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“The Bullitt sisters were handing out coffee and donuts to the photogs and reporters,” Rick Aguilar says of the company’s previous owners during a strike. Aguilar started in the station’s mailroom in 1975 while still a student at Spokane Falls Community College and went on to become one of KREM’s main photographers and senior editors. He was among those laid off last week. Also on the list were chief photographer and 33-year veteran Russ Cameron; another senior photographer, Larry Storey; and reporter Rochelle Ritchie. “It’s not that way anymore,” Aguilar continues. “It changed from a family business to a corporation. We were just one of many. We were just a number”/Nicholas Deshais, Inlander. More here. (February 2009 File Photo: Dan Lamphere, KREM TV’s director of operations, walks a viewer through the installation of their DTV converter box.)
Question: Which Spokane TV station now provides the best regional broadcast coverage?
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Escapee on May 01 at 7:33 p.m.
I wouldn’t have signed the no-tell agreement, if I were one of KREM’s layoffees…sounds like The Big Belo organisation is rather cowardly.
spokelooneh on May 01 at 11:10 p.m.
Media consolidation, which began decades ago, killed the media star.
Murdoch’s flagship newspaper, The (conservative/exploitive tabloid) New York Post, had a near 20% subscription decline. (Most papers were in the 5% decline range.)
Meanwhile local weekly’s like the Inlander are going great guns. Their owner is so successful, he has a gigantic house on the Spokane river…
Get it, yet?