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This was in the midst of a 20+ year run as the top local news staton - by far - in the Seattle market.
A poorly rated station, KING was reinvigorated in the early 1990s by a newsdirector named Bob Jordan.
He laid off a significant portion of the existing news staff and found new talent. Everything he put in place in the 3-4 years he was there in the early 1990s continued well into the 2010s - through a couple of ownership changes until the station was dismantled by Gannett/TEGNA over the last few years.
There are some newscast clips from the 1990s on YouTube. The talent in them, for the most part, had long careers either in Seattle, or moved up to larger markets on the national level. For the most part, Bob Jordan had an incredible eye for talent. And he revamped the branding and the visual design of the station. The branding survived all the way through the TEGNA buyout.
At the time of this promo, Lori Matsukawa had just moved from weekends to the 11PM news, co-anchoring with Dennis Bounds.
The main news team - with Dennis Bounds, Jean Enersen or Lori Matsukawa, Jeff Renner-weather, and Paul Silvi stayed in place until TEGNA did nationwide buy outs of talent at or near retirement age.
Enerson, who had already cut anchoring out of her schedule, took the buyout 48 years in 2016. Bounds, who anchored evenings from 1994, also took the buyout. Jeff Renner, who did weather from 1980, exited as well.
Earlier this year, Lori Matsukawa, quickly approaching 65 years old, decided it was time to exit too, having been at the station since 1983.
An impressive 1998 local news promo from KING in Seattle, WA, U.S.A.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNVKinNTMiE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNVKinNTMiE
This was in the midst of a 20+ year run as the top local news staton - by far - in the Seattle market.
A poorly rated station, KING was reinvigorated in the early 1990s by a newsdirector named Bob Jordan.
He laid off a significant portion of the existing news staff and found new talent. Everything he put in place in the 3-4 years he was there in the early 1990s continued well into the 2010s - through a couple of ownership changes until the station was dismantled by Gannett/TEGNA over the last few years.
There are some newscast clips from the 1990s on YouTube. The talent in them, for the most part, had long careers either in Seattle, or moved up to larger markets on the national level. For the most part, Bob Jordan had an incredible eye for talent. And he revamped the branding and the visual design of the station. The branding survived all the way through the TEGNA buyout.
At the time of this promo, Lori Matsukawa had just moved from weekends to the 11PM news, co-anchoring with Dennis Bounds.
The main news team - with Dennis Bounds, Jean Enersen or Lori Matsukawa, Jeff Renner-weather, and Paul Silvi stayed in place until TEGNA did nationwide buy outs of talent at or near retirement age.
Enerson, who had already cut anchoring out of her schedule, took the buyout 48 years in 2016. Bounds, who anchored evenings from 1994, also took the buyout. Jeff Renner, who did weather from 1980, exited as well.
Earlier this year, Lori Matsukawa, quickly approaching 65 years old, decided it was time to exit too, having been at the station since 1983.
