CBS 13 News Reporter Quits

CBS 13 News Reporter Bridget Cannata has quit in the middle of her contract Tuesday Oct. 30th. Bridget joined the station in July 2006 from a TV station in Oklahoma. According to the news director Steve Charlier, says she has decided to spend more time with her family in San Francisco. She will most likely get a reporting job at one of the bay area stations as obvious. We'll keep you noted on what she does next!

Local Anchor Writes a Book

CW 31/ CBS 13 Morning Anchor Stefanie Cruz has wrote a book about the recent unexpected news of Delta & Dawn who came to visit us in the waterways of West Sacramento. The book who is published by "Big Tomato Press" on a release date of Thursday Nov. 1st, 2007, but it is already in a few stores at the price of $15.95 is about the whales journey and how it touched local news media crews covering the event. "It became emotional" admits Cruz. "There was this drama that was building every single day, and we were just rooting for them" This is what made her write her first book "Delta & Dawn: Mother & Baby Whales' Journey" The story is illustrated by Lily Toppenberg. For now others can relive the experience through Stefanie's new book. You can purchase Cruz's book at the following links provided below.

Deltadawnbook.com
Amazon.com
The Sacramento Zoo and Avid reader and other area bookstores.

Former anchor comments News10's Studio set

Former News10 Anchor Kiran Chetry (Who left the station in 1999 and is now with CNN News in New York) commented the News10 studio desk saying it has not changed one bit since she left eight years ago. This was after she introduce the story of the News10 Good Morning folks being spoked by a couple of dressed up people in the Halloween spirit put on by the producer Kevin. You can watch her introduce the mini story provided by the link below.


http://edition.cnn.com/video/

New Graphics!

On Tuesday Oct. 30, 2007...News10 debuted their new graphics package, and I must say its looking good! They are simliar to ABC's Good Morning America's lettering graphics. If you remember the News10 weather got a new package in late 2006 which made it much more easier to know what type of weather each town was going to have, and of course "Foreast First" which was later debuted in late summer of 2007...All we need know is for News10 to go in a full-HD Newscast and a new set, which wont probably happen until 2009.

A New Member Joins the KCRA family

KCRA 3 weekend Sports Anchor Danny Pommells wife gave birth to a baby boy on Saturday Oct. 13th, 2007 named Julius Sterling Pommells.
Since the birth Danny has had a few weeks off to help take care of the baby. Chris Riva who was a former sports anchor in Colorado has been filling in for him. When Danny returns in late October to his regular duties, Chris will return to his regular position as the morning anchor from 7-9a.m on KCRA's My58 TV network. A bit history of Danny, he came to KCRA in August 2005 from WGAL-TV NBC 8 in Lancaster, Pennsylania to take in Del Rodgers spot who took Ron Hyde who was the former Sports Director.

Remember her?

Former News10 Traffic Anchor/ Reporter Julie Durda who left News10 in July 2006 to KRON 4 in San Francisco to a similar position and then to CBS 5 in Pheonix, Arizona to be a Weather/ Traffic anchor is now making bigger jump to WSVN-FOX 7 News in the Miami/ Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to a become the morning/ afternoon Weather Anchor.


Julie is going to be replacing Elita Loresca who was a former flipino model in the area will be stepping down from that position. Julie starts Thursday Nov. 1st. According to a statement released by the Vice President of FOX-7 Alice Jacobs...
"Julie is the perfect fit for a new Today in Florida weather anchor, she is knowledgeable, energetic and has a passion for weather." If you might remember Julie had left the independent station (KRON-4) from the bay area in late 2006 because of a despite that she accidentally blurted the F*** word on-air

It is expected Julie could move on to a national network market in no time. Go Julie!

Did you know?

The Sacramento and Company set is right across from the News10 news set?

Thats right it is in the same exact studio. And did you know the Sac and company set can be taken down to put up which was formally known as the 'Midday Set' before Sac and co. with the Red chairs and State Capital background? They usually set that part up if there are special guest during the show that are going to be interviewd.

A Halloween treat for the anchors

The anchors of News10 Good Morning got a scare from the Gyros Haunted House people on Friday Oct. 26th during the 6a.m hour. It was so hilarious to see Monica and Melissa hide and run from these people...and especially Kelly with her hands in the air. This was a once in a lifetime scare put one from Kevin one of the employees at News10. The people ran from the weather center and around/ behind the anchor desk. You can watch the video below

News faces to come soon!

CBS13 News director Steve Charlier has hired four new reporters to join the team! Thats right four!

Elyce Kirchner- From Providence, Rhode Island, WLNE ABC TV.


Kristina Lee- From Chico, California KHSL NBC 24/ CBS 12


David Begnaud- From Shreveport, Lousiana KSLA-TV


Reggie Kumar- From Palm Springs, California, CBS 2


You can catch these reporters in the coming weeks!

KCRA loses Investigative Reporter

Josh Bernstein joined KCRA 3 back in November 2005 as the only Invegtisgative Reporter in town (and still was). Josh has decided to join the Investigative team in Phoenix, Arizona at KNXV-15 an ABC affiliate. He will be replacing Abbie Boudreau, who left the station in September to join CNN as an investigative reporter. Josh's last day is Wednesday Oct. 31st.
A little bit of Josh's history he came to KCRA from WPMI-TV NCB 15 News in Mobile, Alabama.

Josh released a statement to Sam McManis from the Sacramento Bee...

"I'd like to see more commitment, not just here at KCRA - but at every station in Sacramento - to investigative reporting," Bernstein says. "That's a way a station can make its mark in this market, because, frankly, we don't see much of it here." "I'd like to see more commitment, not just here at KCRA - but at every station in Sacramento - to investigative reporting," Bernstein says. "That's a way a station can make its mark in this market, because, frankly, we don't see much of it here."

New 7-Day forecast graphics

News10 has new a 7-day forecast format. And it is lookin' pretty good. They also updated the tab on the top of the local area forecast when the meteorologist steps out of the picture...and it looks HD format. I have a feeling when News10 goes to a full-HD newscast the graphics are going to be great! So watch News10 weather!

She'll be back

If you are wondernig why you haven't seen Sharon Ito "Live_Online" its because she has a medical condition that she is going through and will be back sometime in November '07. She has not been Live_Online since early September '07. I'm sure Sharon will be back to tell us how shes doing, lets keep Sharon in out prayers shall we =)

News10 loses Financial Expert

News10 Good Morning lost their Financial Expert Kelly Brothers who joined the show back in January '06. You can now catch him weekday mornings on KCRA 3 (His former job).

Southern California Firestorm

If you watched the news for the pasted three days, then you have notice the top story on each station is the horrible wilde fires in Southern California. Almost every station in Northern California has sent their reporters out to cover this over grown story. The only station in Sacramento that did not send a reporter out is KTXL FOX40, probably because of Tribune's budget (The ownership of FOX40)
Here are a list of local area reporters covering the story.

KCRA 3
Edie Lambert (Mon-Weds)
David Beneick(Mond-Weds)
Sharokina Shams (Tues-Weds)
Pamela Wu (Thurs-Fri)
Mike TeSelle (Thurs-Fri)

KXTV News10
Deborah Hoffman
Jon Baird
Dan Adams
Patty Souza

KOVR CBS 13
Serene Branson

Familar face, but at another time

Kris Pickel, the CBS 13 KOVR anchor has switched from anchoring the news at 4 p.m. weekdays to now anchor them on the weekends. You can catch her at 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday along with Ron Jones.

The reason for this? Well Anny Hong who used to co-anchor with Ron got a degree in Meteorology and now does the weather in the evenings. She took over Angelique Frame who left in late July '07. For a while Anny was doing both anchoring and heading over to the chromakey wall. Now the team is put together.

So here's the set anchor list.

Anchors:
Ron Jones
Kris Pickel

World and National News Desk:
Steve Large

Weather:
Anny Hong

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Did you know??

When FOX40 conduct their live reports from the newsroom (Dark blue background with tv monitors in the back) located in South Sac. they set up a field camera in the newsroom. Most stations have a permanent teleprompter camera already set up. But 40 has a really small building so things can't really fit in as much as people would want to.

New Segment: Did you know?

I have decided to post a new segment on my blog about what you actually don't know what goes behind the scenes on TV. I plan to do write-in about two times a month...And hope you will find it very interesting. =)

Shes back!

FOX40 weeknight Meteorologist Kristina Werner returns back to work from maternity since July 2007 after having a baby girl. J.D Maher and Louisa Hodge have been filling in for her since then. So watch tonight at 10p.m. on Channel 40!

Congratulations Dana and Sharon!

Congrats Dana! its been 15 years with News10 since September 1992. Before joining News10 he worked at WWL-TV CBS 4 in New Orleans, Louisiana. And prior to that KPIX CBS 5 News in San Francisco as an Assignment Editor. Go Dana!




Congrats Sharon! Its been 11 years with News10 since she joined in September 1996. Sharon joined News10 several times before in her life. First in the late 80s as a producer and reporter. Then she left to a LA station and then came back to Sacto at PBS 6 and in late '96 she become the weekend solo anchor at News10 until early 2002 where she did the morning show. She is also married to News10's reporter George Warren. Go Sharon!

KCRA Hiries a new reporter!

At last! KCRA 3 has finally hired a General Assignment Reporter from WXII Channel 12 from North Carolina. Damany Lewis is expected to start sometime in October. Also another newbie for KCRA is Catalina Martinez who was the Morning weather anchor and entertianment reporter at Univision 19 for about three years. She started in late August of this year.

October 2007 Interview with Edie Lambert

Emmy Award winner Edie Lambert has been with KCRA 3 since July 1995. She held positions as a morning general assignment reporter, to the weekend anchor position and now weekday 6, 11 p.m. anchor. She is one of the well known TV journalist in Sacramento and can be contacted at ELambert@hearst.com

Name: Edie Lambert
Birthday: November 26th
Hometown: Friday Harbor, Washington
Height: 5'10"

What's your favorite singer/band and type of music?
I like just about everything. Lately I have been listening to a lot of opera, Bruce Springsteen, Zero Seven, and M.C. Solaar. My iPod is filled with techno dance music because lately I have been working out with a friend after our late newscasts and I need something to keep my feet moving.

What made you decide to become a News Anchor?
Getting the offer! My goal was always to work as a reporter, and I was very surprised when I was offered a chance to anchor. That was when I was 21 years old, and since then I have always been fortunate to work as both an anchor and reporter.

What college did you attend/major ?
UC Santa Barbara, B.A. in Political Science

Who is your role model?
My parents.

If you weren't a News Anchor, what would you be doing today?
Reporting.

If you could meet/ interview anyone famous who would it be?
The Dalai Lama.

What is an interesting/ Unique fact about you?
I grew up all over the world, as my parents took reseach projects in many different countries (they are marine biologists).

Do you perfer working weekends or weekdays?
Weekdays! After working weekends for 8 years, I feel overqualified to make this assessment.

What is your favorite dinner plate/ dessert?
My father's spaghetti with tapioca for dessert.

What is your favorite type of stories to cover and why?
Politics because the stories are often a challenge, and generally affect every single viewer. Our job is to explain why.

If you could give any advice to someone whos> interested in becoming a News Anchor, what would it be?
Learn to be a good reporter and make sure you are motivated by a true interest in journalism.