august 2003 off camera Website: www.emmysf.tv war and peace back on top at 11 NBC-11 reclaimed the lead in the July late- At 6 pm, ABC-7 continued its winning ways forum set for kgo night news wars as the topsy-turvy Bay Area with a 4.5 rating (10 share). CBS-5’s 6:30 television market continued its fluid ways. pm finished second with a 3.5 (7), up 19 The San Jose NBC O&O averaged a 4.5 percent from a year ago. KTVU’s 6 pm news rating (10 share) for its weekday 11 pm news- was right behind with a 3.3, up 20 percent casts, a 21 percent improvement over last from July 2002. KRON was fourth with a year. 2.8 and NBC-11 was fifth with a 2.6rating, although that’s a 21 percent increase from ABC-7 placed with a 4.2 (10). CBS-5, which a year ago. won the time slot in June, slipped to third with a 3.9 (9), still 13 percent better than a At 5, ABC-7 still dominates. Its Oprah-led ADAM HOUSLEY, FOX News year ago. newscast finished July with a 4.2 rating (11 Electronic and print journalists will discuss share), coverage of the Iraq war and anti-war pro- KRON-4 continues its “no network lead-in” easily outdistancing KRON’s 3.3 (9). tests at a NATAS-sponsored forum next struggle in late-night news. It finished fourth People’s Court on KTVU was third with a month at KGO’s studios in San Francisco. with a 2.7(6), the same numbers it had in 3.1(8), followed by CBS-5 (2.6 7) and NBC- July 2002. The independent station’s 9 pm The “War and Peace” forum starts at 7 pm 11 (2.0/6). th news continues to do well, however. on Wednesday, September 24 . ADAM KTVU reclaimed the crown among mid- HOUSLEY from Fox News and the San KTVU still holds sway over all nighttime day newscasts with a 3.4 (13), edging ABC- Francisco Chronicle’s JOHN KOOPMAN competitors. Its “Ten O’clock News” earned 7’s 3.2 rating. CBS-5’s noon news contin- will talk about their experiences as embed- a 6.3 rating, 11 share, but those numbers ues to slide. It finished third with a 2.0 (8), ded reporters in Iraq. KGO anchor DAN are off 18 percent from last year. ASHLEY moderates. continued on page 4 continued on page 2 kgo & kqed up for national emmys A KGO-TV news story, “Child Abduction great to see the I-Team’s work get recog- Underground,” has been nominated for a nized by the Academy on a national level.” national Emmy award for investigative re- porting. The “I-team” report exposed an The KGO entry will compete against four underground child abduction network re- other regional Emmy winners for the honor. sponsible for hiding two young girls taken The other nominees are from WTTG from their mother by her ex-husband. It won (Washington D.C.), WBZ (Boston), WCPO a regional Emmy in May. Producer BETH (Cincinnatti) and WTVF (Nashville). RIMBEY, anchor DAN NOYES, photojour- Regional winners from all 20 Academy nalists MICHAEL HORN and MARC Photo © Robert Mohr 2003 (415-647-6647) chapters in investigative reporting and SANCHEZ-COREA and associate pro- KGO’s BETH RIMBEY, DAN NOYES breaking news are eligible for national ducer LYNN R FRIEDMAN are named in and LYNN R FRIEDMAN Emmy consideration, as part of the National terprise and investigative reporting that the nomination. Television Academy’s “News and Docu- makes a difference in people’s lives,” said mentary Emmy Awards.” “At ABC-7 news, we put a premium on en- KEVIN KEESHAN, KGO news director. “It’s continued on page 3 Off Camera, august 2003, page 1 war & peacecontinued 9/24 from page 1 catchings joins itn kgo promotions JOHN CATCHINGS THERESE GAMBA has been named di- has been promoted rector of operations to vice president of for ITN|MediaOne programming and Services. John is a station marketing at broadcast veteran KGO-TV (ABC-7), with more than 30 San Francisco. years of experience. Gamba joined the JOHN KOPPMAN DAN ASHLEY He was Director of Station Operations at station in last December as director of cre- Journalists who covered the peace protests KPIX-TV San Francisco, where for ten years ative and strategic marketing. this spring will also recount their experi- he supervised all aspects of program de- ences, including the growing hostility of velopment and production at the CBS In her new job, Gamba will be responsible demonstrators towards “corporate media.” owned and operated station. For more than for the overall image of the station as well a decade, Catchings served as Executive as for the purchasing and development of Taped copies of the forum will be shipped Producer at ABC’s KGO-TV, where he was local programming. She will continue to to outlying areas for viewing by anyone who responsible for daily news and sports cov- oversee the ABC-7 News web site, public can’t attend. erage and production. He launched the sta- relations, and station events. This is the third in a series of forums spon- tions first morning news show and its first Ms. Gamba, a native of the Bay Area, has a sored by NATAS on issues important to the sports magazine show. John began his BA from St. Mary’s College in Moraga and a television industry. Last fall’s topic was news broadcasting career behind the micro- Masters Degree in Radio and Television judgment. In the spring, a panel discussed phone at San Francisco radio stations from San Francisco State. She was previ- overnight ratings. KMPX, KFRC and KSFX, where he was also ously the Vice President of Marketing for Programming and Operations Manager. TNN in New York. Catchings has received numerous broad- legends salute cast awards including three Emmys. In ERIC DAUSTER was named technical 2001, he founded Catchings and Associ- operations manager for the San Francisco- creature features ates, a television production and consult- based ABC affiliate. Dauster was most re- ing company. John serves on the NTA cently the systems manager for TeleSuite board of governors and is co-chair of the Corporation and manager of worldwide archive and museum committee. He was video operations at Oracle Corp. He also inducted into the NTA Silver Circle in 1992 has extensive PBS experience, having worked at KTEH in San Jose, KVIE in Sac- avery named to ramento and KQED in San Francisco.

natas board JACK FRASER is the station’s new assis- A North Bay TV ex- tant director of engineering. Fraser began ecutive has been his career at KGO in 1980. He’s worked as appointed to the a maintenance engineer, an ENG techni- Television cian and a production technician. Academy’s North- In graphics, LISA WELDON PHELAN is ern California board KGO-TV’s new art director. Most recently, JOHN STANLEY BOB WILKINS BRIAN AVERY was Phelan was lead artist for Video Design The September 23rd Broadcast Legends picked by the board Group, a subsidiary of 10 ABC-owned sta- luncheon will salute “Creature Features.” when a position opened up after the May tions and Buena Vista Syndication. Phelan Former hosts of the KTVU “Creature Fea- elections. has also worked at CNN and KHOU-TV in ture” program BOB WILKINS and JOHN Avery is the station manager at KTLN Chan- Houston. STANLEY will be on hand to show clips nel 68, based in Corte Madera and part of and tell stories. KGO executives also hired JACK LIVOLSI the Total Living Network presenting Chris- as promotion manager. LiVolsi most re- The luncheon will be held at the Bay Bridge tian programming. Avery previously spent cently was executive producer of special Holiday Inn, Emeryville, 11:30 a.m. recep- 17 years as a video producer at KPIX-TV, projects for WBZ/WSBK in Boston. He also tion, 12 noon, lunch followed by the pro- San Francisco. He will chair the chapter’s served as creative services director at gram. www.broadcastlegends.com management relations committee. WSBK. Off Camera, august 2003, page 2 broadcasting virtual museum national emmys continued from page 1 July’s edition of Off Camera announced the exciting plans for the development of the Broadcast Archives and Museum of North- ern California. An important component of the plans include a virtual museum that will allow visitors to view, via the Internet, material from many regional archives throughout our Chapter. The process that will enable this unique collection to be ac- cessible to museum visitors will be a feat of SF Opera production “Dead Man Walkiing” epic proportions! It will involve the cleaning SGI’s Octane workstation installed at BAVC A KQED program that focused on a San and transfer of thousands of hours of origi- and consortium, have set up workstations Francisco Opera production has received nal broadcast footage on film and video, at BAVC’s facility. Ten high powered “Oc- a national Emmy nomination. “Then One which will then be digitized into specialized tane” workstations were generously do- Night: The Making of Dead Man Walking” workstations enabling the material’s resto- nated by SGI. The workstations are specifi- has been nominated for a national News ration and storage. cally configured to run specialized film and and Documentary Emmy Award. video restoration software, donated by con- sortium partner Mathematical Technolo- The program detailed the San Francisco gies Company. MTI is the market leader Opera’s December 2000 production of the in resolution-independent digital mastering, opera, “Dead Man Walking.” The docu- restoration and formatting software. mentary aired on KQED in 2001. It pre- As a first step into these miered nationally in January 2002. KQED uncharted waters, the The BAVC learning lab will eventually serve producer/director LINDA SCHALLER Bay Area Video Coali- as a test site for the virtual museum, per- worked on the project for almost a year tion and Silicon fecting the process that will allow thousands Graphics, both mem- of visitors to explore the rich media history The Emmys will be presented on Septem- rd bers of the museum planning committee of northern California ber 3 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New community leadership benefit York. Gate Chapter AWRT. “We invite our mem- new nd at khnl bers and other media industry friends to From Ohio to Oahu. SUE LEVINE, former choose to send a gift for the Belva Davis assistant news director at WOIO/WUAB in Diversity Scholarship.” Cleveland, has been named news director The Belva Davis Diversity Scholarship was at Hawaii NBC affiliate KHNL News 8. created in honor of the award winning and Levine switches stations but stays in the highly regarded television reporter and an- same company. Raycom Media owns both chor, BELVA DAVIS. Davis is a member of WOIO and KHNL. BELVA DAVIS JACKIE WRIGHT AWRT and holds the distinction of having The American Women in Radio and Tele- been the first African-American, female tele- Before joining Raycom, Levine was execu- vision (AWRT) Golden Gate Chapter’s Belva vision reporter on the West Coast (1966). tive producer at WJBK, the Fox station in Davis Diversity Scholarship will be a fea- Detroit. She’s also worked in Miami, New tured beneficiary at the Community Lead- JACKIE WRIGHT was AWRT President for York and Los Angeles. ership Reception and Fundraiser August the Golden Gate Chapter in 1999. She cur- “We are very excited to have someone of 15, 6-8:30pm at San Francisco’s Lavash rently serves as Executive Director of the Sue’s caliber coming to lead our news de- Restaurant, 4 Embarcadero Center. Office of Public Engagement and Informa- partment, said JOHN FINK, vice president JANICE EDWARDS of KNTV, NBC 11 will tion for the SF Unified School District. She and general manager, said in a statement. be emcee. spent most of the 1990’s as Public Affairs Associate for the Bay Area Chapter of the Levine replaces SETH FELDMAN, who “We want to build the funds for this very im- American Red Cross. resigned in June. The hire leaves KGMB- portant scholarship, so we are pleased that TV as the only Honolulu TV station without it is one of the beneficiaries of the event,” RSVP by August 10, please call 415-705- a news director. said LISA SCIMENS, President Golden 0557 or www.celebratejackiewright.com. Off Camera, august 2003, page 3 kpix cancels emmy-winning newscast july ratings Less than three months after winning the continued from page 1 Emmy for Best Daytime Newscast, the 4:30 down 20 percent from last year. KRON’s p.m. news on KPIX has been cancelled. 11:30 am news was fourth with a 1.3 (5). The final day for the newscast, anchored It’s a tight battle in early mornings. KTVU by BARBARA RODGERS and KATE holds on to its lead with a 2.2 rating (13 KELLY, will be Aug. 29. share) at 6 am. Right behind were NBC-11 In its place will be the syndicated show, BARBARA RODGERS KATE KELLY and ABC-7, both with a 2.0 (12). KRON was “People’s Court.” KPIX purchased the rights at 5 p.m. In July, it garnered a 3.0 rating (8 fourth with a 1.6 (9). CBS-5 was fifth with a to the hour-long show, wresting it away from share) and was number one in that time 1.2 (7), although its numbers were 35 per- KTVU. “People’s Court” will run from 4 p.m. slot for female viewers ages 25 to 54. cent better than a year ago to 5 p.m. Another syndicated show, “Living It Up with Ali and Jack” will run KPIX’s 4:30 p.m. newscast began two years from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. That show, starring ago. In July, it received a 1.7 rating (5 share). gay pride draws Today correspondent JACK FORD and co- That was up 23 percent from July 2002, but medienne ALI WENTWORTH, replaces apparently not good enough to stay on the big ratings “Good Day Live.” The Los Angeles-based air. In May, the 4:30 p.m. news scored a talk show will move to the Viacom-owned major upset at the Northern California UPN affiliate, KBHK. Emmy show when it defeated KTVU’s “Mornings on 2” to win the Best Daytime Station Manager RON LONGINOTTI told Newscast Emmy. a stunned KPIX newsroom about the This year’s Gay Pride Parade in San Fran- changes in late July. He said the decisions Longinotti also announced KPIX will expand cisco not only drew big crowds, it had a had nothing to do with the quality of the 4:30 its weekend morning newscasts. On Satur- large television audience, as well. The p.m. newscast. Longinotti said a stronger day, an extra 90 minutes of news will run on June 29th event, aired live on KRON-TV, “audience flow” into KPIX’s 5 p.m. news- KBHK after the KPIX newscast ends at 8 scored a 6.5 rating (22 share). This is cast was the reason for the switch. a.m. On Sunday, an extra hour of news will the first year the San Francisco indy has run on KBHK after KPIX’s newscast ends at aired the pride celebration. “People’s Court” has been airing on KTVU 8:30 a.m. That 6.5, which translates to more than in memory bob mccarthy 150,000 households tuned in, beat by a new kntc program wide margin the 2.6 rating the live cover- Azteca America, KNTC-TV 42, is now air- age earned when it was carried by KBWB/ ing a locally produced Latino-oriented pro- KOFY in 2002, and was the highest the pa- gram featuring entertainment news, artist rade had garnered since 1998. interviews and community events. DINO DINOVITZ, KRON 4 President and “Ojos Latinos, Tu Musica” premiered July General Manager said, “KRON 4 is com- 28th on the San Francisco-based, Spanish mitted to providing the best news and local language channel. It airs from 4 to 5 pm programming for the diverse communities weekdays. “Ojos Latinos” is an “entertain- of the Bay Area, and we believe that this ment magazine targeted at young adults Former “TeleCopter 4” traffic reporter BOB event is one more way we can reach out to who are looking for programming alterna- th McCARTHY died on July 5 fighting a battle the people we serve.” tives,” said KNTC General Manger with lymphoma. Bob was hired by KRON in ROBERTO PINEDA. the early 1980’s as the helicopter coordi- nator. News Director MIKE FERRING de- save the date The show’s producer is ANDRES PRUNA, Wednesday, Octo- cided to put Bob in the helicopter as the a Cuban-American ber 15, 2003 at the TeleCopter 4 traffic reporter. Bob gave documentary film- Sony Metreon Ac- morning and afternoon traffic reports on maker who also tion Theatre, SF. New “NewsCenter 4” for several years. produces the En- Media Committee glish language His daughters request donations to be Premiere Event: “Latin Eyes” for made to the Sutter Cancer Foundation, Broadband and KRON-TV. (That 2800 L Street/ Sixth Floor, Sacramento, CA Video On Demand program airs at 10 Sunday mornings.) 95816-5600. Panel. Off Camera, august 2003, page 4 sacramento natas cinema club cinema club members “reload” san francisco 8/11 at movie night sacramento 8/23

Photo © Robert Mohr 2003 (415-647-6647) Two dozen Sacramento NATAS members got a chance to “reload” at the movie the- ater last month. The members and guests were treated to a free showing of “Matrix: Reloaded” at the IMAX theater in downtown Sacramento. NATAS members mingled in the lobby before entering the wide-screen theater for the two-hour sequel. “WHALE RIDER” Drama - 1 hr. 45 min. A Sacramento Cinema Club moves to a new theatre, date Maori tribe must contend with a female as and time… their leader after her twin brother dies at The next free Sacramento movie will be Saturday, Aug. childbirth, and she must struggle to prove 23, at the Regal Theaters in the Natomas Mall. Meet herself. MPAA Rating: PG-13 for brief lan- in the theatre lobby for networking at noon, movie guage and a momentary drug reference. starts at 12:30 p.m. NATAS members and a guest will Distributor: Newmarket Films get in FREE to a showing of “Seabiscuit.” Starring: KEISHA CASTLE-HUGHES, RAWIRI This is the true story of a former bicycle repairman, PARATENE, VICKY HAUGHTON, CLIFF Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges), who made his fortune CURTIS, GRANT ROA Directed by: NIKI CARO introducing the automobile to the American West, and Produced by: TIM SANDERS, JOHN BARNETT, who owned a small, knobbly-kneed horse called FRANK HUBNER Seabiscuit. The CINEMA CLUB is a FREE first run monthly screening (second Monday) for kron adds $$$ show NATAS, DGA and AWRT members who may bring a guest. The private viewing is A new program on business, money and at the Delancey Street Screening Room, investment has hit the air at KRON-4. 600 The Embarcadero, San Francisco. The San Francisco Indy premiered Refreshments & Networking 7 p.m., movie “Rob Black & Your Money” last month. 7:30 p.m. Seating limited to first 146 to The half-hour program airs weekdays at arrive. noon. Hosts ROB BLACK and CHERYL CASONE field phone and e-mail questions from viewers, offer market updates and CHERYL CASONE, ROB BLACK analysis, and provide investment tips. Casone has been reporting on business for Black is best known for his CNET nation- KRON and previously worked for business ally syndicated radio show, “Stock Talk.” news network Bloomberg Television in New York. www.emmysf.tv Off Camera, august 2003, page 5

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the board of governors officers: zamacona working with grateful dead DAVID MILLS, KPIX, President On July 15th, FRANK LYNN R FRIEDMAN,KGO, VP,San Francisco ZAMACONA began shooting in- KEITH SANDERS, KICU, VP, San Jose terview footage with members of GEORGE FRANCO,KOVR, VP Sacramento JEFF CARDINALE, KFSN, VP, Fresno The Dead (formerly The Grate- DAVID RATTO, KTVN/ImageSync, VP, Reno ful Dead) in Northern California. PAMELA YOUNG, KITV, VP, Hawaii Dead band members MICKEY MICHELE BALL, KBWB WB20, Secretary JIM SPALDING, Spalding & Co., Treasurer(Finance) HART and BOB WEIR, along with long-time roadie Steve Parish national trustees: were among those interviewed. JAMES LAUTZ, Tudor Communications CYNTHIA ZEIDEN, Zeiden Media (Activities) The footage will appear on both a th governors: 25 Anniversary DVD/CD set DAN ADAMS, KXTV 10 and a 90-minute PBS special DANNY MANEJA, ANNIE ROTHCHILD, BOB WEIR, DAN ASHLEY, KGO ABC 7 celebrating the Grateful Dead’s FRED TETZNER, FRANK ZAMACONA JOHN CATCHINGS, ITN/Media One (Museum) performance at Winterland, one of San ALBERT GARCIA, KUVS Univision 19 Zamacona Productions have a strong and ALISON GIBSON, Media Cool (Education) Francisco’s most renowned entertainment creative partnership—Frank has been direct- STEWART HELLER, York Productions venues. The Dead’s performance that ing spots for the station since 1993. ADAM HOUSLEY, FOX News night was the last ever at the venue before ASHLEY JAMES, KTOP Cable 10(Publicity) RON LOUIE, KTVU FOX 2 it was closed down, and lasted from 12 In June, Zamacona directed a promotional TERRY LOWRY,LaCosse Productions midnight until 6 am the next day. In August, spot for KGO-ABC/7’s “Experience” cam- JAVAID MALIK, KGO ABC 7, JAM Prod. Zamacona will begin editing footage of the paign. He had the good fortune of working SCOTT McGREW, KNTV NBC 11 with station-veterans Pete Wilson, Jessica DEANNE MOENSTER, KTVU FOX 2 performance for both the DVD and the PBS JOHN MURRAY, JM Communications special. Post-production will continue Aguirre, Dan Ashley, Mike Finney, and pro- SHARON NAVRATIL, KTVU FOX 2 throughout the remainder of the year, with ducer Missy Crawford. The spots are sched- JOHN ODELL, City College of San Francisco uled to air July through October 2003. ROSS PALOMBO, KRON 4 the set slated for release in November and PAT PATTON, KRON 4 (Membership) the PBS special scheduled to air in De- On the corporate front, Zamacona teamed TERRI RUSSELL, KOLO 8 cember of 2003 HEATHER SEARLES, ITVS up again this summer with Medical Pro- DAMIAN TRUJILLO, KNTV, NBC 11 Zamacona recently directed a promo- grams/HMP, directing two programs for live JAVIER VALENCIA, KRON 4 (Awards) satellite broadcast, webcast and audio con- KIRA VILANOVA, KDTV 14(Publicity) tional spot for KGO-ABC/7, publicizing the STUART YAMANE, Independent opening of the upcoming Marc Chagall ference. The first program, “Current Ad- RICK ZANARDI, Notre Dame de Namur University exhibit at San Francisco’s Museum of vances In The Treatment of Lymphatic committee chairs Modern Art (SFMOMA). The exhibit in- Malignancies”, was shot and broadcast in DARRYL COHEN, Cohen & Cooper ( Legal Counsel) cludes pieces spanning in time from 1907 June from Denver’s Comcast Production LINDA GIANNECCHINI, KQED9 (Museum) to 1970, and is open from July 26th through Center. The second, shot in July in New York exective director November 4th. KGO-ABC/7 and City is entitled “Behavioral Management.: DARRYL COMPTON, NATAS, SF/NorCal Treatment Team Strategies.” Off Camera, august 2003, page 6