Another roundup of local TV-related news items, including the Metro Sports show that's gone national, KTWU's congressional debate wants your questions, and news about "High School Confidential," the reality show filmed here.
- A week after stormy weather forced KCPT to cancel its annual fundraiser at the Liberty Memorial, the station got some much better news: The National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) will provide more than $800,000 in funding to KCPT to help it with its costly conversion from analog to digital transmission (aka DTV). The money was announced by Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, who sits on the Senate Commerce Committee, which works closely with NTIA on the DTV transition.
If you think you're shelling out a lot of money so your TV is ready for the digital switch next February, think about KCPT. It started converting to digital before any other station in the market, way back in 1997, and it's still got miles to go.
The NTIA will provide $801,345 to KCPT to purchase a production switcher, HD cameras, teleprompter, associated production equipment, ATSC stream analyzer, encoder system, integration, and test and monitoring equipment.
Kansans, KTWU is soliciting your questions for the upcoming televised debate between Rep. Nancy Boyda and challenger Lynn Jenkins. Just visit the KTWU-TV website. Viewers have until Monday, September 22 to email their questions in. Debate is live on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 8 p.m. only on KTWU-TV.
A program produced by Metro Sports, "Fantasy Huddle," has gone national. Time Warner Cable (which owns Metro Sports) is making the fantasy football show available to more than seven million viewers in 17 Time Warner Cable markets. If you want to check out the show, here's the online video archive.
Congratulations to Sharon Liese, creator of WE tv's "High School Confidential," who was nominated for Best Producer in the First Annual CableFax Program Awards, being given out next month. The series was filmed entirely at high schools in suburban Kansas City. Here is a feature I wrote about it. (CableFAX named me to their Top 100 list last year.)
Did you know former KMBC news everything Jeremy Hubbard is now the co-anchor of ABC's overnight program "World News Now"? I just found that out too -- as did this guy.
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