Excuse me

I notice I have had some simple errors on here, and it's sad I don't catch them. One of the main reasons is because as you can tell, I don't do much updates as I did before. So when I am on here I quickly write up what I'm going to say. Thankfully, it's just for practice =)

Switching Over...

Reporter Suzanne Phan is now freelancing for News10! It was kind of a shock for me to see her on Monday reporting for News10 from the Auburn fire aftermath. Suzanne had been with KCRA since 2000 and graduated from UC San Diego.

And Louisa Hodge is now reporting for News10. I was surprised to see her today at 5 p.m. If you remember she was over at Fox40. Who knows, since Louisa has weather experience she could be replacing someone's position in the future for weather.

Patty resigns/ Gannett

I found this out moments it was posted online Tuesday night, but I'm getting a chance to write about it just now.

Patty Souza has been in Sacramento for 7 years, and at News10 for 3 years. Earlier this week she made a difficult decision to leave the station stating that she was going pursue other interests and life dreams. However, she plans to stay in Sacramento. You can read the full statement left for the viewers by clicking on this link.

http://origin.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=67852&provider=top#

Also, I just thought I write this too.

The owner company of News10, Gannett has been going through some problems financially. It's one of the reasons why most of the News10 staff have left because of lower salaries and everyone having to do double the work. Gannett owns 12 TV stations in the U.S. and only 7 stations are airing their news broadcast in high definition. News10, is not one of them. In the past Gannett's profits went down and were forced to layoff a few thousand employee's. However, they are still considered one of the largest newspaper publishers in the country. Hopefully things will turn around for Gannett sooner or later.

Newcomers to Sacramento!

Mae Fesai, newest on-air talent at KCRA. She anchors and reports when needed usually in the mornings. She comes from KSBW in the Salinas/ Monterey market.


Nick Monacelli is new t0 News10, he comes from WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids, MI. The same station where Tim Geraghty (News10 news director) came from.


Kenny Lopez joins FOX40 from KVEO-23 in Brownsville, Texas. He is one of the youngest reporters I've seen in this market. I'm guessing 24?


Neda Iranpour joins CBS 13 as a general assignment reporter from Reno, Nevada.


Amanda Sanchez comes from the ABC affiliate in Las Vegas, Nevada. She will take over Anny Hong's position... which was weather anchoring/ and reporting. As for Anny, from what I've heard she's moved to Paris. But have no other information than that. I will definitely update this when I do.


Her name is Laura Skride, and she comes from the NBC affiliate in Austin, Texas! Se will be 'weathering' the forecast Weekdays on CBS 13 from 5-7 a.m. and at noon as well. A little bit about Laura, she graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in the mid 90s and earned her Certificate of Broadcast Meteorology from Mississippi State University in the early 2000's.


News10 has hired a new freelance reporter! Her name is Patricia Kakridas and she comes from the NBC affiliate in Decatur, IL where she co-anchored. Patricia graduated from UC Davis with a degree in Political Science and Communications. She's a local! And was a producer/ write for FOX40. An interesting fact she speaks Greek and Spanish! Welcome Patricia


Ben Deci joins FOX40 from ABC in Las Vegas where we worked mainly as an investigative reporter. He graduated from the University of Michigan.


Ama Daetz joins FOX40 as a fill-in anchor from WDIV in Detroit! She's a native from San Jose and graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

-Danielle Leigh joins KCRA 3 on the "Night team"

Angel Cardenas is officially doing traffic for News10 Good Morning. Melissa Crowley, who had done traffic for the show since November 2001, is going to continue to focus on hosting Sacramento & Company along with Guy Ferris. 4 years ago this month, the show went on air taking over what the Midday show used to do... i.e cooking segments, interviews.

She'll be back!

If you're a regular News10 viewer, then you probably notice Patty Souza has been off air for quite sometime. Don't worry, she didn't leave News10, but will be back in September. According to her Twitter page she was on leave and will be back shortly! They had to call Harry Stockman (freelance meteorologist, who also used to work for News10 in the past back in).

A Mini Switch

KCRA has decided to switch anchor's Chris Riva and Teo Torres to each other's positions. Teo for sometime anchored the weekend night editions of the newscast and reported a few days a week. Chris Riva anchored the My58 segments weekdays and also reported as well. Now, Chris is doing the weekends and Teo is co-anchoring with Deirdre.

And! Walt Gray is back to anchoring the noon newscast solo!

Northern California Anchor Co-Host's "Live with Regis & Kelly:"

After winning an online contest where viewers nationwide voted for her... San Francisco TV Journalist Janelle Wang got to co-host the Regis & Kelly show on Tuesday August 18th in New York. On the show Wang talked about what she plans to do next in the future and expressed how San Francisco will always be her home. Wang gave Regis a signed 49ers Joe Montana jersey as a gift and later interviewed actor James Spader.

Wang currently co-host ABC 7's "The View from the Bay" which airs weekdays at 3 p.m. along with Spencer Christian who used to forecast the weather on ABC's Good Morning America in the mid-late 90s.

You can watch a small clip of Janelle with Regis on the link provided below.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=view_from_the_bay&id=6938653

Interview goes wrong on Good Day Sacramento

A live interview on Good Day Sacramento with Joan Rivers did not go so well after entertainment reporter Mark S. Allen accidentally made Rivers upset after making a joke about her daughter. Rivers then decided to end the interview and said the F word on air. Everything went by quickly towards it end, it almost seemed like it was edited. The clip made it on TMZ.com and can be viewed by clicking on the link below.

http://www.tmz.com/videos?autoplay=true&mediaKey=a471a4d5-31b6-4b01-871e-880e79a6a508

Back in CA

Remember Jeff Raineri? Jeff worked at KCRA for a few years as the weekend morning meteorologist and left in 2005 to MSNBC and NBC Weather Plus to forecast on national TV. After working in Chicago for a while and New York City. Jeff is now back in California, and he's the Chief Meteorologist for KNTV- NBC 11 in San Jose, California. Welcome back Jeff.

KCRA Weather

If you watch KCRA constantly, then you probably have noticed a few unfamilar meteorologist's. Jeff Martinez is the newest member to join the Weather Plus team. He currently appears on the weekend morning editions and will fill in during the work week. He freelanced for KCRA back in 2005 for a while, and recently came from ABC in San Francisco where he freelanced as well.

Some changes at News10

Jennifer Smith, long time news anchor has stepped down from the Midday and Sunday night shows to a Multimedia Journalist position. She will on occasion fill-in anchoring, but her main duties will be to go out and report on stories. Also, according to some sources she is expected to retire sometime next year.

Cristi Jessee, one of News10's first Multimedia Journalist has decided to take a position as news director in Minnesota. Her last day will be on August 3rd.

News10's Nicole Chavez and Gregg Lalka will be leaving the station. They both joined in 2005 and will be headed to the east coast. They both are engaged and met while working together in Reno, NV.

Deborah Hoffman left the station in early July to work as the Communications Director for Senator Fran Pavley at the State Capitol. And yes, thats my arm.

So we can expect a few new faces at News10 in the Fall.