Day after day

    WEDNESDAY UPDATE:  KMBC has apparently reconsidered.  Olivia Dorsey says local stations WILL be allowed, tonight, to excerpt parts of the debate for use in a news story.  That includes local TV stations.

   KMBC will NOT permit any station, or The Star, to post excerpts on their websites, she says.

Posted by Dave Helling

  Wanna watch Wednesday's crucial, fifth, final debate between Jim Talent and Claire McCaskill?

     You'll have to wait 'til Thursday.

     That's right:  the sponsors are taping the showdown Wednesday, but won't pre-empt Dancing With the Stars or Lost to air it live.

     Instead, KMBC and KCPT will broadcast the program Thursday at seven.

     (To be fair:  Meet The Press was tape-delayed in some markets; when I was at KCTV, we planned to delay -- and then, as I recall, never ran -- the Ashcroft/Carnahan debate, since Carnahan died in a plane crash before the air date.  KCPT aired it live.  And KCTV also tape-delayed a Sebelius-Shallenberger debate in 2002.)

   But Wednesday night and Thursday, reporters will be covering and writing about a debate virtually no one will have seen.

UPDATE:  A poster says KCUR will carry the debate live Wednesday. Not according to the station's website.  It'll air Thursday, too.

ANOTHER UPDATE:  KMBC says it will not allow any local stations to take excerpts of the debate for use on their newscasts or websites, other than KCPT, ever.  That's according to Olivia Dorsey, who's running the show.  The station's ground rules, however, seem to indicate some excerpting is anticipated, perhaps in other markets, but not until Thursday. Stay -- as they say -- tuned.

    Posted by Dave Helling

Comments

[Brent Husher]

KCUR (89.3) will broadcast it live on Wednesday if you don't mind listening to it on the radio or through live audio streaming at its website: www.kcur.org

[locomotivebreath1901]

Of course!
Priorities, Dave.
Priorities.

[Brent Husher]

Oops. Either, I looked at it wrong, or the site was updated in the last half hour!

This is without a doubt the dumbest thing I've heard of in weeks.

[Brent Husher]

Okay, they did just update the kcur site, because I have my original firefox tab open displaying Wednesday!

I think we should call and email these stations. This is ridiculous! http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/contactus/index.html
Main Phone Number: (816) 221-9999 (kmbc)

816-235-1551 kcur@umkc.edu (kcur)

[aqua]

This is great! We are all at the mercy of the liberal rags to give us the "straight" scoop. They get to spin the pro-Claire garbage without any recoil for a day.

"Lost" is getting very exciting, but I would rather watch Claire have her melt-down. Then it would be easier to deal with the Kool-aid drinkers when they try to tell me what an outstanding performance Claire put on.

Way late on seeing this, but for those questioning whether those Talent sign vandals were Democrat volunteers... http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/10/surprise-young-democrats-busted.html

The video I speak of is here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tvZ6BWuT_f8

The relevant posts and comments are here: http://kcbuzzblog.typepad.com/kcbuzzblog/2006/09/senate_sign_war.html

The KC connection (the Ishmaels) to this string of vandalisms is here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=XYGrzPsoFsk

geez! get over yourself you crybaby whiner!!! Just visit any of your pals limberger, hannity's hatriots, or savage movement for your latest script.

[jack]

It's "that silly savage". Preferably said with a pronounced lisp.

KMBC Email:

By way of background, we will be the only Kansas City television
station to organize, and air a debate in the Missouri Senate race. Shortly
after the primary, we proposed a Kansas City debate to both campaigns.
Our original proposal suggested two other dates, both closer to the date of
the election. This Wednesday is the only date that both campaigns
were able to schedule.

Due to a conflict with ABC programming, we decided to tape on
Wednesday, and air the debate unedited and in its entirety, one night
later, on Thursday at 7:00pm.

I am puzzled that you would question our journalistic and civic
responsibilities, since we are the only local station that made
the effort to organize and air this debate. Not only is KMBC bearing all
the costs associtiated with the debate, but we are airing the debate
commercial free. We are providing the feed at no cost to the local public
television and radio stations, who are our partners in this venture.

We are also feeding it on sattelite, and offering this feed at no cost to stations
outside Kansas City that might want to broadcast the debate in its
enterity or use excerpts in their newscasts. We have also agreed to allow CSPAN
to pick up the debate and air it nationally, also at no charge.

We think this is a significant public service. I regret that
you disagree.

Wayne Godsey
President and General Manager
KMBC-TV
Kansas City

[milwolf]

Dear Wayne Godsey and KMBC -TV:

So what !! The expenses of airing the debate is a small price of your civic responsibility for having a broadcasting license fromwhich you make Millions of $$$...

With your attitude you should not have sponsored it... By the way, how much $$$ have you made from airing their campaign ads ? I am glad that
ESPN and Fox will be broadcasting football and the NL Playoffs during your airing of the debate..

[chrisM70]

P.S. KMBC tells me that they are NOT prohibiting the other stations from running the debate live.

Here's the quote:
"We did not forbid them from showing it.
When working with the campaigns, this was the only date they agreed on for Kansas City. It was not one we proposed because of scheduling conflicts.
So that is what we had to live with."

So who's telling the truth?

[brent husher]

I spoke to someone at KCUR today and was told that the could not air it live because of aggreements with KMBC. It seems KMBC is prohibiting other stations from running it.

[Brent Husher]

According to KMBC's website ( http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/politics/index.html ), it will provide a live coverage of tonight's debate on its website.

[ChrisM70]

What if you are poor and can't afford the internet?

I guess you don't get information...