[4] While educational interests fought the redesignation attempt, the Eugene city council approved by majority vote a resolution urging the addition of a second commercial station for Eugene to increase the number of national network programs broadcast to the city as well as the advertising inventory available to local businesses. See All; Coronavirus Oregon to end mask mandate in health care settings. In that capacity she reported on the Rodney King and O.J. KEZI's broadcast schedule is dominated by news, local features and ABC network programming. She said he encouraged her not to give up on her dream evenafter she applied for more than 100 TV jobs that didn't pan out. [1][6] Her undercover reports closed down corrupt multimillion-dollar businesses, put child predators behind bars and forced state agencies to account for millions of dollars of taxpayer money. Simpson trials, the Midwest floods, and the funerals of former President Richard Nixon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. KEZI is a digital broadcast television station operating in Eugene, Oregon, United States. She covered natural disasters, including some of the Northwest's most devastating floods and forest fires. [6], She became an evening news anchor for the NBC affiliates in Champaign, Illinois and later went to work at KOVR-TV in Sacramento, California as an anchor and reporter. Justin Sacher - Former Reporter/Weather Anchor for KECI. Beaver Baseball splits Saturday doubleheader. Battle Ground Academy Sports Hall of Fame, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Because in real life they are so full of life and enthusiasm and enthusiasm and enthusiasm, you can totally tell they might have been news anchors in the past. In 1983, Tele-Communications Inc. purchased Liberty's cable and television assets. Currently meteorologist at KGPE in Fresno, CA. However, channel 9 aired CBS' NFL regular-season games live from 1965 and through to the mid-1970s. Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl. It broadcasts local news and a three-hour block of children's programming to comply with FCC requirements for educational programs. Broadcasting at a powerful 316 kW, KEZI reached 146,000 viewers at its inception. That said, Ive been very interested in learning more about the team behind the latest stealth shooter from Kezi Games. Nick LaFave: Reporter in Missoula, later anchor in Bozeman. SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA - Oregon State split a doubleheader with Cal Poly Saturday, winning game two, 3-1, after dropping the first game, 4-2. Others in the class include current softball coach Bonnie Bynum Graham, who was an outstanding pitcher (2004-07), Bobby Young (basketball, 1961-64) and Ron Humphrey (track and field, 1969-72). Jackie Bartz- Now at KTUU-TV in Anchorage, Alaska. Kim Khazei is a female news anchor for 7News Boston WHDH-TV and its sister station WLVI-TV (CW56). KEZI is rebroadcasted on the following translators: Low power translators for Myrtle Point, Newport and Black Butte Ranch have been discontinued. ], Live Well Network Western Oregon (201314), Last edited on 16 February 2023, at 04:32, "Byron Allen Buying 11 Stations For $290M", "Educational or Commercial Designation? Debow Casey and Susie Hall Prattwill be inducted into the Battle Ground Academy Sports Hall of Fame on Sept. 30. Other material must be reorganized into appropriate categories of articles. 8 Ways To Defeat It, Royal Lifestyle Doesnt Have To Be Hard. [5] Liberty also noted the fact that a second commercial station would give Eugene viewers a choice and extend TV service to new areas. "I checked it out, saw what I'd be covering the (Oregon) Ducks,Oregon State and a lot more out there. Royal Lifestyle Is Your Worst Enemy. Channel 10 hired Madison Glassman formerly of KEZI in Eugene, Ore., to anchor the traffic coverage on "WAVY News 10 Today" with Katie Collett. For much of its first 20 years, KEZI not only carried ABC programming, but selected CBS programs as well. At KATU-TV she was responsible for all political and presidential election coverage, and she anchored both the 6:30 and 11:00 p.m. newscasts. Watch KEZI 9 News Currently in Eugene. Currently Sports Director at KEZI-TV in Eugene, OR. In its inaugural broadcast, KEZI boasted that it was Eugene's first full-power television station. [7], Fletcher won the prestigious Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Medallion and a $10,000 award for her stories that exposed children abusing over-the-counter medications, resulting in their tragic deaths. Titans radio broadcaster Mike Keith, a BGA alum, will present the awards. Local authors and sports history buffs Skip Nipper and Joshua Maxwell are teaming up to co-produce a documentary on baseball in Nashville, and they could use your help. NFL: Patriots-Chiefs 15.54. She gained valuable experience working in the Belmont sports information department, which helped lead to an internship in the sports department at WKRN-2. Rosies no stranger to the KTVX family. Prior to this, programming from all three major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) was shown on KVAL-TV (channel 13). Dancer spent nearly 18 years working in the Eugene TV market, 16 of them at KEZI, before launching an unsuccessful run for Oregon secretary of state in 2008. Mark Bernheimer, who anchored the station's 11:00 PM newscast in the late 1980s, went on to become a national correspondent for CNN. Troy Oppie: Former Sports Director in Missoula. Kim Khazei is a female news anchor for 7News Boston WHDH-TV and its sister station WLVI-TV (CW56).. Career. The station's studios are located on Chad Drive in Eugene, and its transmitter is located on East Prairie Mountain near Horton, Oregon. On February 14, 1998 KEZI's entire operation was moved from the original Coburg Road location to the recently completed Chambers Media Center. Although shes not out in the field anymore, she is continuing her passion for social justice and community issues through the nightly In Focus discussions. Above all, she will be deeply missed by a legion of fans. Chambers then formed Chambers Communications Corp. and purchased several former Liberty entities, including KEZI. //. Brandon Cox is stepping down as director of communication for the Nashville Sports Council and Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl. Similarly, she was a lead character in Nyandoso Episodes. That autumn, 9+ began airing the Friday Night Blitz Game of the Week, local live telecasts of high-school football. They live in Winchester, Massachusetts. Lisa Fletcher is an American television journalist. [4][5], Kim Khazei began her TV career at KOMU-TV in Columbia, Missouri, then worked for four years at KQTV in Missouri as an evening anchor and reporter. "Evan has been very supportive throughout all of this," Lewis said. She was news director at KALX-FM, the University of California at Berkeley radio station, and subsequently held reporting jobs at KNBR/KYUU radio in San Francisco, KGAY in Salem, Oregon and KQFM in Portland, Oregon. In 2007, she began working as an ABC News correspondent in Los Angeles. [10] The full commission followed the examiner's recommendation and awarded channel 9 to Liberty Television in March 1960. After her reign, she continued volunteering for the Vietnamese Community of Utah and the Virtua Foundation, even traveling to Africa to help with building the first childrens hospital in Tanzania. Address. I can assure you, it's not. TheSheffield, England, nativewas on Nashville SC coach Gary Smiths Colorado staff when the Rapids won the MLS Cup in 2010. Actress Risper of Ndizi TV died too soon, but having touched several lives with rare skills in front of the camera. Studios and offices were located at 2225 Coburg Road in north Eugene, and the transmitter was located atop the Coburg Hills northeast of the city. NFL: Titans-Raiders 21.92. Zach Borg- Former Weekend Sports Anchor for NBC Montana. Former evening-news anchor Rick Dancer (who spent 16 years at KEZI) and Al Peterson were highlighted in the Oregon Associated Press Best Feature category for Division II in 2005. CW30 News Anchor. Lewis said. Matt is involved in several local non-profit organizations including the Alzheimers Association, Pearl Buck Center, hosting numerous fundraisers for these groups over the years. Im not a fan of the working with part. Status: With his mouth full of pearly whites and thick head of shiny weatherman hair, this classically handsome, Emmy-winning meteorologist based in D.C . Rosie is the daughter of two Vietnam War immigrants. Her first weekend forecast segments aired Saturday morning. Lewis has accepted a position as a television sports anchor/reporter for Channel KEZI-9, the ABC affiliate in Eugene, Ore. Lewis, 24, a Belmont graduate, said she usedher beauty pageant experience to land her dream job. It was a part of my past that has catapulted me into my career choices today and given me the encouragement and confidence to go after these things.". The station's digital signal is multiplexed: KEZI shut down its analog VHF channel 9 signal on February 17, 2009, the original date on which full-power television stations in the United States were to change from analog to digital broadcasts by federal mandate; the deadline was later pushed back to June 12. Mark Bernheimer, who anchored the station's 11:00 PM newscast in the late 1980s, went on to become a national correspondent for CNN. Broadcasting throughout this community for more than twenty years. A valedictorian and Phi Beta Kappa graduate in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978, she currently resides in Maryland. Hakeem Parker, a wide receiver on the TSU football team in 2014 and 2015, died Saturday from leukemia. This was an unusual arrangement in a two-station market, particularly one as small as Eugene. 9 PM. Watching her latest videos, one can easily tell that she was a youthful lady. Lewis also shadowed The Zone's Midday180 crew andESPN's Tom Hartwhen he was in Nashville for college basketball broadcasts. The station's digital signal moved from UHF channel 44 to VHF channel 9. Sports is also a prominent part of KEZI programming, with Oregon Ducks football and basketball, and ABC's extensive sports coverage. The station's studios are located on Chad Drive in Eugene, and its transmitter is located on East Prairie Mountain near Horton, Oregon. According to her mother, Faith Nyanchama Ongwae was only 25 years old. [9] FCC hearing examiner Thomas Donohue recommended Liberty Television over KEED in September 1959, citing Liberty's superior proposed programming and docking KEED over the commercial issue. Reliable persons responding to the cause of her death allege that Faith succumbed to a short illness. KEZI's sister stations KDRV Medford and KDKF Klamath Falls provide news and video for KEZI's broadcasts, and vice versa. By: Nick Ursini. Parker transferred to TSU from East Central Community College and had five catches for 64 yards in his junior season. On September 9, 2013, KEZI 9.2 replaced KEZI 9+ with Live Well Network Western Oregon. Among Dancer's accomplishments are several Associated Press awards for news stories, as well as interviewing Peter Jennings for Dancer's sit-down "Watercooler" interview segment (parts of which aired in memory of Jennings after his death). To see a game with a real story and such a strong cast of characters, in a single-player setting. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? The KEZI news department is a large operation serving most of southwestern Oregon. Its original studios and offices were located at 2225 Coburg Road, with the transmitter being sited in the Coburg Hills just to the northeast of the city.[16]. [3], Channel 9 was originally assigned to Eugene for noncommercial use along with one commercial channel on the very high frequency (VHF) band, 13 (occupied by KVAL-TV beginning in 1954), and two UHF frequencies. Found 803 pictures of Gia Vang in the image archives. It felt great and then I talked to him and the other people on the staff and knew immediately these are the kind of people I want to work with.". In seasons past, KEZI aired reruns of Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Taxi (which are kept in the station's 1" tape library to this day). She covered natural disasters, including some of the Northwest's most devastating floods and forest fires. "Calling games with herwas extremely helpful because she's a pro.". Currently reporter for KPTM-TV in Omaha, NE. In its first 24 years, Liberty grew exponentially, becoming one of the nation's largest cable system operators. The news department also has bureaus in Corvallis, Roseburg and Coos Bay. Many KEZI personalities have moved on to larger markets. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Now Sports Anchor and Reporter at KBOI-TV in Boise, ID. Cameron Landfield . Lewis dates Evan Bradds, Belmont's all-time leading scorer and two-time OVC Player of the Year, who graduated last spring. Its true, there are times when you need to work with a friend. Kayla Anderson- Former Sports Director. KEZI prides itself on its coverage of sports. Fletcher and her producer donated their $10,000 in prize money to a Phoenix area agency whose mission is to help kids stay off drugs.[8]. Having said that, violent threats against me - simply for giving all angles of the story - are not okay. After that (Templeman) sent me something along the lines of, 'What's it going to take to make you part of our team?' 42F. Stallings, 32, who has three PGA Tour victories and nearly $9 million in career earnings, was a two-time OVC Golfer of the Year (2006 and 2007) and became the first in Tech history to qualify for the NCAA Championship. Fletcher was the first to secure an interview with the high-profile Scientology defector Jenna Miscavige Hill,[13] as part of a full half-hour investigation for Nightline and exposed abuses at the nation's largest chimpanzee experimentation facility prompting a federal investigation. 39F. Rick Dancer, a long-time veteran of the news industry, anchored KEZI's primary evening newscasts. PGA Tour player Scott Stallings is part of the 2017 Tennessee Tech Sports Hall of Fame class. — -- Lisa Stark was named a correspondent for ABC News in 1994. Fletcher's stories also exposed lead in poker chips that are used in the world's most popular casinos. NFL: Seahawks-Packers 11.3Each rating point is equal to 10,116 Nashville homes. He will begin just south of the Tennessee-Alabama border and travel north through Fayetteville, Shelbyville, Murfreesboro, Lebanon, Westmoreland and then cross the border into Kentucky before turning around. It was neat to see the game actually look, feel, and play so well. Matt anchors KEZI 9 News every weeknight at 5:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Matt earned his Broadcast Communications degree from Washington State University, and began working in television as a sports reporter in Kennewick, Washington. Broadcasting on channel 51, KOHD was an ABC affiliate and sister station to KEZI. KEZI's broadcasts are digital-only, effective February 17, 2009.[2]. Pratt was a basketball and soccer standout (1987-89). Both programs are similar to those broadcast by sister station KDRV NewsWatch 12+. Matt and his wife have been married since 1995 and have three boys, Spencer, Avery, and Tate. Byrd is headed into his 32nd year at Belmont where he has led the Bruins to the postseason in 11 of the last 12 seasons, including seven automatic berths in the NCAA Tournament. KEZI stopped carrying the subchannel on October 31, 2014. 22nd Ave Pompano Beach, Fl. Noah Chavez. Former Miss Tennessee Hayley Lewis, who went on to be a Miss America finalist, is trading in her crown for a microphone. Today, Chambers owns many media-related businesses, including an Internet service provider and a multimedia production house, Chambers Productions. Sports is also a significant part of KEZI programming, with Oregon Ducks football and basketball and ABC's extensive sports coverage. In 1993, she returned to Eugene and KEZI where she was the main anchor and investigative reporter. She also anchored coverage of one of the nation's worst high school shootings, the May 1998 tragedy at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, adjacent to Eugene. How they work. 8 PM. [8] However, KEED struggled with an issue that had affected the radio station: the sale of commercials longer than one minute in duration, a discouraged practice. Copyright 2002 - 2023 GoGoMag.com. She reported from Capitol Hill during the Persian Gulf War. 6 PM. Covington has played four years in the NBA, the last three with the 76ers where he averaged 12.9 points and 6.5 rebounds last season. Don Roberts, Lex Gray and Jeremy Wheeler. She also co-hosted a weekly interview program and was the substitute host for KGO-TV's morning talk show. Ariel Iacobazzi. Rosie was Miss United Nations USA 2013 and spent her year of service promoting her platform about helmet safety and head trauma awareness after her best friend was killed in a motorcycle accident. BIG OPPORTUNITY AVAILABLE! She came from Eugene, Oregon where she worked at KEZI, the #1 station in the market. Justin Sacher - Former Reporter/Weather Anchor for KECI. Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT. This story prompted international attention and a government investigation. [7] ABC News consistently featured Fletcher on Good Morning America, ABC World News and Nightline. Close family members and top Gusii celebrities have confirmed that Actress Risper of Ndizi TV is no more. How you can see their weaknesses and learn from them. Mar 4, 2023 Updated 22 min ago. Currently reporter for KPIX-TV in San Francisco, California. She joined the KEZI 9 News team in May 2018 and anchored the station's weeknight news at 4 pm and 11 pm. [3], In March 2010, newscasts started originating from a temporary set in the newsroom while a new set was constructed and other upgrades were made to prepare for HD. Colleen Nelson was co-anchor of the evening newscasts until 2005, when she joined KATU-TV in Portland. Weather is reported by chief meteorologist Marisa Woloszyn and meteorologists Andrew Shipotofsky and Andy Moffitt. You know they will be as good to you as you are to them. Burrell will have togo 21-22 miles per hour the entire way in order to break the records. They would especially like to hear from anyone who witnessed games at Sulphur Dell Ballpark in the 1940s. My goal is to raise $25,000 and when we do I will personally match it with an additional $25,000 for a total of $50,000 raised for the foundation, Burrell said. She's been featured in magazines, newspapers and a PBS documentary on her work as an investigative journalist. "Dawn was a huge help because she let me really pick her brain on what it's like to have a female role in sports broadcasting," Lewis said. A tasked committee of five are head of the rest in ensuring a decent send-off. 45F / 32F. Jillian Smukler joined the ABC4 News team as a reporter in May 2021 and was promoted to morning anchor in October 2021. 7 PM. He spent last season with the Columbus Crew where he worked with the academy as head coach for the clubs youth teams. 82 on Sports Illustrateds Top 100 NBA Players of 2018. [6] KEZI won several Oregon Associated Press awards in 2010, including Overall Excellence. The news department also operates bureaus in Corvallis, Roseburg, and Coos Bay. Renee McCullough. [4], In 2002, after winning an Edward R. Murrow Award for an investigative series that exposed corrupt practices among Portland immigration officials,[5] Fletcher accepted the job as the lead investigative reporter and news anchor for KNXV-TV in Phoenix, Arizona.
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