Newsforce

June 10, Wednesday

KWTV, Oklahoma City.

Only 90 minutes apart, KOTV in Tulsa and KWTV in Oklahoma City combine to make a powerful newsforce. They can share staff, stories, satellite trucks and helicopters.  KOTV is the only station in the Tulsa market with a chopper, plus a short flight can add KWTV's helicopter.

My first interview at KWTV was Joyce Reed, who used to be the news director at KWTV.  Now she is over the news and web operations of both stations.  She has a lot of knowledge about how to get ahead and how to manage people.

>insert interview with Joyce Reed<


Todd Spessard, the news director.  Todd and I worked together at KTUL in Tulsa in 1997-1999.  So, it was good to see him doing so well as the leader of the #1 newscast in OKC.  They had had a great May book, a month with record rain, along with floods and tornadoes.