Former Sacramento Reporter now Correspondent

Miguel Almaguer, former KCRA 3 reporter from 2003-2006 has officially been named an NBC News Correspondent based from California. He will work out from their Burbank bureau and begins April 2. Almaguer will contribute to all NBC shows... including the Nightly newscast, the Today Show, and MSNBC. Almaguer is originally from the bay area, and graduated from San Francisco State in 2000. Prior to his promotion he worked for the NBC affiliate in Washington D.C for three years. Way to go Miguel!

On-Air Talent Update

We start off with Julie Watts, former KCRA Meteorologist... she's now freelancing for CBS 5- KPIX as a fill-in Meteorologist and Reporter.

Kristina Lee, former CW 31- CBS 13 reporter is in San Diego reporting for FOX 5 now. Lee was laid off in early 2008 when CBS was forced to make cuts throughout the country.

Michelle Liu, who was a reporter at FOX40 for a year is now a media specialist and consultant for UCLA. She Advises, train, and instruct's students in broadcast journalism by focusing on writing, editing, and web production's.

Get your LiveCopter 3 HD toy today!

That's right! KCRA 3 is now selling Live Copter 3 toys for just $10! The toy has working lights and the blades rotate. There's only a limited amount that were made. Hurry before their all gone!

http://www.kcra.com/livecopter3hd/index.html

If your interested you can buy the toy online. They accept most major credit cards and should be shipped within weeks.

San Joaquin Bureau Reporters Move Up

KCRA moved up reporter Sharokina Shams late last year from reporting in the Modesto area to now in Sacramento.

And News10's Cornell Barnard is also reporting in Sacramento now, rather in the Modesto area as well.

If your not aware both stations already have reporters in the area, in their Stockton bureaus... Tim Daly (News10) and Rich Ibarra (KCRA).

New on the News!

Finally! After 2 years with no official anchor for the 6 and 11 p.m. weekday newscast, after having Sarah Gardner, Dave Walker (and sometimes Teo Torres) KCRA has hired a new anchor. His name is Gulstan Dart and he comes from Seattle's CBS affiliate and he will debut on Monday September 8th, 2008 at 6 p.m. ! Looking forward to it

So I guess this clears it out that Walt Gray will return to his regular duties in the morning shift, and not anchor the 11 p.m. with Edie like he was doing for weeks, but since the Olympics occur ed and staff are required to stay until their over in the early morning hours... Edie has been solo. And Teo will continue to solo anchor the 10 p.m. on My58 and report throughout KCRA 3 at 5 or 6.

Former Sports Director Returns...

Ron Hyde is back in local TV and will soon start co-anchoring with Lisa Gonzales from CBS 13 weekday mornings starting Monday September 2nd, 2008 from 5-7 am. If you remembered Ron, he used to be the sports director for KCRA 3 from 1992-2006 until he decided to take a break from this business and become the director of Media for an online venture at MaxPreps.com for high school sports where he elevated their online video production by producing features, highlights packages, and short subject documentaries featuring high school athletes and coaches all online. Prior to coming to Sacramento in the early 90s he anchored various sports programs for CNN and hosted the Atlanta Hawks halftime show on cable channel TBS. For more you can visit his website at http://www.ronhyde.net/

As for Chris Burrous he will continue to stay on Good Day Sacramento.

And Michelle Kane long time KOVR 13 anchor/ reporter is no longer with the station. She will be the State Department Spokesperson and she is looking forward to that.

Behind the Scenes Look...

Tonight at 11, Dave Walker will take a look behind the scenes of what a jail inmate goes through before entering the Sacramento County Jail. It will be interesting to see what he goes through which very much of us don't really know but have an idea of it. It's tonight at 11 on KCRA. If you miss it, I'm very much sure it will be posted on their website.

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.

Both Switch Beats

Interestingly both Traffic anchors at 10 and 3 have slightly switched beats nearly at the same time.

Adrienne Bankert who joined the station four years ago as a traffic anchor is now reporting and fill-in anchoring. In fact this week she is anchoring the noon newscast from the mall bureau in for the Walt Gray. Bankert now offically host's Common Ground which is a community show that airs every month once on a sunday.


Angel Cardenas also switched beats...He is now the official 3rd Sports Reporter along with ''Bryan and Ryan'' (main sports anchors for 10) and he does a little filling now for Melissa Crowley who is the morning traffic anchor and does a little fill-in anchoring in from time to time.

Local Correspondent Reporters in Sacramento

We get to see everyday the people cover Political issues from the Capital like...


Marcey Brightwell (News10) and Kevin Riggs (KCRA3)

But... we don't get to see the people from other stations across California here in Sacramento, therefore here is a list of them!


Nannette Miranda, from ABC 7 News (KGO-TV) in San Francisco, ABC 30 Action News in Fresno, and ABC 7 Eyewitness News (KABC) in Los Angeles, California


Mike Luery, from KNTV NBC 11 News in San Jose, KNBC NBC 4 in Los Angeles, and KNSD NBC 39 in San Diego, California


John Lobertini from KPIX CBS 5 News in San Francisco, California

Another Personality Leaves KCRA

Catalina Martinez last day at KCRA is Friday Dec. 28th, 2007 the same as Sarah Gardner.
Unfortunately they were not able to come to an agreement on some sort (which isn't a surprise because we seen people come and go behind the scenes and in front of the camera due to agreements with the management). If Catalina considers to stay in Sacramento she should apply at News10 because they soon will be having an opening for a reporter after Monika Diaz left in November 2007.