October 2006 ff amera The NationalC Academy of Television Arts and Sciences www.emmysf.tv San Francisco/Northern California Chapter THE SIL VER CIR CLE CL A SS OF 2006 Six Northern California broadcasters will California Chapter Area) and who made be inducted into the NATAS Silver Circle atat a significant contribution to the local it’s Twentieth Anniversary Gold & Silver Circle television industry. Induction Luncheon in San Francisco on Additionally, sports broadcast legend, Saturday, November 11th. Franklin Mieuli, will be inducted into the Members of the Northern California chapter’s Gold Circle, honoring his 50+ NATAS Silver Circle have elected the “Class years as an industry leader (announced of 2006” inductees: John Fowler, KTVU 2; in September’s Off Camera). Mark Hedlund, KXTV 10; Sydnie Kohara,, The 20thth Anniversary Gold & Silver CBS 5; Bob Long, KSEE 24 (retired); RoRo ssss Circle Induction Luncheon will be held at McGowan, KTVU 2; and Hank Plante, CBS 5. the Holiday Inn Fisherman’s Wharf ,, The prestigious Silver Circle recognizes San Francisco, on Saturday, Nov. 11th, individuals who have been actively engaged in beginning with a no-host reception at 11:00 a.m.,., television broadcasting for 25 years or more (at least luncheon at noon and induction program at 1:00 p.m. half of those years in the San Francisco/Northern continued on page 2

JOHN FOWLER MARK HEDLUND SYDNIE KOHARA BOB LONG ROSS McGOWAN HANK PLANTE KTVU Channel 2 KXTV News 10 KPIX CBS 5 KSEE 24 KTVU Channel 2 KPIX CBS 55 D VD REQUIRED D VD PUBLISHING W ORK SHOP 10/7 FOR EMMY ® ENTRIES ByBy Bob Goldberger Come spend the day atat Steve Michelson The digital age has officially arrived Productions’ facility at for the next Emmy®® competition, and Lobitos Creek Ranch you need to start preparing for it now and learn how to or come January, you may get left out. You develop Special Interest will no longer be allowed to enter your Programming for the award-worthy work on videotape. This booming marketplace upcoming Emmy®® competition ushers in a taking off on DVD, the new era where only DVDs will be accepted. Web, by Video on DVD Seminar, Nov. 20, 2004 “We don’t have a choice; this isn’t an Demand downloading, Photo: Robert Mohr © 2004 option,” chapter president Lynn Friedman says. “National issued this rule for allall Broadband and RSS web syndication. Saturday, Regional NATAS chapters, so now everybody in the October 7, 2006 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. $45 per country is operating under the DVD-only rule.” person ($35 for NATAS members) includes Work- Announcement of the new rule has been met, so far, shop, Continental Breakfast, Lunch, Soft Drinks and mostly with groans from members of our Northern Snacks. California chapter, primarily because DVD burners are 40-Person Registration Limit (so register quickly!) continuedo np age 3 continuedo np age4 Off Camera, October 2006, page 1 THE SIL VER CIR CLE CL A SS OF 20062006 Kohara has lived all over the world she continued from page 1 covers. From Tokyo and Hong Kong to KGO’s Pete Wilson (Silver Cicle ‘01) will Frankfurt, Paris and London, she has serve as master of ceremonies. provided the latest market news and Tickets to the event are $70, NATAS information on Asian and European members $65. If you purchase by 10/31 you corporations. She has also worked at can take another $5 off. E-mail television stations in Sacramento and [email protected] or call 650-341-7786. Montgomery, Alabama, where she was the Proceeds will benefit the NATAS chapter first woman co-host of the University of scholarship fund. Alabama’s syndicated football shows. Meet the class of 2006: During the San Francisco earthquake in 1989, she provided live global coverage to JOHN FOW LER – Health/ Science Editor, KTVU 2 Japan, Europe and Australia for the ABC network, Health and Science Editor John receiving a Peabody and Morrow award for reporting Fowler is a veteran of the KTVU excellence. Sydnie has also received Emmy®® nomina- Newsroom, having been with the tions and awards from AAJA, RTNDA and SPJ. Kohara station since 1975. He started as a has been Chief of Communications for the California writer, assignment editor and Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, served as producer before beginning full-time Quarterly Chair for the Commonwealth Club, helped reporting duties in 1978. After found Camp CEO, a Girl Scout-sponsored retreat for at- graduating college with specialties risk teenage girls and is in great demand as a speaker in experimental psychology and and emcee for Bay Area events and fundraisers. physics, this San Diego native opened his own busi- BOB LONG, Anchor/ Reporter, KSEE 24 (retired) ness in computer project planning. With a love of flying, Bob Long has been in broadcasting John spent 10 years as a commercial pilot and flight since 1948, beginning with KRDU instructor in San Diego, amassing more than 3,000 (Dinuba). He joined the news hours of flight time. He’s qualified to teach and evalu- department of KMJ-TV, Fresno (later ate pilots on most of the world’s aircrafts. A decade KSEE) in August 1962. Bob has later, he moved to the Bay Area and a new career in taught broadcast journalism since television news. Fowler is the recipient of several 1987 at Fresno State. He also Emmy®® awards and an International Gold Medal from served two terms as the president the New York International Film and Television Festival. of the Fresno Volunteer Bureau as MARK HEDLUND, Reporter, KXTV 10 well as serving on the board of the American Cancer Mark Hedlund is one of KXTV News Society, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Boy Scout 10’s most senior reporters. Since Explorer Program, Fresno State Media Council, Valley 1981, he’s traveled around the Public Radio and the Fresno County Historical Society. world covering major news stories In 1985, as part of Fresno’s centennial celebration, Bob for viewers in the Central Valley. was named as one of a hundred outstanding Fresnans. Mark has delivered live reports on Bob produced and co-anchored KSEE 24 “News at the Persian Gulf conflict, Rodney Noon,” as well as researched, wrote and produced his King verdicts, the murder trials of long running “On the Map” series for KSEE 24 News at Dorothea Puente and Richard Alan 6pm. Bob retired from KSEE in 2002. Davis, the historic climb of Half ROSS McGOWA N, Host, KTVU Channel 2 Dome by Mark Wellman, California’s great floods and Ross McGowan is the host of the Mexico City and Loma Prieta earthquakes. A full- KTVU’s “Mornings on Two.” He time journalist since 1975, Mark has covered every began his broadcasting career president since Gerald Ford. Over the years, Mark has while still studying for his college earned numerous awards, including the National degree at San Jose State. Working Scripps-Howard Award for Journalistic Excellence, the summers for KBMX in Coalinga, he National UPI Award, the Associated Press Bill Stout later worked as a radio announcer Memorial Award, a Northern California Emmy®® Award for KSJO and KLIV (San Jose), KYOS and regional awards from UPI, The Associated Press, (Merced), and KIRO (Seattle), “Best of the West,” California Exposition, NorCal RTNDA before joining KING-TV, where he hosted “Seattle and the Sacramento Society of Professional Journalists. Tonight,” a live, nightly talk show. McGowan came to SYDNIE KOHA RA, Anchor, CBS 5 San Francisco in 1978 and for 14 years was the popular Award-winning broadcast journalist co-host of “People Are Talking” on KPIX. He received Sydnie Kohara brings years of awards in his distinguished career, including a Gold experience to her position as co- Award from the New York Film Festival, the Cable Car anchor of the CBS 5 Eyewitness Award for Outstanding Broadcast Journalism, and the News Early Edition. She also Communication Excellence to Black Audiences (CEBA) contributes stories to CBS 5 spe- award. A long time activist and volunteer in charitable cials and serves as the featured organizations, McGowan has served as co-host of the reporter for “Chronicle Watch.” Bay Area March of Dimes Telethon and the Children’s Miracle Network Telethon. continued on page 3 Off Camera, October 2006, page 2 THE SIL VER CIR CLE ENTRIES ON D VD continued from page 2 continued from page 1 HANK P LANTE, Anchor/ Reporter, CBS 55 not very common at most television Hank Plante began his television stations, even in this high tech career in 1976 as an assignment region. And those that have one, editor at WTTG in Washington, D.C. typically have exactly that: one In 1978, he began his first televi- Beta-to-DVD dubbing station. If If sion reporting job at WVEC in you’ve ever witnessed the frantic rush Norfolk, Virginia. Hank also worked of journalists in a newsroom the night as a reporter at KMSP in Minneapo- before the Emmy®® deadline, as they all fight for space lis, KHJ in Los Angeles and KRIV in to dub their entries to another tape, you can imagine Houston before arriving at KPIX-TV the potential problem looming in January when they’re in San Francisco in 1986. In his 20 suddenly fighting over a single DVD burner that they years here, Hank has been a pillar may not even know how to work. of journalist integrity. His specialty Friedman says the awards committee is well aware is politics, but Hank has also shown a knack for pulling the format change will be a major adjustment for most together the human-interest feature. Hank has won members, particularly those whose stations don’t have three regional Emmy®® awards, as well as a Peabody dedicated videotape-to-DVD dubbing stations. “W“We’re Award in the 1980s for his reporting on the AIDS crisis. exploring every possible avenue to help people out KPIX-TV has also received two national Emmy® awards during this transitional year. We’re checking on the for community service, based, in part, on Hank’s cover- price of mass dubbing for entries submitted on Beta, age of AIDS. He has been involved in gay and lesbian with the hope of offering that service as an add-on cost rights, including the Human Rights Campaign, the to those who can’t dub to DVD themselves. But we Lambda Legal Defense Fund, GLAAD, the San Francisco don’t know yet if that’s practical.” AIDS Foundation, the AIDS Emergency Fund and So why did National sour so suddenly on video- Project Open Hand. Hank is also a founding member of tape? The move actually has been in the works for a the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. few years. The National Awards Committee vice chair and our national trustee, Linda Giannecchini says the rule was requested by other regional chapters looking MAUI’S JAZZ ALLEY to cut down on shipping costs. “They beta tested it last year with several chapters and they liked it,” says GOES INTERNA INTERNA TIONAL Giannecchini. “It’s the economy, easier to handle, GOES INTERNA INTERNA TIONAL easier to judge, easier to mail back and forth. The test chapters gave it a favorable review.w.” She says “the Maui’s own Jazz Alley standard home format has been DVD for years. Since TVTV has signed on with the National entries are already being submitted on DVD, Voice of America Network everyone felt it was time for regional entries make the to air the award winning switch.” TV series in 70 different If your station is not equipped to make the dub you countries. “This is won- can do it yourself pretty cheaply now. DVD burners are derful timing with this pretty standard on newer home computers, and you being our 15thth year for can buy stand-alone DVD recorders at Radio Shack and Jazz Alley TV,“ says Jazz Costco for $100 or less. The problem will be the story,, Alley creator, director and show, promo or documentary you want to dub probably host, Kenneth K. will be on BETA or DVC Pro, and odds are, you don’t Martinez Burgmaier.. have one of those playback machines at home. Your “We are all very proud station engineers should be able to help you hook up and humbled to reach your DVD recorder to a source machine at work, if you such a worldwide audi- start talking with them about it now. If you wait until ence with our Jazz, Blues, January, they may have an alternative suggestion for Hawaiian and World what they want you to do with your DVD-R. Music TV series, with it Friedman says that’s her biggest concern, that some being translated in 25 members will wait until the last minute, get frustrated, languages is overwhelm- and give up because they don’t have enough time to ing and glorious at the transfer their entry to DVD before the deadline. “That’s same time for spreading why it’s more critical than ever,” she says, “to start music, the universal organizing your entries early this year, and give your- language.” self enough time to dub your work to the required The Voice of America has carried United States, format.” regional, and world news to listeners and viewers The call for entries will be posted on the chapter around the globe for more than 60 years, founded less website in November. The entry deadline will be a than three months after the United States entered week earlier , Friday, Janaury 14, 2007 due to the World War II. More than 100 million people turn to VOA Awards being presented on May 14. on radio, TV and the Internet each week, giving Jazz October is a good month to start gathering the Alley TV, and its artists, the opportunity of a lifetime. work and burning those DVDs. Off Camera, October 2006, page 3 STEVE MICHELSON’S D VD W ORK SHOP continued from page 1 Brad Miller: Financial strategies The day begins at 9:30 a.m. as for Special Interest programming people arrive, meet and enjoy a Later, the participants will get continental breakfast. At 10 a.m., demonstrations of how to create the workshop begins and you will elements of a great DVD. Then they learn: will have an opportunity to share 1 . 1. DVD basics, storage, layers, their own projects with the group sectors and file structure and get feedback on which content 2 . 2. The DVD production workflow, assets make sense to include on origination, post-production, design and menus, their DVD and how to consider all the new angles of encoding, and authoring distribution from blogs, to podcasts. Finally, several 3 . 3. Instructional design, interactive features, and web publishing and marketing navigation strategies will be covered to 4 . 4. TTarget marketing, content development, product make sure that your DVD strategy, event programming project gets the best expo- 5 . 5. Packaging, positioning and branding sure to media and consumers. 6 . 6. Understanding deal structures, rights, royalties, Reservations and advance territories and executive producing responsibilities payment are required. E-mail: 7 . 7. Marketing and distribution options/the Five Impres- [email protected] or (650) 341-7786. sion rule 8 . 8. Unit sales of DVD players and sell-through of pre-recorded content, CINEMA CLUBCLUB trends and projections 9 . 9. Information regarding E-MAIL market segmentation, current and projected special interest DVD LISTS Publishing markets By Annika Wood 10. WebDVD, the power of ROM based HTML 11. The DVD publisher’s 100 point review system. Are you a member of the NATAS Cinema Club? Yes, Impressive DVD’s, screenings will be set up in each Cinema Club is a membership benefit, but you must of 6 workstations: sign-up to receive e-mail notifications. Case studies We now offer more screenings than the former once a. Publisher: Yoga Journal (Health Fitness) a month - sometimes twice a week. Screenings include Title: Yoga for Your Pregnancy, Yoga for Managing new releases of big budget Hollywood releases, indie Stress, Yoga Step by Step (Fitness) films, and documentaries. The downside is that these b. Publisher: Oil on Ice Partners/Sierra Club Produc- are preview screenings for the general public; the tions (Documentary) theater can be packed, people get turned away, and Title: Oil on Ice Grassroots Toolkit there is no guarantee you’ll get a seat even with your c. Publisher: Paradigm Productions (Documentary) name on the RSVP list. However, if you can arrive Title: The Good War and Those Who Refused to about thirty minutes early, these are great Fight opportunites to see a wide range of new release films d. Publisher: The Thoreau for free. Plus, though your RSVP does not guarantee Society (Education) you a seat, it does usually mean you can skip to the Title: Life With Principle front of the line. The only time you’ll run into trouble isis e. Publisher/Label: Lobitos if the line has already been let in, which is why arriving Creek Ranch/Scabeba early is key. Entertainment (Music/ Now that you know a little bit about the new Jazz) Cinema Club, do you want to be on the San Francisco, Title: The Buddy Rich San Jose, or Sacramento mailing list? If so, please Collection send your name to [email protected]. Type f. f. Publishers: Real Food CINEMA CLUB in the subject line and indicate which of Entertainment, A La Carte the lists you are joining. If you commute between San Communications/KQED (Food) Francisco and San Jose, joining both will give you more Titles: Good Cooking the New Basics and the options. Cookdisc™ If you are on a list and want to be removed, just Joanne Weir’s Cooking Class email REMOVE CINEMA CLUB in the subject line, and 12. Additional speakers and technical demonstrations indicate which club you want to be removed from: SF, Chris Ammen: HD DVD Authoring SJ, or Sacramento. Tamara Gurbis: DVD design on DVD Studio Pro We really want to pare the list down to the people Rebecca Holland Art Direction who can fit preview screenings into their schedules. Craig Malina: Business Affairs for Special Interest This will give us an idea of how better to design the programming Club for NATAS members’ interests. Off Camera, October 2006, page 4 TECHNOLOG Y IN NEWS FORUM- A BIG HITHIT

(l to r) Don Sharp, Sid Bedingfield, Dan Adams, Harry Fuller and Carlos Castaneda Photo:Lynn R Friedman © 2006

By Keith Sanders people don’t care how they get it, whether it’s from a The laws of physics were briefly suspended at the broadcast, a webcast, DVR, satellite or iPod.” New Technology in News Forum. After an introduction Carlos Castaneda, managing editor of CBS5.com, from president Lynn Friedman, Moderator and KPIX demonstrated a newscast on his cell phone. Don Sharp News Operations Manager Don Sharp took the audi- added “with this cell phone you can get Bay Area traffic ence back in time to the early years of broadcasting. He video live.” Carlos continued, “part of my big push is displayed a 30-year-old RCA TK-76, the first fully self- delivering content on cell phones, but my background is contained ENG camera. Then attendees were thrust producing news. I was actually hired twice by Harry forward in time…to the future of television news. Fuller. Recently I was asked to be a web producer at Sid Bedingfield, president of California Fault Line KPIX5, I thought about it for one second and said yes.” Productions, reported that his new project is to pro- He then remarked, “the computer is just another device duce on-line, multi-platform programming for KQED. The like the phone. The web is not the future…it’s here web site launch is set for January or February. He said now. “ “we hope to create a regular TV series with content After the panelist presentations, an audience of from all over the world…we’re looking for guests and almost 30 engaged panel members in a spirited Q&A newsmakers.” session. The topics ranged from interactive TV, digital Dan Adams, reporter for KXTV News 10 in Sacra- television, intellectual property rights, filtering content, mento, described the new edict at his station, “effec- HD on the web, blogs v. journalism, monetizing tive immediately, news for our website has a higher websites, niche websites and corporate ownership. priority than news for our broadcast.” He explained As our trip to the future of TV news ended, the laws that KXTV has always had a very reporter-driven news of physics were restored. I was struck by the fact that department, with the reporters being located in the whatever the future holds, the technology is already middle of the room. “But soon the entire news room will here. The only real question is how we deal with the be re-modeled so that the center is dominated by our change. Then I remembered something Carlos website.” Castaneda had just said, “one mindset you have to get Harry Fuller, a former general manager for KPIX, rid of on the Internet, is having a mindset.” began the Bay Area’s first TV station website in May NATAS governor Sharon Navratil produced the 1995. He’s a career broadcaster who’s now leading the event, activities chair Cynthia Zeiden worked the way for on-line news as executive editor of C|Net. admission table, technology chair Keith Sanders Harry predicts that “TV stations will shrink, just like coordinated panelists, president Lynn Friedman took radio has…the audiences will not be able to sustain photos, Robert Mohr shot video of the event, market- them.” “It’s not television anymore, it’s video…and ing chair David Perry did publicity..

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Off Camera, October 2006, page 5 KQED 9 R OLLS OUT HD Beginning September 20thth onon By Keith Sanders HDCam was used. KQED, all 5 digital TV channels (includ- The public TV station has ing KQED HD) were made available amassed quite a variety of HD gear 24/7 on Comcast in both the San to cover all three formats. The Francisco-Oakland-San Jose and inventory includes a Sony Z1U Monterey markets. camera, 2 Sony XDCam HD cameras It’s great to see more national as well as a Sony HDWF 900 and a programs in HD, but what about more Sony HDW 750. In the studio there local HD programming? The good are Sony HDC 1000LW and 1500L news is a number of Bay Area TV cameras as well as a Sony stations are producing (or will soon MVS8000A – 4 M/E production produce) significant amounts of local switcher. The character generator is programming in HD. Most of KRON’s a Chyron Duet Hyper X and there’s long-form programming is now HD. also a Grass Valley K2 production KTVU and KGO are poised to roll out server. HD news broadcasts soon. But KQED As for editing, there are 7 AVID will be the first to go entirely HD. suites, 4 of them HD (2 AVID Executive Director of TV Produc- Symphonys and 2 Adrenalines). The tions and Programming Michael Isip Adrenalines edit in the AVID DNX states that “three of our weekly Photos djovida © 2006 format. series are set to premiere in HD this But the upgrade to HD has month: the interview/entertainment resulted in a paradigm shift in program ‘ ‘The Josh Kornb luth Show,’ production workflow. KQED will shoot our restaurant review program “ “Quest ” ” in Sony XDCam HD on ‘ ‘Check, Please! Bay Area ,’ ,’ and our optical disk. Welch explains “in the flagship news and public affairs series field, we’ll record both an HD and low ‘ ‘This Week in Nort hern CCalifornia .’” .’” resolution proxy at the same time. KQED’s new science, nature and As soon as footage is transferred to environment series “ “Quest ” ” will the Avid Unity system the production premiere HD in early ‘07. The station staff will have access to the proxy for is hoping to launch the 5thth season of preview and logging. We’re excited the weekly arts series “ “Spark ” ” in HD about this new workflow process for by spring of 2007. Isip adds “we production. It should be much more strive to be leaders in delivering efficient.” content to our audiences by the most Whenever there is a need to use modern means available, whether it’s a low cost, portable HD camera, through new HD production, iTunes, KQED uses the HDV format. Welch podcasts or streaming.” says “with the ‘ ‘CChina From t h e Steve Welch, KQED’s Executive Inside’ series, the production team Director of TV Engineering & Opera- used the HDV Sony Z1U as a second tions says upgrading productions to camera (and backup) to the Sony HD involved several changes. “We’re HDWF 900 camera. When you’re using the same sets in HD as we did halfway around the world you don’t in SD, with a little bit of touch-ups. want to be ‘dead in the water’ if your The one thing that is different is the main camera goes down. A signifi- framing of the shots. For example, in cant amount of HDV footage made it Photos Rick Santangelo © 2006 ‘ ‘This Week in Nort hern CCalifornia ,’ ,’ into the show and it looked great.” we had to replace the reporter’s With so much HD programming table as we are shooting the show in being created now at KQED, can 16x9. The director couldn’t get the viewers also watch the public TV shots she needed because there station’s programs on HD DVD or Blu- wasn’t enough room between report- Ray DVD? Welch answers “yes, we’ll ers. Therefore we ended up replacing move into the HD DVD arena, but not it with a slightly larger table. In before the dust settles on the format addition, some adjustments were war.” made to the usual lighting environ- But make no mistake, there’s no ment.” format war at this public TV station; KQED uses three HD production KQED embraces many flavors of HD. formats. The lower end is HDV, then So before the dust settles on your comes XDCam HD and the high-end is new wide screen TV, check out their HDCam. “ “Jean Michel CCoust eau: new locally produced HD program- Ocean Adventures” and “China ming. More info on KQED’s digital FFrom the I nside” ” e are part of na- channels can be found at tional series (with a larger budget) so www.kqed.org/dtv Off Camera, October 2006, page 6 CBS 5 HANK PLANTE NOR C AL PR ODUCER “E“EXXCELLENCE” A W ARD DOC GOING NA TIONAL Former NorCal NATAS Gover- CBS 5’s Political Editor nor Duffy Wang’s documentary Hank Plante (new Silver Circle production company, D3, just inductee) won for Excellence in had its latest show, “Sketching Television Reporting in the the Silk Road,” accepted by Twelfth Annual California America Public Television (APT) Journalism Awards contest, for national distribution. sponsored by the Center for Wang says “This California Studies at California means coverage of this show State University, Sacramento could be substantially wider and the Sacramento Press than our previous programs. Club. He received the award And, this ice-breaker puts us on at a luncheon on Friday, September 22nd. Hank won the list of producers with APT the award for a series on Governor Arnold credentials. As they say, it puts Schwarzenegger. us on the map. It’s a big Congratulations Hank! breakthrough for us, as we now have ‘Kung Fu Journey to the East,,’ ’ ‘Summer School on the ON THE M O VE Road,’ and our Olympics project in the pipeline to national Carolyn Bruck jumps 74 markets, joining KSEE in distribution. This is very excit- Fresno as a reporter from KNVN in Chico. ing for D3.” ABC 7 11pm news producer Krisann Chasarik isis Congratulations Duffy, and leaving to become the 11pm Executive Producer at be sure to let us all know when KCNC, the CBS station in Denver. She also produced at and where we can see “Sketch- KFSN in Fresno ing the Silk Road..” ” Tim Fang is a online news producer for CBS5.com, from writer and associate producer CBS 5. Liza Fernandez has moved to KMPH in Fresno to be NEW F A CE IN FRESNO their new weekday morning anchor. Liza left her week- end weather position at the Fox station in Ft Myers to ABC stayed in the family embark full time on her anchor career. when it hired Tracey Steve Fyffe will be the new South Bay I-Team Watkowski as news director at producer for ABC 7. Steve moves from CBS 5 where KFSN in Fresno. Watkowski he’s worked with their investigative and consumer spent the past seven years as units. assistant news director at Joie Healy (formerly Bonilla) stays with the NBC sister station KGO-TV in San station group, joining KNTV NBC 11 as Managing Editor. Francisco. She replaces Joel She has been working at KNBC-TV as an EP and earlier Davis, who moved to WFTV in worked as a producer at Orlando, FL, last month. This is another o-and-o, KNSD-TV in Watkowski’s first news director San Diego. position. TJ Holmes jumps to CNN All of us at NATAS wish her the best of luck in the to become weekend morning central valley. anchor and correspondent. TJ leaves his position as 5pm anchor at KNTV in San Fran- DUPLICATE EMMY® STATUETTES cisco. Stations or Production Companies can purchase a “duplicate Anny Hong will be a triple Emmy®® statuette” honoring winning programs and shows. threat for her new station The wording on the statuette will be the same as the individual KOVR in Sacramento. She will statuette with the additional inscription “Duplicate.” anchor the weekend broad- The cost is $250 each plus shipping. casts, report and fill-in on weather. She held a similar REPLACEMENT EMMY® STATUETTES position for KGPE in Fresno. For a limited time you may replace your rectangular base Akili Jones joins “The CW Bay Area” as an account statuette with the new round base statuette. executive from KTXL Fox 40 in Sacramento. You must return the original statuette to the Academy Office. Congratulations to Jon Kiloran, news director at The cost is $175 plus $35 band engraving and shipping.

Reno’s KRNV-TV, on his recent wedding. Forty-fourur WALLPLAQUES FORNOMINATION & PRODUCTION CERT. years of bachelorhood ended when Jon married the former Dawn M illerr, a bookkeeper and accounting Contact the Academy office [email protected] 650-341-7786 consultant in Reno. Off Camera, October 2006, page 7 WHERE IN THE WORLD IS The first couple of weeks precisely what she said, because Leslie Griffith was missing from they say all air checks from that the 5:00 and 10:00 newscasts, show were immediately pulled off nobody outside KTVU (Ch. 2) in station shelves and never re- Oakland gave it much thought. turned. Anchors frequently take a long But that one indiscretion end-of-summer vacation around couldn’t be enough to constitute Labor Day. But when two weeks such a long leave from the anchor off the air stretched into three, desk. Something else happened, then four, then five, red flags but the specifics from insiders on went up, and people started this point vary too much from asking questions. person to person to be reported. KTVU isn’t saying much, which One thing they all agree on, is understandable considering though. They all hear Griffith isn’t this is a personnel matter. News director Ed Chapuis coming back, that the station is negotiating some sort could only tell Off Camera, “Leslie is on short-term of departure package, since she apparently has three leave. We hope and expect she’ll be back next week more years left on her contract. (October 2ndnd ).).” Chapuis says he can’t talk about what Off Camera was not able to reach Griffith for com- led to the leave of absence, but several sources within ment. But as you’re reading this during the first week the station say it started when Griffith criticized the of October, the mystery should be clearing up. Either writing in a script she had to read—on air. They say Leslie Griffith is already back anchoring the Ten O’clock she looked at the camera near the end of the story and News, and all apparently is forgiven, or her absence said something to the effect of: “Can you believe how has extended into yet another week, making it more poorly this story is written?” None of them can relate likely it will be permanent. COMING EVENTS Sat. 10/ 7, 9:30 a.m. - DVD Workshop Retreat, Send your news items to: Lobitos Creek Ranch, Half Moon Bay [email protected] Sat. 11/ 11, 11 a.m. - Gold & Silver Circlele Luncheon. Holiday Inn Fisherman’s Wharf

7 THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS

OFFICERS: Lynn R Friedman, ABC 7, President Javier Valencia, KRON 4 4 ,, VP, SF (Awards) Thomas Drayton, Fox 40, VP, Sacramento Nancy Osborne, ABC 30, VP, Fresno Terri Russell, KOLO 8, VP, Reno SAN FRANCISCO FRANCISCO Duncan Armstrong, NBC 8, VP, Hawaii NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA Tamar Maghdissian, Freelance, VP, Sm. Mkts. 4317 Camden Avenue San Mateo, CA 94403 Keith Sanders, SJ State University, Secretary (650) 341-7786 F: (650) 372-0279 Sharon Navratil, KTVU 2, Treasurer David Mills, CBS 5, Past President (Alt. Trustee) NATIONAL TRUSTEES: Linda Giannecchini, KQED 9 (Museum) Danny McGuire,, Independent Alison Gibson, Media Cool (Education) Kym McNicholas, KFTY 50 Cynthia Zeiden, Zeiden Media (Activities) Deanne Moenster-Poitras, KTVU 2 GOVERNORS: Jeanette Pavini, CBS 5 Dan Adams, KXTV 10 Wayne Philippo, CBS 5 Terri Amos, Freelance Sheraz Sadiq, KQED 9 Brian Avery, Avery Media (Membership) Gary Schultz, ABC 7 Samuel Belilty, Univision 21 Annika Wood, Independent John Burgess, KFTY 50 Pamela Young, KITV 4 Joe Cherubini, KRON 4 COMMITTEE CHAIRS: Martin Christian, KVIE 6 John Catchings,, Catchings & Assoc.(Museum) Christopher Conybeare, Univ. of Hawaii Darryl Cohen, Cohen & Cooper (Legal) Janice Edwards, NBC 11 David Perry, David Perry & Assoc. (Marketing) Wayne Freedman, ABC 7 James Spalding, Spalding & Co. (Finance) Albert Garcia, Univision 19 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Bob Goldberger, ABC 7 Darryl R. Compton, NATAS Justin Kanno, KOLO 8 Off Camera Ronald Louie,, KTVU 2 Bob Goldberger,, Editor Terry Lowry, LaCosse Productions Darryl Compton,, Publisher Tamar Maghdissian, Freelance Off Camera, October 2006, page 8