One of my other projects that absorbed too much of my time is now out of the way, I've finished the upgrade on the site (almost--couple of stragglers), and it's all purty again. How you like?
If you catch any bugs or problems, please let me know. In the meantime, now that this is my main blog, I hope to be spending more time with you for reals.
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I lost a friend today over this site--a good friend, one of my best friends. Losing friends was always a risk of doing this site, and in a way I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner. I don't think I can get this friend back; I've been told not to respond to the email, though I'm going to try anyway.

KGW's Tracy Barry has been inducted into the Silver Circle, the Hall of Fame of television broadcasters. At the Northwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) 46th Annual Emmy Awards ceremonies held Saturday in Seattle, Barry was inducted by her close pal and co-anchor, Joe Donlon. Donlon narrated a taped tribute to Tracy that highlighted some of Barry's memorable moments, which were both moving and light-hearted at times. In her acceptance speech, Barry sang the praises of her parents, family and colleagues.

Tracy Barry, news anchor at KGW was a Silver Circle Inductee at the Northwest Regional Emmy Awards held this past weekend in Seattle. Joe Donlon presented a moving tribute to his co-anchor. Barry has been with KGW since 1985 and she is one of the most recognized faces in the region. Other local Emmy winners include:

I intend to do a lot of blogging here firstly because I am such a news junkie...I observe almost all aspects of television news from set design to graphics to the inns and outs of the personalities. Since this is the weekend I thought I would keep it light and discuss the television anchors here in the Portland market that I would assemble into a dream team for each station in the metro area.

Patrick McCreery has one job again. Current Special Projects EP Corey Hanson has been promoted to News Director. GM McCreery's memo:

After an extensive external and internal search, I am very pleased to announce that Corey Hanson has been promoted to News Director.
Corey has worked at KPTV as an Executive Producer, EP of Special Projects and Creative Services Director.

I was going to make a contribution to Oregon Public Broadcasting this year, but after reading their tax return I realized that they would use most of the proceeds from the spring radio drive to pay the salary of their CEO.
According to its latest federal tax return (available at opb.org/insideopb), OPB paid its CEO Steve Bass $296,000 with a $34,000 retirement contribution. To compare, according to its most recent tax return NPR paid then CEO Kenneth Stern $354,334 plus an additional $72,723 retirement contribution.

Always late with the O personnel moves, me. Mario Van Dongen has become the new ad director at the Oregonian. He's coming from the Santa Cruz Sentinel, where his last day as publisher is tomorrow.
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