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.