Eileen Javora

Besides Eileen's duties to just focuse on the morning weather broadcast and not the afternoon. She had accidentally broke her arm earlier this month while 'playing around with friends'. She will most likely be back in around the middle of May or sooner. KCRA has set up a page for you to leave comments and get well wishes for Eileen. How sweet. Lol


Here is Eileen during at Noon newscast talking to a puppet in December 2007.

KCRA Loses Pilot

John Hamilton who has been a pilot with the station since the 90s has now left the morning/ afternoon show after most likely not coming to a contract agreement (what normally happens at KCRA) or decided to move on from the TV industry. His son interestingly graduated from the same high school as me and I remember him being on the baseball team at Sheldon High. Below is video from a newscast of when his son's dreams came true joining at College baseball team in Nebraska.

Update's

First up--- The layoffs at several CBS stations not only has affected former employee's but have cause issues in the programming side. The Sports Show which aired every weekend at 11pm- 11:30pm has now be incorperated with the 10pm newscast and is only hosted by Arran Anderson who has been with the station since 2006. Andrew Luria who reported for the show is now anchoring the weekend editions of Good Day Sacramento in the mornings and reporting for the weekday 10pm show three days a week. The Sports show can be seen around 10:45ish pm.


Candice Stanton is now taking a break from TV. She was a freelance reporter who worked for FOX40 News 2 days a week. No word what she's doing but she has come along way. She's been freelancing with FOX40 since November 2007. Candice also used to work as the morning reporter for KCRA 3 in the early 2000's she was also known as Candice Jones before she got married.


FOX40 News made a few changes to their 10pm news format. There are more sports and weather cut-ins which means a dab of more on-air time for Jim and Kristina.


John Lobertini who was a Sacramento Correspondent for CBS 5 in San Francisco, was sadly one of the people who got laid off from the CBS stations nationwide. Now the CBS 5 Live Truck is heading back home after a few years in Sacramento. He is expected to be in the market soon, and he also used to work for CBS 13 in Sacramento before joining CBS 5 in 1999.


KCRA has a new annoucer for the intro of their newscast, she has more of an accent. Personally I perferred the other annoucer. Also their backdrop has changed as where it used to be yellow-greenish with the mountains and parts of downtown Sacramento to just a plain blue 3 backdrop towards the left of the studio from the viewers side.


Eileen Javora, is now appearing only on the Morning newscast shows. Dirk Verdoorn and Julie Watts are now handling the noon newscast from the KCRA 3 Experience at Arden Mall.


And lastley, Kristin Marshall, joined KCRA from WBAL-TV NBC 11 in Baltimore, Maryland in February 2008, she is now doing traffic after Adrienne left her beat to report and anchor.

Does Your Child Want to be a Weather Kid?

FOX40 Morning news has a new segment every friday and its titled "Rosemary's Weather Kids" If you think your child has what it takes to be a weather kid then continue reading. According to the website your child must be 5-12 years...Although in an e-mail Rosemary replied that the child must be 8-14 years old...Not sure if they website hasn't been updated or the rules have changed. To nominate your child e-mail all the information at WeatherKids@Tribune.com

Additional information is provided within this link below.

http://fox40.trb.com/ktxl-news-weatherkids,0,2924783.htmlstory

Here is an example of a former weather kid on the morning show

A Special Thanks To...

Sharon Ito who came out to my TV Production class at Cosumnes River College last week to help me out for an interview that was a class assignment that needed to be completed. I interviewed her by asking questions on how interested future Broadcasters can get into this competitive field and what types of classes should students take to help prepare them for this career as a reporter.

4 Years Later...

In April 2004 KCRA opended up an exciting new exibit in the Arden Fair Mall where viewers can come and see how a newscast is operated. And this month it's been four years since they have been broadcasting from the mall every weekday at noon for an hour.

Local Station Enters for a Heniz 57 Commercial Ad

About a year ago the CBS 13 production crew entered for contest for the Heniz 57 commercial...Unforuently Hinez did not pick their idea but it was nice to see a local station enter for a national contest, I must say its very creative.

Former Anchor Joins the Converstation

Former KCRA 3 anchor Sarah Gardner will make an apperance on News10's Live_Online chat room today during the 5pm newscast. Gardner and researcher director David Amaral for the M.I.N.D Institute will be talking about the care for children with autism and the latest advances in diagnosing the brain condition. They will be accepting any questions during the 30- 45 minute chat discussion. Gardner helped co-founder of the M.I.N.D Institute at U. C Davis along with her husband Chuck who is a housing contractor.