMO held the top spot nationally for "Best Newscast" and infact won that title six out of eight years in a row. Also, in 1995 and 1996, KOMO won 18 emmy awards, including the top six, and consistently beats KING in annual emmy award counts.
- I'm not here to start a flame war with anybody nor an edit war, but I've noticed a considerable amount of bias against KOMO on Wikipedia. Srosenow 98 09:46, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Violate NPOV?
The following statement should at least be sourced and probably deleted: "After being purchased by Fisher Broadcasting, KOMO News began demonstrating a noticeably more conservative and sensationalistic bent to their news." 71.142.91.222 03:49, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
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- I deleted it outright. KOMO has always been a Fisher station - even before KOMO TV was a forethought. Whoever added that (and the nonsensical, full of dribble babble about Natasha Curry) should be IP blocked from Wikipedia for good. Srosenow 98 07:56, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
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