Trobules with 'Tent City' and the Media...

Recently, Tent City has gotten national attention, after Lisa Ling's special aired on the Oprah Show about tent cities growing in the U.S. including Sacramento. Tent City, which is located north of Downtown Sacramento along the American River has sprung housing as many as 1200 homeless people. Recently a homeless resident of tent city was upset after News10 showed up... last week, Cornell Barnard and his photographer were almost attacked after a women hit their camera.

On Friday, CBS 13 was going to go live for the 5 and 6 p.m. shows from tent city, but as reporter Koula Gianulias was preparing, she was threaten by one of the residents. "My photographer and I dropped by in the morning to shoot some video from a distance. We didn’t have any problems and a few people kindly chatted with us." Gianulias said. "Later in the afternoon, with our huge live truck, Tent City campers seemed much more uneasy. Right when my photographer jumped out of the truck a woman yelled at him and said she was going to grab her steak knife and cut his throat. Meanwhile another man started yelling at me…so we decided it was best to take off."

Right now the mayor of Sacramento is trying to move them into another location, where it's safe and where they can wash up... but some residents expressed they don't want to move.

Relocating two Former Reporters...

Remember Bora Kim former reporter for the CBS13 San Joaquin Valley bureau? She started this week at WDIV-TV NBC 4 in Detroit, Michigan as a general assignment reporter, where Pallas Hupe worked for a while there in market 11. It's unsure why Bora was only with CBS13 for over a year but reports online that weren't confirmed were saying she got fired. She left sometime in late 2006 or early 2007, and that's where Edmundo Aguilar was hired to report in the Stockton area.


And FOX40 Morning reporter Kye Martin started last month at the CW affiliate in Chicago, IL as a traffic anchor/reporter on Navteq/Traffic.com

New Family Members...

CW31 Weekend anchor Kelly Chapman finally had her son Wednesday night which had her husband Jeff James (CBS 13 morning/ noon Meteorologist) worried about when he was going to pop out because his son had made false attempts before, he finally came into this world Wednesday evening and Jeff was filling in that day for Chief Meteorologist Dave Bender and had to have Anny Hong cover for him for the 10 p.m. newscast. Now they are one big happy family.

Heather Hudgens who formerly worked for Good Day Sacramento is temporarily filling in for Kelly while on maternity leave, Heather is now doing Traffic reports for CBS 5 Morning News in San Francisco.

And News10 Good Morning's Melissa Crowley is expecting her second child at age 38 later this summer, while on maternity leave News10's Angel Cardenas will be filling in for her over the summer.

Want a Job in Local TV News?

FOX40 News is looking to expand their morning news coverage by a few hours. Which they now are hiring for a few openings which include--
*Producers
*Anchors-Host/ Reporters
*Assignment Editor
*Web Producer
*Production Assistants
Of course to apply for these position's copy and paste the link below into your URL and fill out the online application, I have a feeling the FOX40 newsroom will be busy in the mornings now.

http://fox40.trb.com/about/station/jobs/

And this just in Tom Burke, former news director for FOX40 has officially left the building and been replaced by former CBS 13 news executive producer Brandon Mercer. According to some sources, big changes are in store for this shop. Of course when a new general manager comes in, changes definitely occur, and that's what exactly has happen for FOX40.

Update's!

Andrew Luria, comes to the CBS 13 sports team from KCOY-TV a CBS affiliate in Santa Barbara, Ca. You can catch him on the weekends from 11 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on CBS13 right after the news at 10. He debuted his appearence on Sunday, Jan. 20th, 2008 along with Aarrn Anderson. The intro of the show sunday night was hilarious when Luria walked into the Newsroom and Anderson's mouth dropped in awe.


Also weekend Morning anchor/ weekday reporter Taryn Winter Brill leaves Sacramento Thursday Jan. 31st as she annouced on the one of the Saturday morning broadcast. She will be moving to New York her home state to be closer to her family will most likely get a job in the same field. Kelly Chapman is now taking over her spot along with Cody Stark, Brill can be catch now reporter early in the mornings during the weekend show.


Kye Martin has left FOX40, and has moved to Chicago, IL after she recently got married.


Nina Melhaf Now at KTVZ 12-TV in Bend, Oregon as the evening anchor


Grace Lee, Former KCRA reporter now at KGMB 9 in Hawaii


Tim Sakahara, Former FOX40 reporter also at KGMB 9 in Hawaii


And FOX40's Lisa Amin left the station and has been with KGO-TV's ABC 7 News in San Francisco freelancing since December 2007. You can catch one of Lisa's first report with the station followed by this link: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/abc7_salutes&id=5860061
She is now happy that she is closer to her family.

Yet Another CBS 13 Reporter will leave

CBS 13's Serene Branson will be leaving the station sometime in mid-late November 2007 to Los Angeles, California. She already had done some freelance stories for KCBS a station in Los Angeles and would like to go where she had a dream to work at. Serene says "Los Angeles has always been my goal," who grew up in Southern California and attended UCLA. "I worked in Palm Springs and Santa Barbara to get my feet wet. When the opportunity presented itself up here in Sacramento, people told me that Sacramento is a great news market and that people in L.A. will take you seriously from Sacramento"

"The one thing we tell our reporters, especially as we broguht people in to rebuild the station, is that we're a large company and we want to help our reporters stay within the company and go to a bigger market. That's a sign we're doing our job," Charlier says to Sacbee 21Q.

2 Loses for CBS 13

It's always sad to see a familar face go from TV News. But this one has definitely hit hard to long time faithful viewers at KOVR 13. Charlotte Fadipe (Who is commonly known for her british accent) Has been with the station since 1998 as a General Assignment Reporter and Sunday July 29th will be her last day on-air with KOVR. She will be freelancing in the San Francisco market for KNTV NBC 11 News.



Yet again another lost for CBS 13. The weekend Meteorologist and reporter Angelique Frame will be leaving the station Wednesday August 1st, 2007. She will be moving San Diego with her husband who recently got hired in that city. She has decided to work with her husband on story telling video website (www.webstorytellers.com). It seems like CBS 13 will be hiring more people in the months to come. Mean while anchor Anny Hong will be doing the weather reports who also anchors the weekend shows with Ron Jones.